The heart of the novel is a long, dazzling set piece that is simultaneously satiric and macabre. |
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Swift's disturbing satiric vision and eccentricities have given rise to countless myths and legends about his life. |
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There are those rare exceptions, though, works of animation that are either visually stunning or serve to make some sort of satiric commentary. |
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Another related discursive tendency is the use of satiric irony, especially sarcasm. |
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It was also to be a vehicle for Dickens as an essayist, both as a fanciful observer and as an earnestly satiric social critic. |
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Behind this lies a genuine satiric point about the booming heritage industry's dependence on quaint appellations and sentimental conservation. |
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Shakespeare has left us a satiric portrait of the poet who writes verses by the yard to please a patron in Timon of Athens. |
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It's not just his media-conscious satiric style that gives Edwards a contemporary quality. |
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Although they had no satiric intent they were designed as a commentary on the emptiness of lives dominated by consumerism. |
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I'm not sure I fully understood the complete satiric meaning of your piece. |
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A surreal, oddly sinister classic, this expertly mixes a cruel and satiric sense of humour with wide-eyed wonder. |
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In the hands of a garden-variety appropriationist, the hats would represent a satiric comment on the commodification of individualism. |
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My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts. |
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Rops's entire oeuvre is informed by a satiric and sardonic eye for the follies of the world. |
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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. |
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Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals. |
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The pieces are intelligently chosen, quirky and satiric extracts sharing space with atmospheric and journalistic ones, encouraging the reader to reconsider stereotypes. |
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Ground Upby Michael Idov A satiric tale of love, idealism, and strong coffee. |
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Although we have seen that we can dismiss a Gadarene school hypothesis, this does not necessarily preclude the development of a local satiric outlook. |
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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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Her narrative's self-conscious, satiric use of established forms illustrates how these forms in turn could be reconstructed for different ideological ends. |
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This long satiric parable of a society where human beings find themselves transformed into monkeys recalls Swift in its ambition and scatological vigour. |
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Put in other terms, intention, whether to be comedic, satiric or analytical, does not change the characterization of what was actually broadcast. |
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The satiric biweekly Popoli is also closely connected with the art field as it contains comics and cartoons. |
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The world, it seems, is daring them to make Dioses, a satiric comedy about Peru's hermetic upper-class. |
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Pure kinetic and satiric pleasure, in which the aesthetics of the dance is allied with flawless direction. |
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Playwright Terence McNally updated his 1982 play with freshly satiric references. |
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Mask dances performed by villagers combined dance with satiric drama, making fun of erring officials and monks for entertainment and ethical edification. |
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Waldman overlays her comic situations and satiric conversations with ironic literary allusions and witty wordplay. |
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I decided it was farce and not consistent with the satiric tone of the rest of the film. |
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So you had to get the ironic attitude toward the media before you could grasp the satiric manhandling of the politicians. |
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This is like Shostakovich without his satiric, acerbic side. |
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There are satiric songs mocking meanness and tyranny, songs in praise of drink and drinkers, while other pieces celebrate heroic feats of valour or of sport. |
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Some of these Protestant satiric poems drew also on the Pasquil poems mocking popes that were a major Italian tradition. |
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Every year in September a new creation was performed and the Berlin elite hurried to these satiric cabarets, whose main theme was Berlin by night in all its versions. |
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Critics hail the work as a satiric reflection on the shortcomings of Enlightenment thought. |
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Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent. |
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Where Larkin's poems respond to life's disappointments with a biting melancholy, Amis's are slashingly satiric. |
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In these works, which have been read as satiric attacks on the female anatomy, de Kooning painted with a flamboyant lubricity in keeping with the uninhibited subject matter. |
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Though his qaṣīdahs, mainly eulogies, are considered to be extremely tasteful and proper, his satiric works are held to be calumnious and abusive. |
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We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature. |
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Soon the periodical Punch made him the satiric object of its antagonism to the Aesthetes for what was considered their unmasculine devotion to art. |
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That collection also shows the early Porter's detachedly satiric voice. |
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This satiric opera relates a day in the life of Dame Helvetia. |
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His reputation as a stern, stolid reformer is counterbalanced by the fact that he had an excellent sense of humour and used satiric fables, spoofing, and puns in his writings. |
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In Ariosto's satiric homage to the earlier poet, the only thing that emerges at the end of the scene is our hero, covered in feculence, nude, his wits lost. |
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His images of sickness, vomit, manure, and plague reflected his strongly satiric view of a world populated by all the fools and knaves of England. |
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Chesterton, and George Orwell praised his realism, comic voice, prose fluency, and satiric caricature, as well as his passionate advocacy on behalf of children and the poor. |
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