Sentence examples for butt of satire from inspiring English sources

Since leaving office Blair's financial manoeuvres have become the butt of satire, not least in Robert Harris's novel The Ghost.

For the first time in his 37-year reign, the king is now the butt of satire and contempt on stage and in the newspapers in Madrid.

And, already famous enough to be the butt of satire, 8 Spruce Street featured in an April Fool's spoof in the New York Times this year: the heat reflected from its shiny surface was so great, the article claimed, that it had caused fires in neighbouring buildings.

Daumier's composite sociopolitical villain, Robert Macaire, and Monnier's Joseph Prudhomme, the sum of bourgeois pettiness, served as butts of satire when censorship caught up with directly personal caricature in Philipon's three or more overlapping papers.

He was an unwavering fan of Louisa May's writing, even when he was the butt of her satire.

Nor was Mr. Sembene bullied by the Francophone elite (a frequent butt of his satire) or by the particular target of "Guelwaar," the profiteers who fatten themselves on Western handouts to Africa.

The tempo is woozy, the sets look like leftovers from the Mack Sennett era, and the butts of the satire -- advertising, Cinema-scope, rock 'n' roll -- seem random, as if they'd been ticked off a list Chaplin made on his way out of the country.

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In Mr. Boyle's early short stories such characters would have been the butt of his biting satire, uproariously mocked for their narcissism and self-delusion.

And more often than not, in recent years, Russia has found itself the butt of the jokes, satires and downright nasty remarks, as artists wrangle over the unresolved complexes and insecurities born of the Soviet collapse and the pains of European integration.

Well, it certainly can in terms of satire.