Satire must satirize, purposefully.
But Schine's homage has it all: stinging social satire, mordant wit, delicate charm, lilting language and cosseting materialistic detail.
Indeed, many comics say they find themselves having to strike a delicate balance between sympathy and satire, unfamiliar territory for both mainstream comics, who work such soft topics as relationships, family strife and presidential faux pas, and for alternative comedians whose material is often sharply political.
Their "Persuasion" is profoundly truthful in many ways: in its sense of emotional longing; in its natural, unglamorized visual beauty, ranging from drawing rooms to the sea; in its fidelity to the delicate tone of Austen's satire and romance".
Despite the sensitive nature of the issue and the fine line everyone walks when using satire to communicate a delicate situation, the pair say the Japanese response has been very positive.
It should be noted, of course, that injecting satire into PR is a delicate balance as the humor must be effective without damaging a company's brand.
It was at this time that the Russian theatre began to take on new life in Nikolay Gogol's biting satire Revizor (1836; The Inspector General) and with more delicate comic realism in the plays of Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky and Ivan Turgenev.
"Moonlight" is a delicate coming-of-age masterpiece with an exclusively black cast, and "Get Out" is a scalding satire that indicts America's racial bigotry as thoroughly as any slavery movie.
Other notable fiction included Paul Beatty's The Sellout, a biting satire on race and racism; Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, an epic tale that navigated the delicate and often fragile contours of friendship and brotherly love; and Elisa Albert's After Birth, a dark retelling of the joys of motherhood and childbirth.
A delicate cover of Keane's Somewhere Only We Know for John Lewis's Christmas ad campaign was followed by the boisterous satire of Hard Out Here.
