Sentence example with the word 'burlesquing'

burlesquing

Last update: August 3, 2015


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This burlesquing of things universally held sacred, though condemned by serious-minded theologians, conveyed to the child-like popular mind of the middle ages no suggestion of contempt, though when belief in the doctrines and rites of the medieval Church was shaken it became a ready instrument in the hands of those who sought to destroy them.   [Please select]

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The fat-faced boy still appeared embittered, burlesquing this speech in a hateful falsetto.   [Please select]

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One night, long after this, when Richard was a reporter in New York, he and Miss Rehan were burlesquing a scene from a play on which the last curtain had just fallen.   [Please select]

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He even compelled his mother to laugh at it, though it was sorely against her nature to lend herself to any burlesquing of piously intended things.   [Please select]

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