satire
The films are very clever and funny and satirical.
a sharply satirical attack on the president
The movie is a dry satirical comedy set among the social elite of Manhattan.
The film opens with an amusing satiric anecdote involving the boy's two grandmothers.
She is a gifted performance artist who produces satiric, politically barbed videos in which she plays various ethnic types.
Many of the details in his novels are satiric, like the household appliances that demand to be fed with coins all the time.

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adaptation
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allegorical
anime
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boy-meets-girl
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noir
non-documentary
non-literary
one-shot
paean
parody
potboiler
psychological
sequel
stream of consciousness
tragicomedy

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Examples of satirical

satirical
It is not wholly focused on theatre: its eleven essays by different contributors also cover poetry, film, the novel, and satirical writing.
It was in the1820s that the figure of the beadle first became a satirical target.
When all this failed, these soldiers retaliated through satirical songs.
Our material contains evidence of stylistic innovation and jocular, creative, even satirical uses that require advanced skills from both the speaker/writer and the audience.
Its ambiguities would form the favorite subject of innumerable satirical texts.
Another excellent article analyses the various contemporary satirical views of the beguine, offering a most useful overview of texts that are frequently read.
Note, for instance, that the woman in both the cartoon and the satirical diary were not merely passive objects of the hoca's persuasion.
Humorous and satirical sketches definitely have their share of stereotyping and (over)generalization.
People came to admire it; but children also came to throw rocks and sing satirical songs.
The matter is somewhat different with the copies of life, the domestic portrayals and satirical plays.
She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.
One was to be glowingly admiring, the other cruelly satirical; the publisher would wait until the singer's retirement to decide which she had earned.
The performance thus assumes a satirical and iconoclastic tenor.
I think that the satirical impulse was uppermost.
Was the aesthetic distance set up in this satirical segment a necessary stage along the path to the eventual acceptance of the new-style chanson?
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