Sentence examples for scathing satire from inspiring English sources

A somewhat enigmatic novel, His Only Son moves between scathing satire and gentle reverie.

Fans of scathing satire and flippant comedy will both be disappointed.

It's the perfect time to revive Caryl Churchill's scathing satire on the City of London.

"The Grouch" shows no trace of scathing satire, no comic quest for truth.

His "The Caiman," released here last year, was a scathing satire on Berlusconi and the Italy that habitually elects him.

A comic work studying the culture wars and racial and ethnic overlap in a liberal college town, On Beauty was praised for its acumen and scathing satire.

Mark Twain's scathing satires about racism toward the Chinese in San Francisco in the 1860s and 1870s are key records of a subject no other writer--white or nonwhite--was addressing; they are also the pieces that helped pave the way for his use of satire in "Huckleberry Finn" to attack racism toward blacks.

The author, Maxim Kurochkin, who was then 30, developed the idea into an iconoclastic work that mixes contemporary Russian life with characters from the old German Nibelung saga, poetry with social satire and pathos with scathing irony.

Throughout, Daumier risked as much as each regime permitted, producing scathing political satire in times of relative freedom and turning to more subtle but equally penetrating social satire when censorship tightened up.

At the Lucille Lortel, the company presents Ben Jonson's scathing Jacobean satire "Volpone, or The Fox," from 1606.

And now for some scathing political satire: try to guess who the eagles are supposed to be.