| In his early work, Thackeray burlesqued popular authors and tried on different guises. |
| Newman burlesqued race, in terms of height, saying that short people have no reason to live. |
| But I think it may be regarded as proof that Verne cannot be burlesqued. |
| Consider the number of jokes about Scots that burlesqued their stinginess. |
| Thus with crushing obviousness they burlesqued feminist rage, avant-garde performance and Modernist process and self-reference. |
| The point is that high-brow European music was deemed enough a part of the American vernacular to be quoted and burlesqued. |
