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Example sentences for: spoofs
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There is, for example, a piece on spoofs in which Rose cites several that are well known, omits others (like Poe's The Great Balloon Hoax), and includes at least one that is a satire, which is a different sort of animal: Gulliver's Travels is not, to my mind, a spoof.
"[T]hink of a Friday the 13 th as written by Eugene Ionesco and Luigi Pirandello" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Critics enjoy Craven's self-knowing winks (a film within the film spoofs the original Scream ). Some find the self-consciousness over the top.
Working from a trim novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor don't squander their resources on crowds or parades or elaborate spoofs of ceremony, the way most political satires tend to do.
Reviews praise Guffman 's spoofs of show tunes and its digs at Midwestern life, but rate it a notch below the cult classic.
In his essay “The Awful German Language,” Mark Twain spoofs the confusion engendered by German gender by translating from a conversation in a German Sunday school book: