Sentence examples for devastating satire from inspiring English sources

(Tom Wolfe would later coin the term "radical chic" in a characteristically devastating satire of Manhattan's pseudo-socialist socialites, written for New York magazine in 1970).

I want to see it as a devastating satire on the modern world's alienation from the past.

"RoboCop," besides being a raw, almost Cormanesque shoot-'em-up, is a devastating satire: of advertising, television news, privatization and corporate politics.

By the way, all the press coverage of Mr. Murdoch has had me thinking of "Pravda," a canny and devastating satire by David Hare and Howard Brenton about the newspaper business that was first staged (at the National Theater here) in 1985.

For Google to declare itself in on the joke posed by Silicon Valley, therefore, is a disarming moment similar to when the rock world embraced the devastating satire of Spinal Tap – sportingly absorbing, and therefore neutralising its mockery, demonstrating its indestructability.

Brian Crawford, Belfast We say: In this devastating satire on the Cold War, the arms race and Mad (mutually assured destruction), insanity is in the air, on the ground and in Ken Adam's subterranean War Room (which Reagan asked to see when he arrived at the White House).

Hardly a profound philosopher, he was a brilliant journalist, clever and humorous in argument, devastating in satire, and warm in human sympathies.

Their 2002 Hollywood Reporter spoof was one of the finest Hollywood-trade-publication parodies ever published, and an album they released this year, "Rules of the Road," was as devastating a satire of trucking songs as you're likely to find.

Boaz, by contrast, is the object of devastating and hostile satire.

The novel depicts meetings between these women as instruments of devastating social and sexual satire.

He's passionate about Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon," which he thinks of as both sly satire and devastating tragedy.