| 单词 | satirise |
| 例句 | JNR Like the culinary artists it satirises, Whites is a sitcom that blends ingredients that are sometimes traditional, often subtle, but are increasingly surreal. Tonight's TV highlights: 2010-10-11T23:05:00Z The accounts I find perplexing are not those that exist to parody or satirise celebrities and those in power, or which operate as supposedly amusing comic creations. Fake Twitter celeb accounts: why do people bother? 2012-07-26T18:59:02Z The anti-establishment publication, which says its cartoonists are atheists who are interested in satirising all religions, claimed it was publishing a profile to learn more about the prophet. Muhammad cartoons: magazine to publish illustrated biography of prophet 2012-12-30T15:54:02Z I found that pig in Robert Fergusson's "The Sow of Feeling", a Scottish poem satirising the age of sensibility. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z They are punished horribly for their pride, the stories satirising the world that James inhabited. Why do we love a festive ghost tale? 2013-12-23T16:56:48Z The tradition of announcing the election of a new pope by puffs of white smoke from a chimney in the Vatican is also referred to, and satirised, in the song's double-tracked chorus. Smoke signals from the Vatican spell hellfire from reggae's stars 2013-03-14T17:20:45Z I am not exactly sure what it is satirising any more. Alan Davies eats humble pie over Hillsborough, BBC lifts lid on comedy 2012-09-25T17:29:44Z But what is striking is that he satirises the excesses of religious fervour without patronising the urban poor for whom it is a sustaining force. The Amen Corner – review 2013-06-12T12:21:51Z With her sharp parodies of celebrities and her skill at satirising her own femininity and neuroses, she set the mould for modern female comedians. ‘She was our Michelle Obama’: how Gilda Radner changed comedy for ever 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Self explores the fluidity and mutability of gender and successfully satirises a "world in which social and sexual characteristics were already being tossed and dressed like salad". Sam Mills' top 10 fictional sex changes 2013-03-20T13:54:52Z Each of these shows takes a different relationship to the past, lampooning, satirising, recording, transforming or trying to create as accurate an account as possible. In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect 2010-12-22T12:45:04Z In its third series, when it was mocking the last days of New Labour, The Thick of It satirised a similar kind of unthinking art choice. Why modern art is not a class issue 2013-01-15T15:11:01Z His works typically satirised the colonial experience through the eyes of ordinary Africans. Ferdinand Oyono obituary 2010-06-30T17:41:00Z There are no commas in this book, no moments to breathe in the cut-throat world of high finance and late capitalism that it both satirises and gruesomely dramatises. The Cook by Wayne Macauley – review 2012-12-13T08:55:01Z This exchange satirises a common view among theatre professionals that drama critics conspire as a pack, but also touches on a genuine truth about theatre-reviewing – and, more generally, theatre-going. Endurance performances: Why length matters in the theatre 2012-06-19T07:23:01Z "For the troops it was a way of talking about life on the front line, as well as satirising their officers and demonising their enemy." WW1 show explores role of humour 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z If the point at such moments is to satirise the prejudices of its characters rather than just vent the grumpiness of its author, the novel has more work to do. Finches of Mars by Brian Aldiss – review 2013-06-05T12:55:01Z Instead there is a moving reflection on the life of Karl Kraus, the Viennese writer who saw the horrors of the 20th century before anyone else, and satirised the dying Habsburg empire with brilliant cruelty. Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm – review 2013-03-31T08:00:06Z Anyway, it's a complex situation easily satirised with stupid but fun little songs such as God Wants Us to Wait. Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt: 'I'm very, very familiar with unrequited love' 2012-02-08T18:04:00Z It was the craze for Italian opera that saw the first theatre built on the site in 1732, oddly enough due to a play that actually satirised opera. The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z What distinguished those mockumentaries with Baron Cohen, says Mazer, was that awkwardness was a means to an end: “We wanted to highlight injustice or satirise things, and awkwardness was the best way to do that.” From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In the winter of 1965/66, Ray Davies satirised swinging London in songs such as Where Have All the Good Times Gone? and Dedicated Follower of Fashion. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z TV's celebrity culture exuberantly satirised, as a lively Neapolitan fishmonger's obsession with getting on to Big Brother begins to warp his real life. This week's new films 2013-03-23T06:00:09Z To satirise the war then raging in Vietnam, Ring Lardner Jr's Oscar-winning script had to be set during the Korean war, with GIs spending their spare time watching movies about the second world war. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z When he first came to England he was a media sensation in Georgian London, the subject of newspaper articles, poems and ballads – often satirising the extravagance and tortuous etiquette of the court. Peter the Wild Boy's condition revealed 200 years after his death 2011-03-20T17:01:00Z His work tirelessly satirises their human inadequacy, by turns savagely or with an ironic compassion. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z Posada also satirised corrupt politicians and plutocrats as calaveras, or skeletons, a device picked up by Rivera and other painters that remains embedded in Mexican culture. Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-40 – review 2013-07-06T23:05:35Z It’s a sly film too, that satirises and glamorises in the same breath, where a hotel foyer full of high-society types is compared to a lunatic asylum. My streaming gem: why you should watch My Man Godfrey 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The team had become victim to another BBC continuity announcement trope they liked to satirise: “Except for viewers in Scotland/Northern Ireland/Wales.” Monty Python at 50: a half-century of silly walks, edible props and dead parrots 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z It is a world she satirises in Questions of Travel: the tedium and distractions of office life, and the "hideous corporate speak" with its phrases such as key performance indicators and downsizing. Michelle de Kretser: Who travels? Who doesn't? What is home?' - interview 2013-06-22T00:33:57Z Beginning in a lightly satirised near future and stretching to 2043, the setting recalls David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest”. Sounds of silence 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z A popular melodrama of 1771, Richard Cumberland's The West Indian, satirised planters as drunken layabouts in ostentatiously buckled shoes and hats. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z It has been satirised, most famously by Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, in a sketch in which Death turns up at a middle-class dinner party. Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The Austin Powers films satirise the 1960s spy genre, which was already a spoof of cold war espionage movies. Anne Billson 2010-08-12T22:34:00Z In contrast, Cleese and Booth, when they wrote the character of Major Gowen, were clearly not being unthinkingly racist; rather, they were satirising an English upper-class bigot. Fawlty Towers isn't racist. Major Gowen is 2013-01-23T15:41:34Z For the most part, though, this was a confirmation that much of our current politics is just too farcical to satirise. Sorry episodes: the most disappointing TV shows of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z When Natha's scheme is publicised, the reactions of the venal politicians, the media and the minister for agriculture are mercilessly satirised. Peepli Live 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z And simply by looking at his appearance, it's fairly apparent who he's supposed to be satirising. Flick Teaser: Craving Craven? Scream 4 more 2011-01-19T13:00:10Z They might just be satirising Waits, given that the song is performed in an exaggerated growl. Readers recommend songs about pubs and bars: the results 2010-05-20T22:15:00Z A new play satirising the phone hacking scandal and other dubious practices within the press, police and politics is to transfer to London's West End. Hacking play gets West End transfer 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z I'd mentioned "Inclusion", a surreal story in his book Grey Area that satirises the psychopharmacological brouhaha surrounding Prozac. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z That set the political tone of the series, so forgive me for not being amazed by the courage of Banksy in satirising the ethics of the now-venerable Simpsons in its own opening credits. Banksy's satire on The Simpsons 2010-10-11T19:00:00Z Maybe the joke was on us, Suphi is actually Chris Morris in disguise, and the point of the show was to satirise business makeover shows. Our Daughter, The Mermaid, The Naked Office and Heston's Ultimate Feast 2010-05-19T06:00:00Z From there, as they say in documentaries about superstars, he never looked back, brilliantly satirising normal life. People opened up because I'm the Beavis and Butt-head guy': Mike Judge on his new funk direction 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Or he is, conversely, consumed with a desire to satirise Abu Dhabi as an unsuitable place to visit? 'Misjudged and boring' 2010-05-26T11:47:00Z There's more political theatre at Oval House, where Hannah Silva's Opposition satirises the jargon of political language. