Sentence examples for smart satire from inspiring English sources

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A smart satire with a memorable narrator".

A smart satire, "Search Party" doesn't avoid these pitfalls, but rather purposefully walks right into them.

And, amid the wisecracks, there's some smart satire about the world of work, and the workers' alienation from their labour: shrewdly questioning the spirit of the beehive itself.

But as it has for years, the show continues to alternate maddeningly between smart satire and eye-rolling frat-boy humor.

It is, after all, a smart satire about materialism, which exposes the foibles of women who are outwardly racy, smart, and prosperous – yet in reality selfish, weak, and Machiavellian.

It's a pretty tired complaint, that modern man and woman spend much too much time indoors in stale air, but Gary Burns's WAYDOWNTOWN (2000) turns the problem into smart satire.

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It has little to say about campus killings: it's an assembly of very smart satires on American life.

For connoisseurs of atrocious musical theater — and/or whip-smart satire — the fictional Jacob Sterling is a godsend to be eternally grateful for.

Publisher, Oneworld The book that made my year: Paul Beatty's The Sellout, a whip-smart satire on racism, was a surprise Man Booker winner in an industry where comedy and satire rarely take away the gongs.

His brilliant first book, And Then We Came to the End, told entirely in the first person plural, remains the smartest satire of contemporary corporate culture, a Catch-22 from the front line of PowerPoint and internal comms.

A biting, whip-smart satire on the thorny subject of organized religion, the Bollywood musical "PK" enlightens and provokes through outrageous slapstick.

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