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Sentence Examples From start to finish, the treatment of the defendants was a travesty of legal due process. Even today, in this age of designer bars and huge superpubs, the pint of lager is generally an insipid, watery travesty. This travesty of Richardson's novel became the most frequently reprinted edition of the early 19th century. It is a travesty that there is still misogyny and sexism in the labor movement. It's a travesty because if anything the axis of power has been tilting back towards men in recent years. Even from the standpoint of elementary bourgeois democratic principles, the constitution is a travesty. If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive. As an absolute and omnicompetent power, from the standpoint of psychological realism it is both an ethical travesty and a practical absurdity. It would have been a travesty had either side lost this out and out thriller. It's a grotesque and hacky travesty of application compatibility, but there you go. They are unfazed by any amount of death, destruction, loss, tragedy, travesty. Not one of them was prepared to say a good word about the film, which they regarded as a complete travesty of their family history. If you do not put your name forward to be leader of the party it will be a travesty. The common belief that the British were obliged to shoulder the main burden of World War I is a historical travesty. When I survey the world of the New Humanities, what I see is a travesty of what I understand by the life of the mind. We hate it and regard it as a travesty of justice when applied to others, especially others whose sins hurt us. We will walk through a travesty of language, where truth is but a signs system and actions are always appear flanked by a pair of stars. His self-penned songs track his career from despondent dreams of stardom to the travesty of having achieved them. Blurry, washed-out and uninspired, it has gone from being a graphical masterpiece to a visual travesty. In short, it is a travesty of not only scholarship, but plain common sense. Show More Sentences It was a travesty of the human voice, inhaling as she spoke and exhaling between words, breathing and speaking in a completely unnatural rhythm. He has a good sense of humor about his situation, but it makes it nonetheless a travesty of justice and humanity. The result is an unhappy divorce between student and school which is a grotesque travesty of all that the IBO stands for. I think that is a travesty of justice if that occurs and I'm against it totally. It hardly takes a brilliant operatic dramaturge to see through this brainless travesty, loaded with irrelevant inventions and non sequiturs. However defeat for Seamus Grant would have been a travesty of justice given all that he has delivered to the county for fifty years and more. Doesn't this travesty cast into doubt the whole case for combining an empowered president with a pliant court? And if he isn't crowned King of the Jungle in 24 hours time, it will be a travesty of the highest order. Hillary and the two Australians set out in November 1998 on what became a travesty of the Scott epic. Who has not had occasion to convince himself of the travesty of a divine service of song, presented in a real folk synagogue? Celibacy, as commonly understood, is therefore a meaningless parody or travesty of the true formula. This calculatingly false old woman is presenting us with a travesty of Romantic passion, just as she overwhelms the natural with the artificial. Is this a travesty against nature that we are doomed to repeat ad infinitum? It's a travesty that she's in jail at this point and she's protecting some source, who is not in jail or who is not even fessing up to relieve her of that responsibility. By full time, it bordered on a full-blown travesty of justice. The ninth house I lived in was a funky modern architectural travesty. Perhaps he meant his play to be a parody of a pre-war drawing room drama rather than the travesty that was portrayed on the stage of Richmond Theatre. To suggest today that a revolutionary and proletarian party be built in alliance with other classes is a parody of a travesty. Mr. Speaker, I think a unilateral withdrawal would be a travesty of the worst proportions. The bias and manipulation of the trial and the accused were a travesty of any sense of justice. Show More Sentences It does not seem to be in favour of minimum sentencing and I think that is absolutely a travesty of justice. What is needed is a commitment to never again allow such a travesty of justice and transgression against equality to occur. Such an agreement makes a travesty of the basic, prime objective of equalization. They are either descendants or people immediately affected by the travesty of residential schools. For them to actively discourage and dissuade survivors to have competent legal representation is clearly unfair and a travesty of justice. It is a total travesty of equalization and its objectives, so much so that even Ontario is now complaining about it. This travesty of justice is a clear attempt to stifle political opposition in Cambodia and to curtail freedom of expression and association. Given this obvious travesty of justice, why has the government so utterly failed to protect and defend the rights of that Canadian?  He rewrites history while making a travesty of reality and taking advantage of the lacunae of adversaries he has chosen. Mr. Speaker, Bill C-9 is a travesty of the democratic process in the House. This is a travesty of the equalization formula devised in 1947 by the Rowell-Sirois Commission. Ray Lema: Well, I obviously didn't want to go messing around on stage, making a complete travesty of spiritual music. It would be a travesty if officials are blamed and MPs get off scot-free. To hold it in a context where some basic fundamental rights are markedly absent, indeed, denied to the population, is to commit a travesty. In short, switching to the superior infrastructure of Malaysia with an injection of studio shots ensured a travesty. But the manner in which the wish of those who supported the Irish proposal was ignored is also a travesty. This presentation suggested that it would be a travesty if gendered power relations were not taken into account in this law reform process. If the judicial authorities