| Able only to mumble coded secrets, poets often seem the village idiots so wickedly satirized by Woody Allen's Love and Death. |
| Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs. |
| The entire enterprise was mercilessly and hilariously satirized in her novel. |
| He was thoroughly entertained by a grotesque comedy that satirized a group of celebrities. |
| It gently satirized wartime bureaucracy, in a dazzling interchange of epigrams and catch-phrases, many of which passed into the common currency of speech. |
| The poem was highly regarded during the First World War, but became heavily satirized by soldiers returning from the Western Front. |
