Sentence examples for critical satire from inspiring English sources

As Soviet society settled into a more dogmatic and defensive period after 1921 and particularly after 1928, the unrestrained release of emotion sparked by the mass spectacles, the critical satire of the Blue Blouses, and the highly imaginative and often idiosyncratic experimental work of the directors came increasingly to be seen as dangerous to the state.

Critical satire is a way for people to challenge perceived wisdom and established thinking… And, as my colleague John Biggs likes to say, it has the power "to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted".

In the first genre works of Fedotov moralistic and critical satires in the spirit of William Hogarth, whom he held in high esteem his style tended toward dramatic pose and narrative density, qualities that disappear in his later works.

Though most vividly remembered now for his critical satires of abuses in the church and secular society and for his work as editor of the first published edition of the Greek New Testament, he was a prolific and influential author in many genres.

But it seems that this is Mr. Pann's attempt at having his Communal wafer and eating it too, after all ensconcing yourself with the cold, critical distance of satire has to offer has always been a game for the secularists.

He also hosted a nationally syndicated, political radio talk show, The Al Franken Show, and authored six books, four of which are political satires critical of right-wing politics.

Through its critical capacity, wit, and satire, Voltaire's work vigorously propagates an ideal of progress to which people of all nations have remained responsive.

Satire must satirize, purposefully.

As any seventh grader assigned to read "Gulliver's Travels" will tell you, satire is tricky: critical hand-wringing over comedies like "Borat," "Family Guy," and "The Book of Mormon" has become an opinion-page staple.

It contains some of his best-known poems, including many in verse forms new to Bengali, as well as some social and political satire that was critical of his fellow Bengalis.

In many ways this is a perfect staging of Bret Easton Ellis's slasher satire, which split critical opinion – "careful, important", "cheaply sensationalist" – when it was published in 1991.