burlesque

"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

That has meant getting practice in at climbing centres and using poles at a dance and burlesque studio in Kilmarnock.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Spoofs like best musical nominee “Titanique,” a zany burlesque of James Cameron’s “Titanic” and all things Celine Dion, found new respectability on Broadway.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Hell Hotel, a burlesque group who attended the event, told the BBC that they were "expecting much more based on what was advertised to us through their social media channels".

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

“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

Not the least interesting examples of the indirect reaction to the Letters are the two verse caricatures or burlesques here reprinted.

From Two Burlesques of Lord Chesterfield's Letters. The Graces (1774), The Fine Gentleman's Etiquette (1776) by Anonymous

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

Here Liddel and Scott write, rather weakly, ‘to dance out, let out, betray, probably of some dance which burlesqued these ceremonies.’

From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang

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

He has lost good jobs and good sponsors by ridiculing commercials, mocking soap operas, burlesquing bigwigs and romping through childish pranks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of our pious authors appear not to have been aware that they were burlesquing religion.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli