Words similar to sendup
Example sentences for: sendup
How can you use “sendup” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The novel is strictly a sendup of American patriotic inspirational literature.
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.
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.
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.)