Example sentences for: self-parodic

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

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street director Wes Craven's sequel to his self-parodic horror movie is said to be almost as amusing (and scary) as the original.

  • Some praise the show for its self-parodic dialogue and realistic characters who are "as annoying and self-absorbed--as people of your own acquaintance" (Barbara Phillips, the Wall Street Journal ). Others say they have no interest in watching "spineless, whiny, indecisive nitwits" (Tom Shales, the Washington Post ).

  • The books offer an almost self-parodic mix of motivational rhetoric, complete confidence that nothing will go wrong, and an utter lack of anything like an understanding of economics.

  • The film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, would be worth seeing just for Stamp's performance, at once rock-hard and goofily blinkered, and for Peter Fonda's wittily self-parodic turn as the suspected killer, a music producer who coasts on '60s counterculture easiness while his lackeys do the dirty work.

  • To espouse two positions at once is to pull a Clinton . To adopt the hairstyle popularized by the actress Jennifer Aniston on Friends is to get a Rachel or to get a Friends do . A sagan is a unit of quantity equivalent to "billions and billions"--the quotation an unintentionally self-parodic trademark of the late astronomer Carl Sagan.


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