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-11-09T16:10:44Z An attack on conspicuous consumption, it was equally a product of the culture it satirised, though Terry Hands's timely production proves that the play is far from a prisoner of the 1980s. A Small Family Business 2010-05-12T21:00:00Z I guess that thinking about religious belief might be something that has shaped me but if this book is satirising anything it is just the idea of self-help books. David Shrigley: 'More than anything else, I need to laugh at things' 2012-09-29T23:05:12Z Webb’s book explores some of that territory, and its fallout, from a distance, and with the confidence of someone who has spent a couple of decades satirising the male animal in Peep Show and beyond. Robert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z The new American dream/nightmare of the endless beach party is both celebrated and satirised in Korine's woozy Florida tale. This week's new films 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z Of course that is to satirise the bourgeoisie, yet Eisenstein appears in that instant on the women’s side, obscurely excited by the exotic flare-up of aggression. Hallucinating history: when Stalin and Eisenstein reinvented a revolution 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Intensely anti-Nazi, Heartfield satirises Hermann Goering's pronouncement, "Iron always made a nation strong, butter and lard only made the people fat", by depicting a family eating various pieces of metal. Readers recommend: songs about works of art – results 2013-02-01T09:56:00Z This doesn't usually mean you are going to be liked by the target of your humour – the politician you satirise or the ex-boyfriend you emasculate. Feminists can't be funny and angry? Are you having a laugh? 2013-02-28T14:50:01Z But, although his play satirises the intelligentsia, it doesn't sentimentalise the proletariat. Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z The blurb on the the Toronto festival website for Where to Invade Next suggests Moore will again use prank-based journalism to satirise US foreign policy. Michael Moore film to attack US government's state of 'infinite war' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Koolhaas, himself an avid swimmer, satirises the utopian beginnings of Russian constructivism and its slow morph into corporate American modernism with his usual intellect, idealism and rancour. Art and the hidden depths of the humble public pool 2012-08-03T16:55:30Z But the Czech government did not care to be satirised in this direct way and the whole subject was tactlessly close to the Maoist cultural revolution. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s getting trickier and trickier to satirise this stuff.” Emmy awards 2015: huge night for HBO as Game of Thrones sets record 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z It's hard not to hope they're wrong, largely because satirising The X Factor has been so overdone, it now has about as much topical bite as an impression of Frank Spencer. Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls 2010-06-13T20:30:00Z In a statement released by his representatives, Emin Agalarov said the video was intended to satirise the way news media mix up fact and fiction. Trump's pop star associate features Trump lookalike in music video 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Season seven of Entourage, the show which satirises La La Land, is all feeling a bit familiar. Have you been watching ? Entourage 2011-03-22T14:19:48Z Vidal satirised the monstrousness of his vanity, without wholly undermining it. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z As the title indicates, Dyson concentrates on the prologue of Chaucer's work in which the pilgrims are characterised and sometimes satirised, rather than any of the tales they later tell. The Canterbury Pilgrims – review 2012-07-27T15:09:14Z Older teens and students are the core audience for Harmony Korine's divisive Spring Breakers, which attempts the tricky task of simultaneously celebrating and satirising youthful hedonism. The Croods thumps GI Joe and tops UK Easter box office 2013-04-02T10:53:11Z Dramas that raged, mocked, satirised and exposed won Baftas and Bookers, but did nothing to harm her. Margaret Thatcher never liked her country 2013-04-14T07:00:00Z Mamet still knows how to write, but is infinitely better at satirising the law than laying it down. Race 2013-05-30T14:34:03Z But after a while the narrative falters, the ideas flag and it simply gets dull, with a laborious finale set in the Joshua Tree national park, whose teenage-touristy reputation the film does not satirise. Seven Psychopaths – review 2012-12-06T15:29:02Z Gould's output seems limited to several versions each of an essay on the death of his father, an essay satirising statistics, and a short memoir of his time spent with the Chippewa Indians. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z So numerous and so pronounced are the foibles of the modern celebrity chef that this sitcom manages to satirise most of them without ever making it seem as if it's going after a particular individual. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-10-05T06:59:00Z Human society, as depicted in Twin Peaks, is what’s really uncanny – a beguilingly absurd Kafkaesque simulation that satirises the real thing. Twin Peaks recap: episode five – is anyone here even human? 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z She was, after all, a feminist who satirised the overly solemn and self-defeating aspects of feminism, such as Betty Friedan's baffling determination to start fights with Gloria Steinem. Nora Ephron: how I'll miss her 2012-06-27T15:55:01Z Instead, they have come up with a challenging new 110-minute play from Martin Crimp that mordantly satirises our self-obsession and delusional dreams and adopts the experimental techniques of his 1997 play Attempts on Her Life. In the Republic of Happiness – review 2012-12-13T18:15:55Z In fact, I'm not sure where we live now can actually be satirised. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z This is especially true at a Saturday matinee, where the audience is often a lot older, but always sharper as well as simply thrilled at seeing themselves satirised. Courting the cat: how to hold a theatre to attention 2013-01-02T18:17:00Z It satirised racism, conformism, careerism and the country’s secret fear of the future. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z A wordy first half, satirising late-18th-century theatrical customs, is followed by a hilarious rehearsal of Mr Puff's awful tragedy about the Spanish Armada. The Real Inspector Hound/The Critic 2010-07-11T20:30:00Z In 2010, he won the prestigious Goncourt prize for his novel The Map and the Territory, which satirised the modern art world. Soumission tops charts post attacks 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In Egypt, for example, there are things that Youssef finds too raw to satirise. Egypt's Jon Stewart? Al Bernameg is a political satire to rival The Daily Show 2013-03-06T08:00:00Z Likewise, the heavily unionised railway is both satirised and described with a kind of pre-emptive nostalgia of the present moment. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z Hilton, who has been much satirised for his unconventional approach and use of jargon, believes Cameron has become too focused on power rather than pushing through radical change, the book claims. David Cameron's 'chillaxing' hobbies revealed in new biography 2012-05-19T10:46:51Z If Hogarth satirised his taste, Burlington's friend the poet Alexander Pope praised it. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z Where Bennett is on firmer ground is in satirising the Trust's policy of "bringing properties to life", expounded by its representative, Lumsden. Why Alan Bennett is wrong about the National Trust 2012-11-21T19:00:01Z However, it's spot on for the mini white cube which satirises the whole caboodle, framing a pair of knickers alongside critiques of a show called FIB which is "unsettling, challenging" and has "gut-wrenching authenticity". Earthquakes in London; The Good Soldier; FIB 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Indeed, The Comeback’s own fake sitcom, Room and Bored, enabled the show to satirise the crummy comedies that were once the mainstay of American broadcast TV. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z Cold Comfort Farm, published in 1932 when its obscure female author was 30 years old, was a brilliant, perfect comic novel, satirising the "loam and love-child" genre of English . Westwood by Stella Gibbons 2011-07-29T21:53:01Z How easy it must have been to tell class in those days, and how fun and relatively easy to satirise later. Rewind TV: Bert and Dickie; Amy Winehouse – The Day She Came to Dingle; Absolutely Fabulous; Line of Duty; Twenty Twelve 2012-07-28T23:06:01Z Key to its success is that Zuidam respects McGonagall's seriousness, yet finds ways of mirroring the qualities of his poetry that both heighten its effect and affectionately satirise it. Zuidam: McGonagall-Lieder – review 2013-06-26T16:44:35Z But Ayres's music, with its artful mix of animal sounds and fractured parodies of Rossini and Richard Strauss, lacks Kagel's critical distance from what he is satirising. In the Alps | Classical review 2010-03-19T22:50:00Z There were, at the most recent count, an estimated 8.6 billion people satirising Mr Trump on at least a weekly basis. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z “Barbie Savior” is an Instagram account that satirises the messiah complex of affluent westerners who spend time travelling in the developing world. White Saviour Barbie's world of orphanage selfies and charity startups 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The movie practically satirises itself as it goes along, glossing over its own absurdity in the process. