What is "parodic"

Usage examples of "parodic".

Marme-ladov or Lebezyatnikov: The comic, often parodic, ways in which Dostoyevsky presents these characters makes it difficult, or impossible, to take them or their ideas seriously.

He is lowered through irony and through his parodic counterparts, Luzhin, Lebezyatnikov and Svidrigailov.

With respect to parodic function, Svidrigailov serves as a grotesquely distorting mirror for many of their common features.

He took his hands off the desk, stood back and whipped off a salute of almost parodic efficiency, the sort that Tilden had always loved.

He is a miser, while she is a glutton, a solitary eater, most innocent of vices and yet the shadow or parodic vice of his, for he would like to eat up all the world, or, failing that, since fate has not spread him a sufficiently large table for his ambitions, he is a mute, inglorious Napoleon, he does not know what he might have done because he never had the opportunity -- since he has not access to the entire world, he would like to gobble up the city of Fall River.

But the Goose does not represent the exaggerated and parodic femininity of Widow Twankey.

She wrote long, parodic descriptions of the officers and passengers, reveling in caricature.

The mother was his best ally, ever quick to support him with smutty remarks that she would pronounce in some exaggerated, parodic manner, and in her puerile English.

No one paid her any further mind, and the object of her parodic knighting went chattering back into her hut as if nothing had happened.

Three enormous black crows came down upon the wires, thud, opened their beaks in a parodic squawk: Caw!

In my mind, I saw a huge, parodic, red-lettered GOING WRONG WAY sign catching the rushed headlights above the highway to eternity.

Platonic love originates in this dialogue, and Kundera performs a parodic variation on it by staging a discussion of love in a hospital, place of bodily breakdown and repair, that decidedly emphasizes the physical even as it comically belies the validity of that very solid source of erotic power.

He was rewarded by a little more laughter than had greeted his presenter's parodic courtliness—which had masked a real courtliness, he knew, designed to soothe the touch of anxiety Ms Hyndman had mistakenly perceived as stage fright.

No luck there— only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life—dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism—a parodic travesty of the Mars project—and yet just as magnificent.

No luck there only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life-dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism-a parodic travesty of the Mars project-and yet just as magnificent.