He is not driven to flippant paradox or sarcastic scepticism in dealing with time-honored myths, or to travesties of well-marked characters, in order to assert his individuality.
Bergson finds Clock-Time to be an artificial, compound concept, which seriously travesties Duration, the reality actually experienced by us; and Space appears as in even a worse predicament.
But this serious and discontented spirit betrays itself also in compositions which are not parodies or travesties in form.
The same spirit soon betrayed itself in curious travesties of the romances of chivalry, and sometimes invades the later specimens of these romances themselves.
It precedes all other religions, and the various heathen or pagan religions and mythologies are only traditions, corruptions, perversions, or travestiesof it.
Three travestieshave been founded on the "La Sonnambula" of Bellini.
This preposterous play travesties a whole school of dramatic writing.
Of the manytravesties of this, or of the story embodied in it, the earliest was that of Halford, brought out at the Olympic in 1854.
We have already seen that, in burlesquing mythology, faerie, and other matters, our comic playwrights have not been able to resist the temptation to introduce occasional travesties of things operatic.
Both of these travesties are very smoothly and gracefully written, with fewer puns than the author afterwards permitted himself.
Those who desire to extend their acquaintance with the literature of English stage burlesque may be recommended to turn first to the travesties published by Mr. French, which include those by Planche, and many by the Broughs, H.
The long arms ended in claw-like travestiesof hands.
Its hands and feet were claw-like travestiesof human members.
He will be remembered as Romeo Jaffier Jenkins, in Too Much for Good Nature, and in travesties of Cinderella and Fra Diavolo.
I need only hint at the orgies held in Medmenham Abbey, and the blasphemous travesties of the Hell-fire Club, to which fifteen ladies of the highest rank considered it an honour to belong.
The strange growths now grouped themselves in forests, horrible travesties on the vegetation they had succeeded.
Burl reached the farther side of the plain and found himself threading the aisles of one of the fungus forests in which the growths were hideous, misshapen travesties upon the trees they had supplanted.
Ku Klux investigations instituted by State authorities and the Federal Government were travesties of justice.
The attraction had been running some time and thousands of young Americans had doubtless accepted its travesties as history.
In Aristophanes’s own travesties of the gods, scholars have found evidence for a weakening of popular belief, but this is certainly wrong; comp.
A few were travesties of Christmas-trees, for their fictitious branches were laden with silvered and gilt sweets, toys and trinkets, seemingly trivial, but doubtless owning a significance of their own.
Also that there were certain things in it--especially the travesties of names and subjects of which the author practically knew nothing--the repetition and extension of which was likely to be damaging, if not fatal.
The circumstances of the marriage are almost purely Hugonian, though it does Hugo credit that he admires the service which he travesties so remarkably.
The bearers vanished through the archway, and I was left alone with those dread travesties on Nature, and a young lad who perhaps had already joined the great majority.
At last they were all carried down to the shore--all those horrid, pitiful travesties on Nature.
No pure woman or man would defile his or her pen with committing to paper the beastliness that follows, and which shows in its nakedness the nature of these animals, travesties made in God's image.
A few travesties and epigrams have been added, and others have been revised.
Let us, in the daily readings, consider some of the familiar travesties on faith.
From our study of the perversions and travesties of faith, we turn therefore in the weekly comment to consider faith's vital meanings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "travesties" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
