Sentence examples for fierce satire from inspiring English sources

His debut novel, Tits-Out Teenage Terror Totty - a fierce satire on the media - soon followed.

His fierce satire is also optimistic, looking ahead to the prospect of improvement, even improvement of the indifferent and the depraved, through the work of these independent-minded, daring, rebellious prophets.

Either way, he was certainly some kind of crackpot genius, and his cartoonish, sexually charged, mystically suggestive colored-pencil drawings from the 1950s, on view in "From Barefoot Prophet to Avant-Garde Artist" at Michael Werner Gallery, are as compelling for their beautiful draftsmanship as they are for their bizarre metaphysics and gleefully fierce satire.

A great example of [the show's] fierce satire being offset by a potent emotional core".

Punch, once a fierce political satire magazine whose cartoons feature in almost every British history textbook, finally closed its doors in 2002.

La Grande Bellezza reunites Sorrentino with his favourite leading man, that uniquely potent stage and screen actor Toni Servillo, who like no other unlocks Sorrentino's fierce, Jonsonian satire.

And Mr. Stiller was permitted to direct only two more films in the years that came after, the interesting but far less provocative "Zoolander" (2001) and the fierce Hollywood satire "Tropic Thunder" (2008).

"Fans of Moretti, the political activist and beacon of uncomfortable truths, will wonder where he left the mordant, oft-times savage humour and fierce political satire," wrote the Hollywood Reporter, while Variety dismissed the film as "artistically and doctrinally conservative".

"America Lost and Found" (Criterion) brings seven of them together, beginning with Bob Rafelson's "Head," from 1968, in which a movie built around the band the Monkees turns into a fierce antiwar satire as well as a parody of earlier Hollywood genres.

A competing milestone approach of the same generation is that of Rose Zimbardo (1965), who discusses the play in generic and historical terms as a fierce social satire.

In many ways, it's a fierce and pessimistic satire, in which Ma'Rosa is a sort of Mother Courage, doing what it takes to survive.