Sentence examples for bitter satire from inspiring English sources

"The Wind in the Willows" is hardly bitter satire.

A bitter satire on the pedantry of grammarians e.

These eclectic songs are rich with black comedy and bitter satire.

Death, the Emperor and the Harlequin: principal players in a bitter satire on war and its bloated bureaucracy.

About 1790 a personal crisis prompted him to forsake bitter satire for sentimental humour in his writings, and Laurence Sterne replaced Swift as his model.

Enron: Lucy Prebbles's bitter satire on American capitalism, a major hit for the Royal Court in London, closed after two weeks on Broadway last year.

Bitter, pungent and downright dirty, it is a biting satire, as relevant now as then, on the loopholes in the British legal system.

"I'm still big, it's the pictures that got small," complains Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder's bitter Hollywood satire, Sunset Boulevard.

Criminals, drunkards, ill-behaved priests and lecherous monks, spendthrifts, bribe-taking judges, busybodies, and voluptuous women are included in this unsparing, bitter, sweeping satire.

Only Sarah Lucas presents art and life in such side-by-side clarity through transformations of everyday objects and food into extravagantly bitter sexual satire.

However bitter his satire, Daumier seems to have been motivated not by hatred or jealousy of the rich and powerful but by a profound fellow-feeling for the poor and betrayed.