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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
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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
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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.
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It makes no valid commentary upon the already travestied truth.
Arthur Penn, director of 'Bonnie and Clyde,' dies at 88 Emma Brown 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The political freedoms and the material wealth we Americans enjoy are -- plausibly -- cold comfort for a familial love that has been travestied.
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Witness the travestied extravagance of Tyco's Denis Kozlowski.
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