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How to use burlesque in a sentence

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Singleton strikes the difficult balance between recapitulating stereotypes and ridiculing them in broad burlesque.
I seem to remember that one of the characters was a stripper who did an unusual burlesque act with a hand puppet.
His accompaniment sounds like evil burlesque music, lurching forward, undressing you with its eyes.
The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
One of the problems in Edinburgh is that, with so many burlesque shows, there are simply not enough good artists to go round.
Perrault's fables were much reprinted and adapted by the Victorians into children's picture books, burlesque, and pantomime.
Bright lights flashed in an array of colors, advertising everything from vehicles to burlesque houses.
Authors of burlesque usually avoided the high ethical road of the satirist, who ridicules a folly or fashion in the hope of eradicating it.
Meticulously researched, her new film is a romp through the history of burlesque, narrated by those who practised the form.
To put the matter another way, black minstrels led blues lives that their burlesque art could not adequately express.
Tap dance evolved from plantation dances and minstrelsy, and the Broadway musical grew out of burlesque and operettas.
This being burlesque, the plot is purely filler to set up the well-executed dance numbers and a seemingly endless cavalcade of jiggling boobies.
In Edinburgh, we are promised the best of contemporary burlesque and vaudeville performers.
Le Notre's coat of arms is nothing if not a burlesque of heraldic traditions.
So it was a burlesque of colonial ideology, now some might call it camp, there was a little bit of that.
Sports lovers across the world can be forgiven if they have perceived the Games as a great burlesque of the tenets spelt out by Coubertin.
Still, despite its linguistic derring-do, Vernon God Little is less a satire than a burlesque.
Denise was a guest Doll as the burlesque group took the stage at Pure nightclub in Las Vegas.
The roster of tattooed, pierced misfits and post-punk gals has become a phenomenon with a recent burlesque revue touring North America.
Kickstarting the burlesque scene in London, Maria Saugar reckons the Whoopee Club will be the talk of the town at The Edinburgh Festival.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But these lines are of the high burlesque kind, and in this stile the amphibrach closes lines with great beauty.
Men bowed to each other with burlesque dancing school formality, offered arms, or accepted them with bearlike coyness.
It might be called a burlesque, but for the fact that it is unaccompanied by the luxury of legs.
A popular subject with the writers of burlesque for Christmastide has been the time-honoured one of Cinderella.
They were secularized, and ultimately degraded for the most part into burlesque.
The levity he satirized in a series of burlesque entertainments with Mr. Whalley as call-boy and Dr. Kenealy as gasman.
His burlesque of Taglioni was side-splitting, especially as he grew stouter.
In form this targe seems to be a burlesque parody of the figure of a Mycenaean shield.
One had a male-partner, who hopped his loutish burlesque of the thing he could not do.
Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low.
And the result would be that he would kill the wittiness of the lines by burlesque.
Sheer farce and coarse burlesque, with plenty of color for the money, still made up the sum of what the public of those days wanted.
Red Skelton was a very funny man who started off working on Mississippi river boats, performed in Minstrel shows and burlesque theater.
But the gamin was petticoated and the burlesque scenes set in a comedy.
The officers took, as usual, a puerile revenge in the form of a burlesque.
Deem not this collocation simply a burlesque on Scientific categories.
Nailed several anti-saloon and burlesque planks in his platform.
Rachel has always loved the glamour of old movie stars and modern burlesque artists such as Dita von Teese and Immodesty Blaize.
The letter is a burlesque account of the trip to Cincinnati.
And the statement about the Burlesque madrigal is truly absurd.
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