| Hearst was the media magnate whose tumultuous life was parodied in the 1941 movie, Citizen Kane. |
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| The conversational style essential to success eludes most of us, or is parodied in a false mateyness, but it seemed to come naturally to him. |
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| The ridiculous metal guitars were parodied hilariously by worthy MIDI keyboards, but here they are reveled in, with no irony intended. |
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| The conventions of romantic comedy are parodied through the 'romance' between these two characters. |
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| Shunted out of the mainstream, he was parodied by artists who rendered him a hippie or muscle-bound clown. |
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| Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred. |
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| A Tory poster parodied his defence policy by showing an unarmed British soldier with his hands raised in surrender. |
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| He parodied the historical parade of styles in modernism, mimicking, for example, the strains of lyrical and geometric abstraction. |
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| These films are very hokey, more so than normal horror films, very easily parodied, and at least one of the stories tends to verge on comedy. |
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| It attracted controversy for using the sound of breaking wind in an advert which parodied over-consumption. |
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| William Hone was acquitted in three famous trials after having parodied the litany, the Athanasian Creed, and the church catechism. |
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| Two thirds of this record could be parodied, such is its woefulness. |
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| When fringe theatre gets parodied, the image is often a lone actor droning on about some hobbyhorse subject. |
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| Her ostentatious display and over-the-top emotions were mercilessly parodied. |
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| Mrs Malliori's report has been parodied and attacked in some countries, including my own, and we are owed a small debate on it. |
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| Hollywood cartoons of the 1940's sometimes parodied stars or feature films that were popular at the time. |
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| A few months ago we told you about Jul, an artist who once parodied the Little Prince in French magazine Fluide Glacial. |
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| In our opinion, the language used by the person parodied by Michel Beaudry is clearly patois. |
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| Big pictures of the history of the painting, parodied in a vídeoclip of Hold Your Horses! |
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| On each of its four facades is the now famous and often parodied inscription a nation of poets, artists, heroes, saints, thinkers, scientists, navigators, and transmigrators. |
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| For instance, sesame Street parodied grown-up shows 30 Rock, Mad Men, and Downton Abbey. |
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| Due to the air of mystery about him, he also was one of the most parodied dictators ever. |
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| As Smashie and Nicey, two dim but smug veteran platter-spinners, they parodied the worst kind of radio voices as crescendos of self-promotion and wannabe-trendy vocabulary. |
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| His poems have been parodied many times, including with the books When We Were Rather Older and Now We Are Sixty. |
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| The theme actually sounds complete, and it would be plausible to say that Händel parodied Graupner in this case, and not the contrary, especially since Händel, unlike Graupner, made a habit of parody throughout his career. |
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| Launched in 1979, Viz has parodied the straitlaced British comics of the post-war period such as The Beano and The Dandy. |
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| Utilizing the popular melodies of Christmas songs often already parodied with pre-existing timbres, organists seized on a genre by which they could show off both the sonorities of their instrument and their own virtuosity. |
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| This is parodied famously in Cervantes' Don Quixote, when the title character attacks a windmill, believing it to be a giant. |
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| It is interesting that both totalitarianism and industrialism were parodied at the time by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times and The Great Dictator respectively. |
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| In the oral tradition,changes in voice and oratorical rhythm, expressions and gestures, play a fundamental role: even a seemingly sacred text can be parodied and lowered to a scatological level. |
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| He has previously tackled the issue of sizeist bullying after impressionist Jon Culshaw parodied him. |
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| This can be seen, for example, when Joseph Trefeli as the barman in L'odeur du voisin by the Compagnie Alias contorts and is literally overpowered by his limbs in the parodied busyness of the gastronomy trade. |
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| That the audience, from the orchestra to the balcony, felt attacked by a work that not only parodied opera but also the opera-going public, is not astonishing. |
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| Now, pals James Franco and Seth Rogen have parodied the video. |
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| The influence of euphuism can be seen in the works of such writers as Robert Greene and William Shakespeare, both of whom imitated the style in some works and parodied it in others. |
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| This mainstream image is parodied by our most famous satirical magazine, Private Eye, which adopts the same figure on its front cover but turns it into a comic knight with a bent sword. |
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| The author aptly parodied the title of Prime Minister Nastase's campaign document entitled: From Karl Marx to Coca-Cola', claiming that a document entitled From Karl Marx to Al Capone' would be just as truthful. |
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| In a manner reminiscent of the Saturnalia, nobles and paupers changed roles, the Mass was parodied in Church, and dancing was continued to the point of exhaustion. |
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| Satirical impressionist television series Dead Ringers also parodied Torchwood, with Jon Culshaw playing Captain Jack and Jan Ravens as Gwen Cooper. |
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| The Spanish Tragedy was often referred to, or parodied, in works written by other Elizabethan playwrights, including William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe. |
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| The original Mary and her lamb must be the most parodied poem in logology, written in at least 50 literary constraints, from an E-less lamb to a palindromic lamb. |
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