Sentence examples for satirical swipe from inspiring English sources

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This, remember, is a show the BBC describes as "a satirical swipe at the news and world events".

Perhaps the whole thing is a satirical swipe at rock'n'roll's hustlers ignoble tradition of turning rebellion into money.

That was a satirical swipe at France's Paris Match, which had described the 37-year-old former engineer as "the man who frightens Europe".

Through his photography he takes a satirical swipe at modern life and this sentiment certainly comes out through this plate design.

"That's my struggle!" complains one of Jordan's tech bro clients, whose father "only" invested $5m in his company, a cheery, satirical swipe at white men unaware of their own privilege.

Having previously addressed human frailty in Caro Diario and subtly skewered Berlusconi's poisonous regime in Il Caimano, Moretti (who remains most internationally well-known for The Son's Room) takes another gently humanist satirical swipe with this light tale of devotional dogma and ecclesiastical due process.

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And the same goes for the satirical swipes, Rowling continually pulls her punches on her well-to-do targets.

Her satirical swipes makes me wonder how much the word "artist" is now bandied about in British theatre.

Dibdin's satirical swipes at US fundamentalist Christians, moronic Californian software millionaires and pretentious Italian film directors are a delight - as are Zen's droll remarks about the false ascendancy of the tomato in Italian cooking.

Barack Obama has taken satirical swipes at Donald Trump and, more surprisingly, Hillary Clinton and ended his final White House correspondents' dinner by literally dropping the mic and departing with the words: "Obama out".

While the source takes pointedly satirical swipes at a range of human targets, from sexuality to factory farming, Glazer and co-writer Walter Campbell conjure a sparse, elliptical fable that bizarrely juxtaposes scenes of highly orchestrated fantasy with on-the-hoof realism to disorienting effect.

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