It's as if someone decided to create a parodically stereotypical design studio and re-release a reverently classic game. ❋ SVGL (2009)
Of the three small female parts in the movie, two are briefly glimpsed prostitutes while the third is a parodically butch feminist-type who Reedus punches in the face while the opening credits are still rolling. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This would say very little about anything except the collective political talent of Democrats, which in recent history has been almost parodically low. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The long minor-key "Frere Jacques" episode that starts the third movement yielded to a melody that sounded almost parodically lugubrious, with a sob, possibly unintentional, in the brass. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The scene was intended to invoke and parodically recreate the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr., an African-American man who had been murdered months earlier outside of Jasper, Texas after being chained to the back of a moving pickup truck by three white men. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Our potential sympathy for Betsey--a thwarted ice skater dominated by her roving and parodically patriarchal husband--rapidly wanes as we watch her abandon her son and commodify her daughter, right down to the "Heaven Scent Bliss Rampike Doll" 477. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The fact that Roberto Alagna speaks English with an almost parodically sexy French accent doesn't help. ❋ Unknown (2009)
She's introduced as a repellently bloated ogre of a woman: . . . who meets a farcical end: . . . and comes back as the "Lunch Lady," about as parodically ridiculous a name and concept for a slasher as could be imagined: . . . and that's how she's been depicted up until the monthly series: ❋ Unknown (2009)
Whatever the process, Notes on a Scandal, Heller's account of an almost parodically spinsterish North London teacher who befriends a glamorous younger colleague who has been having an affair with one of her pupils, was hailed as a "brilliant", "gripping", "sinister" study in loneliness and obsession. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Here in this miniature portrait of the way patriarchy relies upon illusion, Charles parodically plays the role of "oriental" eminence: he is static, sensuous, and passive, yet nevertheless despotically controls the female world around him. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"One's doubts about Millie's 'authorship' grow more strongly when one looks more closely at the front matter," Professor Chambers (parodically? solemnly?) informs us before concluding (I believe in all seriousness) that Millie's Book is evidence of the imperialist thought-control project of the hegemony. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Twain typically quotes parodically to assert radical difference. ❋ Unknown (1987)
Grossman's books are amusing in that Fillory," his alternate world, "is almost parodically haphazardly explained. ❋ By THE EDITORS (2011)
Marshall plan (rather self-parodically Soviet of them, you'll agree). ❋ Unknown (2010)
Daryl Hannah as first prize is given such conflicting drives that she eventually cancels herself out of the movie; an unrecognizable Sean Young serves as Douglas's parodically proplike wife, and the young hero's mother is conspicuously absent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The look and tone of Jodouin's work is unapologetically feminine, perhaps even parodically so - Holly Hobbie Goes to Grad School. ❋ R.M. Vaughan (2010)
But it started as a mystery, and then got racy, and then got weird, and then got almost self-parodically excessive in its sordid details. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In another instance of 2020 parodality, [the governor] of [Maine] is making restaurant workers wear dog [cones]. ❋ SimulatedParodality (2020)
