Sentences with phrase «satirical jab»

While one could read this as a satirical jab at Bethesda's controversial new program, CDante is adamant that that's not the case.

The «dictionary» comment, is a satirical jab at atheists based in reductio absurdum... intended to provoke a passionate response (like cheese on a mousetrap, as I said).

Pablo Escobar... Atheists don't «say» that... I did... as a satirical jab aimed at atheists using reductio absurdum... the same way you people do with all your «man in the sky with magic spells» rantings.

The program takes more satirical jabs at spiritual matters than any other TV show, yet the erratic cartoon family has an appreciative audience among many people of faith and among many analysts of religion.

The satirical jabs at celebrity culture smell like rotted leftovers from «The Fantastic Four.»

As a result, the schematic plotline of the novel was eschewed in favor of more sophisticated satirical jabs at both ratings - obsessed television news culture and the scam artist - infested self - help movement of the time (both equally worthy targets today, if not more so).

It starts off a big - laugh - a-minute affair — visual gags, pop culture references, satirical jabs at big targets, meta - fictional self - parody abound.

That's a tedious exercise in any medium, and Parker tries to lighten the mood with satirical jabs at the insular New York art world.

That means there's a risk that everything from the irreverent jokes to the satirical jabs at the period time setting could be strained and feel too eager - to - please, this second time around.

Not exact matches

Verhoeven rendered Philip K. Dick «s short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale with a goofy, gooey spirit, and spat out broadly satirical economic jabs as he kept tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Director Jason Reitman so seamlessly infuses these almost satirical moments into the context of the character study surrounding them they are more another facet of Ryan than a jab at some type he represents.

Clooney's directorial legacy won't get any help from «Suburbicon,» a garish and overblown crime melodrama that combines clumsy noir with lame jabs at 1950s suburban conformity and racism, two subjects whose satirical sell - by date are now decades past.

The movie possesses a certain energy that propels the story forward with macabre, cynical humor, but it also becomes repetitive after a few too many jabs — both satirical and physical.

Maybe it was the game's satirical title that in itself took a jab at our zombie - loving ways, or maybe it was game's cool soundtrack, which happens to have a song on the Rock Band Network, or maybe it was simply good timing.