Sentence examples for caustic satire from inspiring English sources

At first glance, "Enlightened" looks cynical, a caustic satire like "Curb" and "Veep".

And as anyone who has witnessed the facelifts and botoxed brows gathered at fashion shows will attest, that's not caustic satire, that's standard industry behaviour.

Rarely shy of courting controversy, Red Issue will be remembered, beyond Old Trafford at least, for a distinctive brand of caustic satire that occasionally overstepped the mark.

Both have a headlong exuberance, are filled with caustic satire and ultimately show impetuous romance giving way to hard-headed realism.

Jaume Roig's Spill o llibre de les dones (c. 1460; "The Mirror or Book of Women"), a caustic satire of more than 16,000 lines, offers a vivid portrait of contemporary Valencian life.

In 1894 he published a pamphlet, Caligula, which had the appearance of a historical study but was actually a caustic satire on the German emperor William II; the enormously popular publication brought Quidde three months' imprisonment for lese majesty.

Plenty of ambitious series do dark material, but they match their insides to their outsides: they're dramedies, like "Getting On," or indie-inflected auteurist shows, like "Louie" and "Girls"; sometimes they're caustic satires, in the tradition of the original British version of "The Office".

As the Mothers of Invention, the band was remade in Zappa's eclectic vision, and it became a leading light of underground rock as much for its music as for its caustic satires of the earnestness and indulgence of the hippie era.

A lifelong supporter of the ruling Social Democratic Party, Mrs. Lindgren published a caustic newspaper satire before the 1976 election in which she calculated that, because of competing local and federal taxes, her income was taxed at an annual rate of 102percentt.

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Over the last 12 months, much of TV, from Netflix's techno-dystopian anthology "Black Mirror" to HBO's caustic political satire "Veep," offered not so much an escape from reality as a reflection of it.