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
The subjects of the plays of Epicharmus were chiefly mythological, that is, parodies or travesties of mythology, nearly in the style of the satyric drama of Athens.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
The satyric play was named from the satyrs or attendants upon Bacchus, and was a farce or burlesque intended to relieve the feelings of the spectators after the tragedies.
From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton
Our Hans Andersen is too weak in the wrist, has not arm strong enough "to crack the satyric thong."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
