Example sentences for: burlesque

How can you use “burlesque” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Mexican social thought the role of relajo behavior is shown to be a criticism of the political corruption of the government, but also a burlesque of the divisions of the social classes.

  • Before long, the streets and alleys around the temple were filled with music halls, burlesque theaters, cabarets, gambling dens, and watering holes of every description.

  • The horror genre lost its life's blood when filmmakers began to worry about being laughed at by teen-agers who'd seen it all before, and to incorporate kids' imagined responses into their pictures--so that you got the movie and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 burlesque of the movie at the same time.

  • The amazing thing about Dick (directed by Andrew Fleming from a script he wrote with Sheryl Longin) is that it manages to burlesque the Watergate mythos without trivializing it.

  • But I always find it necessary to burlesque the mystery of feeling at its source; I must laugh at myself, and if the laugh is "bitter," I must laugh at the laugh.


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