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414 examples of Satire in a sentence

It's a sort of absurdity, cherry-on-top moment which defies satire.
This one acts as a satire during the women's rights movement era.
It starts off with being a thriller to be taken at face value and then degenerates into a farce rather than satire.
Although I will say it does make for curious viewing, the acting, direction, and script are so laughingly bad, that the supposed satire is completely missing.
The characters are very thin and there seems to be no empathy for anyone in this movie and for a comedy or a satire there arent a lot of laughs either..Melanie Griffith had her breasts done during filming so a fun thing to do is to see if her boobs change size during different parts of the film..This will keep your mind off other things like the lack of script or humor.. On a scale of one to ten..3
Some may say the weak satire capitalizes on Americans' then-fresh fever for the new age of technology, but the flick is really just a dim excuse to keep restless children occupied.
This film tried to be too many things all at once: stinging political satire, Hollywood blockbuster, sappy romantic comedy, family values promo... the list goes on and on.
Gus Van Sant directed and adapted Tom Robbins' book, but his satire has no primary target and just skitters all over the map, like Sissy (maybe that was his goal, but it's not involving for an audience).
Imagine the movie without the satire, humor, or writing skills.
A good cast (with one major exception) pushes its way through Epstein's smart light satire.
She lacks something that is necessary for the genre of satire, let alone for the entire world of comedy.
The easiest way to describe this movie is as a satire.
The target of the satire is quite vast, from the US Government to corporate America.
I'm still not sure if it was serious, or just a satire.
This could be a really great, darkly black satire on todays morals in media.
This satire is about as subtle as a brick to the face or a bullet to the head is more apropos for this scenario.
I was too insulted by this attempt at humor and satire to do anything but roll my eyes at the screen.
But as a satire, it didn't work in its current form -- many scenes did not fit within the context of the plot: for example, the robbery scene makes little sense in the story.
Not being familiar with US television stations, when I flicked onto this on my in-laws' cable, first I thought it was just a low-budget sci-fi film, then after a couple of minutes I started thinking it might be a clever satire on the worst excesses of Christian fundamentalist, and then it dawned on me - good grief, these people are serious!
I thought when I first saw it that it would be perhaps a satire of the media and how it shows violence but it's not.
Sister Mary was an exaggeration, a lampoon, a bitter satire of a serenely confident, doctrinaire and highly judgmental nun -- and as played by Lynn Redgrave, she was hilarious.
If the film were presented as satire or even as a cartoon (it was), it would have been better received.
One of the requirements of science fiction, at least before it starts to become satire, is that it be somewhat plausible.
I already know that critics and some audiences say that it was a satire, there were numerous political and social messages, the names make refer to some other names etc.
Over the past year, Uwe Boll has shown marginal improvement as a filmmaker, cranking out the competent "In the Name of the King" (a "Lord of the Rings" clone) and the proudly vulgar, post-9/11 satire "Postal."
It failed miserably as satire and didn't even have the redemption of camp.
As the sub-title and box art implies this is indeed a take off on the "Kill Bill" films, but this being a Chris Seaver's film, it's a wildly incompetent satire (and I use that last term extremely loosely) I'd love to say this is better than the first film, but truth be told I was so impossibly drunk off my ass when I saw the previous film that I can't even hope to compare the two at this point in time.
This film is satire of the highest order.
Those who only remember the late Sir Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot or a professional raconteur would do well to seek out this charming piece of late '60s satire.
Loosely intended as a satire of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, The Three Ages was Buster Keaton's first attempt at a full length comedy feature.
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