satyric
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Despite his gift for sharp dialogue, wild humor and satyric satire he leaves the reader with an exasperating feeling of emptiness.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has trod these boards as the satyric Bluebeard, as Ebenezer Scrooge, as a neurotic shrink in Reverse Psychology, even as Rufus Foufas, a bamboozled patron of the arts in Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the drama of Thespis we find the satyric drama confounded with tragedy, and the persons of the chorus frequently representing satyrs.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
STRANGER: And so our satyric drama has been played out; and the troop of Centaurs and Satyrs, however unwilling to leave the stage, have at last been separated from the political science.
From Statesman by Plato
But Achæus the Eretrian, in his Alcmæon, a satyric drama, calls the Delphians makers of sauces, in these words:— I see the sauce-makers, and spit on them.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
