Sentences with phrase «parody of all of the above»

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This is of course a parody of East 17's soppy classic song «Stay Another Day», but the original is not done any justice by the above, as I'm sure you will agree.

Abdullahi called on all civil servants in Kogi to raise their heads above the parody of bags of rice from the Senators, restating their absolute support for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye by his constituents.

Disclaimer: The above post / reply was simply a sarcastic parody of what David Trail constantly posts on a daily basis.

If [it] sounds like the usual preoccupations of pop - culture parody, what lifts it above is Rodriguez's ability to create a self - contained world all of its own restless, wacky, beautiful to look at and with a genuine emotional warmth.

The humor is only a step or two above the lowbrow sensibilities of the Friedberg - Seltzer parodies.

Indeed, the book outlines the full gamut of historical periods associated with different kinds of biopic subjects: the classical, celebratory form (melodrama); warts - and - all (melodrama / realism); transition from producer's genre to auteur's genre; critical investigation and atomisation of the subject; parody; culture based on consumerism and celebrity; minority appropriation (queer, feminist, African American, Third World, etc.); and neoclassical biopic, which integrates all of the above.

You're making an epic movie parody and you choose to focus on the Narnia movie far above and beyond the BIGGEST EPIC OF THE LAST DECADE?

Though their cohort of college students had been parodied as the Me Generation, motivated by money above all else, they were also enthusiastic about community service.

(The image above is a contemporary parody of John Law's scheme, whereby Law eats gold... and paper fiat currency comes out the other end.

Call of Duty's signature announcements and pop - ups every time you level up or pull of a certain feat have become a bit of a parody in the core gaming community but for some odd reason, Sledgehammer games appear to have embraced it and decided to launch a veritable assault on your retinas with a blitzkrieg of annoying noises and banners every time you pull off a kill slightly above «normal» (and by a normal kill we mean one that isn't avenging a death, or a payback, or a double kill, or a comeback kill, or a myriad of countless other non-normal kills).

A TT Games Lego game isn't a TT Games Lego game without an injection of humor, parody and sarcasm, and this new trailer delivers all of the above.

Tropicália is thus a sort of parody of Brazilian stereotypes for a Brazilian audience, an in - joke in which viewers traverse sand and gravel paths through favela - like cabins called Penetráveis [Penetrables], encounter a couple of live macaws, brush past potted tropical plants, and listen to Caetano Veloso's canonical song «Tropicália» — itself a parodistic and sharply critical invocation of Brazilian mulatas, Carmen Miranda, and soaring paper monuments rising above the corpses of children.

In 1962, Sandler wrote of her: «Marisol's pieces are hilarious and caustic parodies of politics («The Kennedys»), on society («Mayflower,» which caricatures the Pilgrims and their descendants as well as a favorite artists» hangout), on herself («Self Portrait»), and above all, on art.

However, Polke's paradoxical work, with its shoddy representation of desirable foods and other commodities, was above all a parody of western commercialism.

Talent is what lifts Ms. Strobert's work above parody, but her ability to come to terms with all aspects of the Ab - Ex movement is what makes it a beautiful and earnest example of contemporary Abstraction.

One is amazed by his flirtation with extremes, by his willingness to risk banality in order to tailor it to reality: one tiny strand of hair separates beauty from parody, simplicity from excessive complexity, improvisation from formality, and above all cool from cold.