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  • The male residents snickered, glad not to be a target of Raspton's satire.†   (source)
  • Sally Plucker, the sister of Henry Knox's wife, Lucy Plucker, for example, took a lead part in a production of Maid of the Oaks, a satire by General Burgoyne.†   (source)
  • "Also, it wouldn't hurt if you wrote a few more satire pieces for what we hope is going to be a newspaper one of these days."†   (source)
  • Recently La Cucaracha has emerged as the title and chief character, a human-size cockroach, of a satirical cartoon strip syndicated in more than sixty American newspapers.†   (source)
  • Therefore art is valid for the warmth and love it carries within it, even if it be the lightest entertainment, or the bitterest satire, or the most shattering tragedy.†   (source)
  • And because my planned trip had aroused some satiric remarks among my friends, I named it Rocinante, which you will remember was the name of Don Quixote's horse.†   (source)
  • But visitors who had been to the capital had a lot to report, and it was easy enough for them as outsiders to be satirical.†   (source)
  • He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.   (source)
  • He had a satire that was good-natured and caustic.†   (source)
  • He rolled his eyes and went through a limber, satiric buck-and-wing.†   (source)
  • "More satire for a column I don't want?"†   (source)
  • That is apparent in the language, as is the satirical send-up of it.†   (source)
  • Then applause filled the hall again, some of it not without satiric overtones.†   (source)
  • You have to interpret the mouth like it's satire," Acey said.†   (source)
  • All those Columbia experts can spiel all they want about the delicious satire; they're crazy.†   (source)
  • More and more they included us—Raymond and Yvette and people like myself—in their satire.†   (source)
  • He thought that Danny used the word quite sincerely, and Gary Benson as originally conceived had too, but as he had begun Act V, it had come more and more strongly to him that Gary was using the word satirically, outwardly straight-faced while the Gary Benson inside was mugging and leering at Denker.†   (source)
  • His essay was a satire on the source of food in the school dining hall—"MYSTERY MEAT," Owen tided the essay and the unrecognizable, gray steaks we were served weekly; the essay, which was published as an editorial, described the slaughter and refrigeration of an unidentified, possibly prehistoric beast that was dragged to the underground kitchen of the school in chains, "IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT."†   (source)
  • Less than two hours before one of her mother's Famous Cocktail Parties (that was how ' Donna's father always referred to them, with a satirical tone that automatically conferred the capital letters — the same satirical tone that could sometimes drive Samantha into a frenzy), the disposal in the kitchen sink had somehow backed up into the bar sink, and when her mother turned the gadget on again in an effort to get rid of everything, green goo had exploded all over the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The work of the dashing Beaumarchais—who had been an early supporter of the American Revolution and thickly in league with Silas Deane, shipping supplies to America—the play was a satire about the triumph of virtuous servants over their aristocratic employers.†   (source)
  • THIS IS ONE of those chapters again where Professor Bongiorno of Columbia, the Florinese guru, claims that Morgenstern's satiric genius is at its fullest flower.†   (source)
  • Morgenstern uses the device, mainly, because what hes really interested in, as always, is the satiric antiroyalty stuff and how stupid they were going through with all these old traditions, kissing the sacred ring of Great-grandfather So-and-So, etc. There is some action stuff which I cut, which I never did anywhere else, and here's my logic: Inigo and Fezzik have to go through a certain amount of derring-do in order to come up with the proper ingredients for the resurrection pill,…†   (source)
  • I spoke to Professor Bongiorno, of Columbia University, the head of their Florinese Department, and he said this was the most deliciously satiric chapter in the entire book, Morgenstern's point, apparently, being simply to show that although Florin considered itself vastly more civilized than Guilder, Guilder was, in fact, the far more sophisticated country, as indicated by the superiority in number and quality of the ladies' clothes.†   (source)
  • Lee smiled satirically at him.†   (source)
  • Samuel said satirically, "It's my duty to take this thing of yours and kick it in the face, then raise it up and spread slime on it thick enough to blot out its dangerous light.†   (source)
