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Example sentences for: sendup

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That's a trick question, because her best performance, in Basic Instinct (1992), was essentially a comic turn--a lusty, glittery-eyed sendup of film noir femmes fatales . Here she starts promisingly, looking odd and imposing in her caftans, childishly impervious to the absurdity of her demands.
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.
Critics disagree on the merits of this sendup of academia starring Richard Dreyfuss.
) 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 ).
Eberstadt's sendup of the New York art world of the 1980s is pronounced a success.