Sentence examples for obvious satire from inspiring English sources

He was coming off a bona-fide hit, last year's "The Little Dog Laughed," a somewhat obvious satire about the perils of fame.

In relating familiar tales like "The Crow and the Fox," "The Lion and the Gnat" and "The Oak and the Reed, Mr. Wilsonn isn't going for obvious satire.

But obvious satire was only one of the strings to Momus's faux-gilt bow; the more beguiling songs were those that conjured a world of decadence and near-depravity in which his frail protagonists were at once victims and perpetrators.

"Shobna said the most upsetting part was that you blamed friends and family for spilling details, because how else could the papers know these personal things?" Despite Red Top!'s obvious satire, Peake says the producers are still "a bit worried" about the legal implications.

"To me, it's an obvious satire of the typical roles of women," explains ColorOrgy.

Facebook intends to allow obvious satire or humor to remain even if some find it offensive, according to a person familiar with the matter.

But as a visual concept, it comes across as too-obvious satire.

com) to 10 March The Colour of Nonsense The relentless pursuit of the new is not an obvious topic of satire for an avant-garde theatre group.

Shortly after 3 P.M., she took a break to check her Facebook feed and saw a headline that struck her as an obvious attempt at satire: "Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive".

But the satire was obvious and the text was gabby.

It works slyly, not with punch lines but by transforming the obvious premise into winning satire, taking a droll view of how we lock other people into stereotypes.