The play started with a satiric opening sentence from the writer. From LearnThat.org.
When her innocent and well-chaperoned pilgrimage to watch the sun rise is viciously misrepresented in satiric pamphlets as a drunken orgy, the people begin to turn against her. From Wordnik.com. [Abundance: Summary and book reviews of Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund.] Reference
The multiplicity of voice and genre in the Roman Rite can be described as satiric, as a gift of difference, whose complexity sets it apart from earlier manipulations of genre. From Wordnik.com. [dorveille | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference
Certainly it wrung a kind of satiric poem out of me - Rudolf Hess as Nelson Mandela in blackface!. From Wordnik.com. [Wole Soyinka - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Each chapter begins with a short "satiric" comment about the type of speech being considered in that section. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3] Reference
Highly satiric in his quiet way, La Bruyère knew how to be. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The neatly staged satiric musical revue lives up to its name. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Fascinating Aïda -- Absolutely Miraculous!] Reference
Not only do these plays show Carey's satiric bent, but so also do. From Wordnik.com. [A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727)] Reference
Here's an example of a news cycle, circa 2010, as a satiric example. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [135] -- The Sky Is Falling!] Reference
This statement is not to be accepted as a satiric fable, but as a literal fact. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
He hopes one day a man will find this satiric nod to hospitality witty and shrewd. From Wordnik.com. [Assorted Moments of Moral Ambiguity from the World of Gay Porn] Reference
Of its very nature, satiric drama comes later than Epic and Lyric poetry, Tragedy or. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
She stood biting her lips and smiling to herself in half-satiric, half-whimsical fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The indignant Swede raised his battered head to glare into the eyes of his satiric physician. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
As a humoristic, satiric, pathetic, and æsthetic writer, he is unique in the French language. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
Porson's wit, and one of the finest examples of the retort satiric to be found in any language. From Wordnik.com. [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference
Perhaps a satiric observer of manners might have thought her more like a lady's-maid than a lady. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Frequently it emphasizes the satiric and critical element, and its humor often is heavy and clumsy. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Fairy Tales] Reference
Where the reality was ever somber, creation of the unreal found popular and acceptable form in satiric verse. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
It had, alas! been a birthday present from Ann Marvin, whose statuettes, fashionable and satiric, were famous. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
I mean, I think that, you know, I have to say, like, my impulse is towards the satiric, and I tend to mock things. From Wordnik.com. [Beauty Shop Takes On Lady Gaga, Christine O'Donnell] Reference
It's true that both parody and caricature rely on the exaggeration of quirks and idiosyncrasies for satiric purposes. From Wordnik.com. [The Sincerest Form of Ridicule] Reference
Other types of graffiti, however, vary from the very earnest expression of affection to the nonexcrementally satiric. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4] Reference
The diaries, of course, are fictitious -- crafted by Ingraham to convey her satiric vision of Obama and his policies. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Obama Diaries,' self-absorbed musings] Reference
Since that day, creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threat. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: White House Cover-Up: How Harry Truman Edited the First Hollywood Film About the Atomic Bomb] Reference
Since that day, creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threats. From Wordnik.com. [Greg Mitchell: White House Cover-Up: How Harry Truman Edited the First Hollywood Film About the Atomic Bomb] Reference
The great range of the satires which make the greater part of Swift's work is supported in part by variety of satiric method. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Literature] Reference
His satiric stories and pictures inspired superb underground comic artists like Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and Gilbert Shelton. From Wordnik.com. [Harvey Kurtzman: The Comics World's 'Mad Genius'] Reference
We will examine these works briefly, grouping them into narrative, didactic, hagiographic, lyric, satiric and dramatic literature. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
In Fielding's satiric description of the Court before which his Amelia stood her trial, he describes himself as an 'old gentleman. '. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
It is in dealing with ponderous and awful blunders like this that the satiric power of the writer finds its favorite field of action. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
Yet another characteristic of Fielding's personality appears in the conscious control exercised over all the humorous and satiric zest of. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
"Oftentimes, people who say satiric or unpleasant things are labeled as curmudgeons," says "Daily Show" co-executive producer Ben Karlin. From Wordnik.com. [Red, White & Funny] Reference
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