Sentence examples for satirical from inspiring English sources

A survey by the New York-based press freedom watchdog reveals a global pattern of intimidation against political and satirical cartoonists.

The satirical poet Dmitry Bykov even penned verses comparing the effects of war, propaganda and tub-thumping patriotism on the Russian currency and a penis: as the latter gets harder and more excited with Russia's conquests, the former falls to new lows.

iPhone / iPad TouchTone (£2.29) Get your NSA on with this stylish security-themed game, where you have to decrypt suspicious messages to "help make our nation safer and stronger!" The satirical intent is clear, but this is also an engrossing puzzler.

10 10 founder and Age of Stupid film-maker Franny Armstrong said tonightCurtis had written what she thought was "a funny and satirical tongue-in-cheek little film in the over-the-top style of Monty Python or South Park".

Some felt that the main target of the first of the Paris attacks – the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – gave the mainstream media more impetus to report it.

It's impossible not to be charmed by Sheila Hancock singing Coming Down from Aldermaston, a merrily satirical 1962 protest song that feels perfectly of its time.

When ministers receive an invitation to appear on a new, live, satirical comedy show on Channel 4, it's understandable if alarm bells start ringing.

The news bulletin featured library footage of Charlie Hebdo editor Stéphane Charbonnier, who was shot and killed in Wednesday's terrorist attack on the French satirical magazine's Paris offices, holding up a special edition of the magazine four years ago featuring a cartoon of Muhammad on its front page threatening readers with "a hundred lashes if you don't die laughing".

"I personally don't think it's funny," Hidalgo replied, "and I'm not going to hit the bars with Fox News journalists, even the nicest [journalists]." In multiple broadcasts after the attack last month on the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, Fox News hosts and analysts weaved the no-go zones myth.

Prose took to Facebook to elaborate on her decision to withdraw from next week's PEN gala in New York over the free speech organisation's decision to present the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with the PEN/Toni and James C Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award.

On World Press Freedom Day, 116 days after the attack at the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that left 11 dead and 12 wounded, we, the undersigned, reaffirm our commitment to defending the right to freedom of expression, even when that right is being used to express views that we and others may find difficult, or even offensive.