Intellectuals began writing "vicious satire and stinging commentary."

As the speculative comments of the crewmen turned goading, he met them, word for word, in a striking, vicious satire that forced their grudging respect.

Miles imagined the potential for vicious political satire, and winced.

As a conservative, pro-Habsburg Czech, Dub is the subject of some of Hašek's most vicious satire.

For all its hometown rooters, there are also plenty of critics of the company here, and Microsoft's chairman, William H. Gates, is a regular target of vicious local satire.

The later novel Joko's Anniversary (1969), another fable about loss of identity, is a vicious satire on social conformity.

True, in 1971, Roth wrote a vicious satire of Richard Nixon in "Our Gang," but by 1997, with his novel "American Pastoral," he had turned harshly against the 1960's.

In a downward spiral, Casanova was expelled again from Venice in 1783, after writing a vicious satire poking fun at Venetian nobility.

The Romantic poet Robert Southey accused him of "the want of all feeling in stripping his dead wife naked" and vicious satires such as The Unsex'd Females were published.

Many segments were vicious satires of television commercials; a typical "word from our sponsor" would have the announcer extolling the virtues of the item being advertised, accompanied by darkly humorous clips.