Sentence examples for objects of satire from inspiring English sources

And it doesn't help that the objects of satire here are overly familiar: commercialism, greed, narcissism, liberal pieties, our wired lives.

The TV images that have come to define this whole episode – defeated-looking Lehman employees carrying boxes of their belongings through Wall Street – have become objects of satire.

That's why most aggressive businessmen on television and in the movies are portrayed as villains ("Wall Street"), objects of satire ("Barbarians at the Gate") or -- remember "Dynasty"?

Heinrich's best work, the comedy Von Vincentio Ladislao (1594), showed his skill at characterization and used elements of the much-imitated style of the English actors, the exaggerated language and the pretensions of the braggart, as objects of satire.

The Viagra jokes repeated themselves, and the objects of satire became increasingly elusive -- local Catholic clerics, the mayor of Aalst as a ship figurehead, the Walloons and Germans who make up the other populations of Belgium, various Flemish politicos.

The magazine's past objects of satire, the "cheesy villains who anointed themselves as targets" in the 1980s, were no longer on the national stage.

Bertram is not the book's only object of satire.

Machinery, shorn of its aura, becomes the object of satire.

Indeed, the trend is now so well established that it has become the object of satire.

"Portlandia," which débuted last winter, on the Independent Film Channel, and returns on January 6th, is the rare sketch-comedy series that has a sustained object of satire.

But anti-Semitism -- either as an object of satire by Trollope or an object of belief by him -- is central to understanding this novel.