satirical
Women in burlesque attire danced on the bar.
There's something burlesque about the look of the car.
Critics found the writing stilted and artificial to the point of it being burlesque.
The play-within-a-play was a burlesque affair rendered with lacerating wit.

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Examples of burlesque

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He argues that burlesques are at their most telling when aiming their satire at the very 'summit' of their culture.
The words of the burlesque's song are cleverly structured to echo the rhymes of the borrowed tune.
Occupying intersticial positions between genres, performance venues and levels of cultural artefact, burlesques breached cultural categories within the theatrical world.
In some cases, anticlericals painted churches red, heaped religious images on the bonfire and performed liturgical burlesques in which bulls were crowned bishop.
All of the categories of musical selections routinely found in operatic burlesques are represented here, and several medleys juxtapose varying types of music.
Certainly, this consideration would have been at work in the operatic burlesques as well.
The activity of rhyme is autocratic as well as misaligned, burlesqueing the government of the body.
The comedy, in fact, was just the central part of these performances, conceived as full spectacles that incorporated many aspects of popular culture: dances, burlesques, carnivalesque elements.
Furthermore, literary burlesque had a popularity that strikes us as idiosyncratic, and drab realism made an inviting target.
They make a burlesque of revolutionary myths of transparency.
Worse, the burlesque doesn't just remove; it mocks the dispensation others have found in the soliloquy.
Her study examines hard country through the burlesque, 'a comic mode that can be used to undermine any cultural ideal'.
A higher level of comic refunctioning takes place when the original meaning of a quotation is completely changed by placing it in a burlesque context.
At the same time, this invocation of hunting, one of medieval nobility's most jealously guarded privileges, also emphasizes the summoner's burlesque of the secular.
Similar in form to burlesque, pantomime however, took its subjects mainly from children's stories, although some deal with historical or exotic subjects.
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