He talked just as he had ruled: walking the thin rope that separates madness from political satire, the tragic from the comic.
Raw, wrenching and more starkly tragic than Mr. Altman's satire, "The Town Is Quiet" evokes a similar vision of a city as a teeming organism in violent, spasmodic flux.
Writing satire about tragic events can be extremely difficult, so you need to exercise caution in choosing the right tragedy to satirize.
And to see it attacked from the outside and see people inhibited by fear and terror as a means of silencing voices even if they are of dissent or satire, it's tragic".
Based on a play he wrote with Robert Lawson, the movie lurches from melodramatic pathos (Campbell has a tragic back story) to broad satire (the high school is putting on an absurd space-theme musical) to unproductive end, as each new tonal shift erodes whatever narrative coherence and momentum Mr. Glatzer has managed to establish.
In light of the tragic attack on the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, we called him and convinced him to give his two cents on the week's incidents in Paris.
In another writer, this might be tragic wisdom, or grounds for misanthropic satire.
New readers will find that Stevens convinces by manner as well as conscience, by vivacity as well as fidelity, by tragic feeling as well as comic satire.
Ronsard perfected the 12-syllable, or alexandrine, line of French verse, hitherto despised as too long and pedestrian, and established it as the classic medium for scathing satire, elegiac tenderness, and tragic passion.
Forrest is Walter White, writes Collins, "but without the sense that there's anything tragic about him... It's a satire of the middle-class middle-aged white-male entitlement and privilege that all the big dramas treat as the stuff of life".
