| 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. |
| 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. |
| I note this without vainglory, from a simple need to establish the truth, which has been travestied by ignorance or intent. |
| But does China have to make such huge travesties of late '80s American PoMo, that already travestied style? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