  • Satire like this from people who were just passing through, people we weren't going to see again but did our best for, people who were safe in their own countries, satire like this was sometimes wounding.†   (source)
  • Even in anger, he was suave and satirical, and whisky usually served to intensify these qualities.†   (source)
  • This heat took many forms; it showed itself in satire, in sentiment, in curiosity, in reprobation.†   (source)
  • Jennings Ware turned his red satirical face on him.†   (source)
  • The driver glanced quickly at him, looking for satire.†   (source)
  • Mordred wore his ridiculous shoes contemptuously: they were a satire on himself.†   (source)
  • Looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and yet has a satirical wit.†   (source)
  • And Moulton sat and continued his satire on Iggy.†   (source)
  • Great satire needs the sustenance of great fable.†   (source)
  • I knew later I had been lucky with her, that she had tried not to be dry with me, or satirical, and done it mercifully.†   (source)
  • He, glowing, burning; she, aloof, satirical; he, bound for adventure; she, moored to the shore; he, launched, incautious; she solitary, left out—and, ready to implore a share, if it were a disaster, in his disaster, she said shyly: "When did Minta lose her brooch?"†   (source)
  • He never realized that many of the satirical songs he had written for the vaudevilles passed into folk-music and have been borne everywhere along the highroads.†   (source)
  • Comedy as satire is acceptable, as fun itis a pleasant haven of escape, but the fairy tale of happiness ever after cannot be taken seriously; it belongs to the never-never land of childhood, which is protected from the realities that will become terribly known soon enough; just as the myth of heaven ever after is for the old, whose lives are behind them and whose hearts have to be readied for the last portal of the transit into night—which sober, modern Occidental judgment is founded…†   (source)
  • He did nothing spectacular; his voice was low, metallic, inclined to sound monotonous; he was too correct, in a manner that was almost deliberate satire on correctness.†   (source)
  • Its light on her face with its aged but childish features is cruelly sharp, satirical as a Daumier print.†   (source)
  • Mercy me, all our field hands are gone and there's nobody to pick it!" mimicked Grandma and bent a satiric glance on Scarlett.†   (source)
  • Fear and hatred were almost gone, or traces of them showed only in a slight exaggeration of the joy of freedom, a tendency to the caustic and satirical, rather than to the romantic, in her treatment of the other sex.†   (source)
  • Ma smiled a little satirically.†   (source)
  • The best fabulists have often been the greatest satirists: satire (as with Aristophanes, Voltaire, and Swift) is a high and subtle art, quite beyond the barnyard snipings and wholesale geeseslaughterings of the present degenerate age.†   (source)
  • This was a part of him that Mimi's satire was always aimed at, and yet she encouraged it as something precious as well as foolish.†   (source)
  • He saw them with bitter clarity, answered their pretensions with soft mocking laughter, and a brief nod upwards and to the side of the companion to whom he communicated all his contemptuous observation—his dark satiric angel: "Oh, my God!†   (source)
  • She was prepared to approve of him despite the satire, noting something extravagant and outlaw about him that she approved of.†   (source)
  • I saw Grandma's satire in him, across the plaited white bread and the sprigged fish and candles--yes, the old woman's hardness of invention and travestying savagery, even certain Russian screams.†   (source)
  • Meaning that it is earthly power that steals while the ridiculous wise are in a dream about this world and the next, and perhaps missing this one, they will have nothing, neither this nor the next, so there is a sharp pain of satire in this amusing thing, and even the painted field does not have too much charm; it is a flat place.†   (source)
  • He poured a drink, he was a chain-smoker; and in the business of mixing, lighting, dragging, flipping, blowing smoke through his satirical nose, there seemed to be contained about all he thought really worth effort.†   (source)
  • It was some foul parody, some infamous, ignoble satire.†   (source)
  • "Strike my bob, lad, but you're a beautiful writer!" he exclaimed satirically.†   (source)
  • Her comments on people were saltily satiric and penetrative of accepted hypocrisies.†   (source)
  • "Really?" he replied, still more satirically.†   (source)
  • "What do you think, Jack?" said Mr. Hynes satirically to the old man.†   (source)
  • He expressed assent in loving satire, looking into her face.†   (source)
  • Don't crush all the life out of me by satire and argument, I implore you!†   (source)
  • "I'm writing a satire on 'em now, calling it 'Boston Bards and Hearst Reviewers.'†   (source)
