satirist
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The rest of his career was largely devoted to complicating and enriching the portrait, transforming himself, as his best biographer, James Gindin, observed, from a satirist into a practitioner of the “novel of compassion.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Gladiatorial combat in the arena was, in the satirist Juvenal’s phrase, “bread and circuses” for the Roman masses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
As attention spans keep getting whittled down, intellectually impish Romanian satirist Radu Jude continues to go longer and longer, his latest act of cinematic disobedience the nearly three-hour mythbuster “Dracula.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
American musician and satirist Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97, according to US media reports.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025
Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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