Sentence examples for only satire from inspiring English sources
But only satire that has the sense to limit itself to permissible targets is tolerated.
The antihero of Amis's new novel, "Lionel Asbo: State of England," Lionel takes the kind of drubbing only satire can sustain.
The only satire to buck this negative box office trend has been "Wag the Dog" (1997), about an imaginary, politically distracting war promoted and waged on television.
"Then We Came to the End" is acidly funny, but it isn't only satire; it also conveys the purpose and meaning to be found in work.
The distinction between the two modes, rarely clear, is marked by the intensity with which folly is pursued: fops and fools and pedants appear in both, but only satire has a moral purpose.
Yet the plunge into primal expression ("SAD") and schematic remembrance ("home") has occasioned not only satire directed at Oracle Ranch and its language but also a rueful acknowledgment of the elementary nature of feeling, no matter how elaborate its eventual transmutation into art.
In St Petersburg, meanwhile, size can only prompt satire.
Pater Filucius (Father Filucius) is the only illustrated satire of this period suggested by the publisher.
Once they've begun infantry training, the flexing of machismo so over the top, it can only be satire; director Paul Verhoeven fills the movie with little winking nods, like Johnny's video "letter home" that even includes a lonesome fiddler, a la Ken Burns's The Civil War.
Once they've begun infantry training, the flexing of machismo so over the top, it can only be satire; director Paul Verhoeven fills the movie with little winking nods, like Johnny's video "letter home" that even includes a lonesome fiddler, a la Ken Burns' The Civil War.