  • Only, on his return, she scathed him with her satire.†   (source)
  • But he regretted the pleasantry; it was too near a satire.†   (source)
  • Dawes continued to stare in a satirical fashion at the picture over the mantelpiece.†   (source)
  • Her own father had a rich fund of humour, but it was satiric.†   (source)
  • It is all very well to be a bit satirical till you see her.†   (source)
  • "Do you?" replied the other, soft, satirical, abstract.†   (source)
  • Naumann's pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle Danglars was still the same—cold, beautiful, and satirical.†   (source)
  • An author had eaten his dinner and would not pay; 'I'll write a satire on you,' says he.†   (source)
  • "You're more satiric than ever, but I advise you not to laugh at Mr. Goodwood."†   (source)
  • In its venerable one coat lay a certain vein of satire on human vanity in clothes.†   (source)
  • 'That's the relics left in you of your old satirical tendencies.'†   (source)
  • Perhaps in Vanity Fair there are no better satires than letters.†   (source)
  • His satire has been less bitter of late, and there was a monk he received and had a long talk with.†   (source)
  • Thomasin murmured to herself, in a tone which was intended to be satirical.†   (source)
  • Rome, her poets, orators, senators, courtiers, are mad with affectation of what they call satire.†   (source)
  • Satire, you know, should be true up to a certain point.†   (source)
  • He always saw the joke of any satire against himself.†   (source)
  • She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.†   (source)
  • Lydgate had often been satirical on this gratuitous prediction, and he meant now to be guarded.†   (source)
  • I daresay his papers, if he has left any, include some satires that may be published without too destructive results fifty years hence.†   (source)
  • And yet, more likely, if satire it was in effect, it was hardly so by intention, for Billy, tho' happily endowed with the gayety of high health, youth, and a free heart, was yet by no means of a satirical turn.†   (source)
  • I do not object so much to the cynical and satirical fables as to those in which momentous truths are taught by monkeys and foxes.†   (source)
  • It is nonsense to have such thoughts in this kind of case, which is rather one for satirical laughter than for tragedy.†   (source)
  • Moreover, there was a satiric note in the letter that Madeline did not like, and which roused her spirit.†   (source)
  • This was a rule indeed which only added to the satiric effect of my being plied with the supposition that he might at any moment be among us.†   (source)
  • She could not sit still; she wanted to go and hear the worst at once; she wondered even that Chauvelin had not come yet, to vent his wrath and satire upon her.†   (source)
  • Feeling dissatisfied, he rushed to the other extreme, and wrote a satire, which was too libellous to print.†   (source)
  • They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about.†   (source)
  • [Satirically.†   (source)
  • Settembrini sat off to one side for a while, but he also vanished, after first making a few graphic, taut comments about the local's tedious bel canto and adding a satirical remark about how delightful it was that they were all so cozy and snug here together this evening.†   (source)
  • "Your cousin is so terribly clever that she criticizes it unmercifully," said Phillotson, with good-humoured satire.†   (source)
  • For an instant he lost his poise, and she felt a bit rattled when a satirical voice from a concealed wit cried: "Take her outside, Amory!"†   (source)
  • And now the dance is taken up, we play gallants most dashing," he quoted, and went on shooting a volley of taut, satirical words, accompanying his satire with deft gestures of arm, head, and shoulder.†   (source)
  • But sometimes catching sight in advance of the Foretopman coming in his direction, he would, upon their nearing, step aside a little to let him pass, dwelling upon Billy for the moment with the glittering dental satire of a Guise.†   (source)
  • The manager, happening to notice the costume window as he came in, had sent for the buyer and made satirical remarks upon the colour scheme.†   (source)
  • And now the dance is taken up, we play gallants most dashing," he quoted, and went on shooting a volley of taut, satirical words, accompanying his satire with deft gestures of arm, head, and shoulder.†   (source)
  • If Sue had written that in satire, he could hardly forgive her; if in suffering—ah, that was another thing!†   (source)
  • And yet, more likely, if satire it was in effect, it was hardly so by intention, for Billy, tho' happily endowed with the gayety of high health, youth, and a free heart, was yet by no means of a satirical turn.†   (source)
