Sentence examples for satire directed at from inspiring English sources

And what does he think of the British satire directed at the UK's political leaders?

The Free Democrats served up a clever - perhaps too clever - satire directed at the failures of the Communist regime.

"Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" offers a shambling series of hit-and-miss goofs, rather than incisive satire directed at Bush-era America.

He was a tutor in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and Alice's search for a beautiful garden can be neatly interpreted as a mishmash of satire directed at the advances taking place in Dodgson's field.

Festivals such as these provide sanctioned release from social inhibition and repression, and, in these circumstances, satire directed at men in power or at taboo institutions acts as a safety valve for pent-up frustrations.

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.

Offerings this week include the delightful Romanian film "Police, Adjective," a satire directed by Corneliu Porumboiu.

Palme d'Or: "The Square," a Swedish art-world satire directed by Ruben Östlund.

Busch revived the tradition of realistic social satire, directing it at what he saw as a society locked in a Darwinian struggle for survival, coded most famously in the childish rebellion of Max and Moritz (1865) but carried through a "chain of being" from insects (The Bees, a political allegory of 1869) upward, through rodents and simians to various classes of humans.

The same spirit of nationalism found expression in two later satires also directed at the British: A Sketch of Old England: by a New England Man (1822) and John Bull in America (1825).

Last week, I voiced my skepticism about some types of online satire, directing my ire at The Beaverton, a Canadian site that ran a story last week about Palestinians recognizing Houston as the capital of Mexico a story that tons of people apparently believed, or at least helped spread.