Sentences with phrase «using satire»

Using satire as a tool, this book will entertain you while educating you on the complex emotional world of children dealing with parents who are divorcing or divorced.

Using satire, the play exposes the myths of the injured worker fraudulently claiming compensation benefits rather than return to work, and vividly shows the impact of injury on workers, families, neighbours and co-workers.

Steven Colbert who plays a conservative talk show hosts using satire replied with, «The only plumber you should be thinking about this election is the one trying to save princess Israel,» Referring to Joe «The Plumber.»

American movies have been using satire for years to take the edge off sex and violence.

I am using satire to point out how guilt - laden and performance - driven these commitments are.

To use satire, you have to know how to surprise people.

While Cornelius and Byrd's Finger use vitriol and personal attacks against Democratic candidates, there's another account that uses satire as their chosen tactic: Mothman for U.S. Senate.

Many other contemporary artists use satire in their practices, including Richard Prince, Scott King, Hito Steyerl, and Jake and Dinos Chapman.

With an oeuvre that spans over 40 years, Smith regularly uses satire and humor as means to examine the paradox of American Indian life in modern American society.

Sorry Sean (1) I think it is quite appropriate to use some satire.

Not exact matches

The movie might attempt to co-opt the book's problems into satire, but since that repurposing uses the exact same nerd - worship tactics, it can't rise above hypocrisy.

The variety of voices is heightened by the different dialogue styles Paton uses: the lyric, almost biblical way he renders the Zulu dialect; the cliché - ridden language of the commercially oriented, English - speaking community; the chanting rhythms and repetition of the native «chorus»; the clear, logical, terse style of the educated black priest who helps Kumalo find Absalom; the cynical, humorous tone of chapter 23, a satire on justice.

It shouldn't be a surprise if there are people who disagree with us and use humor or satire to express their differing opinion.

This is satire, which is using humor to expose the misguided people who think they have figured out the date of Jesus» return.

Please note that this is SATIRE, which is using humor to expose the stupidity of so many people who think they have figured out the date of Jesus» return.

In «Lifeboat» Steve Taylor uses the powerful prophetic tool of satire too point out the danger of values clarification.

Satire is a literary device intended to be a constructive form of social commentary, using wit, strong irony and sarcasm.

In «Lifeboat» Steve Taylor uses the powerful prophetic tool of satire too point out the danger of values clarification and moral relativism.

Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing (for Men) as an allegorical story about a man's quest to become a successful and world - famous fisherman — without ever catching any fish.

These Christian comics are from ASBO Jesus, a blog which uses humor and satire to raise issues about what Christians do and say in the world.

I cant decide if you are using heavily disguised satire or are off your head.

The whole point of satire is that the writer throws up a recognizable characiture — usually a buffoon with hallmark characteristics that identify him / her to something readily knowable — that is used to tear down a power system through ridicule.

The expression is used so often now, it almost comes off as satire when a woman uses it.

Humor, funny, ha ha... satire uses both in reference to every day human weaknesses and foibles to make us THINK or simply to share the experience of being human!

If it was meant to be satire it is crappy to use the recent murder of a girl as a stick to beat — well, what exactly?

Using the 4 S's of science, skepticism, sarcasm and satire whilst employing neuropsychological research and a humanistic world view, we'll look at what the alternatives are to a pious moral code and why people and groups might make the decisions they do.

When that fourth wall is broken by naming the figures of ridicule and using direct comparisons to current news stories, the satire often becomes too obvious, lacks subtlety, impact or originality.

Melanie Bayley's article on Alice in Wonderland shows how authors can use fiction and satire to protest against goings - on that...

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Los Angeles, CA About Blog The Pond Scum Blog is a Political Satire blog that uses parody and humor to thwart injustice and corruption - while offering fix - it solutions to problems.

The film, a satire about American suburbia and the layers of darkness that society hides underneath their pretty but rotting exteriors, heavily uses the recurring image of rose throughout.

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

«Baywatch» takes a few amusing stabs at satire — Efron declares that the group's adventures sound like «a really entertaining but farfetched TV show» — but, in the end, director Seth Gordon and a cargo ship full of writers use the beachy setup as little more than a vehicle for generic hard - R and gross - out gags.

And yet, his latest work plays just as much like a blown - up, fun home image of Mike Judge's «Idiocracy,» as it too uses the conventions of science fiction to mount a caustic social satire.

Directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who also produce and share story credit with screenwriter Dan Sterling, the satire vowed to tell the story of two journalists recruited by the CIA to use an upcoming interview opportunity to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong - un.

Miller used grim as satire, and gritty as provocation, but for so many others they're empty buzzwords, dull style guidelines with scant meaning and stunted wit.

An indie director before the term was widely used, George Romero carved his own niche in the horror genre by brilliantly marrying over-the-top blood and guts with sharp social satire.

At times Hollywood Ending feels like it could use some tighter editing, but overall it's an enjoyable if inconsequential Hollywood satire.

There are just enough throwaway absurdities (references to Chili guesting on a chatshow with Ariel Sharon, Harvey Keitel's Nick attempting to rap, Dwayne Johnson's would - be actor using a two - girl dialogue from cheerleader comedy «Bring It On» as his prepared audition piece, etc.) to keep things entertaining, but this is hardly satire.

As the satire weaves in and out of Paul's whiny and stodgy life, an heir of unlikability befalls the central character who is used to bridge the gap between the audience its world.

Director Robert Luketic isn't nearly as ambitious as Alexander Payne, who used Witherspoon to such dazzling comic effect in her best film, Election; whereas Payne mined her perkiness for subtly sinister satire, Luketic simply uses it for the easy lightweight laugh.

One might hail The Lobster as a burlesque of governments legislating codes of intimacy; another might say it's a satire of dating services that use algorithms to make the «perfect match.»

We've seen satires on THAT particular film scene before and we've heard THAT particularly sappy ballad used to comedic effect before as well.

Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam): The corporate culture of the future tries to crush the dreams of clerk Jonathan Pryce, giving the great Gilliam a chance to use his gifts for satire and production design to create a nightmare vision of dehumanization.

While its sense of humor takes some gettin» used to, the sheer spaciness of Liza Johnson's stranger - than - fiction political satire ultimately proves its greatest asset.

There are a half dozen excellent cringe - inducing scenes in Ruben Östlund's art world satire The Square, from the foul - mouthed interruption of an artist's talk to a round of tug - of - war over a used condom.

This cut uses its additional two - and - a-half hours of running time to dig into the story's satire at a more leisurely pace, resulting in a fuller study of the characters and historical context compared to the theatrical version's more impressionistic feeling of madness.

But, while much of «Saddles» is laugh - out - loud funny, it hasn't stood the test of time as well as Frankenstein (the excessive use of «the N word» certainly won't be to everyone's tastes nowadays, regardless of the underlying satire), and there are chunks of it that just don't work.

It used to be a nominally clever social satire but there's very little substance to the show anymore, unless you count the rampant nudity, sex, reckless parenting and copious amounts of drug use.

It's hardly even worth complaining, then, that Anchorman uses its faux satire of the 1970s as an excuse to play out male fantasies of knocking uppity women — like aspiring anchorwoman Christina Applegate (View from the Top, The Sweetest Thing)-- back down into their proper place; as with the new Stepford Wives, Anchorman pretends to send up passé attitudes while actually expressing very contemporary fears.