Sentences with phrase «satire done»

This seems like a provocative and amusing comedy with biting racial humor and political satire done extremely well, and that's not always easy to do.

The fact that it's a satire doesn't mean people don't take its underlying message seriously.

Satire doesn't.

When satire did not work, the next week November 11, 2015, I returned to explicit economic advisory in «Reversing Economic Slowdown» where I noted that «I have been loud in warning about the dangers of allowing the economy slide into recession and the imperative of policy to prevent that eventuality, on social media, in my Businessday column and in discussions on Channels Television and CNBC Africa, but the sense I get is that many are yet in denial about the reality of our economic conditions».

This is exactly what good satire does: It overinflates something we are guilty of overinflating ourselves.

It might be a bit overblown in places (the social satire doesn't really land) but the heart of the film is a touching, personal story, and in this respect the film is a rousing success.

Superhero satire doesn't always play well on the big screen, but director James Gunn demonstrated his ability to tinker with established genre conventions with «Slither,» and besides — it's Dwight Schrute from «The Office» beating people up with a wrench.

As cinematic subgenres go, political satire doesn't really rival the superhero blockbuster.

Beatty's fearless, bitingly comic satire doesn't hesitate to confront some of America's biggest issues as it tells the story of a nameless black man — the «sellout» of the title — who comes up with a startling way to save his hometown of Dickens, California, even after the city turned its back on him.

- Publishes Weekly «While the characters are forgettable and the satire doesn't go quite far enough, this is still an interesting read that might appeal to fans of Tom Perrotta.»

It's wonderful satire that does what satire does best: highlights problems and limitations in a fashion everyone can understand, without trying to answer those same problems and limitations itself.

The Canadian Copyright Act states that fair dealing (as it is called in Canada) for the purpose of research, private study, education, parody or satire does not infringe copyright.

Not exact matches

It's very hard to do satire when you take yourself too seriously.»

Actually, I'm saying they both sound silly, but specifically, if it's not satire, then how do you back this up?»

But in the meantime, Dan put his own frustration to work and created this handy «Year of Biblical Womanhood Genre Cheat Sheet» for those who may be confused by literary genres and do not know the difference between, say, satire and biblical exegesis.

Jesus fought against an entrenched power structure and often did so with cutting satire.

If Tesla thinks Rush is comedy, or satire, he doesn't know the meaning of the words.

Don't believe the hype promoting 3 - D; seek out the daring, witty confrontations of the oppositional satires of Neveldine «Taylor.

Or do we simply want to turn them into a hipster satire that is ruining everything good in this world?

Why do I sense that implicit in your satire is the gross misunderstanding that the presence of such evils means that they are universally commended as such?

if someone puts comic satire in a newspaper offending, Obama / Bush, does that give either president the right to throw that person in jail or assault them.

Don't you know that the grossness and absurdity of psychoanalytic language is beyond satire?

Still, I don't think it's a matter of American prissiness to suggest that «satire» doesn't capture the prevailing cast of mind displayed in Charlie Hebdo, which has always struck me as far more nihilistic than satirical.

The satire may be a little heavy - handed in an Onion article on the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy, but it does get at the way some people feel about Jews.

I don't think I would have made it through the 2008 election had it not been for this daily dose of smart, hilarious satire.

As a writer who has attempted some satire myself, I've observed a few things about when satire works and when it doesn't.

Satire, or any sort of humor for that matter, is tough to do right.

This is a little heavy - handed in its satire, but very funny anyway, but maybe I'm just a grumpy middle - aged guy who doesn't have the energy to be post-anything.

I do that with satire, which is a tremendous vehicle for truth.

When you start a blog exploring satire and faith, no one tells you what to do when you're accused of uglying up the bride of Christ.

Two recent satires on Cajetan by the knight - poet Hutten, did not help the moderate party which was now overruled.

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.

Which is to say I think Phil's great and my comment was an attempt at satire, which as we know doesn't often translate well online.

-- and published in the Burrard Street Journal scared some people who didn't realize it's a Canadian satire magazine.

No sooner did I finish yesterday's satire on the Sanctimommy Olympics, joking that a gold medal performance in birth does not require the baby to survive, then someone sent me a link to this thread on Baby Center, posted on 8/3/12:

While I agree that these are among the most important posts Amy does, I think she's smart to run the blog the way she does, alternating science with horrible anecdotal stories, satire, direct attacks on NCB leaders, and other posts that are deliberately provocative.

I really stand by my thinking that anyone who doesn't get this as satire was not terribly likely to have voted for Obama in the first place.

Yeah... but... not to be a total snob (because I came from the area of whence I speak) there's a lot of America that just doesn't get satire as an art form.

The nice thing from an advocacy point of view is that both the hard - data and humor / satire approach can work if they're done right.

I didn't think the sexist column could plausibly be defended as a satire on sexism either.

I mean, that's more satire than anything because I don't actually know what that phrase means, militant atheist.

Creature have again proved that politics doesn't have to be dull, bringing biting satire to the broken state of British politics and helping the Green Party to make its powerful, and serious, case for changing the game.»

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.

Friends said he did not want to be a distraction, although he may also have been motivated by a desire to escape the mockery and satire which has surrounded the row.

Now, I've written science, satire, and done interviews, as well as worked on a social media campaign for the Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners, Michigan.

«It's obviously it's a bit of satire and unfortunately he doesn't have a trial or release date, but if he did he would certainly be responding to some of these matches.

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The Hunger Games is dressed as a dark satire of soulless entertainment, but like Katniss» adversaries in the PG - 13 hunting scenes, it doesn't have a distinctive identity or go - for - the - throat.

The film doesn't confine itself to wry satire — it's an effective action adventure and an emotional journey for its protagonist Jim.

I don't see it as a satire; rather, I think the film honestly thinks of Harry Callahan as a hero.