Sentence examples for parody from high-quality English sources.

• But it was not a parody.

• WRITING a parody is hard.

• On the other hand, the age of literary parody has already been surveyed.

• To ensure that the law does not infringe upon free speech rights, it incorporates exemptions for satire and parody.

• The word parody is derived from the Greek parōidía, “a song sung alongside another.”

• Part of the enjoyment people take in parody is the enjoyment of feeling intelligent.

• This is partly thanks to Alec Baldwin’s parody of the president as an irascible halfwit.

• A parody is an imitation of an imitation: its target is the manner of representation itself.

Use parody in a sentence.

• Parody can be done from malice or from affection, but it is fundamentally a mode of subversion.

• Still, the boundaries between the literary senses of parody, burlesque, travesty, and pastiche are debatable.

• Eliot parody “Sweeney in Articulo,” by Myra Buttle (pen name of Victor Purcell); Edmund Wilson’s malicious “The Omelet of A.

• The annual Feast of Fools in 15th-century Paris, for instance, incorporated an obscene parody of the mass performed in song and dance within the church.

• Of course, parody politics in America quickly becomes real politics, too, but tends to lack the saving self-knowledge of its origins in parody.

• or ‘The Naked Gun’, but the jokes there are land hard: Peter Cushing’s amazing giant eye, Kilmer’s pitch-perfect Beach Boys parody and some timeless wordplay (see above).

• Not the parody of strength involved in tough talk against refugees, but the resolve, will and diplomatic skill needed to negotiate peace settlements, stabilise insecure countries and uphold the rule of law.

• There was also a rejection of the Bill Haley sort of music, and the parody of itself being a parody of African-American blues music, and the Rolling Stones trying to sing like they were American.

parody sentence examples

• Friedmann, that no parody was intended); and, alongside Oliver Jensen’s celebrated version of the Gettysburg Address as Eisenhower might have delivered it, a speech that Eisenhower really did deliver that is even more comically befuddled.

• Take this early political parody that skewered Tony Blair's hesitation between stepping aside as prime minister and remaining in the role, an oscillation rumoured to have caused much frustration on the part of potential successor, Gordon Brown.

• SHOUTS & MURMURS parody of Mozart’s life as if it were the life of a modern-day rock star told through quotes from Count Ferdinand von Zeil, Emanuel Schikaneder, Antonio Salieri, and Constanze Weber, as well as a music video director, Alec Stimpson...

• Parody was identified as a literary mode by Aristotle, and you can find examples in English from the time of Chaucer, but the practice really came into its own in the nineteenth century, when literature was the dominant middle-class mode of edification and amusement, and word games—and parody is basically a word game—were popular entertainments.