Sentence examples for from the satire from inspiring English sources

In shifting into legitimate film drama (albeit of a dark and twisted kind), Morris has effectively steered away from the satire that made his name.

The cop elements of Ride Along 2 are so ludicrous you could easily intercut Ice Cube's scenes from the satire 22 Jump Street and few would be the wiser.

Perhaps the most effective critique of domestic Islamist terrorism has not come from a political speech or an academic book, but from the satire of Chris Morris in the film Four Lions.

Of course, a collection of short stories by Rich is part of hipster‑world, but he pours such scorn on himself – or the character named after him – that this adds to rather than detracts from the satire.

I can normally tell the trolls from the satire and the genuinely ignorant, but after scrolling through 24 hours of social media screeching about how I "stole an award from a real woman", I'm not so sure: there seemed to be a consensus among the discontented that I shouldn't have accepted it.

From the satire of What a Carve Up! to the autobiographical comedy of The Rotters' Club, Coe has put his fiction to the service of a mind fascinated – even obsessed – by the rare idiosyncrasies of British life, at home and abroad.

The main problem is the tone, which fluctuates a little too far from poker-faced for the satire to take hold.

The element from which the satire in "Major Bang" has been shaped is indeed fear (well, that and radium).

Shahreyār, however, persuaded him to leave the dedication to Maḥmūd, bought the satire from him for 1,000 dirhams a verse, and had it expunged from the poem.

Unfortunately, the voices in this play explain it all for you, too, but in an abrasive, obvious way that sucks the satire from many scenes, including a weird game of charades that includes a raincoat-wearing visitor, Mr. Vanislaw Tom Riis Farrelll).

Much here reads like a script from the contemporary satire show, "Beyond the Fringe".