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She went to the door, burlesquing her normally provocative walk.
Then, warmed by the joy of life, he began clowning on the ditch, burlesquing himself and the quake.
And Mary walked among them, burlesquing the considerate hostess, saying outrageous things to them.
Thomas was already onto the new pronunciation of the language-to the point of burlesquing it.
Burlesquing a matador with a bad bull, he stabbed futilely at the imaginary animal.
You're merely burlesquing the whole business."
Gilbert had written a blank verse musical farce burlesquing the same material in 1870 called The Princess.
At all hours of the day and night the sailors in the forecastle amused themselves and aggravated us by burlesquing our visit to royalty.
Otis wrote that in the Ovidian poems of love, he "was burlesquing an old theme rather than inventing a new one."
Price mugs, rolls his eyes continuously and delivers his lines in such an unctuous tone that he comes near to burlesquing the role.
Outwardly, as manager, he was unchanged; but inwardly he was burlesquing smaller, less free souls who would have taken the job seriously.
Aiffe widened her strange eyes, attempting or burlesquing seductiveness, and Farrell found that he could not look away from her.
One can make Pentheus a loud-mouthed tyrant burlesquing his own pride, with Dionysos all wit and charm.
They even had an easy way with the psychology texts that lay about there, fingering through them quickly, then burlesquing not only the words but also the ideas of them.
Pulci erected a structure of his own, often turning the subject into ridicule, burlesquing the characters, introducing many digressions, now capricious, now scientific, now theological.
As for mysteries, visitations--" And here she drew her mouth impossibly down until she looked like Winston Churchill burlesquing the Mask of Tragedy. "
"At early evening kiddie-time on Monday the Monkees would rush through a parody drama, burlesquing the very shows that glue Mom and Dad to the set during prime time.
On the other hand, unlike these horror works, in Dosukoi Series, because these novels are comedies burlesquing other Japanese novels, the covers always represent funny fat sumo wrestlers.
In 1910, he started Desperate Desmond, a humorous continuity strip burlesquing melodramas, dime novels, and fiction weeklies that went in for the hairbreadth rescue and gloating villain sort of material.
He hated me for burlesquing them in an article in the True Delta; so four years later when he died, I robbed the corpse--that is I confiscated the nom de plume.
Pocahontas: or the Gentle Savage was a comic extravaganza which included extracts from an imaginary Viking poem, "burlesquing the recent parodies, good, bad, and indifferent, on The Song of Hiawatha."
In burlesquing L'elisir d'amore, Gilbert retained the characters of the original, inventing only one new principal character, Beppo, assistant (and, as it turns out, long-lost mother) to Dulcamara.