| Through reduction, the satirist aims at to make the reader laugh at his subject. |
| 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. |
| Ushenko is that rara avis in contemporary art, a big-hearted romantic satirist. |
| As a satirist, the writer is unafraid of drawing aside the drapes of hypocrisy and sham that seem to safeguard middle-class ethics. |
| The most important weapon in the arsenal of the satirist is a rifle made entirely of self-deprecation. |
| His movies are the works of a brilliant, cynical satirist whose artistic downfall was an unceasing irony. |
