"I didn't want everything to get so parodistic," he protests early on.

Everyone on stage has a chance at them here, though these soaring arias seem out of place in such a parodistic setting.

In most efforts, the body is either an afterthought or stressed to unusual, sometimes parodistic degrees.

Present, too, is the acidic and sometimes parodistic edge evident in most of Shostakovich's work.

Yet here, too, swing dancing pops up in the club where the final dance contest has a welcome parodistic touch.

This is all treated with a light, and lightly parodistic, touch, framed by film and music.

The director has been judicious about not heightening the melodramatic and parodistic potential of the material.

This struck some as campy and deliberately parodistic.

Andre Previn's parodistic songs are put on with pizazz.

When Frieda combines her mother's themes and imagery with her father's, the effect is almost parodistic.

Oddly, the one element that was underplayed in this sharply parodistic work was its comedy.

His book, Jhenduchi Phule, is a collection of his parodistic poems.

Mr. Moore's venture into parodistic skit-writing benefited from his original lyric style at its best.

There's an amusing parodistic quality to Mr. Hybert's work.

In many versions, even the stroking of his white cat has been retained as a parodistic allusion to Blofeld's character.

In general, Offenbach's parodistic technique was simply to play the original music in unexpected and incongruous circumstances.

This film was a parodistic story in connection with SOS Iceberg.

Neoism is a parodistic -ism.

But his press release sounds suspiciously parodistic, saying that a Pauper 400 list will answer the lists of the super-rich in "wealth-oriented magazines."

The movement is a Mahlerian gesture of mocking burlesque, not simply light or humorous but witty, satirical and parodistic.

He seems strangely uninvolved in his librettist's breathless satire, borrowing outdated parodistic devices from Berg.

Avoiding a parodistic pelvis swivel, he moved with a fluent slink, sexuality exuding from his pores.

Many details were well attended to, and the string sections made Mahler's slides sound a little more natural, less self-conscious or parodistic, than is sometimes the case.

He introduced parodistic poetry to Marathi language under the pseudonym Keshav Kumār.

And he too has his parodistic side: He overloads the music with "sobs" that would make Richard Tucker blush.