Sentence examples for extreme satire from inspiring English sources

When she and the girls disturb the neighborhood calm, "Mental" feels like an extreme satire of 1950s suburban conformism, in which Shaz suggests a female Randle McMurphy (of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest") leading an insurrection.

Directed by Alex Cox 1 hour 25 minutes; not rated The problems with "Repo Chick," Alex Cox's extreme satire for the age of foreclosure, begin with Jaclyn Jonet's personality-free portrayal of its heroine, Pixxi De La Chasse, a mouthy Paris Hilton-like celebutante who is disinherited by her wealthy family.

Michael Holroyd Andrew McConnell Stott's The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi (Canongate) presents Grimaldi's extraordinary stage career from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries not only as a record of the British theatre at a time of revolution but also as an extreme visual satire on political and social events.

Yet the horror stories penned by the 72-year-old from this comforting, professorial warren in Beijing are so savage and excessive they could almost be taken as the blackest of comedies; the bleakest of farces; the most extreme of satires on fanaticism and tyranny.

There are different classifications for fake news, satire, extreme bias, conspiracy theory, junk science, state news or hate groups.

The satire is extreme, but good plays are".

I think the main influence was the extreme Chicago version of satire.

I think it's had an influence on TV comedy since by licensing an extreme kind of social satire.

The satire on extreme TV shows is familiar and the situation of men and women as the human prey for hunters has been used in numerous movies (Schwarzenegger on the run for his life in The Running Man, for instance, Cornel Wilde chased across 19th-century South Africa by his native captors in The Naked Prey).

Unbelievably, all McDonagh's early plays, including the last one to be staged in London, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, a provocative satire on extreme Irish nationalists, were written in an intense 10-month long bout of creativity between 1994 and 1995, when, as he puts it, "I was sitting in my room without any real idea of what I was doing or where I was going".

But – although perhaps I am suffering a surfeit of national pride – I think there is something about politics at its extremes that neuters British satire in a specific way.