Satirist in a sentence

Alexander Pope b. May 21, 1688 was a satirist known for his Horatian satirist style and translation of the Illiad.

The comedian and social satirist rose to prominence in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was known for his provocative, controversial style of comedy, often tackling taboo subjects such as politics, religion, and sex, while on stage.

The stand-ins for his weekday morning radio programme have been satirist Oliver Callan and presenter Brendan Courtney.

Dean also plans to catch up with his musician friend Simon Hunt, better known as satirist Pauline Pantsdown, who he credits with helping spark his composing career.

It’s often overlooked how adept a satirist Jane Austen was, with most adaptations of the English literary icon’s works favoring the swooning romances and feminist themes of her novels.

Nope, not Vauxhall on a Friday night — but a major exhibition of the works of 18th century satirist William Hogarth, coming to London this October.

Pembroke Pines City Commissioner Angelo Castillo is not just a local politician who quibbles about zoning issues — he's also a biting satirist, right up there with Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, and Jon Stewart.

As a journalist and satirist who relies on the First Amendment, I am sympathetic to worries that news outlets might self-censor due to the threat of libel suits.

Political satirist Barry Crimmins attends AOL Build Presents: "Call Me Lucky" at AOL Studios In New York on July 30, 2015 in New York City.

Somewhere between satirist and troll, Kaceytron doesn’t ride the waves of streaming culture so much as she fans them as they crash down on the shore and pull everyone into their undertow.

Among the ancient political graffiti examples were Arab satirist poems.

By about the 4th century AD the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus; St. Jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies 'a satirist in prose' ('satyricus scriptor in prosa').

Coates would consult with Solanas's sister, Judith, while writing the piece, and sought to create a "very funny satirist" out of Solanas, not just showing her as the attempted assassin of Warhol.

Dougherty, Prometheus, p. 46. Writing in the 2nd century AD, the satirist Lucian points out that while temples to the major Olympians were everywhere, none to Prometheus is to be seen.

Equally noteworthy are these works likewise influenced: * The satirist and short story writer Hector Hugh Munro took his pen name of ' Saki ' from Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat.

French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.

Grecophone satirist Lucian describes the process in detail: A sacred silver urn is brought, in which they have put bean-size lots.

He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry.

In a more humorous vein, satirist Richard Armour stated in It All Started With Columbus that Darrow had "made a monkey out of" Bryan due to Bryan's ignorance of the Bible.

Leonard Feinberg, The Satirist (2006)sfn In his lifetime Shaw professed many beliefs, often contradictory.