Sentence examples for satire over from inspiring English sources
There has been shockingly little well-meaning rap satire over the years, which makes these affectionate songs all the more potent; here verisimilitude is the joke.
But the incomplete thing left behind at Brecht's death is a remarkable confection: an epic but very unalienating satire over which the ghosts of Aristophanes, Molière, Hitler, Marx, Mao and McCarthy hover.
So they tend to prefer Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's relatively subtle (but still annoyingly supercilious) cultural politics of satire over Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck's anxious hours of direct, aggressively self-righteous defensive actions in an openly-waged culture war.
He concluded that "The Simpsons has done plenty of political satire over the years and still may never improve over season six's 'Sideshow Bob Roberts'.
Look at other cultural depictions of satire over time.
The British satirist Peter Cook once said that the power of satire was over-rated.
As in Wilde's other works, this comedy is loaded with bon mots and satire, but over the years many critics have also read all sorts of symbolism into the play regarding Wilde's personal life and sexual orientation.
And so, ingenuously, she asked one of them (again I forget which), "Are you the one who can write but can't talk, or the one who can talk but can't write?" Their friendship survived this moment of satire; and over time Hitchens learned to write and Fenton learned to speak, even unto professorship.
It's still as smart and hilarious as we remember it being, though it's amazing to realize how much of the satire went over our heads.
A legend in political satire for over fifty years, Sahl influenced many who came after him, including Woody Allen,who said he'd never have become a comic if not for Sahl.
Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film a positive review, writing "There are some wildly funny scenes, a few leaden ones and others that are scattershot, with humorous satire undercut by over-the-top grisliness.
