| Through reduction, the satirist aims at to make the reader laugh at his subject. |
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| By nature he is a social realist in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, whose novels he reveres along with those of social satirist Evelyn Waugh. |
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| The satirist differs from authors of other types of literature with regard to its way of dealing with his subject. |
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| His movies are the works of a brilliant, cynical satirist whose artistic downfall was an unceasing irony. |
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| Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet. |
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| Ushenko is that rara avis in contemporary art, a big-hearted romantic satirist. |
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| He's an intelligent man, and no-one likes being pigeonholed as a black-hearted satirist so early in their career. |
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| As a satirist, the writer is unafraid of drawing aside the drapes of hypocrisy and sham that seem to safeguard middle-class ethics. |
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| The most important weapon in the arsenal of the satirist is a rifle made entirely of self-deprecation. |
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| He is undoubtedly a talented satirist, a gifted writer, and has a pleasantly English sense of humour. |
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| He took to writing and his pamphlets established him as both a leading political thinker and a satirist. |
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| Though he is predominantly a satirist, the main stylistic influence on his work is W. H. Auden. |
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| Authors of burlesque usually avoided the high ethical road of the satirist, who ridicules a folly or fashion in the hope of eradicating it. |
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| She was in fact a satirist of society, and of its notions of respectability. |
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| When he's gone, this denial will be forgotten and he will surely be acclaimed as a satirist. |
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| In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist. |
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| Plus, he's a satirist, in love with that crooked jokester otherwise known as life. |
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| This report from the unconscious satirist and humorist, Mr Corbett, is a case in point. |
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| Elnathan John, who describes himself as a satirist and recovering lawyer, is based in Abuja in Nigeria. |
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| Peter Schickele, best known as the P. D. Q. Bach musical satirist, is also a composer of serious music. |
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| Far from showing courage as a satirist, Pierre is a conformist who avoids challenging the sensibilities of the snobbish, transatlantic liberal left. |
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| But if Portnoy is himself our satirist, he is merely shocking the bourgeoisie in rather conventional ways. |
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| Who could this ruthless new satirist be, who had parachuted unannounced into the Scottish media, with so sharp a knife and so keen a sense of the absurd? |
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| Pryor had yet to become the volatile social satirist who unnerved white industry executives and delighted black audiences. |
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| Because ultimately Westlake was not this kind of writer, or that kind, not a crime writer, or a satirist, or a comedian. |
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| Nobody else can touch her as a satirist, tragedian, and dissector of human behavior. |
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| From Romantic squish to scabrous satirist to rebel wrangler to, finally, Ambassador of Goodwill. |
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| It would seem that little has changed since the first-century Roman satirist Juvenal famously wrote that all that the modern citizen craved was bread and circuses. |
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| The satirist may use different forms of literature in prose or verse. |
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| A satirist must accept the fact that some won't understand the joke. |
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| He is the most compelling Hollywood satirist this side of Nathanael West. |
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| Foul-mouthed chauvinist who flirted with chicks in a hot tub or celebrity-friendly sociopolitical satirist? |
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| If it wasn't for his self-aggrandising tendencies he would probably just be accepted as a bracing broad-brush satirist, a set-piece artist with a terrific ear. |
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| The cliffhanger nature of serial fiction, exploited by everything from 1940's B-features to modern soap opera, is an easy target for the satirist. |
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| As Amis grew older, though, his irascibility vehemently swiveled toward left-wing and progressive targets, and he established himself as a Tory satirist in the vein of Waugh or Powell. |
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| Swift, a literary satirist like Rabelais, demolishes the illusion of the grace and delicacy of women with his scatalogical poems. |
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| Egypt's public prosecutor, recently appointed by Mr Morsi over furious objections from his peers, has ordered a probe into a television satirist, Bassem Youssef, whom Islamist litigators accuse of insulting the president. |
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| His was the realism of the compassionate satirist. |
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| Gary Shteyngart is a melancholy Russian, a wandering Jew, an unassimilated American, a Swiftian satirist and a Gogolian taleteller. |
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| Among the Classical authors who developed the Aesopian model were the Roman poet Horace, the Greek biographer Plutarch, and the Greek satirist Lucian. |
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| The origin of this friction was an incident on 30 March, when Ilhami covered a demonstration against the war in Iraq, interviewing a government minister and the banned satirist Bziz. |
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| When Evelyn Waugh was interviewed on Canadian television many years ago, the interviewer made the mistake of patronizing his distinguished guest, then England's most remarkable satirist. |
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| He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man of letters, soldier and political activist. |
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| One can well imagine Powell acting the Horace, reeling out a sonic logic, playing the fool and the tragedian, the eulogizer and the satirist. |
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| Peter Schickele, the musical satirist and radio show host whose PDQ Bach Christmas concerts sell out Carnegie Hall each year, is not known for playing it straight. |
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| Around the XVIth century, a comedy of relaxed virtues where an everyday life satirist approach had its place, organized itself around the character of Karagöz. |
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| He was a playwright, poet, and satirist, who is best known for his novel The Unfortunate Traveller. |
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| Also, Elkannah Settle was, in the Restoration, a lively and promising political satirist, though his reputation has not fared well since his day. |
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| Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies. |
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| The Council's decision not to present a consolidated text is what we would call Realsatire in German, meaning a real-life situation which is more absurd than anything a satirist could dream up. |
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| Never was there more tangible proof of the sad lack of a credible political satirist of Jon Stewart's ilk on UK TV than the desperate elevation of Brand to the position of social sage. |
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| Other major Greek authors of the Empire include the biographer and antiquarian Plutarch, the geographer Strabo, and the rhetorician and satirist Lucian. |
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| Peter Cook the satirist, writer and comedian was born in Torquay, Devon. |
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| Hearing that his wife was posing in the altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that he would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood. |
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| Thatcher was lampooned by satirist John Wells in several media. |
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