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How to use satiric in a sentence

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The heart of the novel is a long, dazzling set piece that is simultaneously satiric and macabre.
Swift's disturbing satiric vision and eccentricities have given rise to countless myths and legends about his life.
There are those rare exceptions, though, works of animation that are either visually stunning or serve to make some sort of satiric commentary.
Another related discursive tendency is the use of satiric irony, especially sarcasm.
It was also to be a vehicle for Dickens as an essayist, both as a fanciful observer and as an earnestly satiric social critic.
Behind this lies a genuine satiric point about the booming heritage industry's dependence on quaint appellations and sentimental conservation.
Shakespeare has left us a satiric portrait of the poet who writes verses by the yard to please a patron in Timon of Athens.
It's not just his media-conscious satiric style that gives Edwards a contemporary quality.
Although they had no satiric intent they were designed as a commentary on the emptiness of lives dominated by consumerism.
I'm not sure I fully understood the complete satiric meaning of your piece.
A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder.
In the hands of a garden-variety appropriationist, the hats would represent a satiric comment on the commodification of individualism.
My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts.
Rops's entire oeuvre is informed by a satiric and sardonic eye for the follies of the world.
Even for the parodic and satiric intent, there is a greater interest in the design and design faults of language than a care for what the reader will take away.
Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals.
The pieces are intelligently chosen, quirky and satiric extracts sharing space with atmospheric and journalistic ones, encouraging the reader to reconsider stereotypes.
Ground Upby Michael Idov A satiric tale of love, idealism, and strong coffee.
Although we have seen that we can dismiss a Gadarene school hypothesis, this does not necessarily preclude the development of a local satiric outlook.
Moreover, he sees himself in the tradition of an H. L. Mencken or George S. Schuyler as a satiric denouncer of all forms of cant, quackery, and nonsense.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This statement is not to be accepted as a satiric fable, but as a literal fact.
Ordinary narrative poems with no satiric intent were decked in Hudibrastic couplets for the sake of a superficial cleverness.
Akin to these hortatory epigrams, in their tone of settled melancholy, are some of the satiric and convivial.
The unearthly beings meet us in all guises, and answer our every mood, whether it be serious or awed, satiric or humoresque.
Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.
Her own father had a rich fund of humour, but it was satiric.
This was a rule indeed which only added to the satiric effect of my being plied with the supposition that he might at any moment be among us.
The richness of his satiric perception was too great to permit of speech.
He hurried on lest she should call satiric attention to its thinness.
The ethos of the satiric persona was something they could not understand.
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