| The point is that high-brow European music was deemed enough a part of the American vernacular to be quoted and burlesqued. |
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| Newman burlesqued race, in terms of height, saying that short people have no reason to live. |
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| In his early work, Thackeray burlesqued popular authors and tried on different guises. |
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| Consider the number of jokes about Scots that burlesqued their stinginess. |
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| Thus with crushing obviousness they burlesqued feminist rage, avant-garde performance and Modernist process and self-reference. |
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| And yet, in an emphasis characteristic of Kadare's wit, the memory of the past is regularly burlesqued, too: I had heard that the First Crusade had passed this way a thousand years before. |
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| They burlesqued the prophet Jeremiah's words, and turned the expression he used into ridicule. |
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