| The work combines a fourth-form puerility with a satirical current, one that leaves the viewer slightly queasy. |
| It is a rhetorical strategy in which scriptural quotations, typologies, or tropes are used for satirical ends. |
| There are few pleasures more mentally invigorating than astringently witty and wise satirical fiction. |
| Surges of fashionable liberalism such as latitudinarian complacency in the early part of the century drew the fire of much satirical scepticism. |
| It's true that this movie is bitingly satirical, and that stands as one of its better qualities. |
| In the end he got away with a fine and a reprimand, and the woodblocks for a satirical triptych were destroyed. |
