But the fun is in the author's gentle satire of academia.

And attempts to transform Punch from its gentle satire into a younger, hipper product failed.

Baum spreads his gentle and genial satire to other targets too, even to the popular fiction of his era.

The film is a gentle satire on the values the English hold so dear.

Their style of comedy was usually gentle satire on married life, but also poked fun at the world of show business.

However, the intent of the piece was gentle satire, not total condemnation.

His gentle satires and witty caricatures became enormously popular in the 1920s.

The optimism of the show, even its gentle satire, seems light years away from our current brutalist moment.

Nevertheless, he is regarded as an exemplary prose stylist with superb humor and gentler social satire.

What ensues is a gentle and quirky satire on religion, love, and friendship.