satyric

Oakes had been satyric all through the dark hours.

He smiled slightly, his face dark and satyric.

His wide, thin-lipped mouth twisted in a satyric smile.

He also attended to satyric, marital and folklore poetry.

That satyric sire of our long afternoon?

The other gave a satyric smile.

Personally, I am even more fascinated by Herb, the husband, the satyric, pensionable man of letters.

His reputation as a writer of satyric dramas is attested in the well-known line:

You-" "Clark told me all about your satyric reputation.

The Omphale was a satyric drama.

A.E. Haigh writes extensively on costumes for the satyric drama.

His satyric plays were much admired for their spirited style, albeit somewhat labored and lacking in clarity.

For it was there that Gerard Rukenau, the satyric sermonizer himself, had chosen to make his home.

His genre-bending inventiveness is shown above all in Alcestis, a blend of tragic and satyric elements.

He was stiffer than before, if that was physiologically possible, and a fever had descended upon him like a satyric malaria.

The critic John Martin called it "hilari ous and satyric and poetic."

Satyric drama was one of the three varieties of Athenian drama, the other two being tragedy and comedy.

Granted, men needn't act on such desires, but the drive to sow seed is there nonetheless, satyric and relentless, and women cannot fully understand its force.

This "satyric drama" burlesqued the serious events of the mythic past with lewd pantomime and subversive mockery.

But the plot of this Satyric or Silenic drama has been detected, and you must not allow him, Agathon, to set us at variance.

It is told that Nicocles, king of Cyprus, killed him for some satyric pieces he had composed on Nicocles' sons.

A satyric womaniser, he inspired the US magazine Spy to publish in 1989 an eight-page chart of his notorious pickup lines.

The iambic measure then replaced the trochaic tetrameter, which was originally employed when the poetry was of the satyric order, and had greater with dancing.

Its drawbacks and satyric philanders notwithstanding, Viagra often works in the way those fortunate chemists in Kent intended.