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Example sentences for "parodied"

Lexicographically close words:
paro; paroccipital; paroche; parochia; parochial; parodies; parodist; parody; parodying; paroisse
  1. But all parody is not travesty, for a writing may be parodied without being ridiculed.

  2. The song was parodied and altered into many forms.

  3. But it is the lower side of love's ideal nature which is parodied in Troilus and Cressida, and causes it to resemble the flippant accompaniment to the serenade in Mozart's Don Juan, which caricatures the sentimentality of the text.

  4. Shakespeare never repeated without excelling, and certainly never parodied himself in this fashion.

  5. In his honour De Banville wrote a song which parodied all popular aspirations to be a flower.

  6. The poet has often declared, with an iteration which has been parodied by M.

  7. At other seasons of popular licence, all the parts of the church service, even the most solemn, were parodied by the profane youth of the towns.

  8. This suggested to some young Humanist the idea of a collection of letters in which the obscurantists could be seen exposing themselves and their unutterable folly under the parodied title of Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum.

  9. They were not the friends of man, but parodied him and transformed life into a sort of Punch and Judy show.

  10. The majority were of an opinion that Michael Angelo was brutally parodied by these swollen muscles and distorted limbs.

  11. These parodied scenes, composed almost entirely in the very words of the tragedies, are inimitable.

  12. Humanity is parodied by a female monster holding up the heart of a martyr to the new religion.

  13. This great work is also parodied as "The Heathen," with Alleluia Grouse and Luke Blizzard in the rôles of Glory Quayle and John Storm.

  14. In "The Lowest Depths" Punch parodied the dreary, violent and brutal squalors of The Lower Depths, and incidentally had a dig at the Stage Society for producing it.

  15. Like some vaguely parodied picture of "The Good Shepherd" the old man gathered the little limp figure into his arms, and retreated to the stern of the boat.

  16. Without was a whistling wind that parodied her anger.

  17. Yet still she gazed at him, expectant of some sudden outbreak, some storm of anger which, though it parodied her own, would at least be in unison with it.

  18. Still, Gay could really afford to laugh at those who attacked or parodied him, for the play brought him, if not fame, at least notoriety.

  19. The other sister took up the second voice, and they parodied me both in voice and in execution in the most shameful manner.

  20. The Americans have parodied this hymn, substituting, "GOD save great Washington!

  21. It is astonishing with how much boldness the Greeks parodied and ridiculed sacred subjects.

  22. And this imitation was not from friendly authors, but from those of a hostile school, who had during their whole career borrowed from his plots, parodied his phrases, and ridiculed his masterpieces by slurs and burlesques.

  23. But, as has been most justly observed, the epigram would have wanted its sting if the line parodied had not been that of the very writer attacked.

  24. It has been parodied a thousand times, reproduced in almost every newspaper in English, illustrated, and at least one Kentuckian has heard it chanted by an Englishman in the shadow of the Pyramids in Egypt!

  25. It has been parodied in Europe and America many times, and is the finest expression of Dr.

  26. Parodied out of the Field--A Resolution of sine die Adjournment--K.

  27. And he parodied an actor's motion in this rôle.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parodied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.