Example sentences for: satirist

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

  • 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).

  • Reviews of the latest farce from the British satirist both wince and smirk at its unrelenting scatological humor and unflattering sendups of authors Robert Hughes and Oliver Sacks.

  • An intense realist and a fierce satirist, Simpson turned this mother-daughter journey from small-town Wisconsin in pursuit of fame and a new father in the promised land (Los Angeles) into a surreal odyssey of female frustration.

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

  • 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."


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