Parodic

Like all great satire, Café Flesh stands in parodic opposition to the very generic forms out of which it evolved. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There is no doubt that the copying in the MA GOP's ad far exceeds what even DeVore did, and, it seems to me, that fact more than compensates for any possibility of the MA GOP's ad having slightly more of a "parodic" quality than did DeVore's "November" ad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This second-hand or transcribed social history isn't "parodic," just misconceived, and testimony (if any is needed) to the increasing inability to discern what our disciplinary base actually is in "literary-and-cultural studies," and why it matters that we cannot and should not be simply pale echoes of better-equipped social historians like Colley herself. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Dinner takes to a sublime and faintly parodic extreme the great revival of British food that might be traced back to Rick Stein's 1988 book, English Seafood Cookery. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm surprised that McNally, who once wrote a good play about Callas called The Lisbon Traviata, should now turn her into a parodic sacred monster. ❋ Unknown (2012)

It may thus contain some parodic element and would be justified in appropriating some of "Summer." ❋ Unknown (2010)

So I think it's fair to say that the parodic aspect of the MA GOP's ad is slightly - but only slightly - more prominent than DeVore's "November" ad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

An energetic, parodic drawing of dancers based on a celebrated print from the Romantic Ballet era encapsulates, along with a witty drawing of Igor Stravinsky, Picasso's association with Sergei Diaghilev and his experimental Ballets Russes. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

"Families are the stuff of American drama; and in Sam Shepard's savagely parodic 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winner they get duly stuffed," wrote Michael Billington very memorably about Matthew Warchus's 2004 National Theatre revival. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A few miles away, a Las Vegas county government building houses "CountyCenter," a parodic art show that includes a replica of Ms. Lin's work. ❋ Alexandra Berzon (2011)

They rattled their jewellery, too, in the royal box, which, in an almost parodic representation of the relationship the championships bear to modern Britain, hosted a lord, a viscount, five knights, six ladies and four HRHs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Especially his postmodern trilogy of parodic detective stories which conclude at a Sherlock Holmes conference in Meiringen, where Adair himself plunges into the Reichenbach Falls with his own central character. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In this almost parodic picture-postcard miniature of deep England, Upward had chosen to literally “isolate” himself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some scenes are excellently staged and acted, while others are done in an offhand, parodic manner which makes me wonder how historically accurate everything is. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cultivating humor, wit, and delightfully twisted pop culture innuendo, Calls for Cthulhu is a lovingly parodic entry in the canon of cosmic horror that has something for everyone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is quite obviously too cruelly parodic to be real, and this should be Garry's first line of defence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Certain songs, such as "Living the Blues" and "Copper Kettle", get an unambiguous thumbs up, while others, such as Dylan's parodic version of Paul Simon's "The Boxer" thought by some to be about Dylan, get smartly dismissed: "Jesus is it awful." ❋ Unknown (2011)

In another instance of 2020 parodality, [the governor] of [Maine] is making restaurant workers wear dog [cones]. ❋ SimulatedParodality (2020)