Sentences with phrase «satire often»

Neither positive or negative but it did make me uncomfortable which satire often does and is intended to 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.

Not exact matches

It has triggered an extreme makeover for political satire, which is now more ubiquitous, more pointed, more passionate and often more partisan than ever before.

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

As we know, what happens with communicating truth through satire is hyperbole often, sometimes with a caricature.

The petition states: «Ricardians (those who believe Richard was wrongly accused of usurping the crown by murdering his way to it, but that he was actually one of our most just and enlightened kings) are clearly aware that Shakespeare's play was fiction and probably written as a satire on the corruption of power, but members of the general public often believe that Shakespeare was accurate, so each time the play is produced it only adds to the unfair reputation that Richard has been given.

So maybe we need to practice humor and satire a bit more often.

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.

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

There will also be many who believe that his brand of satire crosses the line into cruelty too often.

It was an experiment in writing «A Clockwork Orange» - style black comedy and was intended to be a dark satire on the loneliness and frustration that is so often a part of the contemporary male experience, as well as an attack on rape culture.

Often he is a satire, a joke on authoritarianism which savages left and right.

I've often been dubbed as a «bully» but a lot of people, even more of teachers have called me a class clown before [although my humour is often pure mockery of the snobby bitch in class or just complete satire about a subject that deserved said satire]...

Black Mirror's Hang The DJ Finds Love In The Often Hopeless Place Of Internet Dating Black Mirror tackles modern - day dating with «Hang the DJ,» a smart satire of Tinder, and a general comment on the loneliness of the digital

With a giant god like hand, Whedon destroys viewer expectation by carefully crafting the perfect satire film with a wit, intelligence and depth that is often lacking in the films it makes fun of.

And risk: the film, and her performance, glide on the knife - edge between satire and sympathy, often dazzling with their footwork.

The backstage maneuverings at a California beauty pageant are the subject of this often cynical satire, which has developed a strong cult following.

Writer - director Paul Weitz (who previously teamed with Grant in «About a Boy») sometimes goes a bit overboard with the political satire, but the picture is never dull and often hilarious.

Too often, the picture lives and dies on its ability to keep the pace fluid — but just that need for momentum suggests something amiss at the heart of the piece, a certain surface tension that would pop should the rock - star protagonist we envy ever collide against the satire of the kind of colossal moral vacuity required of his vocation.

Every element of this film has been done so often, and done much better, that there's absolutely no reason to watch this wholly derivative satire.

Overlong and overdone, Running With Scissors strives to be a Wes Anderson-esque satire, but often feels like a string of skits held together by a compelling premise.

This highlights the main issue with the film — it's so heavy - handed, and it's often tough to place whether it's trying to be original or aiming for satire and, therefore, winds up feeling like a failed attempt at both.

The satire of The Campaign succeeds especially when clueing viewers into the superficiality of campaign promises, often finding humor not in what's being said, but what's not.

, but «21 Jump Street» revives the lame old address with this knowing, goofy, often hilarious comedy - action satire.

Most recently it played the central role in David Cronenberg's seedy and often shocking Hollywood satire Map to the Stars.

In the case of Elle, scathing social critique takes the shape of a frequently bleak and often vicious satire.

In fact, it's a satire so spot - on that it's often hard to distinguish when screenwriter Jeremy Larnar's script is trying to be funny.

Less often noticed are a series of low - key comic scenes between Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks, which hint at another movie entirely — a comedy - satire that would have foreshadowed «Broadcast News,» perhaps.

«In his first novel, Breznican, a staff writer for Entertainment Weekly, is clearly aiming for biting satire, but the off - the - rails plot and lunatic villains more often come off as cartoonish.»

Writing with brilliance and brio, Wilton Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth.»

Writing with brilliance and brio, Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth.»

Satire is a fair way either to criticize or to deride that is why it is so often used in the literature.

To put it simply I've always had an off - on relationship with the show, often appreciating its satire and madness, and sometimes finding myself unable to laugh.

Conrad Botes» work is characterised by satire which he channels into his painting, printmaking and comix, and often directs at South African society, politics and religion.

Today Sun is one of China's fastest - rising post -»80s generation stars, known for his symbolic yet cryptic animated films, which are often inspired by authors such as George Orwell and Yevgeny Zamyatin — best known for their political satires on futuristic, dystopian societies.

Sometimes his paintings can recall Surrealists like Frida Kahlo or Dalí, other times Peter Saul or Neo Rausch (or Thomas Bayrle), but they are always unmistakably his own, in part because they are often trenchant satires of African politics and mores — broadsides that draw on his past as both a cartoonist and a billboard painter.

His familiar, often long - legged, figures, embodying a unique blend of social satire, fantasy, and an affectionate eye for everyday life, have long been recognized as a distinctive contribution to American art.

With both nostalgia and satire, her paintings explore the intricacies of daily life, often depicting rural scenes and traditions at risk of disappearing.

Drawing his inspiration from pop culture and American expressionist painters such as Willem de Kooning, Todd James, often called «master of modern - day satire» seems to strip down his characters to a cartoon level showing them in absurd and meaningful situations as a witty comment to todays society and reality.

Either of these instances can be applied to Jon's «moment of Zen», which often depicts political figures making fools of themselves, or satirizing the American public in general, so the epiphany can come from the realization of the satire, or the realization of how some people are just really, really stupid.

Nestroy's sharp satire, often using comic songs and wordplay, could be expressed only obliquely through abstract art, and yet the contrast with the reconstructed room's pompous architecture is highly effective.

A post-war style of German expressionist painting which was detailed, highly realistic, often grotesque satires, often conveying disillusionment with «official» values.

She is also co-founder and co-director of Fulana, a Latina video collective in NYC that uses parody and satire as a critical tool to explore themes that are relevant to Latinxs in the US, making visible what we're so often made to read between the lines.

Often, Stettheimer's energetic, richly symbolic, and vibrantly colored scenes of daily life of the rich and glamorous are thinly disguised attempts at satire; such as this brilliant painting of beach revelers at a segregated resort in New Jersey, where a vivacious mixed - race crowd parties without a care in the world.

Nevertheless, Smith's performance in it and other, equally parodic works is so droll that he is often mistaken for a stand - up comedian, while his art is treated as goofy satire that somehow misses as entertainment.

«Pogo» often presented social and political issues as satire.

In fact, it's more surprising that it's actually a very self - aware satire on an industry that all too often wants to «obfuscate details that could frustrate buyers,» including «a select few straight up prey on fear and knowledge gaps to sell crap.»