satires in English

noun
1
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Some pointed out the film's emotional power, others its use of irony and satire to criticize fascism.

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1. This is her first serious novel; up till now she has only written political satires.

2. Leapor also produced several shorter satires on fashionable courtship and marriage.

3. The Satires and Epistles discuss ethical and literary problems in an urbane, witty manner.

4. Despite the adulation of the court and Parisians, Molière's satires attracted criticism from churchmen.

5. The audience is also puzzled by those fusty and arid proclaims, critics and satires, which pretend to be the forever essence of female artists.

6. A founder of a group of poets known as the Pléiade, he wrote sonnets, satires on literary conventions, and a manifesto Bellay - definition of Bellay …

7. 1680 ‘Ballad on Betty Felton’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 48: She’s always attended with Ballocks and tarse, / Sweet Candish in cunt and bold Frank at her arse

8. Bread and Circuses is a translation of the Latin phrase panem et circenses, which appeared in Juvenal's Satires, and which alludes to the Roman emperors' organization of grain handouts and gladiatorial games for …

9. Austen's early fiction is outrageous, inventive, Bumptiously irreverent, and even (as she herself might say) inelegant; most of Gillray's visual satires are all that and more, bloody and violent, scabrous and scatological and even revolting

10. In fact, Stoicism descends directly from Cynicism and both of which descend from Socrates.As Juvenal would say in his Satires, the Stoics “differ from the Cynics only by a tunic.”And it should go without saying that the definition of both

11. 12 Juvenal, Satires 6, 10, 14 Pliny the Elder, Natural History 10 Plutarch, Lives Seneca the Younger, Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii; Octavia, 257–261 Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Claudius 17, 26, 27, 29, 36, 37, 39; Nero 6; Vitellius 2 Tacitus, Annals, XI.

12. With this material Chambers is at his best, and similar Appreciations of the manner in which Lucan hovers over Marvell's Restoration satires show how a critic's responsiveness to the interplay between classical models and seventeenth-century texts can both explicate specific passages and, more broadly, display the arts and ironies of

13. In the first half of 2019, Comedy has come in the form of star vehicles (Long Shot, The Dead Don’t Die, The Professor), rom-com satires (Isn’t It Romantic), actual actual rom-coms (Plus One, Always Be My Maybe), and female-led efforts that range from the raucous (Booksmart) to the literary (Wild Nights With Emily) to the glamorous (The Hustle).

14. If the ancient comedies had the same cut and style, the strictly drilled step, and the exquisitely metrical language of ancient tragedies, so that they might pass for parodies, so are the dramatic satires of Tieck cut in as original and strange a manner; just as Anglicanly irregular and as metrically capricious as the tragedies of Shakespeare.

15. Almire Gandonnière (3 August 1814, Loué – 25 October 1863, San Francisco) was a French writer, remembered today only as the collaborator with Hector Berlioz of the libretto for La Damnation de Faust (1846), which was based on the translation of Goethe's masterpiece by Gérard de Nerval.Gandonnière, under various pseudonyms, published satires, verses and occasional critical essays in the