Satires

But however party might have cried up this writer as a poet and a satirist of the first order, Goldsmith had the sense and manliness to tell them what they called satires were but tawdry lampoons, whose turbulence aped the quality of force, whose frenzy that or fire. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

What makes this novel different from most other satires, is that isn't content with simply holding up its subject to ridicule. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pecuchet_ would be more truly named were they called satires and not representations. ❋ Gustave Flaubert (1850)

The poetical value of the satires is another matter. ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

The main topic of the satires is a denunciation of an age when, as he puts it, ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)

As his satires were the more just for being delayed, so were his panegyrics; bestowed only on such persons as he had familiarly known, only for such virtues as he had long observed in them, and only at such times as others cease to praise, if not begin to calumniate them -- I mean, when out of power or out of fashion. ❋ Alexander Pope (1716)

Franken faced a controversy even within his own party this year after opponents discovered that the former talk-show host had written sexually-degrading "satires" of women and Asians in the past, including a piece for Playboy entitled "Porn-O-Rama". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gadarene, had called his satires _Saturæ Menippeæ_; hence the title.] ❋ Edward Dowden (1878)

Tonight, I wanted to be a snarky bastard and write another one of those "satires" in a pitiful attempt to have the last word on an issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"takedowns" every week, when copyright holders complain about material such as satires and reviews that is clearly legal under the Fair Use law. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In some way or another, the bleak world depicted in the novel is a projection of/version of/transformation of the present (in ths case, specifically Los Angeles), making this and most other apocalyptic fantasies essentially satires, but without much humor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the series' third book, "Some Hope" here Patrick is 30, the chief diversion of the story lies in some of the most superbly malign satires of the old-money class since Wharton and Waugh. ❋ Sam Sacks (2012)

Skits and satires referring to "Uncle Tom's Cabin" were performed by the likes of Abbott and Costello and the Little Rascals. ❋ Fergus M. Bordewich (2011)

Student spoof sucks in mainstream media p2pnet news view P2P: - More than once, p2pnet spoofs we thought were blatantly obvious parodies or satires have been taken as serious news items. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His greatest films are movie-centric satires that show a great affection for old Hollywood and when he strays he tends to fall flat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That movie is perhaps one of the best satires on the left-wing movement of the 1970s I have seen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It could be, anyway, that the sheer, pitiless tedium of reading or effectively translating Dryden's satires will be, in Gove's opinion, a salutary lesson for our indulged youth. ❋ Catherine Bennett (2010)

In reaction to this threat, there poured upon the heads of these women numerous satires in fiction, plays, cartoons and newspaper editorials of the “emancipated woman.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because many found "The Family Circus" guileless and treacly, the strip was a frequent target of satires, many of which Mr. Keane professed to like. ❋ Stephen Miller (2011)

One of the funniest ancient satires is by Lucian of Samosata, a second-century essayist who in one clever piece of writing sends up a Greek mystic known as Alexander of Abonoteichus. ❋ Mary Beard (2011)