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z But if I'm satirising anything, it's the trap of my own mind. Joshua Jackson: 'If I'm satirising anything, it's the trap of my own mind' 2012-06-21T19:30:02Z He says the show is supposed to poke fun at the American Dream while satirising humanity's last-ditch battle against climate change. US snake hunters fight pythons big enough to devour gators 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The play satirised an IRA paramilitary returning home and violently avenging the death of his cat. Martin McDonagh: Theatres have refused my plays over unpalatable language 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Still, the nightmarish journey of the Moskalyov family through the minefield of provincial Russian bureaucracy, a theme writer Nikolai Gogol satirised in the 19th Century, has struck a chord with Russians. Russian girl who drew a picture against war faces custody battle 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z He added that the incident could give "ammunition" for scriptwriters on W1A, the BBC TV show that satirised life at the corporation. Michael Gove misses interview slot after getting stuck in BBC lift 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z He decided to use it to "actually say something," beginning with Casino Mike, a mural which satirised Sydney's lockout laws, which didn't apply to the city's juggernaut casino. Scott Marsh: Viral and controversial art of 'Australia's Banksy' 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z However, the "adoption of fashionable garments by the clergy" was so common it was satirised by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales, said Dr Mitchell. Medieval pointy-toed shoes led to Cambridge bunion surge 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Motorised floats heavily satirise political developments taking place at home and abroad. German leaders brace for backlash as they hint at carnival season ban 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Although its exact origins are uncertain, the meme became popular a few years ago as a way for people of colour, particularly black Americans, to satirise the class-based and racially charged hostility they often face. What exactly is a 'Karen'? 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Iran issued a death sentence on Salman Rushdie in 1989 for satirising Islam’s foundation myths in The Satanic Verses. Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse of the Uighurs? | Nick Cohen 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z Unesco - the UN's educational and cultural agency - was also satirised in the parade on Sunday. Belgian city says anti-Semitic parade 'just fun' 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Street parades featuring floats which lampoon and satirise the latest political developments - at home and abroad - are a carnival tradition. Merkel loses control of her own succession 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Funny, slippery and energetically acted, the three-hander satirises artistic vanity even as it recognises the value of political engagement. Scenes from Santiago: Chile's protests spill from streets to stage 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z George Orwell’s 1984 satirised such regimes with a dystopian vision of a society that was spied on day and night by the all-seeing and all-powerful Big Brother. CCTV installed at Karl Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Private Eye mercilessly satirised him as the self-important Dr Jonathan, a sage and a pseud and too clever by half. Obituary: Jonathan Miller 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The ribbons, for example, seem to be emulating the work of Shelby Lorman, whose book Awards for Good Boys satirises the low standards to which men are held. The Wing: how an exclusive women's club sparked a thousand arguments 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z It seemed odd, then, that in a Sunday feeding frenzy of retweets attacking a Fox News pundit, the president gave voice to a bot that seeks to satirise his rampant galeophobia. Trump jumps shark with retweets attacking Fox News host 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z It's provided him with "the opportunity to satirise the crazy times we're in." How Phil Mitchell ended up on Time's cover 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z The former satirised Australian private v public school culture; the latter lampooned domestic suburbia. Why Australian comedy is having a moment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Vonnegut writes with a dark humour, satirising the arms race and humanity’s stupidity. Top 10 end-of-the-world novels 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z While French and Saunders heavily satirised popular culture and The Fast Show relied on catchphrases and recurring characters for its comedy, Smack the Pony stood out for taking a different approach. Amanda Holden first choice for Smack The Pony 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z A painter of luminous royal portraits and ethereal chapel frescoes who also made a worldly series of prints that he called Los Caprichos, satirising “the foibles and follies to be found in any civilised society”. Goya's Black Paintings: ‘Some people can hardly even look at them’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Last year a blogger who satirised the political and religious establishment was stabbed to death in the capital, Malé. Could this be the best job in the world? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z The theme tune to this new era could be Minchin's song Prejudice, which satirised opposition to political correctness with the lyrics "only a ginger can call another ginger ginger". Why Australian comedy is having a moment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Combining elements of both fiction and non-fiction, it satirised, as the title suggests, West Indian efforts to mimic the behaviour of their former European masters. Obituary: VS Naipaul 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Orwell’s “Newspeak” is a fictional language, but it often mirrors and satirises the “wooden language” imposed by communist authorities in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Already an aspiring author, he satirised England in his off hours. An eerie dystopian prophecy by a disillusioned Bolshevik 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Many revellers at street parties wore costumes satirising Rio’s poor health services and blaming Crivella. Samba-school carnival parade depicts Brazil as 'monster' 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Her works interpret and satirise England's middle and upper classes, for whom class and money dictated prospects and social standing. Top spots for words and music revealed 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z Did he merely mirror – or, with the ridiculous Slim Shady, even satirise – the rise of the angry white man, or did he help drive it? The woke Slim Shady – understanding Eminem in the age of Trump 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Charlie Chaplin famously satirised the cult of scientific management in his 1936 film Modern Times, which depicts a factory worker who is slowly driven mad by the pressures of life on the production line. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Banky’s rendering of a British street party was intended to satirise other celebrations, including the dinner on Thursday, at which guests will include the British prime minister, Theresa May, and her Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu. Palestinians crash Banksy 'street party' seeking apology for Balfour declaration 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Iannucci, who has satirised the US political system with Veep and the British system with The Thick of It, might find that Russians are a more sensitive target. In Russia, nobody's laughing at Iannucci's The Death of Stalin 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z One of Richtung22’s early works satirised Luxembourg’s nation branding committee, which was set up in March 2013 to promote the country abroad. How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z But is satirising President Trump the definition of pointlessness? Edinburgh Fringe: The comics taking on Trump - BBC News 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z There is no clearer sign of this than the fact that announcement videos have begun to satirise the trend for announcement videos. The 'kidnapping' of Jesús Navas: football's summer of bizarre transfer videos 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Its intent wasn’t to amuse or to satirise, but to intimidate and ultimately silence. My idea to improve the world: force everyone to try standup comedy | Jack Bernhardt 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z But there is also comedy: the physical vanity and obsession with rank of Sir Walter Elliot are wittily satirised, as they are contrasted with his tenant Admiral Croft’s weather-beaten good nature. Which is the greatest Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z In the olden days, the Sun would have mercilessly satirised his surname. Theresa May can’t hold a grudge – and 15 more things we’ve learned since we voted leave 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z West was in Family Guy from 2000 until this year, voicing Quahog's mayor - a satirised version of the actor, in the series created by Seth MacFarlane. Bat-Signal to shine in honour of Batman star Adam West - BBC News 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Earle says people have assumed that when he sang in character it was his personal view, even when he was satirising it. Steve Earle: 'My wife left me for a younger, skinnier, less talented singer' 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Abigail’s Party satirised the early symptoms of a trend that would be accelerated during the Thatcher years of the 1980s: conspicuous consumption. Is China to blame for the global avocado shortage? 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Comedians, faced with the dilemma of satirising a self-satirising White House, have adopted a more journalistic persona. 100 days: America in a time of Trump - BBC News 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Clarke's death prompted tributes from colleagues, fellow comedians and even politicians he had satirised. John Clarke: Satirist beloved in Australia and New Zealand dies - BBC News 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z But the question is, can Trump be satirised, and if he can, what effect might it have? Howard Jacobson: ‘Trump in the White House – that must never feel normal’ 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Dredd's unbending, unsentimental approach satirised right wing approaches to law enforcement, while also injecting a large dollop of humour. Judge Dredd: 2000 AD's futuristic lawman turns 40 - BBC News 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z I’m sure Anne read Austen, and admired how mercilessly she satirised those who were obsessed with status, rank and class. Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Attacks on celebrity culture are now a staple of satirists, and there is a great deal to satirise and mock – but that is true of all money-making forms of religion. The Guardian view on celebrity deaths: a dramatic meaning | Editorial 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Commentators on social media satirised the appointment of a man in the women’s affairs ministry – a state ministry that will likely have little power to advance women’s rights. Lebanon protests urged after man picked as first women's affairs minister 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Not really a parody on gentrification proper, Key & Peele’s musical extravaganza nonetheless deserves a shout for satirising the way many black people are treated as second-class citizens in their own cities. From Settlers of Brooklyn to SoDoSoPa: the best gentrification parodies 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z One skirts the borders of what is permissible by satirising Cuba’s police. The red-nosed gold rush 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It has crowd-funded advertising posters satirising the government’s “Did you know?” campaign. Boundary issues 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Dr Jenkins was satirised in television puppet show Spitting Image, being depicted in one episode persuading God to become an atheist. 'Unbelieving' former Durham bishop Dr David Jenkins dies - BBC News 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z This Kim is not the satirised buffoon whose submarines sink and whose favourite dancing girls defect at the first opportunity. The Observer profile / Kim Jong-un: The tyrant’s son who wants to be loved and feared 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The next image from 1996, is a 40th anniversary postcard from the NCT, satirising attitudes to breastfeeding in public and entitled Don't Look Son. NCT: The National Childbirth Trust's 60 years of advice - BBC News 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z They are not satirised in For Two Thousand Years, nor are they misrepresented in the scrupulously accurate entries in Journal 1935-1944. ‘I am ashamed to be sad’: the remarkable story of a Jewish student in 1920s Romania 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Loudly and brightly satirising political elites can’t of course be considered quiet, but somehow the political voice of comics, long available to all, has been overlooked by mainstream culture. Transpolitan: the 90s comic that's bang up-to-date on Donald Trump 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z There is a story that it had been censored because eminent people it satirised had been too thinly disguised. Why is China’s greatest novel virtually unknown in the west? 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z A Saturday Night Live sketch last year satirised four women oversharing aspects of their lives which are "so ghetto". Is the word 'ghetto' racist? - BBC News 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The idea was to blanket the country with slogans satirising the government’s xenophobic billboards. Is humour the best weapon against Europe’s new wave of far-right nationalism? | Holly Case and John Palattella 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The contest satirises the Turner Prize - which is also presented later - by rewarding deliberately bad modern art. The Turnip Prize: 'Dismal And' wins spoof art accolade - BBC News 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z He became an icon of popular culture through tragi-comedies that gently satirised daily life in the USSR. Eldar Ryazanov Soviet comedy film giant dies - BBC News 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Fear of Dying, with its twin themes of ageing and mortality, gently satirises the fact that the sex lives of the middle-aged are now fair game for multinational corporations. Erica Jong: 'There are a million ways of making love…' 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Boybands, meanwhile, cynically tap into the anxiety young women feel by claiming that they love you just as you are, a trend expertly satirised in the Amy Schumer sketch “Girl you don’t need makeup”. Why do girls wear makeup? You asked Google – here’s the answer 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z So it is that virtually every Muslim-majority country has taken some form of ideological countermeasure against IS, from pressing traditional religious authorities to excommunicate the group to encouraging comics to satirise it. The propaganda war 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A culture of commerce In the 18th century, the coffee house was satirised for this very reason. Don’t scoff at hipster coffee shops. They’ve been around for 300 years | Adam J Smith 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Shostakovich composed an operetta titled after the district, satirising Muscovites’ desperate desire to move there; it was adapted into a colour film in 1963. Moscow's suburbs may look monolithic, but the stories they tell are not 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z There was no comparison with the 2011-2012 protests against the fraudulent Duma elections, where party flags and countless slogans sailed over the crowd as it chanted funny rhymes, satirising the authorities. What next for Russia's opposition? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z And last year, a Greek man who satirised a dead Orthodox monk on Facebook was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Campaign challenges blasphemy laws 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Its statement was in response to widespread discussion following the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo which satirised the Prophet Muhammad. #JeSuisCharlie gets little sympathy in Russia 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z "But where are the 'Good Days'?" chimes in a man sorting through a large heap of bottles, satirising Modi's signature election campaign promise. The rubbish collector left on the scrap heap as his city goes green 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In the early years of Putin’s rule, artists felt comfortable satirising him. Putin Youth: The Young Russians Who See the President as a Father “I would probably describe my channel as very observational real comedy, that’s super relatable,” she says, noting that her skits frequently satirise her Indian parents. YouTube Creates Its Own Celebrities - Complete With Screaming Fans To understand how Fischl found himself at the centre of that world, a version of which he now satirises 30 years on, you have to understand where he came from. Eric Fischl: ‘What America wants is artists who are doing very expensive toys’ 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z But parallels with Jesus caused controversy on both sides of the Atlantic, with claims it satirised Jesus's life. Life of Brian to get Truro screening 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr Nunn, from Bristol, had denied the charges, claiming he was "satirising" the Twitter backlash to the campaign. Troll guilty over MP 'rape' tweets 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z “NOT the Nine O’Clock News”, a BBC comedy show, neatly satirised the national habit of reducing world events to domestic significance. David Cameron’s half-cocked war 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z They satirised stereotypes of East and South Asians during a heated fight over a parking space. YouTube Creates Its Own Celebrities - Complete With Screaming Fans "If it's really, really trivial you have to make the decision about whether you're going react to the person who's satirising you and potentially make it much worse." The perils of the Streisand effect 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z In more recent novels Berger satirised the frustrations of contemporary domestic life. Thomas Berger, author of Little Big Man, dies aged 89 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The health minister's comments about sex education have been satirised in a video watched more than a million times on YouTube. The 90-year-old sex guru 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z In 2004 the band The Streets released the hit song Fit But You Know, satirising vanity. When did 'fit' start to mean attractive? 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Sculptor Fabian Bransing aimed to satirise this aspect of modern urban life, creating the "pay bench" which retracts its metal spikes when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin – but only for a limited time. Spikes keep the homeless away, pushing them further out of sight 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Titled A Taste of Britain, it satirises the stereotypes of British food held by many Chinese people - some of whom label British cuisine as "simple and violent". Satire of British food goes viral 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But what was it like for the cartoonists whose job it was to satirise the atrocities? Making cartoons from conflict 2014-04-17T11:44:17Z Depicting the Prophet Muhammad in any way defies Islamic belief and offends Muslims, let alone satirising and mocking him, as the film does. Anti-Islam film ordered off YouTube 2014-02-26T22:43:57Z He added: "I think it's perfectly acceptable for people to satirise politicians, and there you go." Sherlock allowed to mock me - Boris 2014-01-07T10:42:23Z The film had been surrounded in religious controversy, due to its depictions of a fictional Messiah that many claimed had satirised Jesus Christ. AUDIO: Cleese and Palin: The Life of Brian debate 2013-12-30T07:34:01Z That was actually partly why she wanted to do this, she wanted to satirise it. Don Jon 'is not about pornography' 2013-11-15T01:45:25Z He combined being a satirist and someone who one satirised. Parkinson leads David Frost tributes 2013-09-02T10:51:42Z Highlife music, born in West Africa, is similar in sound to Caribbean calypso and often satirises modern life. Nigeria mourns Fatai Rolling Dollar 2013-06-13T09:29:50Z London Mayor Boris Johnson has laughed off an apparent joke at his expense on the BBC show Sherlock, saying it is "perfectly acceptable for people to satirise politicians". Sherlock allowed to mock me - Boris 2014-01-07T10:42:23Z But it was Frank, the comedy character he created satirising the music business, that he was best known for. Frank Sidebottom film hits target 2013-05-30T23:48:36Z At these fictional academies, the end of the empire seemed to be happening almost before it did in the world they satirised. BT Sport the upstarts who can put Gary Lineker and co in their place 2013-05-15T11:01:01Z His drole rhyming lyrics satirise the police, officials, and Russia's most ubiquitous problem: corruption. Tamerlan Tsarnaev's YouTube account shows jihadist radicalisation in pictures 2013-04-22T19:02:20Z The one-liner satirised the notion that are a one-man team and also that there is no end to Gareth Bale's talents. Tottenham still have belief against Basel despite missing star names 2013-04-10T21:29:01Z It elevates the "ordinary", as mocked by the comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, who satirised the modern phenomena of phone-ins and internet chat sites. Are politicians too obsessed with anecdotes? 