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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.
She's writing a sendup of Huckleberry Finn . The parallels are obvious.
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.
Eberstadt's sendup of the New York art world of the 1980s is pronounced a success.
) 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 ).