How To Use Satirise In A Sentence
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This macabre neo-noir cleverly satirises both ratings-driven news and soulless self-improvement.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fortunately, Rugg and Maruca are smart enough to keep their creation in sketch contents, assembling an amusing “best of” volume of adventures that satirize both blaxploitation and, to a lesser extent, the ups and downs of a super-hero franchise.
Upcoming 1/27/2010
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We'll talk to the creators of the new outrageous political cartoon that satirizes many of the issues we cover on this broadcast.
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The use of exaggerated dialect in ‘Down Shamrock Alley’ as representation of the Irish brogue helps to satirize and parody the new ethnic community of the Irish.
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In one of the better TV comebacks in recent years, LeBlanc, who was nominated three times for Friends, audaciously satirized himself and the biz as a self-absorbed and well-endowed sleazebag.
Emmys: TVGuide.com's Picks for Lead Actor in a Comedy
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The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people.
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We might satirize, circumvent or hoodwink the great prince, but we don't mess with him.
The Secret to Berlusconi's Dolce Vita
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I know I tend to satirize, but I am being absolutely serious on this one.
On the blueline: One game to go, vs. Canada, gold at stake
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.
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Crumb has never, to my knowledge, stated any intent to "satirize" or "scandalize" Christian theology in his rendering of Genesis, but merely to depict what he found there.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?"
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Isaac seems to access a switch for historical replay as he satirizes values, ideas and events of the post-Second World War era.
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He satirizes a variety of targets and yet none more than himself.
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The outwardly crisp style of government it satirised has descended into a very public ‘omnishambles’.
Satire is dead
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The writer satirized the politician's proposal
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They satirize the sometimes byzantine credits of Hollywood screenwriting.
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It toys with high-spirited farce but also vigorously satirises the way marriage is viewed entirely as monetary arrangement.
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The London-based comic created his life coach alter-ego to satirise the world of self-help and corporate jargon.
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Politicians are often satirized on TV and radio.
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Smith's version in The Old Manor House plays with this expectation by transferring the typical heroine's flightiness and love - sickness to the protagonist, even as it also satirizes his virtues as a romance hero.
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One of the reasons why football is pilloried and satirised on comedy shows is that it is awash with cliches and inconsequential chat.
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The newspaper came out weekly. It satirized political leaders.
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Unfortunately, the play was ‘a crude attempt to satirize the lunacies of Hollywood’ and lasted fewer than fifty performances.
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This print satirizes the new fad of riding hobbies.
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Jacques Tati satirised mindless routines at work and home in his films.
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Derek Flint satirizes and skewers mid '60s America with rapier precision.
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Knowing what a number of enemies he had among the Parisian journalists and critics, whom he had satirized with increased causticity in his latest fiction, the author endeavoured to pack the theatre with his friends, but there was a large leakage in the sale of tickets; and, on the eventful evening, the seats were occupied by a majority of persons hostile to him.
Balzac
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Goodman satirizes the naïveté and narcissism of that era's utopianism with enormous wit.
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It's all passably jolly, but the show, with book and lyrics by Peter Sham and music by Brad Carroll, misses a trick in not doing more to satirise operatic conventions.
Lend Me A Tenor, The Musical - review
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Satirize to depict to push with details in the person up all rose the decisive function.
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Adspeak is so ubiquitous now that it's almost impossible to satirise.
Times, Sunday Times
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The series also satirized Japanese fandom, in particular the figure of the geeky "fanboy," or otaku.
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It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech.
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The more directly Andersen's tales draw on his own emotional vulnerabilities or satirize his contemporaries, the more powerful they are.
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De la cintura para abajo (From the Waist Down, 1999) satirizes the boredom of a bourgeois couple who engage the services of an unemployed torturer after democracy is restored, to act as their sadomasochistic sexologist and help them solve their marital problems.
Diana Raznovich.
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Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstract concepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them.
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In the dialogue Euthydemus, Plato satirizes eristic.
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Jerry once satirized this kind of mealy mouthed reporting by drawing chalk circles on the floor of a car company men's room, standing on them and whispering some observation about where the industry was headed.
Forbes' Editor Remembers Jerry Flint
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Jane Austen ` s Northanger Abbey is a good way into Gothicism in that it satirises it form the point of view of a fan.
Come Into My Parlour ....
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Those things that the nation once glorified it now derides and satirizes.
