Sentence examples for idea of satire from inspiring English sources

Our country is simply not ready for this progressive idea of satire.

The great declaimer was Juvenal, who fixed the idea of satire for posterity.

Frankenheimer's idea of satire was a lot more conventional than Condon's.

Adam L. Dyson Hollywood, Md. Our country is simply not ready for this progressive idea of satire.

This is the whole idea of satire, to fuse naïveté with righteous indignation, to stand up for idealism (that discredited notion) by exposing our collective idiocies.

Conservatives' idea of "satire" is forwarding bestiality porn with the Obamas' heads crudely photoshopped in to one another until one of them gets fired from their Division I college football assistant coaching gig.

"It's really emotional and brilliant to get that support from Britain, my work is steeped in the British ideas of satire, joy, language and humour," he said.

Robert Payne rejects the idea of any satiric content; he notes that satire began in The Double.

Basically, because I was using the idea for satire.

As Otmar Issing, a former member of the E.C.B.'s executive board, put it in the Financial Times, both ideas are "worthy of satire," as they "imply huge financial risks for a few member countries and could … destroy the fundament on which such a process finally rests, namely the identification of the people with the European idea".

"I'm a genius!" he exclaims as he strikes upon the idea of publishing a satire about two fictional hotel heiresses dancing topless.