travestying

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• It’s a travesty that 710 Indigenous girls and women have disappeared between 2011 and 2020 and also suffered the fate of anonymity.

• By choosing to fight on two fronts—one of them an ill-conceived travesty—we set ourselves up for failure on both.

• I love my students and respect my colleagues, and have been part of the community’s efforts, still incomplete, to make reparations for that travesty.

• That this dynamic landscape could at once be so powerful and so fragile left me wondering what other natural travesties might occur if we fail to slow our planet’s warming.

• At the series’ end, Peck asks if it’s knowledge that we lack — if ignorance is what accounts for the travesties of history.

• To connoisseurs of smoked fish such confusion would be a travesty.

• Such travesty haunts the collective imagination, reflecting myth, history and politics.

• Then there was that 80-14 travesty against Idaho, a team that won just one out of eleven games all season.

• One of the defense attorneys for Zimmerman said he was glad the outcome did not turn a tragedy into travesty.

• As happy as I am for George Zimmerman, I'm thrilled that this jury kept this tragedy from becoming a travesty.

• The sailor, after the manner so often dwelt upon, is keeping up a pleasing travesty of sea-faring life.

• My travesty of Plato was intended to illustrate the difficulty of close reasoning on such topics.

• Though the proceedings had been a travesty of justice, they had been invested hitherto with a scenic stateliness.

• She may, indeed, have been a mere travesty, though the hypothesis would be anything but free from difficulty.