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

Ari Shaffir: The room is called the Box, and it’s this burlesque place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

The Tortora affair, already a media zoo, becomes a jurisprudential burlesque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

You can burlesque your opponent’s position in a way that makes it unattractive to the audience.

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

On Wednesday afternoon City Hall was planning to name her as New York’s first Nightlife Mayor, its ambassador at large to the late-night world of bars, burlesques and cabarets.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018

“Ms. Pak-Man” is stuffed with burlesques of ’70s and ’80s music and video-game culture.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2017

The best specimen of Greek caricature that has come down to us burlesques no less serious a theme than the great oracle of Apollo at Delphos, given on page 30.

From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton

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 burlesqued his own religion as the most earnest constantly do, for we all revolve around ourselves as well as our suns.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

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

The Grand Street Follies are built upon the eminently sound principle of burlesquing all recent attractions at Manhattan theatres.

From Time Magazine Archive

It certainly was cruel to treat poor Mrs. Ross's home-made lyrics so; but Miss White was burlesquing herself as well as the song she had to sing.

From Macleod of Dare by William Black