  • Macalister thought Hayward a poor creature, and sneered at his delicacies of sentiment: he asked satirically about Hayward's literary work and received with scornful smiles his vague suggestions of future masterpieces; their arguments were often heated; but the punch was good, and they were both fond of it; towards the end of the evening they generally composed their differences and thought each other capital fellows.†   (source)
  • He was disappointed, too, at the air of general uncertainty on every subject that seemed linked with the pedantic temperament; his opinions took shape in a miniature satire called "In a Lecture-Room," which he persuaded Tom to print in the Nassau Lit.†   (source)
  • But, in default of that, it behoved her to do something; to be their Providence; for to Tess, as to not a few millions of others, there was ghastly satire in the poet's lines— Not in utter nakedness But trailing clouds of glory do we come.†   (source)
  • Kerry was tall, with humorous gray eyes, and a sudden, attractive smile; he became at once the mentor of the house, reaper of ears that grew too high, censor of conceit, vendor of rare, satirical humor.†   (source)
  • But the incident confirmed to him certain tell—tale reports purveyed to his ear by Squeak, one of his more cunning Corporals, a grizzled little man, so nicknamed by the sailors on account of his squeaky voice, and sharp visage ferreting about the dark corners of the lower decks after interlopers, satirically suggesting to them the idea of a rat in a cellar.†   (source)
  • Everything seemed turning to satire.†   (source)
  • The outdoor air had apparently taken away from him all tendency to act on impulse; she knew that he saw her without irradiation—in all her bareness; that Time was chanting his satiric psalm at her then— Behold, when thy face is made bare, he that loved thee shall hate; Thy face shall be no more fair at the fall of thy fate.†   (source)
  • The kettle of his gift sang with some satire in its note, to his mind; and to change the subject he said, "Do you know of any good readable edition of the uncanonical books of the New Testament?†   (source)
  • As to Billy's adieu to the ship Rights-of-Man, which the boarding lieutenant had indeed reported to him, but in a deferential way more as a good story than aught else, Captain Vere, tho' mistakenly understanding it as a satiric sally, had but thought so much the better of the impressed man for it; as a military sailor, admiring the spirit that could take an arbitrary enlistment so merrily and sensibly.†   (source)
  • P.", in the old red sandstone; but Paul desisted, because he had read in the newspaper satirical remarks about initial-carvers, who could find no other road to immortality.†   (source)
  • "Ay?" she queried satirically.†   (source)
  • It is not supposable that he intended a satire upon Babcock's own asceticism, for this would have been a truly cynical stroke.†   (source)
  • It was at this college that he had sketched out what he called his studies, and, through a scholar's teasing habit which still lingered in him, he never passed the facade without inflicting on the statue of Cardinal Pierre Bertrand, sculptured to the right of the portal, the affront of which Priapus complains so bitterly in the satire of Horace, ~Olim truncus eram ficulnus~.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of satire on Nature: it was the scientific method, the geologic method; it deposited the history of the family in a stratified record; and the antiquary could dig through it and tell by the remains of each period what changes of diet the family had introduced successively for a hundred years.†   (source)
  • Isaac, like the enriched traveller of Juvenal's tenth satire, had ever the fear of robbery before his eyes, conscious that he would be alike accounted fair game by the marauding Norman noble, and by the Saxon outlaw.†   (source)
  • One morning, though I had never tried my hand with the pen, it suddenly occurred to me to write a satire on this officer in the form of a novel which would unmask his villainy.†   (source)
  • He has a very satirical eye, and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of him.†   (source)
  • It was not, however, so saturnine a pride! she laughed continually; her laugh was satirical, and so was the habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip.†   (source)
  • …during the fete given by Madame the Constable; that you have proofs of the interview granted at the Louvre by the queen to a certain Italian astrologer who was no other than the Duke of Buckingham; that you have ordered a little romance of a satirical nature to be written upon the adventures of Amiens, with a plan of the gardens in which those adventures took place, and portraits of the actors who figured in them; that Montague is in the Bastille, and that the torture may make him say…†   (source)
  • She flashed a slightly defiant look at him; it was clear to her that he had been drawing a satirical portrait of her beforehand.†   (source)
