Example sentences for: satire

How can you use “satire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A screwball political satire about a senator (played by Beatty) who loses his senses and begins to babble the truth on the stump, the film has a kamikaze comic spirit that's spectacularly disarming, particularly coming from its hitherto overcautious auteur--not to mention a major studio owned by right-of-Attila Rupert Murdoch.

  • But despite being a satire, Wag the Dog embodies an analysis of Washington that is fairly typical of the better class of political movie.

  • 3) L'affaire Lewinsky is the superior drama: "Nobody writes better scripts than Washington, D.C." (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). Sidebar: Hollywood reporters say Universal Studios is panicking over when to release Mike Nichols' adaptation of the Clinton satire Primary Colors , currently due out in March.

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  • Former New York magazine editor, Spy co-founder, and current New Yorker writer Kurt Andersen's satire of late-'90s culture wins good reviews, but many carp about its weaknesses.


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