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The reason given was that a satirical newsweekly called Charlie Hebdo had published cartoons satirizing two very different films: "The Intouchables," just selected as France's Academy Awards entry in the foreign-language film category; and "Innocence of Muslims," a film less foreign to those who follow the news than it has any right to be.
Pisemsky was further estranged from his colleagues and public by a novel satirizing the radical younger generation, Vzbalamuchennoye more (1863; "The Stormy Sea").
By 1762 Goldsmith had established himself as an essayist with his Citizen of the World, in which he used the device of satirizing Western society through the eyes of an Oriental visitor to London.
This social history of a gentler era, which describes, without sentimentalizing or satirizing , her girlhood village of Knutsford and the efforts of its shabby-genteel inhabitants to keep up appearances, has remained her most popular work.
Scenes satirizing depraved monks and insulting the gentry, a domestic triangle, and Buddhist prayers for the dead appear to be adapted from masked plays.
In the 1960s comic books satirizing the cultural underworld became popular, especially among college students.
Slang sometimes stems from within the group, satirizing or burlesquing its own values, behaviour, and attitudes; e.g., "shotgun wedding," "cake eater," "greasy spoon".
February 20 , 1808or February 26 , 1808Marseille, France February 11 , 1879Valmondois, France Honoré Daumier, in full Honoré-Victorin Daumier (born Feb. 20/26, 1808, Marseille died Feb. 11, 1879, Valmondois, France) prolific French caricaturist, painter, and sculptor especially renowned for his cartoons and drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society.
His first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1964), is a collection of essays satirizing American trends and celebrities of the 1960s.
Written in the voice of Richard Nixon and satirizing the national mood of the early 1950s, The Public Burning (1976) is what Coover called a "factional account" of the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Nominally satirizing the moribund chivalric romance, Cervantes presented "reality" on two levels: the "poetic truth" of Don Quixote and the "historic truth" of his squire, Sancho Panza.
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The term "satirizing" functions as a present participle or gerund of the verb 'satirize'. It describes the act of using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. According to Ludwig, the phrase follows standard grammar rules.
Expression frequency: Very common