  • Many an irksome noise, go a long way off, is heard as music, a proud, sweet satire on the meanness of our lives.†   (source)
  • Finally, in a much–feared satirical journal, an article by its most popular columnist finished off the monster for good, spurning it in the style of Hippolytus repulsing the amorous advances of his stepmother Phaedra, and giving the creature its quietus amid a universal burst of laughter.†   (source)
  • Mary Kinglsey insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums.†   (source)
  • There did not seem to be anything out of the way in it, but it was really a satire; by the poodle was meant the cashier of some establishment or other.†   (source)
  • " 'Twenty years ago'—well, that's beginning at the beginning; suppose you go back to the Creation!" said the clerk, not without satire.†   (source)
  • We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of the Apocalypse.†   (source)
  • I must confess that I could not help feeling rather angry with Mrs. Jellyby myself, seeing and hearing this neglected girl and knowing how much of bitterly satirical truth there was in what she said.†   (source)
  • It is therefore not in strict character, however admirably satirical, that after going to school himself, he should then go abroad inculcating not what he learned there, but the folly of it.†   (source)
  • Apparently Messala was trying to be serious and kind, though he could not rid his countenance of the habitual satirical expression.†   (source)
  • I had not expected him to be, and was not surprised myself; or my observation of similar practical satires would have been but scanty.†   (source)
  • But Catherine could never be sharp; and for a moment she only stood, with her hand on the door-knob, looking at her satiric parent, and giving a little laugh.†   (source)
  • Finally some sagacious persons opined that the article was nothing but an impudent satirical burlesque.†   (source)
  • As the deceased had taken no further notice of his nephew in his lifetime, than sending to his eldest boy (who had been christened after him, on desperate speculation) a silver spoon in a morocco case, which, as he had not too much to eat with it, seemed a kind of satire upon his having been born without that useful article of plate in his mouth, Mr Godfrey Nickleby could, at first, scarcely believe the tidings thus conveyed to him.†   (source)
  • Moving in Society If Young John Chivery had had the inclination and the power to write a satire on family pride, he would have had no need to go for an avenging illustration out of the family of his beloved.†   (source)
  • The gloomy transactions just completed within had added fever to the original sting of Farfrae's sympathy that morning, which Henchard fancied might be a satire disguised so that Jopp met with anything but a bland reception.†   (source)
  • He found a pleasure in setting up Blandois as the type of elegance, and making him a satire upon others who piqued themselves on personal graces.†   (source)
  • He saw a great many pretty cheeks beneath high-plumed hats as he squeezed his way through serried waves of crumpled muslin; and sitting on little chairs at the base of the great serious English trees, he observed a number of quiet-eyed maidens who seemed only to remind him afresh that the magic of beauty had gone out of the world with Madame de Cintre: to say nothing of other damsels, whose eyes were not quiet, and who struck him still more as a satire on possible consolation.†   (source)
  • Lucy had said he was inclined to be satirical, and Maggie had mentally supplied the addition, "and rather conceited."†   (source)
  • Mrs. Penniman was not a brave woman, and Morris Townsend had struck her as a young man of great force of character, and of remarkable powers of satire; a keen, resolute, brilliant nature, with which one must exercise a great deal of tact.†   (source)
  • He returned joyfully, and regarded with a satirical expression two officers who were in the shop, one of whom possessed a nose not much larger than a waistcoat button.†   (source)
  • Georgy, on his side, was in the constant habit of hearing coarse abuse and vulgar satire levelled at John Sedley by his pitiless old enemy, Mr. Osborne.†   (source)
  • The affair, as it will be reported, will cover us with shame; for in a society such as ours satire inflicts a painful and incurable wound.†   (source)
  • He did not give to this last word the grand acceptation which our epoch has accorded to it, but he made it enter, after his own fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even specimens of its amusing barbarism.†   (source)
  • …charged with concluding the marriage between the dauphin and Marguerite of Flanders, had made its entry into Paris, to the great annoyance of M. le Cardinal de Bourbon, who, for the sake of pleasing the king, had been obliged to assume an amiable mien towards this whole rustic rabble of Flemish burgomasters, and to regale them at his Hôtel de Bourbon, with a very "pretty morality, allegorical satire, and farce," while a driving rain drenched the magnificent tapestries at his door.†   (source)