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The English political parties and religious denominations are satirized in the description of the wearers of high heels and low heels, and of the controversy on the question whether eggs should be broken at the big or small end.
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Maybe I was just better caffeinated than you, but I found the import of the story pretty clear, and it bore little relation to the version you so cutely satirized.
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The series also satirized Japanese fandom, in particular the figure of the geeky ‘fanboy,’ or otaku.
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The first version of the play used the story line of a senior official's abduction by a Mafia boss as a prelude to the main plot which satirized politicians and gangsters.
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Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstract concepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them.
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As critically self-reflective as she always is, Rose also satirizes the role of the artist as muse and siren, by presenting herself as both subject and object of desire.
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| Reply | Permalink the politics of fear indeed. how dare the new yorker make fun of fear! don't they know that democrats are too afraid of it for them to satirize it? boycott conde nast?!? ha! what a bunch of idiots you guys are.seriously. i'm becoming embarrassed to hang around here with you dolts.
Election Central Morning Roundup
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Robert Cook said, "Crumb has never, to my knowledge, stated any intent to "satirize" or "scandalize" Christian theology in his rendering of Genesis, but merely to depict what he found there.
"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?"
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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The problem is that to really satirise racism, you have to be clever and this wasn't. It was just crass and stupid.
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Carey satirizes literary culture, plays with archetypes, exoticism, and the convolutions of travel yarns, and evokes Malaysia and Indonesia with aplomb.
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Able only to mumble coded secrets, poets often seem the village idiots so wickedly satirized by Woody Allen's Love and Death.
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‘The ‘circumcision from Africa’ feature that we were defined by became a byword for all you'd satirise in a woman's magazine as earnest and worthy,’ she says.
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(Skip to the 5: 00 mark of this clip and you can see the scandalously underrated Jules Munshin satirize the Food Network, still a half-century in the future.)
Archive 2008-03-01
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Taking its cue from the day's headlines, the XYZ Show presents its own version of the news, using a small army of life-sized puppets to satirize Kenyan politics.
Puppets, Political Satire Popular on Kenyan TV
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The entire enterprise was mercilessly and hilariously satirized in her novel.
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Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
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Throughout the history of naïve, misleading realism, there has been a countercurrent of pseudorealism, which has satirized the shortcomings of this mode we have been conditioned to unquestioningly accept.
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The novel satirizes the American South before the Civil War, and scathingly examines the South's embrace of slavery, racism, and lynchings.
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The play satirized the nobility and made a commoner - a haircutter, no less - the protagonist.
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They knew that their society needed to progress, and just to satirize it all the time wasn't going to do that.
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Yes, the film is sporadically funny, and, yes, it satirizes the genre, but I left the movie feeling like I had seen a missed opportunity.
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To satirize the sycophants among his courtiers, King Canute sarcastically commanded the waves to keep their distance and allowed his own majesty to be wetted by the tides: now we give the name Canute to anyone in authority who foolishly attempts to ward off the inevitable.
Demons and Dictionaries
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The film gently satirises the Establishment, in the shape of Holland's unperceptive employers at the Bank, the media, and the police.
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A friend has told me that you've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife.
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He was thoroughly entertained by a grotesque comedy that satirized a group of celebrities.
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In part, "There But For The" means to gently satirize the British middle class.
The Illusion Of Things
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She teases, criticizes and satirizes American democracy, but she cares so much it's positively palpable.
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He had already published one novel in which he exemplified in some measure characteristics of the novelists whom he later sought to condemn and satirize, that is, this first novel,
Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
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Yet the scholarly energy which reinvigorated abstract concepts of political function was identical with that which satirized them.
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Martial satirized them: "Now you are a gladiator who once were an ophthalmist; you did as a doctor what you do as a gladiator.
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
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Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs.
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Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion.
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No longer is the Tory party what it was in the 90s and early noughties - a preserve of old men who have something of the night about them, seeming Vulcans or sexless husks readily satirised with grey underpants outside their trousers.
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Carey satirizes literary culture, plays with archetypes, exoticism, and the convolutions of travel yarns, and evokes Malaysia and Indonesia with aplomb.
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It is merely the logical consequence of a movement satirized as 'foodism', which has gathered momentum since the early 1980s.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Writers had a choice: modernise the conventions or satirise them.
Times, Sunday Times
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This acid comedy satirizes the romantic travails of artsy twenty-somethings.
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The characters' grotesque infantilism and puerile sense of humour is an important part of what is being satirised.