| He travestied Virgil, remaking the original Trojans into Ukrainian kozaks and the destruction of Troy into the abolition of the hetmanate. |
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| Even Rimbaud's renunciation is travestied by Vincent Molinier, who, having killed his lover, goes mad in a remote corner of Africa. |
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| The poem Warburton had vindicated a quarter of a century earlier from charges of deism by a Swiss professor had now been travestied along with his own commentary. |
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| The best that can be said for the show is that it depicts a portion of humanity heretofore absent from, or travestied by, a medium purporting to be representative. |
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| Most controversially, without legal recourse museum pieces and specimens from an earlier age risk being travestied in unseemly ways. |
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| Later the French developed the féeries folies, a musical burlesque that travestied fairy tales. |
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| And again in others, the existing traditional architecture is travestied,ignored or quite simply destroyed. |
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| Just about every speech is systematically travestied or butchered, not just to be different, which would be bad enough, but to be rendered devoid of meaning. |
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| I note this without vainglory, from a simple need to establish the truth, which has been travestied by ignorance or intent. |
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| He has been updated, travestied and conscripted into preposterous tales so many times — including by Doyle himself — that it is silly to hold his character sacred, or to scold Mr. Ritchie for taking liberties. |
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| New Jersey, lately travestied as an inferno of vulgar hedonism on MTV, is here shown to be if not quite an earthly paradise, then at least a garden of reasonable middle-class delights. |
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| The album came out in 93 and was followed by a remix concocted by Simon Booth and Macka B. These dance pieces are not everybody's taste, some feeling that the music has been travestied. |
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| Truth in advertising — and truth in the theater — are principles more often trumpeted than honored, and the producers' reasoning may be that if we have travestied the one they are not bound by the other. |
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