Example Sentences

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The shtick begins with a thick-tongued, high-pitched voice, an affect that appears in many Sandler characters and is so bizarre that you have to wonder if he is parodying a type.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2019

Linton’s disregard for transparency angers viewers and directs anger at the real-life officials that Ianucci’s film is parodying.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2013

Like all parody, his is ultimately a critique of the conventions he is parodying.

From Time Magazine Archive

There he is parodying the ingenious follies of early logic; in the Cratylus he is ridiculing the fancies of a new school of sophists and grammarians.

From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin