burlesque

Lawyers and bankers sat elbow-to-elbow at meals with burlesque performers and filmmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

"We're not mercenaries," he said in a 2021 interview, describing himself as pursuing "a burlesque form of pacifism."

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Other snaps showed fake 100 dollar bills spread across the floor, her posing with burlesque star Dita Von Teese, and dancing with an Elvis impersonator.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

The queens cut their teeth performing in bars, burlesque theaters, punk venues and even a circus, where they learned to entertain by pulling together subversive and mainstream references.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Erasmus’s burlesque attack is a mark of Cicero’s enduring influence.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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

On Wednesday afternoon City Hall was planning to name her as New York’s first Nightlife Mayor, its ambassador at large to the late-night world of bars, burlesques and cabarets.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

“Ms. Pak-Man” is stuffed with burlesques of ’70s and ’80s music and video-game culture.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

It is extremely improbable that, in an age when it was still forbidden to reveal the ὄργια, or secret rites, those rites would be mocked in popular burlesques.

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

Mr. Morton has done this kind of thing before and done it with Mr. Bonneville—“Twenty Twelve” lampooned the scene behind the 2012 London Olympics; “W1A” burlesqued the BBC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Basquiat plainly harbored that emotion even as, for art’s sake, he burlesqued it, packing spaces around and amid the vehement black lines with abstract fiestas of white, red, blue, and yellow.

From The New Yorker ● May 26, 2017

She has become the archetype of the cinema woman, adulated, burlesqued, imitated, envied.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2012

On the contrary: She sang very well, in a style that burlesqued the practice of "normal" singing.

From Slate ● Dec. 1, 2009

In one of his satires, Horace gives us an idea of the manner in which slaves burlesqued their lords at this jocund time.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

In the course of sassing its forebears by burlesquing their excesses and teasing out their subtexts, the show hoots at the clichés of pop fiction and real life even as it indulges them.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 10, 2018

The Coen brothers take aim at Cold War-era Hollywood, burlesquing its scandals, blacklist and ancient world spectaculars.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2016

"Miracle!" would've looked more outrageous in the 1990s, when Savage's Greek Active troupe was burlesquing the classics.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2012

Projected by the Marx Brothers is an epic entitled Go West, which will aim to end the cycle by burlesquing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sang the soprano score so admirably, burlesquing the action of the prima donna, but showing far greater powers of execution than she possessed, that his hearers were captivated.

From Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry C. Lahee