Example Sentences
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These unconscious burlesques beat the premeditated article every time.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019
What was once liberating now feels limiting, reducing our notions of power to hysterically pitched burlesques or tough-as-males drag.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2018
“Ms. Pak-Man” is stuffed with burlesques of ’70s and ’80s music and video-game culture.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2017
At 56, after nearly 40 years of musical burlesques, the accordion-grinding pop satirist has scored his first top-of-the-pops CD with the album Mandatory Fun.
From Time • Aug. 1, 2014
Chesterfield's Letters to his Son, the subject of these two burlesques, were announced as published on April 7, 1774, scarcely a year after his death; that they became an immediate best seller, every schoolboy knows.
From Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) by Anonymous
