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"Satire" in a Sentence (13 examples)
He was not aware that the praise was a satire in disguise.
The play is a satire on the political world.
I don't want to write satire. However, satire is often the result.
"Gulliver's Travels" is all satire, in fact, his voyages never take him out of England.
It's hard not to write satire. For who is so tolerant of the injustices of the city, so ironclad, that they can hold back?
It is difficult not to write satire.
Have you ever wondered if our universe is just a simulated political satire of one that actually exists?
Humour is the satire of yesterday.
The movie is a lighthearted yet devastatingly accurate and witty social satire.
I'm an epidemiologist. When I heard about Britain's "herd immunity" coronavirus plan, I thought it was satire.
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Satire deflates and debases. It is an art which topples greatness, undermines pretension and punishes pride by revealing the low in the pretendedly high, the filth in the pure, the folly in reason. This belittling trick deploys telescopic lenses which picture the human as lesser and lower, or as a machine or beast, driven by depraved desires. Satire reduces what purports to be subtly superior to a repertoire of stigmatizing symbols and cardboard cut-outs, turning character into caricature, signalled by exaggerated physiognomical distortions - the huge nose, gaping mouth and bloated belly, or comparable animalistic traits. In this humbling of the complex into the simplistic, satire finally reduces the mind, soul or spirit to that flesh which always bespeaks inferiority on the Chain of Being.
a stinging satire of American politics.
CAESAR. No, by the gods! would that it had been! Vengeance at least is human. No, I say: those severed right hands, and the brave Vercingetorix basely strangled in a vault beneath the Capitol, were (with shuddering satire) a wise severity, a necessary protection to the commonwealth, a duty of statesmanship—follies and fictions ten times bloodier than honest vengeance!
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