Example sentences for: relajo

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

  • As a comic actor, he was the premier artist of the relajo, whereby in a single ludicrous, narrative monologue he could inadvertently chastise the urban poor, and champion the social needs of the upper classes, thus highlighting the obvious disparities.

  • 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.

  • Relajo can also describe a joking relationship, a bantering back and forth, which through the laughter relieves tension and disintegrates the cause of the tension of the moment.

  • Jorge Portilla’s essay on relajo is often cited as the fundamental study of this comic conduct found among the Mexican working class.

  • If one could find a phrase in English that encompasses the relajo concept, it would be “to put one over on” a system or a situation.


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