Sentences with word «satirist»

Swift (1667 - 1745) is best known for his book, Gulliver's Travels, but during his lifetime he was renowned as a prolific political satirist who wrote and published pamphlets supporting England's Tory party (which championed the primacy of the British monarchy over its Parliament) and targeting the opposing Whig faction, which advocated the reverse.

The German painter and graphic artist George Grosz (1893 - 1959) was the most outstanding caricaturist and political satirist of the period after World War I.

The answer is there's simply no comparison - Bennett is one of the great satirists of the English language and, now in his 70s, has honed his craft to perfection, developing a style uniquely his own.

Rothenberg belongs to a long line of social satirists spearing the status quo.

What strikes me, though, is how frequently newscasts and media reports have been targeted by satirists in recent years, and what easy targets they make.

It's been a long time since I've felt as uncomfortable watching a comedy as I did with The Death of Stalin, where master political satirist Armando Iannucci savagely ridicules the Soviet regime while constantly reminding the audience that it was built on torture, sexual violence and murder.

Armando Ianucci (Veep, In The Loop) is one of the best satirists working today — certainly the best working in narrative forms.

Nineteenth - century satirist HONORÉ DAUMIER at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Feb. 19 - May 14.

Surely no modern American politician has been eviscerated as thoroughly by satirists as Trump.

Where Keegan - Michael Key mostly seems comfortable remaining in the goofy comedy / light drama world, Peele is aiming to become a razor sharp satirist who's unafraid to delve into social ills with sharper teeth than sketch humor allows.

I thought my parody of climatespeak was pretty funny, but in fact whichever ingenious satirist wrote that Royal Society paragraph is gem is way better at it.

The rumour of it raised eyebrows, but it wasn't until we all saw that leaked Mario + Rabbids artwork that the Nintendo faithful started to wonder if the Big N had collapsed under the weight of its own whimsy, forcing Internet satirists into existential crises.

Recent examples include a campaign to censor a Washington Post column by Dr. Charles Krauthammer, a Los Angeles Times protocol of not publishing letters skeptical of global warming, and a lawsuit to discredit the brilliant satirist Mark Steyn, who, as humorists are wont to do, mocked a pompous proponent of global warming.

But Orrin Klapp had earlier observed that «mockery of heroes is not only a literary mode — an amusement for satirists and tired intellectuals — but has entered popular thought and is an important feature of American society» (p. 167).

Leaning heavily on pop - culture imagery combined with cinematic, political and historic references in order to magnify broader social truths, Yahnker was described by the New York Times» Ken Johnson as «an exceptionally imaginative satirist [who] is also an ambitious, prolific and technically impressive draftsman.»

The anonymous satirist known as @nascarcasm is back this week with the latest in his series of NASCAR images.

It would be easy to declare political comedy dead in the era of America's parody - proof commander - in - chief, but master satirist Armando Iannucci proves there are still laughs to be extracted from the corridors of power in this jet - black Kremlin - com.

century C.E. satirist Juvenal coined the terms «panem et circenses» (bread and circuses) to mock those who were too distracted to care about justice or the needs of the oppressed.

Jonathan Swift, one of the greatest satirist said, «What some invent, the rest enlarge».

Late - night television satirist Stephen Colbert urges his audience to rely on their gut for what he has dubbed a feeling of «truthiness.»

It seems the anonymous NASCAR satirist known as @nascarcasm is concerned about SOPA, and he submitted this image today with the potential consequences of the legislation in mind.

Turning to Irish satirist Jonathan Swift's fantasy classic — which, strangely enough, had already been transformed into a pro-Communist parable by stop - motion animators in the Soviet Union — Max and brother Dave Fleischer discarded their original concept of using Popeye as their Gulliver.

In the vein of such great cinematic satirists as Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor have come up with a gem of a premise that had me at hello.

The digital age is slickly skewered on the sharp blade of a knife that cuts a clean swath of revenge through a wealthy family's existence in sick satirist Yorgos Lanthimos» genre - blurring The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

In the scathing words of the American satirist Al Capp, they are the «product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered».

The famous Dorothy Parker quote is very true for most every writer, but the biting satirist missed a more optimistic lesson here: «Writers are pulled through the process for months and years by the exhilaration of their vision of what might be at the end,» says Tite.

Largely absent from The Thanatos Syndrome is the redemptive humor of Percy's early work, in which he discerns that his own satirists need satirizing, that the gospel is not a divine stone flung angrily at the world, and that faith is God's comic gift rather than our own stern decision.

According to our anonymous satirist @nascarcasm, things got worse for the No. 24 team while leaving California.

Poet and satirist Dorothy Parker famously said, «I hate writing, I love having written.»

Political satirist Andy Borowitz reports that Jeb Bush has resigned his position as George W. Bush's brother.

And political satirists liked it too.

Deciding to rewrite the project as a dark comedy, he recruited renowned satirist Terry Southern to help pen the script.

The film cements director / co-writer Armando Iannucci (Veep, In the Loop) as a premier satirist, as it plays so giddily with history while constantly poking you with a timeliness that should be shocking but sadly is not.

Black comedy from satirist Todd Solondz (Happiness) starring Selma Blair, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow about a 30 - something man - child whose attempts to find love and break free from his parents prove far more harrowing than he initially thought.

Black comedy from satirist Todd Solondz (Happiness) starring Selma Blair, Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow...

The name A Tale of a Tub refers to the former bathhouse as well as to the first major work written by the Anglo - Irish satirist, essayist and poet, Jonathan Swift.

The phenomenally popular, New York Times bestselling satirist whom the Atlanta Journal - Constitution calls, «Stephen King with a whoopee cushion and a double - espresso imagination» has already lampooned Shakespeare, San Francisco vampires, marine biologists, Death... even Jesus Christ and Santa Claus!

Hot young artists like Kalup Linzy, a cross-dressing satirist whom you might remember from videos at defunct Romo Gallery.

Mathematician song writing satirist Tom Lehrer wrote about Wernher and used the verse

Leaning heavily on pop - culture imagery combined with cinematic, political and historic references in order to magnify broader social truths, he was described by the New York Times» Ken Johnson as» an exceptionally imaginative satirist (who) is also an ambitious, prolific and technically impressive draftsman.

In 1967, the museum also mounted a major exhibition of the work of the masterful English social satirist William Hogarth.

ENGLISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of 18th / 19th century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and muralist.

The workis based on the 18th century pictorial satirist, William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, 1732 - 33.

The British satirist tried to calm his audience's jeers and said: «I'm an idiot.

Carnival parades in Germany give satirists a prominent platform to demonstrate their art.

Satirists pick up on it and make more jokes, as do some late night shows.

The KSM Show is a talk show that features the legendary satirist, Kwaku Sintim Misa (KSM) and has been running for the past decade on Metropolitan Television (Metro TV).