Sentence examples for satire based on from inspiring English sources
Kosky is making his debut with Shostakovich's brittle early satire, based on Gogol's short story.
"Myra Breckinridge" (1970), an incomprehensible transsexual satire based on Gore Vidal's book, marked West's return to the screen and the climax of her comeback.
Such was the passion that the Actor's Theater of Charlotte, in 2007, commissioned the playwright Eric Coble to write a dark satire based on the events.
SHOUTS & MURMURS satire based on an article in The New York Times that reported that philosophers are opening private practices as an alternative to psychotherapy.
Blu-ray & DVD, Soda Richard Linklater directs a seldom-better Jack Black in this darkly comedic satire, based on a true story.
Justin Simien's bright, funny directorial debut Dear White People is a college-set satire based on real incidents of blackface parties at education institutions across the country.
But it's ironic since after years of avoiding subjects like this they had only three weeks before published an equally vicious satire by Ian McEwan based on one writer "appropriating" another's works ("My Purple Scented Novel," The New Yorker, 3/28/16).
O Brother, Where Art Thou? "Damn, we're in a tight spot!" The Coen brothers' 2000 comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a sepia-tinted satire loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, was set in rural Mississippi during the Great Depression.
Even more of a misfire than her cartoony last novel ("Ten Days in the Hills," a predictable Hollywood satire loosely based on Boccaccio's "Decameron"), "Private Life" is encumbered by a plodding and repetitious plot, stereotyped characters and flat-footed prose — all of which makes the reader wonder why the talented Ms. Smiley undertook and stuck to such a project in the first place.
Which means that the Germany vs. Italy semi-final will be the perfect arena to show just how much satire is based on fact.
This Paul Verhoeven sci-fi action satire is loosely based on the fiercely rightwing novel that shares its name.
