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Example sentences for: sendup

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Critics applaud Russo's sendup of life at a small western Pennsylvania college, in which an English professor loses his job, becomes unhinged, commandeers a local TV station, and threatens to murder a goose.
) The book, they say, is a witty sendup of therapeutic literature, and it also serves as a "seriously legitimate guide for the perplexed" (Benito Rakower, the Washington Post ). Critics also recommend it as a sort of highbrow Cliff's Notes : "You don't need to have read Proust in order to read this book; in fact, once you've read de Botton you don't need to read it at all" (Richard Klein, Voice Literary Supplement ).
Some critics bemoan Starship 's grotesque violence and glorification of a "happily fascist world" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Others consider it a witty sendup of action movies, with fabulous special effects and campy characters: "a cheerfully lobotomized, always watchable experience" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (See the official Starship Troopers site.)
It's a sendup of the old model, but in a different way than, say, Hustler was, and the difference (surprise) reflects the sexual culture of the '90s.
The novel is strictly a sendup of American patriotic inspirational literature.