  • I do not mean to be satirical, but to express my appreciation of those youths' singing, when I state that I perceived clearly that it was akin to the music of the cow, and they were at length one articulation of Nature.†   (source)
  • The moment then came when she could scarcely sit longer; and it was like a satire on her patience to remember that Clym could hardly have reached the inn as yet.†   (source)
  • As philosophy was taking the place of religion, satire was fast substituting reverence; insomuch that in Latin opinion it was to every speech, even to the little diatribes of conversation, as salt to viands, and aroma to wine.†   (source)
  • It was only when her vivacity and sense of humour got the better of this sprightly creature (as they would do under most circumstances of life indeed) that she would break out with her satire, but she could soon put on a demure face.†   (source)
  • Now the anonymous letter was a well-intentioned but clumsy contrivance of Longways and other of Farfrae's men to get him out of the way for the evening, in order that the satirical mummery should fall flat, if it were attempted.†   (source)
  • Some few score of years afterwards, when all the parties represented are grown old, what bitter satire there is in those flaunting childish family-portraits, with their farce of sentiment and smiling lies, and innocence so self-conscious and self-satisfied.†   (source)
  • He belonged, moreover, to a race whose laws, modes, and habits of thought forbade satire and humor; very naturally, therefore, he listened to his friend with varying feelings; one moment indignant, then uncertain how to take him.†   (source)
  • To Eustacia the situation seemed such a mockery of her hopes that death appeared the only door of relief if the satire of Heaven should go much further.†   (source)
  • Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.†   (source)
  • Think, what right have you to be scornful, whose virtue is a deficiency of temptation, whose success may be a chance, whose rank may be an ancestor's accident, whose prosperity is very likely a satire.†   (source)
  • This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XVII How Captain Dobbin Bought a Piano If there is any exhibition in all Vanity Fair which Satire and Sentiment can visit arm in arm together; where you light on the strangest contrasts laughable and tearful: where you may be gentle and pathetic, or savage and cynical with perfect propriety: it is at one of those public assemblies, a crowd of which are advertised every day in the last page of the Times newspaper, and over which the late Mr. George Robins used to preside with so…†   (source)
  • And I'm thinkin' if I set here until I'm paid my wages, I shall set a precious long time, Mrs. Raggles; and set I will, too—ha! ha!" and with this she filled herself another glass of the liquor and drank it with a more hideously satirical air.†   (source)
  • And as to roaring myself red and that kind of thing—these men never understand what is good satire.†   (source)
  • Having concluded his observations upon the soup, Mr. Osborne made a few curt remarks respecting the fish, also of a savage and satirical tendency, and cursed Billingsgate with an emphasis quite worthy of the place.†   (source)
  • This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting—it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency.†   (source)
  • How delighted Miss Rebecca was at the Government balls, and how she laughed at the stories of the Scotch aides-de-camp, and called Mr. Sedley a sad wicked satirical creature; and how frightened she was at the story of the elephant!†   (source)
  • "Her back is very large; she seems to have sat for that," said Rosamond, not meaning any satire, but thinking how red young Plymdale's hands were, and wondering why Lydgate did not come.†   (source)
  • Which notwithstanding they cannot handsomely do, without the borrowed help and satire of times past; condemning the vices of their own times, by the expressions of vices in times which they commend, which cannot but argue the community of vice in both.†   (source)
  • This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire.†   (source)
  • Her shrewdness had a streak of satiric bitterness continually renewed and never carried utterly out of sight, except by a strong current of gratitude towards those who, instead of telling her that she ought to be contented, did something to make her so.†   (source)
  • One of Young's Satires was then just published.†   (source)
  • An excellent satire on modern language.†   (source)
  • Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but THAT did not signify.†   (source)
