The festival thus becomes a mediating valve through which the people can salve, ritualistically and seasonally, the trauma of colonialism by satirizing it.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In turn, the taxidermists themselves were satirized for their craft.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He is able to assume the manners and outlook of almost any group he is with before beginning tosatirizeand then reject them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The word 'toenails' rather than 'fingernails' in the play's title poignantly satirizes the situation in this last scene.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The experimental life needed such defence precisely because of the ease with which its critics satirized its claims to authority.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Others satirized royal power and supported the theory of regicide.
From theCambridge English Corpus
More generally it evinces an awkward mixture of rhythms and poor continuity - perhaps satirizing the thinking by two-bar units of minuet style, and more broadly the 'modern manner' of composition.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Most importantly, we can trace the resilience and resourcefulness of the indigenous theatre as an art form through its ability to chronicle, contain, andsatirizecolonialism.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Beyond satirizing this "great" topic, such "irritating" digressions confront readers with the mechanics of the novel, its formal structure, how and on what basis it constructs truth-effects.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It was rather designed to parody andsatirizeheroic romances, and did this mostly by dragging them into the low realm of the burlesque.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
There is also an independent student-run comic strip called that satirizes life at business school.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
With their sharp and bizarre sense of humor, they satirized high society and human hypocrisy.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The play satirizes the fledgling nation by showing that the present is no more a golden age than was the past.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
It is a spoof on television variety shows of the 1950s, satirizing celebrities public images and private lives.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.