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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.
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.
Relajando, or echando relajo (joking), can be lighthearted joking around or can be heavy in a serious way about a grave topic.
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.
Jorge Portilla’s essay on relajo is often cited as the fundamental study of this comic conduct found among the Mexican working class.
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