The poem Warburton had vindicated a quarter of a century earlier from charges of deism by a Swiss professor had now been travestied along with his own commentary. |
I note this without vainglory, from a simple need to establish the truth, which has been travestied by ignorance or intent. |
He travestied Virgil, remaking the original Trojans into Ukrainian kozaks and the destruction of Troy into the abolition of the hetmanate. |
The best that can be said for the show is that it depicts a portion of humanity heretofore absent from, or travestied by, a medium purporting to be representative. |
Even Rimbaud's renunciation is travestied by Vincent Molinier, who, having killed his lover, goes mad in a remote corner of Africa. |
Just about every speech is systematically travestied or butchered, not just to be different, which would be bad enough, but to be rendered devoid of meaning. |