satire

Example Sentences

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There is a particular kind of hypocrisy so brazen, so cartoonishly on-the-nose, that it almost defies satire.

From Salon

“Sometimes I use examples, sometimes political satire. Tonight’s going to be full of satire. As I look around, we’ve got a long way to go. We just get people where we can find them.”

From Salon

Brazilian director Karim Ainouz's surreal satire "Rosebush Pruning" premiered on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival with one of the programme's starriest casts portraying an outrageously spoiled and dysfunctional family descending into chaos.

From Barron's

In the late 1980s, television allowed more room for satire and student life than it does today.

From BBC

It’s easier to howl at a classic like “Dr. Strangelove,” which mocked the leaders giddyuping the planet’s destruction, than at a present-day satire where we ourselves are the joke.

From Los Angeles Times