now charge and sentence her on this basis, yet another layer of injustice would be added to the travesty of her case. This is still a travesty, but it shows that we are making a difference and gives us hope for even more meaningful change. This is indeed a shame and a travesty of national proportions. Show More Sentences The planning meeting, in my opinion, was a travesty of democracy. As happy as I am for George Zimmerman, I'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty. How that one got past the speaker is a travesty of fiscal accountability. In an instant the case pitched from tragedy to travesty to absurdist spectacle, the judgments coming far faster than the facts. Then there was that 80-14 travesty against Idaho, a team that won just one out of eleven games all season. One of the defense attorneys for Zimmerman said he was glad the outcome did not turn a tragedy into travesty. Gardens in the Arab world today, for example in the Emirates, which grow where once nothing grew at all, are very worthy but a travesty of the original. The second lesson must be that we need to understand that blaming the residents of Sighthill for the events of the past week is simply misguided and a travesty of the truth. It's a travesty, a mockery of our Constitutional system, and they will not rest until this hideous distortion of all that is good and decent has been ended once and for all. Not only is this a fiscal travesty but, more importantly, our health care decisions are being made by unqualified persons with purely fiscally based agendas. Buzz Bissinger says the trial is a travesty, fueled by Bonds' unpopularity and one man's zealotry. O'Toole's clear blue eyes and brittle voice flood with so much anguish and pain that even Pitt's fixed pout and the awful lines cannot make a laughable travesty of the scene. You can spin for the Arctic char but it's a travesty if you do so. It is a shameful travesty that, in country where freedom remains an illusion for most people, the President names the national holiday Freedom Day. General Rito Alejo del Río, responsible for more than 200 crimes against humanity, was still a free man, even though that travesty of justice had been condemned in a public declaration by 60 organizations and individuals. The March presidential elections were a travesty of democracy, with repression of a free press and the MDC opposition leader now on trial for treason. We will stand with the millions of people across the world that are calling for justice to be done and will join the protest against this travesty of justice. The Purgatoriam Hibernicum is a humorous and bawdy burlesque or travesty on the Roman poet Virgil's Aeneid. What an absolute travesty, a breach of trust, a breach of promise and a clear violation of the commitment that was made to me to produce access to information legislation. What a travesty of history there would have been had we had lived in a society in which the government told those people to shut up, that they had no right to speak out. Show More Sentences A toxic travesty of investigative journalism. It presented a travesty of radical politics…. At a time when English managers are under-represented in the top flight and black English managers non-existent, it would be a travesty. If the SPD limped on in government, that would not just strengthen the appeal of the Left but be a travesty of voters' wishes. The perpetuation of a grand coalition also runs into broader objections. This is insane, a travesty, a hatchet job. Will the Minister of Foreign Affairs take over for his inexperienced colleague and draft an official diplomatic letter to the Government of Mexico protesting this travesty of justice? Who knows, without polls we may not have had the swiffer wet jet or the Mr. Clean eraser, which would be a travesty for housecleaners the world over. From what I can tell, the reception to this new Ryan travesty is mixed. To connoisseurs of smoked fish such confusion would be a travesty. Their mandatory minimum sentences are a travesty. It would be a travesty of justice, however, if concerted and effective action to rectify the results of a history of dispossession were abandoned on grounds of fiscal restraint. The second edition is not a recast, but absolutely a travesty of the first. The Panel considers that this decision is the only way to stop the continuation of what is seen by observers and by other CPCs as a travesty in fisheries management. This is such a travesty that only through a great sense of responsibility will we be able to persuade the compliant States to continue to adapt their fleets to existing resources and not the opposite. The draft text released on Saturday contained so little for developing countries it was a travesty and developing countries responded accordingly. To leave the academic decision to boards of governors, or university administrators who have no academic experience or insight would be a travesty. The Academy's failure to recognise The Lego Movie in its nominations will be seen as too great a travesty of justice for Bafta not to be itching to correct. This travesty of a serious investigation into a dreadful crime has declined so far into a presentational circus that it has become an ugly insult to the innocent victims. Examples from Classical Literature The man who marries a woman for her money is a white slave, a bond servant, a travesty on manhood. The playwright has striven to transfer from the field to the stage a cotton-picking scene and has made a travesty of it. A piquant witticism is not an expression of all this, but simply a travesty. It long ago learned that marriage is a travesty and our marriage a nightmare. The proceedings were the veriest travesty of the forms of justice. Cadwallader seemed like a mocking travesty wrought in the dark by an impish finger. The travesty is the need for statesmanship and the lack of it at the present time. It was the sorriest travesty of similar scenes in a politer world. In late modern neo-tribes, however, mute abandon expresses a travesty that masks a deep lack of communicativeness. I stretched my lips in that travesty of a smile I had seen the others use. That's why this whole thing is a travesty of love and marriage. I take this opportunity of saying that justice in this town is a travesty. Find more words! 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