2013-01-30T01:06:50Z On the other hand, he was satirising the tendency for those self-same Brits to be politically in thrall to Uncle Sam, overshadowed by his mighty global reach. A bizarre view of Americans 2013-01-04T17:23:48Z The BBC saw the show, liked it, and commissioned a TV version, VideoGaiden, which once again merged perceptive and amusing reviews with sketches satirising the games industry. Video games, sex and death: comedy writer Rab Florence on a new kind of gaming show 2012-12-05T11:44:00Z This anonymous cartoon from 1740 satirises Prime Minster Robert Walpole's love of patronage "Before cameras, radio and TV, it was the only way in which people got to see their politicians," Lord Baker says. Political cartoons: Britain's revolutionaries 2012-11-24T23:39:41Z But a parody of the Lord's Prayer satirising lickspittle MPs saw Hone arrested and his weekly newssheet shut. Key moments that shaped the press 2012-11-17T01:51:59Z Family Guy's mistake was to make an entire episode about abortion that satirised its opponents. What sitcoms say about America 2012-10-26T23:28:55Z And the constant playing of the horrid Chariots of Fire stuff before the anthems – wasn't it satirised enough at the opener? Rewind TV: London 2012 Olympics; Horizon: Mission to Mars; Midwives – review 2012-08-04T23:05:35Z Thus began the era satirised by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, which was published in 1873. New-tech moguls: the modern robber barons? 2012-06-30T23:04:09Z Pakistan asked Google to remove six YouTube videos that satirised its army and senior politicians. Google reports 'alarming' rise in censorship by governments 2012-06-18T03:00:01Z Google also refused to delete six YouTube videos that satirised Pakistan's army and senior politicians. YouTube deletes 'terrorism' posts 2012-06-17T23:51:29Z The historian seems intentionally to satirise Esau’s attempt at reasoning, and the foolish simplicity of the device he fell upon. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z A Rake's Progress, in eight plates, was scarcely so popular, and the professors of the kind of art which Hogarth had satirised found many faults with the reformer. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z The old man proceeded to quote from Loris-Melikoff’s recent declarations, which the countess had heard him satirise several times before. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z You satirise every one except God, whom you spare because you don't know him. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z As well as the scathing travel writing of American Notes, he satirised the country viciously in a section of Martin Chuzzlewit, his next major novel. When Dickens fell out with America 2012-02-14T03:28:23Z This did not prevent Rossini from continuing to write crescendi, nor from being satirised and caricatured as "Signor Crescendo," when, some ten years afterwards, he went to Paris. The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School 2012-01-11T03:00:28.790Z This engraving delighted the public whom it satirised, and Hogarth lost much through piracies of his work. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z He was ludicrously incompetent for the task of satirising the forward movement of women: the Almanacks show that, if their evidence be required. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z He bore their bad tempers and frivolities with good-humoured contempt, and did not even resent being satirised by Gasparo in a comedy upon the public stage of Venice. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z I satirised Jarír, but he considered me too young for him to notice. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z Both of these writers flourished about the same period, and made use of the interlude as a means of satirising the vices of the popish clergy. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z At this period he who dared to be original, and to satirise his neighbours, had much trouble. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z Cruikshank drew Punch as early as 1814 in a plate, satirising a f�te given by the Duke of Portland on the occasion of the baptism of an infant marquis. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z "To celebrate the exploits of our warriors and satirise the enemy," was the prompt reply, and the questioner proceeded no further. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Emerson was among the few who have seen the joke, for in Hamatreya he satirises those who boast of possessing pieces of the earth: Where are these men? Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z He took his revenge by satirising their ungodliness. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z Ostensibly he aimed only to satirise the romances above referred to, and through the exposition of their absurdities deliver them over to universal derision, and thus put an end to them. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Later, admitted among the violins of Mademoiselle, it is related that he was chased away for having satirised his mistress in song. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z There is some mockery in Tatler, perhaps a double-entendre satirising Mr Churchill's legendary desire to rise to the top of politics. Mud, wet and leers 2011-07-29T01:01:24Z This was especially shown in her latest work, 'The Impressions of Theophrastus Such,' a series of essays chiefly satirising the weaknesses and vanities of the literary class. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z Even when he satirises himself his irony is only a veil—a very thin veil, which rather suggests than conceals his self-complacency. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z And so, with all his chorus troop, he comes to the home of Balaustion, as representing the Euripides whom he disliked and satirised, to celebrate his success. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z There is a lot to satirise in Tunisia at the moment. Broken dreams 2011-07-11T11:19:32Z Mrs. Henry Wood never satirises, she only records. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z What Mr. Jones satirised in Saints and Sinners, was the money-making spirit that went hand in hand with bigotry. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The history of Julian has been employed as an apologue by more than one writer when satirising some religious reaction of his day. Sermons 2011-09-26T02:00:27.830Z Momos, the god of pleasantry: he satirised the gods; Makaria, one of the characters in the Heraclidæ of Euripides: she devoted herself to death to enable the Athenians to win a victory. p. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z When Ben Jonson called the newspaper ‘a weekly cheat to draw money,’ and ridiculed the growing taste for news, he had some reason for satirising the journalism of the period. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z He sided with the independents, the ultra-commonwealth-men, and satirised the presbyterians, the friends of monarchy. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z His humour, like the humour of the country he at first satirised so bitterly, rests too much on exaggeration. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The books which it satirises are now almost unknown; many who have heard of Amadis de Gaul have never read it, and still less have they read all the lineage of the Amadis. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z Mr. Browning is in all this defending himself and satirising the popular view of the poet’s province. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It was intended to satirise Mr. Knight, the cashier of the South-Sea Company, who fled the country when it became too hot for him. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z Andrew Marvell need not have been so severe upon the Dutch, considering how much there was in his native county similar in character and aspect to that which he satirised. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z The broadcaster also said Boyle's remarks were meant to satirise Price's alleged "exploitation of her children for publicity purposes... her behaviour as a mother and her cavalier attitude towards relationships". Boyle's Katie Price joke censured 2011-04-04T11:52:14Z The endowment satirised by Pope has been favourably explained by Warton. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z He could satirise even the Eleusinian mysteries, could deal abundantly in personalities, burlesque the most sacred subjects, and ridicule the most prominent persons in the republic. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Before, and for a long time after, the general use of newspapers, illustrated broadsides were published relating to particular events, or satirising the vices and follies of the period. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z He is run upon and laughed at by the playful, and satirised and scathed by the witty. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z While telling the story of a boy's journey down the Mississippi River some time between 1835 and 1845, the novel satirises Southern attitudes on race and slavery. Furore over 'censored' Huck Finn 2011-01-06T12:18:54Z But diminishing returns would eventually set in, partly because real football became almost too ridiculous to satirise, but mainly because the writers got bored. The Joy of Six: Football cartoons 2010-12-10T11:51:00Z His was an age of speculation upon ethical questions, and a humorous foreigner could not but be moved to satirise English methods, which are frequently peculiarly open to this kind of attack. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It satirises the smug, modernist home-owners often seen in the pages of US interiors magazine Dwell. Why do people hate hipsters? 2010-10-14T19:30:00Z Later poet Kit Wright wrote a poem called: "I found South African Breweries most hospitable" where he satirised cricketer Graham Gooch's dogged refusal to discuss the political context of the cricket tour. SABMiller spends ?16m to boost beer sales during World Cup 2010-05-31T15:48:00Z Corruption scandal Last month I went to a hysterically funny play called Mama Ellada, which satirises the corruption and nepotism pervading Greek society. 2010-02-11T11:09:00Z The Romans had the adage, "Ficos dividere," to satirise those who strove too cheaply to gain credit for their liberality by cutting up a fig into portions and distributing these. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources The elder Cato dreaded a rich wife as much as Juvenal,470 and satirised as bitterly the pride and gossip and luxury of the women of his time. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Women's social aspirations, their immense delight in entertaining celebrities, and their belief that in so doing they are moving in the stream of the world's history, are satirised with keenness and truth. The Wish A Novel I could not refrain from commenting upon Signor Gratarol's action in this matter, and protesting that I had never meant to satirise the man. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Poor Dubois had alternately applauded and satirised all parties, and written songs for all sentiments; but had extracted very little either of praise or pocket-money from any of the reigning powers, whether republican or imperial. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 How happily does this Spanish proverb satirise the readiness to resent what may have been, after all, a quite innocent remark, "He who takes offence has eaten garlic." Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Such is the farce of Folle Bobance, in which the tendency of various classes to loose and light living is satirised amusingly enough. A Short History of French Literature The bookseller believed that the poet had drugged him with an emetic, he had been subsequently satirised in the Dunciad, and he had lost no opportunity of retaliating. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition This was followed by Contributions from Satan's Memoirs, and the Man in the Moon, the latter of which was designed to satirise the popular writer Clauren. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Beguiled by his striking talent for caricature, he designed and executed a series of sketches, satirising in an exquisitely witty and humorous style various situations and characters and well-known relations of Posen society. Weird Tales, Vol. II. The references to the names of the persons satirised carry now no meaning, but at the time they were written they must have been of the most grossly personal character. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Tartuffe brought him some trouble because it was supposed to be irreligious in tendency, or at least to satirise the profession of religion. A Short History of French Literature He had emphatically satirised the sycophancy which estimated literary works by the rank of the author: What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition A considerable period elapsed before he again appeared as an author, when he satirised Lavater in a novel called the Physiognomical Travels. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors It is conjectured that rival orders satirised each other, and that some of the carvings are caricatures of certain monks. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Pope, in satirising the University as a nest of dunces, considered the followers of Aristotle as so many stalled oxen, “fat bulls of Basan.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It was somewhat slow in electing Boileau, though it is to be feared that this arose from no higher motive than the fact that he had satirised most of its members. A Short History of French Literature When he satirises persons, he goes so far away from their real personalities that the libel ceases to be libellous. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The excess, indeed, of such submissiveness is often satirised. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) At the time they built churches they satirised the ministers; a curious instance how the feelings of the people struggle to find a vent. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 The interest of the piece arises from the dexterity with which Decker has accommodated those very characters which Jonson has satirised in his “Poetaster.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It is a work in dialogue, satirising the superstitions of antiquity with a hardly dubious reference to the religious beliefs of Des Périers' own day. A Short History of French Literature One is charitably tempted to believe, for the credit of human nature, that it was the work of a subtle, solemn wag, who thought it a safe way of satirising the proverbial thick-headedness of kings. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He was talking to a young English lady with whom he was seated under a spreading eucalyptus, and satirising colonial manners. Australia Revenged Satirists may dread the cane of the satirised, i. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Nash seems to have considered himself as terrible as an Archilochus, whose satires were so fatal as to induce the satirised, after having read them, to hang themselves. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors There is certainly less exaggeration in the Ménippée than in Hudibras, though the personal weaknesses of the innumerable individual persons satirised contribute more to the general effect than they do in Butler's great satire. A Short History of French Literature Squire Western was the representative of a class, which, however, was not more ridiculous than the patched, perfumed Sir Plumes, whom Hogarth painted, and Pope satirised. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid Our author has seized this happy opportunity of satirising the faults of classicism.”—M. Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 Gautier and others had anticipated and satirised all these stages in the Romantic dawn; they reappeared, serious and dreary, in the twilight of the dusk. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century But what, it may be asked, moves any follower of the Muses to satirise a scribbler? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Jonson here escaped his usual pitfall of the unsympathetic, for the vices and follies he satirises are not loathsome, only contemptible at worst, and not always that. A History of Elizabethan Literature It was not wise perhaps at Athens to abuse Cleon, though—heaven knows—that was often enough done; nor in Rome to satirise Caesar, though that too was now and again most prosperously achieved! Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The famous Duchess of Marlborough thus satirises Mouse Montague: "He was a frightful figure, and yet pretended to be a lover; and followed several beauties, who laughed at him for it." Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Butler was versed in the controversies of his day, and, moreover, loved to satirise the metaphor mania by his exquisitely comic similes. Notes and Queries, Number 212, November 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The fiction was not wholly a fiction, and the farce was very much more than a farce—would have been, indeed, not a farce at all if it had not satirised a fact. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 How well described, too, and satirised, is yet another “common form” of the cross examiner, to wit the “How often, Sir?” question. Bardell v. Pickwick He had scrutinised as truly and satirised as keenly; but had never shown the imaginative insight with which he now sent his humour and his art into the core of the vices of the time. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete How astonished then was I when in his reply this very theory was violently attacked and satirised as "mere trifling with words." Freedom in Science and Teaching. from the German of Ernst Haeckel With Coleridge's playful love of satirising himself anonymously, the continuation might even be his own. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti As to Langham, it may well be believed that after the scene in the garden he had rated, satirised, examined himself in the most approved introspective style. Robert Elsmere I think, therefore, that having chosen his name, as a writer might now that of Sir Charles Russell, he then drew a general type of barrister, as he thought it might be satirised. Bardell v. Pickwick Louis XII., who permitted free comment on public affairs from actors on the stage, himself employed the poet Pierre Gringoire to satirise his adversary the Pope. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. In about 1598 Thomas Dekker and Henry Chettle joined sides with Shakespeare and answered his opponents' attacks by satirising them in plays. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 In reproducing the sonnets, Coleridge claims only to have satirised types. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti No wonder this purposeless lullaby is satirised in the orthodox libretto of Punch's Opera or the Dominion of Fancy, for Punch, having sung it, throws the child out of the window. A History of Nursery Rhymes This English tendency to aphesis is satirised in a French song of the 14th century, intentionally written in bad French. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) From satirising the social vices of the time, the transition was easy to political satire or invective. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. For, whatever the public may think, neither Editor nor Staff is bound by any consideration to any party or any person, but hold themselves free to satirise or to approve "all round." The History of "Punch" Eve saddens into night, and nearly all the phrases satirised are borrowed from Coleridge's own poetry, not from that of Lamb or Lloyd. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti It was the fashion at the Papal Court to attack Christianity, and no person could pass for a well-bred man unless he could satirise the doctrines of the Church. Count Ulrich of Lindburg A Tale of the Reformation in Germany It was rather unusual for Elaine thus to satirise Diana, and looked as if the two had changed characters, especially when Diana walked away, muttering something which no one distinctly heard. A Forgotten Hero Not for Him Everybody can find something to say about the collection of tales, in which Diderot thought that he was satirising the manners of his time, after the fashion of Rabelais, Montaigne, La Mothe-le-Vayer, and Swift. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. In this essay a type of suburban lady-politician—a "study from Mr. Punch's Studio"—was satirised under the name of "Mrs. Gore-Jenkins." The History of "Punch" Indeed, the figure used therein as an equipoise to "the hindward charms" satirises perfectly the style of writing characterised by inflated thought and imagery. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti He must be a thinker, he must be a philosophical thinker for this simple reason; that he exercises his philosophical thought in deciding what part of his subject he is to satirise. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Elliott assigns the commencement of his poetical efforts to the year 1842, when he was led to satirise a pedagogue teacher of music, who had given him offence. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century In the same piece, large collars, wide sleeves, big spurs are satirised. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance He has given us true pictures of the manners of his time; and those manners he has satirised with more politeness and irony, perhaps, than broad humour. The History of "Punch" But his merits were soon eclipsed by the evils produced by his custom of extolling liberal patrons and satirising those who gave inadequately. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II But the figures satirised in The Chimes cross each other’s path and spoil each other in some degree. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The wit of this Lecture is as various as the subjects which it satirises. A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Satirists, if they escape the scourges of the law, have reason to dread the cane of the satirised. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 He has satirised everything, and his art has been admirably adapted to the depth of the civilisation he probes and dissects. The History of "Punch" Nevertheless, as it is his mission, and that of his poets, to satirise all the things of Life, so must Death also be satirised in his person and with his aid. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) To put it roughly, he is not describing characters, he is satirising fads. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens He writes verse, first of all, because he has observed keenly, and because it pleases the pride of his intellect to satirise the pretensions of humanity. Figures of Several Centuries Pope disliked and satirised her severely; on the other hand, Cibber worshipped her. The Beaux-Stratagem Leech, who had satirised him weekly, and so familiarised everyone with his face and figure that an aristocratic little damsel, on being presented to him, exclaimed, 'I know you! The History of "Punch" The idea of criticising, and still more of satirising, a country or a people under the guise of a fictitious narrator is familiar in the literature of many lands. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan There is too much in the whole thing of that element which was satirised by an ironic interpretation of the epitaph “Peace, perfect peace, with loved ones far away.” Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Ibsen has turned against his hero in the space between writing the one and the other; and the Julian of the second is more harshly satirised from within than ever Peer Gynt was. Figures of Several Centuries In the original German version of 1791 we have the town of Nuremberg thus satirised. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Goethe had satirised the poetry of Jacobi's brother Georg, and in his correspondence even vehemently expressed his dislike to the characters of both brothers as he had been led to conceive them. The Youth of Goethe She published, in 1805, a volume of doggerel rhymes, and was in the habit of satirising in verse those who had offended her. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century But he was fairer than many modern revolutionists, and he insisted on satirising also those who prey on society not in the name of rank or law, but in the name of intellect and beauty. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The whole aim of this tale was to satirise Cooper. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters He may be satirised, and probably will be, as a moral anarchist, a fanatic, and a hare-brained enthusiast; but nevertheless the best men will rally to him. The Empire of Love It had been started on foundations of good stone, with true French lordliness: but it parodied—or, rather, it satirised—the ambitious French tendency to impose architecture upon nature. Foe-Farrell I would laugh, and satirise, and say whatever came into my head first. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Liberty of speech was given them, and they might satirise those vices of their lords to which, on other days, they had to minister. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series It is difficult to believe that the most sensitive and the most satirised could really be infuriated, so kindly and genial is the caricaturing. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters A satirist by trade will learn to satirise everything, till the light of the sun and the moon's loveliness will become evil and mean to him. Thackeray And he was not only larger than the old factions he satirised; he was larger than any of our great social schools that have gone forward since he died. The Victorian Age in Literature The more extreme leaders, who were likely to prove the driving force among them, were not unfitly satirised in a novel of the time called the "Man Without a Country." Abraham Lincoln "No law," he says, "forbids me to satirise myself." History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour He will satirise that failing; if he be a writer, it will serve as an endless theme for light cynicism. The Parts Men Play The redemption of the hero through a woman's love ... we take to be a mere commonplace of romanticism, which Ibsen, though he satirised it, had by no means fully outgrown when he wrote Peer Gynt. Adventures in Criticism In his engravings Hogarth satirised the lives of all classes of the society of his day. The Book of Art for Young People In France, Voltaire called fictitious Chinamen, Bulgarians, and Avars into existence in order to satirise the proceedings of his own countrymen. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 It is needless to enlarge on these follies: they have been satirised by hosts of writers, and in every drawing-room. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library A Frenchman whom I sent for once at Bath to dress my hair, gave me an excellent trait of his own national character, speaking upon that subject, when he meant to satirise ours. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Wagner of course was parodying and satirising the pedants of his own day, especially the composers of psalms who could not set a straightforward Bible sentence without making nonsense of it. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas This then is the greater glory of Butler, that his high and indignant spirit equally satirised the hypocrites of Cromwell and the libertines of Charles. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 "Le docte Rabelais" had the learning which the Englishman wanted; while unhappily Sterne undertook to satirise false erudition, which requires the knowledge of the true. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Second, he erred in disregarding and satirising puritanical conventionalisms. The Tragedy of St. Helena Garrick took up his pen to reply, and in his poem "The Fribbleriad"—the hero of which is named Fizgigg—he rather severely satirised his critic. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Verses had been published satirising the king and his manner of life in bitter terms, and a stern raid was made upon all the scribblers in Paris. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) His ability to satirise society while still leaving it its dignity is unique. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians All those who hate authors fail to satirise them, for they always accuse them of the wrong faults. Varied Types From this enumeration it is evident that Barrett was satirising the heroine, not merely of the "novel of terror," but of the "sentimental novel" from which she traced her descent. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance These equestrian doings were satirised at the Haymarket Theatre in the following summer. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Kratinus satirises the work for being slowly accomplished, saying "He builds in speeches, but he does no work." Plutarch's Lives, Volume I He satirises the miser, the hypocrite, the bas-bleu, but he chuckles over Frosine and Gros-René; he loves them for their freedom of speech and their elastic minds, ready in words or deeds. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory The "Military critic" was satirised, too; he was the lynx-eyed gentleman who had detected the Lancers approaching Kimberley at a fast gallop two hours after the Column had departed from Orange River. The Siege of Kimberley It speaks plain sense on faults and follies that are usually gently satirised; and makes fine invigorating reading. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Walpole and his arts of government were openly satirised, Fielding having no particular desire to spare the prime minister, whose patronage he had vainly solicited. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Among his other writings may be mentioned Tylney Hall, a novel which had little success, and Up the Rhine, in which he satirised the English tourist. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Mongan corrected him, and the Bard was so incensed at the correction that he threatened to satirise the kingdom so that it should become barren. Evelyn Innes This feature in the school was held out as an attraction to win students; and in Prague the Fathers themselves wrote dramas to satirise the Protestants, introducing Luther as the comic figure. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe Pelham, a fashionable novel by Bulwer Lytton, severely satirised by Carlyle in "Sartor" in the chapter on "Dandies" as the elect of books of this class. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge At the instance of Lacy, however, one of the patentees of Drury Lane Theatre, whom Foote had satirised, the performance was soon prohibited. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character He lived in London, and wrote comedies, satirising bourgeois society. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature I am sure to please nobody; I am satirised, criticised, libelled, hissed; yet I continue to do my best. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II But to despair too soon of an era, to despise and satirise an age, a national temper, is a deep and fatal mistake. The Silent Isle God," he satirised, "who'd ever imagined you were the superstitious sort! Where the Trail Divides But the revival of the "Spanish Friar" could afford but little gratification to the author, whose newly-adopted religion is so severely satirised in the person of Father Dominic. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author Here he produced successfully Pasquin, a Dramatic Satire on the Times, and The Historical Register for 1736, in which Walpole was satirised. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Vulgarity and ostentation, such as Horace satirised, were doubtless too often to be met with. Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero Such an achievement can be found in a thing like Pope's "Atticus" a poem in which the satirist feels that he is satirising the weaknesses which belong specially to literary genius. Heretics Alas for that age of pouff which he satirised with such a caustic pen! The Lovels of Arden The "Spanish Friar" was often objected to the author by his opponents, after he had embraced the religion there satirised. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author He wrote pamphlets, lampoons, and plays, but his chief contribution to literature was The Rehearsal, a comedy, in which he satirised the heroic drama of Dryden and others. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature While he shone in satirising many kinds of vice, he laid himself open to retort by his own want of delicacy. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 The writing of Persius was that of a student who gathered the types he satirised from books rather than from life. Latin Literature Mr. Coleridge had a singular taste for satirising himself. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Bourdaloue, sound logician and good moralist, from his pulpit as a preacher uttered discourses that were admirable, though too dogmatically composed, and painted word-pictures that piously satirised the types and the eccentrics of his day. Initiation into Literature Disraeli satirises the author in Coningsby as Mr. Wordy, who wrote a history to prove that Providence was on the side of the Tories. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature This was an allegory in which he combated superstition and satirised the errors of Rome. Books Fatal to Their Authors This was the more generous on the king's part because he must have known himself to have been often satirised and caricatured mercilessly in the Green Bag literature by G. Cruikshank, the intended illustrator. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] Jacques tried to think profoundly, like Millet; Mark Fisher does not; nor was Morland influenced by the caustic mind of Hogarth to satirise the animalism of the boors he painted. Modern Painting Then follows an explicit reference to a chapter in the History of the arch-villain Wild, which is obviously designed to satirise the condition of English politics, if not the person of any one politician. Henry Fielding: a Memoir Plato was no doubt satirising the misuse of the new philosophy which was becoming so popular with young men. Authors of Greece He was a rich man, who did much to relieve and assist the poor, while he delighted to attack and satirise the prosperous and the great. Books Fatal to Their Authors This he said with a superior air of satirising himself, as though he would make game of his own notorious vanity. Historical Miniatures All the chief miracles of his career were satirised, but not a single human incident was made the subject of ridicule. Prisoner for Blasphemy The satisfaction is in recognising which bits of media are being satirised at any given moment. Open Source Democracy The complaint has been very well satirised by one who suffered from it. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough In his account of this Feast of Reason he quite as much satirises Mrs. Montagu as praises her. Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 Even Lucian satirises the philosophers of his age who see God or Gods in numbers, dogs, geese, trees, and other things. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 They rather approve Punch and the other comic journals, even when these satirise living persons who feel the sting. Prisoner for Blasphemy On the contrary, she has plenty of ability and good sense, with a fund of humour which enables her to enjoy slily and even gently satirise the fine lady airs of Mrs. James. Fielding Two decades later, Lowell satirised this American tendency in the Fable for Critics by saying that while the Old World has produced barely eight poets, the New World begets a whole crop each year. The United States of America, Part 1 Half the follies and peculiarities it satirises are wholly at an end and forgotten. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 2 Its avowed attempt was to satirise local and temporal abuses; but it is impossible to imagine any state of society in the near future where the play will not seem real. Essays on Russian Novelists What! when the man that first did satirise Durst pull the skin over the ears of vice, And make who stood in outward fashion clear, Give place, as foul within; shall I forbear? The Poetaster In the Puppet Show, Henley, the Clare-Market Orator, and Samuel Johnson, the quack author of the popular Hurlothrumbo, were smartly satirised, as also was the fashionable craze for Opera and Pantomime. Fielding Such principles had long been ridiculed by persons of quality and satirised by poets and playwrights. The Valley of Decision She consulted doctors—for the form; behaving with cold civility during their visit, and scornfully satirising them when they were gone. Our Friend the Charlatan The commercial schools, which were independent of the church, to which Non-conformists sent their boys, were satirised by Dickens, and they deserved the satire. An Autobiography It is the easiest thing in the world to satirise and caricature. Herb of Grace As you have very possibly never heard of me before, I would state that I wrote a collection of Ballads satirising Germany and the Germans under the title of Hans Breitmann. The Life of George Borrow The fable was adapted to modern life, and the scene had been laid in Campobello, the peculiarities of which were to be satirised throughout. April Hopes There was a chap called Aristophanes who had written comedies, satirising the political institutions of a country that had disappeared two thousand years ago. Idle Ideas in 1905 It is indeed evident at a glance that the nine persons satirised are the nine members of the interior council which William appointed to assist Mary when he went to Ireland. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 I fancied these shrewd but unsophisticated canoe-men saw through the absurdities attending these local contests, and hence their inclination to satirise them; they were, however, evidently partisans of Dr. Angelo. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Chaucer satirises the dancing of Oxford as he did the French of Stratford at Bow. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems It is impossible to doubt that Bunyan intended to satirise the mode in which state trials were conducted under Charles the Second. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 Is your plan of Reform that which Mr Canning satirised as the most crazy of all the projects of the disciples of Tom Paine? Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 A lively account of a police case, in which the quarrels of scientific men are satirised. Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Their general characteristics have been pleasantly satirised in Thackeray's account of the elegant miscellany of Bacon the publisher, to which Mr. Arthur Pendennis contributed his pretty poem of "The Church Porch." The Library Vain boasters of ladies' favours are also satirised in "The House of Fame". The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Work!— on the staff of a paper whose chief diversion appeared to be the satirising of his escapades! Piccadilly Jim But he is covertly satirising the pretence of that or any other age to find philosophy in words; and he afterwards corrects any erroneous inference which might be gathered from his experiment. Cratylus It is this stage of philosophy which Plato satirises in the Euthydemus. Euthydemus But if any one has a desire to satirise his neighbour he has full leave to do so. Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians Chaucer here satirises the fashion of the time, which piled bulky and heavy waddings on ladies' heads. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems |
| 随便看 |
|
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。