Sentence examples for shrewd satire from inspiring English sources
The play is at once a shrewd satire, a black comedy and a heartbreaking study of how time wounds everyone (2 20).
The British journalist George Augustus Sala's assessment is typical: it "is full of shrewd satire, not unmixed with humour, albeit marred in its very form and diction by an audacious irreverence which approaches blasphemy.
THE CAIMAN In the midst of Silvio Berlusconi's 2006 campaign for reëlection as Prime Minister of Italy, the director Nanni Moretti came out with this shrewd, scathing satire of the businessman-politician.
In spite of their obvious theatrical defects and a failure to engage the sympathies of the audience for the characters, these plays succeed in handling moral and religious issues of some complexity while entertaining the audience with farcical plots and some shrewd social satire.
The Coen Brothers' take on corporations is both spoof and satire, making some shrewd points about success and corruption.
Like much of the show, the scene is written with shrewd attention to the details that make satire work.
That was supposed to be satire, but in retrospect it proved a shrewd analysis.
Streep, a brilliant comedienne, pushes the terror tactics into satire, but the comedy moves in a shrewd direction: Streep's every gesture says that fashion is a multibillion-dollar business in which civility (except when directed at the famous) has become a disposable luxury.
The Cabin in the Woods is a shrewd, ingenious look at the programmatic elements of the genre, a satire that is also a lenient celebration, and it could wind up being a set text in any MA course in horror.
For the satire, think of the anti-clerical comedies of Anatole France; Ms. Mantel, whose best work may be a shrewd and expansive novel about Danton, has a grounding in French letters.
