Sentence examples for mild satire from inspiring English sources

Another problem is the thread of mild satire that runs through the portrayal of the Klinghoffers.

"The judge - and, we suspect all readers - saw the article for what it was: a piece of mild satire.

What if you want a few laughs, a little romance, a soupçon of mild satire and the company of some of your favorite television stars — Connie Britton!

The snobbishness and hypocrisy of the Pagford residents is held up for mild satire throughout, while the deprivation of the Fields is played with a straight bat, and that unevenness of tone rankles.

At moments "City of Ember," directed by the British filmmaker Gil Kenan ("Monster House"), suggests a mild satire of end-of-days ideology, especially when Mary Kay Place appears as a prating, singsongy proselytizer for the status quo.

By Josephine Daskam Bacon The New Yorker, May 30 , 1931 P. 18Letter to Bishop Manning, a mild satire on the commercialized he has established under the Protestant Episcopal Church of America.

An earlier, milder satire about the scientific establishment, Memoirs Of A New Man, provides a reminder of his extensive work with technical personnel when, after his war years in the Royal Air Force, he worked in government service.

In these scenes "My Piece of the Pie" veers unsteadily from mild social satire to farce.

There are moments when "Wild Berries," Miwa Nishikawa's mild comic satire of Japanese family values, suggests a more tempered Asian answer to Todd Solondz's "Happiness".

A couple of weeks ago, Prokhorov, whom I wrote about for The New Yorker this week, appeared on "Projector Paris Hilton," a comedy show on state television that allows itself some mild political satire.

But this sequel's absurdity, cameo-fuelled mayhem and mild media satire are undermined by poorly judged racial comedy, arbitrary characterisation and a plot so wayward, it could actually do with an anchor.