  • Eventually, Threpe was called up onto the stage where he sang a scathing little ditty of his own design, satirizing one of Tarbean's councilmen.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Inspired by Jane Austen's novel Emma, Heckerling deftly satirized the speech and lifestyle of rich teens in Los Angeles.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • The idea of reconquest was deftly satirized by Jim Lehrer in the 1966 novel Viva Max, made into a film with Peter Ustinov, which imagined a bored Mexican general marching troops to San Antonio and retaking the Alamo.†   (source)
  • My father, before he met an unfortunate accident …. my father was a great admirer of Julius Streicher for this reason—he applauded the way in which Herr Streicher has satirized so instructively this degenerate trait in the Jewish character.†   (source)
  • And there is always the non-productive brotherhood of critics to disparage and to satirize, to view with horror and contempt.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Don't satirize me: it cuts like a knife!"†   (source)
  • The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum; the famous divine flirted openly with one of the Madame de Staels of the age, who looked daggers at another Corinne, who was amiably satirizing her, after outmaneuvering her in efforts to absorb the profound philosopher, who imbibed tea Johnsonianly and appeared to slumber, the loquacity of the lady rendering speech impossible.†   (source)
  • He therefore held his peace on that head, but otherwise was quite frank and confidential with him, so that the two quickly concocted a little plan for both circumventing and satirizing the Captain, without his at all dreaming of distrusting their sincerity.†   (source)
  • Newman, of course, was perforce tongue-tied about Valentin's projected duel, and his dramatic talent was not equal to satirizing Madame de Cintre's presentiment as pointedly as perfect security demanded.†   (source)
  • To have eaten humble pie, to have been snubbed and patronized and satirized and have consented to take it as one of the conditions of the bargain—to have done this, and done it all for nothing, surely gave one a right to protest.†   (source)
  • He passed the remainder of the afternoon in a curious highstrung condition, unable to do much but think of the approaching meeting with her, and sadly satirize himself for his emotions thereon, as a Samson shorn.†   (source)
  • …(Snob will brag for years that he has purchased this or that at Dives's sale), and Mr. Hammerdown is sitting on the great mahogany dining-tables, in the dining-room below, waving the ivory hammer, and employing all the artifices of eloquence, enthusiasm, entreaty, reason, despair; shouting to his people; satirizing Mr. Davids for his sluggishness; inspiriting Mr. Moss into action; imploring, commanding, bellowing, until down comes the hammer like fate, and we pass to the next lot.†   (source)
  • (Satirically) Has poor little hubby cold feet waiting so long?†   (source)
  • The English, too, have given attention to it—often, alas, satirically, or even indignantly.†   (source)
  • Paulding, in "John Bull in America, or, the New Munchausen," published in 1825, attempted satire.†   (source)
  • BELLO: (Satirically) By day you will souse and bat our smelling underclothes also when we ladies are unwell, and swab out our latrines with dress pinned up and a dishclout tied to your tail.†   (source)
  • Such words often retain a humorous quality; they are used satirically and hence appear but seldom in wholly serious discourse.†   (source)
  • …delightful lovesongs with which the writer who conceals his identity under the graceful pseudonym of the Little Sweet Branch has familiarised the bookloving world but rather (as a contributor D. O. C. points out in an interesting communication published by an evening contemporary) of the harsher and more personal note which is found in the satirical effusions of the famous Raftery and of Donal MacConsidine to say nothing of a more modern lyrist at present very much in the public eye.†   (source)
  • The typical American, in Paulding's satirical phrase, became "a bundling, gouging, impious" fellow, without either "morals, literature, religion or refinement."†   (source)
  • It originated in France, as "Laissez faire à Georges," during the fifteenth century, and at the start had satirical reference to the multiform activities of Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, prime minister to Louis XII.†   (source)
  • That is some satire, keen and critical, Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.†   (source)
  • Many propagandist satirical books have been written with "Candide" in mind, but not too many.†   (source)
  • Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?†   (source)
  • Either hatred will serve as a motive to satire.†   (source)
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