burlesqued
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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
He has been again burlesqued for us rending himself in rhyme, and stretched on straw groaning elegiacs to Mary in heaven.
From Robert Burns Famous Scots Series by Gabriel Setoun
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