Example sentences for: satirist

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

  • Wang Shuo, China's most popular novelist, is profiled: The satirist just relocated to the United States because the Chinese government banned his works.

  • In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as "a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical."

  • Scars are not all that's exposed: Flipping through The Sixties you'll catch glimpses of Warhol superstar Viva's pregnant belly and fashion model Veruschka's breasts, as well as (among others) dancer Rudolf Nureyev's penis (impressive, flaccid) and satirist Paul Krassner's (less so, half-erect).

  • My own obscure favorites include the first books of Honor Tracy (Irish-born satirist who makes Evelyn Waugh's work taste like the milk of human kindness), the dark early writing of Sigrid Undset (before her religious conversion, which radically changed her style), and the best novels of manners by John Marquand--all of which are largely unknown to contemporary readers (particularly young ones).

  • But the top-dog prize goes to alpha satirist Christopher Buckley, who recalls moments from his own Naomi-therapy (in the Journal ):


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