minstrelsy

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Examples

• Was the blackface scene with Gene Wilder in Silver Streak an important step in how American audiences view minstrelsy?

• The Madea films thrive on an ugly mix of minstrelsy and moralism.

• The drop below his signal eloquence was a submission to the kind of minstrelsy demanded of anyone, high or low, these days.

• I soon thought of this new and amoral cynicism as the most pernicious form of minstrelsy ever created and popularized.

• Scotts ballad in the Minstrelsy spoils its own effect by converting the spirit into the devil.

• All the wild life of the wood haunted the chapel, and the place was musical with forest minstrelsy.

• And then begin the minstrels to make their minstrelsy on divers instruments, with all the melody that they can devise.

• At last he arose abruptly and shut down the sash, muffling the minstrelsy at the height of its wildest abandon.

• But if the amorous selections of that crude minstrelsy made any impression upon her, she gave no indication.