Sentence examples for pointed satire from inspiring English sources

Like Mad magazine he has no particular animus; he's after silliness, not pointed satire.

Man in the Frame, a pointed satire on bureaucracy, is perhaps his most experimental film.

By this point the movie is so busy hurling notions at the wall that most of its opportunities for pointed satire are squandered.

Both books display Don DeLillo's talent for sly humour and pointed satire, not to mention a commendable willingness to enter the realms of speculative fiction and absurdity.

In his elaborate shows, he uses theatrical elements to weave in poetry and dancing, while maintaining a healthy dose of filthy jokes and pointed satire.

He himself was one of Britain's earliest social reformers, not only in the pointed satire of his art but also in his support of London's first foundling hospital.

It stars Simon Russell Beale as Samuel Foote, the 18th-century dramatist who achieved fame with his pointed satires of Brits on the continent, and indeed the theatre itself.

He is also a target of its pointed populist satire, and he knows it.

For the writer of such a pointed, polemical satire, there is something watchful and slightly wary about Wade.

American creator of the comic strip "Pogo," which was noted for its sophisticated humour, gentle whimsy, and occasional pointed political satire.

After college, Mr. Bennett toured with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller in the 1960's in "Beyond the Fringe," which helped usher in a new era of pointed, political satire in British comedy.