(Wallace, incidentally, hasn't noticed that "Pierre Menard" is not a celebration but a bitter parody of the death of the author.)

Part of Richard Strauss' Metamorphosen uses F-flat major, which one commentator has called "a bitter enharmonic parody" of the earlier manifestations of E major in the piece.

The Andante is a bitter little parody on the Rococo, wonderfully subtle in its disagreements of rhythm and meter.

Floaten penned a bitter parody that, according to Peter Carlson, "channeled the miners' frustrations."

This in turn gave more freshness to the Scherzo - a bitter parody of the first movement's march.

Jax turned her over onto her side, with her back spooned against his front, a bitter parody of her wedding night.

A thoroughly personalized account that underscores the work's searing emotional appeal and its undercurrent of bitter parody, this is the first release in a new Shostakovich cycle.

In some ways you might see it as a bitter parody of Father Mapple's sermon.

Both works are very bitter political parodies, based on events that took place in Nigeria in the 1980s.

Thelonious, or Monk, Ellison is a struggling avant-garde writer whose obsession with another black novelist's success leads him to fire off a bitter parody, a gangsta fantasy titled "My Pafology."