Sentence examples for piercing satire from inspiring English sources
Her best work combines a sense of the comic macabre with piercing satire.
"Deftly turning the law of inverse proportions on its head Mr. Cedar spins a committee-room squabble into something authentically grand: a piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in March.
Deftly turning the law of inverse proportions on its head Mr. Cedar spins a committee-room squabble into something authentically grand: a piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
It is a rare performer who can produce sharp, piercing satire and deliver heartbreaking songs with élan.
Her works of speculative fiction the label she prefers are frequently piercing satires of our society through the lens of near-future or alternative realities.
The broad movement known as Commedia all'Italiana transposed the critical perspective of neorealism to a more commercial context, moving toward satirical stylization in films like Mario Monicelli's "Big Deal on Madonna Street" (1958) and Pietro Germi's "Divorce, Italian Style" (a piercing social satire that predated De Sica's conciliatory "Marriage" by three years).
In Wagner's latest piercing Hollywood satire, a 38-year-old struggling actor named Bertie Krohn lives in the shadow of his father, the creator of TV's longest-running science fiction series, "Starwatch".
(Simon & Schuster, $14). In Wagner's latest piercing Hollywood satire, a 38-year-old struggling actor named Bertie Krohn lives in the shadow of his father, the creator of TV's longest-running science fiction series, "Starwatch". Bertie has a recurring role on the show, but a complicated love triangle develops when he is joined on the set by his childhood sweetheart and her on-again-off-again lover.
Visual consistency is crucial to BoJack's themes, because his misery keeps piercing through the rapid show-business satire.
"Vera Drake" is marvellous, though it is smaller in emotional range than such earlier Mike Leigh films as the goofy bourgeois satire "High Hopes" (1988), the candid and piercing "Secrets & Lies" (1996), and the splendid theatrical spectacle "Topsy-Turvy" (1999).
