vaudevillian
IPA: vɑdvˈɪɫjʌn
noun
- (US) Someone who performs in vaudeville.
adjective
- Pertaining to vaudeville
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Examples of "vaudevillian" in Sentences
- It's very vaudevillian in form .
- The film has a strong vaudevillian influence.
- He is also a vaudevillian, as much as a composer.
- The closest I could find at the time for a vaudevillian.
- Gore came across as a kind of manic political vaudevillian.
- The vaudevillian humor was a bridge to television entertainment.
- It was considered one of the last Vaudevillian forays of this type.
- If she never performed live in the USA, then she's not a vaudevillian.
- Annie Oakley was said to be a frequent guest of vaudevillian Fred Stone.
- He reinvented the theater into a vaudevillian style before there was vaudeville.
- In his more relaxed moments, Bernard's speech fell into a kind of vaudevillian patois.
- Interview magazine says “these vaudevillian vamps are putting the show back in showmanship.”
- With this "vaudevillian" song the band wanted to assert that "this wouldn't be a paint-by-numbers Hold Steady record," says Mr. Kubler.
- Theatre Alley, tucked inside the Financial District, still bears a vaudevillian wall painting from "Billy Bathgate," which filmed there in 1991.
- If I use the phrase vaudevillian for Bill Clinton, by contrast you think that President Bush has a front row seat to watch rather than to perform.
- Jody Rosen argues that "Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago.
- And Jody Rosen argues that Borat is a throwback to the crudest kind of vaudevillian ethnic burlesque, the stuff that we thought was smoothed out of pop culture long ago.
- Miss Hope Springs, a 6ft 2in "ex-Las Vegas showgirl", is the retro-glam, vaudevillian alter ego created by the pianist Ty Jeffries in order to sing his own compositions in theatres and clubs around the country.
- Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction."
- Rebecca Mead, writing in the New Yorker, dubbed him "the Marx Brother" and described his approach thus: "His favoured form of argument is paradox, and his favoured mode of delivery is a kind of vaudevillian overstatement, buttressed by the appearance of utter conviction."