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Murmur doesn't lead us, as in most detective novels, on an epistemological journey culiminating in knowledge (who done it) but instead renders up a world of epistemological chaos, by which all our ways of knowing are mocked and travestied.

Experimental Fiction 2010

And the two idiots, gibbering and mouthing strange noises, danced apart, grotesque, fantastic, travestying love as they themselves had been travestied by life.

Koolau the Leper 2010

Jefferson told John Adams that he was rescuing the philosophy of Jesus andthe: pure principles which he taught ... [from the] artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms as instruments of riches and power for themselves.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England 2010

It makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth.

Arthur Penn, director of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' dies at 88 Emma Brown 2010

Hire at least one, or two gifted writers who love the character his admirers include a disproportionate number of writers and artists and get a great director who's read the Silver Age Avengers, not the later editions with the travestied incarnations of the eighties, nineties and the current decade.

Marvel Updates: Bucky in Captain America, Two-Sided Johansson, Another Movie for 2012 | /Film 2009

Of this collective project Book VII — including the famous defense of the pass at Thermopylae by King Leonidas of Sparta and his three hundred picked warriors (an episode recently popularized, and travestied, by the movie 300) — has yet to appear, while some of its later volumes were, to put it politely, of less than stellar quality.

The Great Marathon Man Green, Peter 2008

He is a poet, of fantastic wit and often reckless imagination, and he has been travestied in a long black coat and white choker, as though he were an embodiment of the Nonconformist conscience.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

He is a poet, of fantastic wit and often reckless imagination, and he has been travestied in a long black coat and white choker, as though he were an embodiment of the Nonconformist conscience.

Henrik Ibsen 2008

The political freedoms and the material wealth we Americans enjoy are -- plausibly -- cold comfort for a familial love that has been travestied.

Abusive Families and the Pattern of Fascism 2006

Witness the travestied extravagance of Tyco's Denis Kozlowski.

Narcissism in the Boardroom 2006