mordant satire

What had seemed mordant satire 20 years before now came over as silly tomfoolery.

There are also trademark flashes of mordant satire.

Few things then sound sillier to him than the idea that his many mordant satires of red, white and blue myths are unpatriotic.

Obsessed with sin, she depicts human cruelty with both anguish and mordant satire.

Pastiche or mordant satire, depending on your point of view, is choreographed into other examples of a show within a show.

A biographer termed Hale "nearly fanatical" about women's rights, who attacked "head-on and without humor, except for mordant satire."

Overcome by the mordant satire in his tone, Mrs. George glanced speechlessly at Lucinda.

If Lady Chanboor caught the mordant satire in Stem's repartee, she did not show it as her face relaxed back to its usual sweet-and-sour set.

"Time Code" is at once a mordant satire of the hypocrisy and self-delusion of the film industry and an earnest declaration of faith in the medium itself.

Mr. Amis's mordant satire turns his characters into caricatures, but those caricatures have a vitality and erotic intensity seldom found in modern fiction.

The mordant satire, directed by Michael Engler, stars Christopher Lloyd and Christine Estabrook.

Combining mordant satire with adolescent behavior and crude humor (a severed foot left in a bag on a podiatrist's doorstep), the show is daring and wonderfully unpredictable.

In 1988, when Howard Korder's play "Boys' Life" first appeared, it came across as a mordant satire on the flabby selfishness of modern young men's search for emotional safety and sexual satisfaction with women - in that order.

"We don't want to bore you anymore," he said at the start of the last of his shows, which were characterized by mordant satire and self-deprecating humor and were popular among well-educated and affluent viewers, The Associated Press reported.

"A Great Voice Stilled," originally published in Playboy, is a mordant satire in which a famous writer's impending demise draws publicity-minded mourners who find it difficult to concentrate on their sorrow when distracted by thoughts of dinner.

The opera's difficulties are compounded by Prokofiev's unsure libretto, adapted from a novel by the Russian symbolist Valery Bryusov, and especially by its uneasy switching from psychological realism to high-flown rhetoric to mordant satire.

Rebecca West wrote a mordant satire of the Allies' switch titled "Madame Sara's Magic Crystal", which was published posthumously in 'The Only Poet' (1992), edited by Antonia Till, Virago, pp. 167-78 .

This classic black comedy - subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" - may well be Kubrick's greatest achievement; it is a near-perfect coalescing of mordant satire, broadly exaggerated comic acting and exacting attention to military details.

The first exhibition in the new rooms is 'John Heartfield', photomontages by the dadaist Berlin artist who commented with mordant satire on the Third Reich, which continues until 26 July (see The Art Newspaper No. 12, November 1991, p.7).

Opinion is divided about whether the poem expresses Stevens' distaste for romanticism in art, a "mordant satire...of all the things that other poems hold sacred"; or whether the poem is about "the refreshment that art, in its palace, gives to reality."

SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS - Paul Bartel's mordant satire "is one long smile with an occasional belly laugh."

Juan will turn out to be the most heroic figure in Paul Bartel's mordant satire "Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills," a film based on the clear and cynical assumption that the underclass is almost as greedy, callous and silly as the overclass.