Sentence examples for past satire from inspiring English sources

This device, so reminiscent of the great Victorian realists, allows us the space we need to exhaust our knowingness and move past satire and into that haven carved out by 19th-century agnostics: inescapable sympathy.

Gain inspiration by looking through the work of existing and past satire cartoonists.

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.

"I can't help thinking that compared to the past, political comedy and satire is in a poor state.

Into the mix Mitchell stirs gleeful literary satire, as past-it wild child Crispin Hershey snarls his way from one overseas festival to another, a hellish trip to the Iraq frontline, a nightmare vision of the "Endarkenment" to come if the oil runs out and the internet crashes, and snapshots from that metaphysical feud in Aboriginal Australia, Tsarist Russia or Manhattan today.

Satire must satirize, purposefully.

In 2001 Farhadi cowrote the screenplay for the political satire Ertefā-e past (2002; Low Heights).

Then again, considering how much the financial news has resembled an overheated satire during the past few years, another Wall Street film could scarcely be more relevant.

A razor-sharp satire about xenophobia, past and present, Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park richly deserves its imminent transfer to Wyndham's Theatre.

Jon Stewart will take his program to Charlotte for a week of programs intended to comment on, and lampoon, the convention, which has provided an ample platform for the show's satire in the past.

Mr. Zimmer put her in touch with Mr. Howard, who met her for a meal in Stamford, Conn. Feeling motivated to make a video, Mr. Howard called the writer and director Adam McKay, who co-founded Funny or Die in 2007, because the site has featured political satire in the past.