(1) As Robert Vittek put Slovakia 5-1 ahead on 59 minutes, hundreds were heading for the exits while many of the remaining fans sarcastically cheered the most routine saves from their goalkeeper.
(2) Persepolis , the Greek name for Persia, is desperately moving and extremely funny - a little girl's sarcastic love letter to her family.
(3) "When you read the book, he sounds more sarcastic and snarky, closer to Holden Caulfield ," he says, "but with Dustin Hoffman it feels genuinely rabbit-in-the-headlights."
(4) Now, though, the staycationers are coming and the donkeys are less sarcastic.
(5) There's nothing defensive or snippy or sarcastic about his tone when he tells you that he can't act, or carries on as if his entire professional life is a kind of complicated mistake: he's actually rather charming company.
(6) "There's the side that wants to go along with it, but there's also a very sarcastic, sceptical side."
(7) They make sarcastic remarks about Reader being a so- called “master criminal”.
(8) "Here are the internet terrorists," their lawyer Rémy Josseaume sarcastically told the court in the southern town of Rodez on Tuesday.
(9) He does not have experience but he has potential.” Mourinho had a sarcastic comment for Fifa, after hearing that the governing body had made a statement about the on-going fallout from Mohamed Salah’s season-long loan move to Roma.
(10) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
(11) From the opening lines of Vietnam, Grant's set was sad, funny, tortured, sarcastic and, frankly, pure bloody perfection.
(12) That match too had its moments – notably when the Serb made a sarcastic racket-slap in response to the crowd’s cheer for a double fault that led to a break in a sloppy second set.
(13) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho , has been fined after his sarcastic appraisal of officials following the defeat by Sunderland.
(14) But what Clegg's rightwing and leftwing critics miss, as do predictably sarcastic journalists, is that this is precisely the point.
(15) Or as CBS Sports' Zach Harper sarcastically noted : "Can't wait for that nationally televised Heat-Bobcats game coming up."
(16) He said Christie laughed and made a sarcastic joke when he learned of Sokolich’s distress over not getting his calls returned.
(17) Countering that complaint Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, sent what the Israeli mission called a “sarcastic letter” to the security council listing acts of incitement by the Palestinian leadership, including last month’s drive-by shooting of a Jewish activist who had pushed for greater Jewish access to the sacred hilltop compound.
(18) The Valencia reporter for Onda Cero radio called it a “lack of respect”, while in AS it was described sarcastically as “English humour”.
(19) Not only did it get a sarcastic jeer from the Tories, but it made Vince ratty.
(20) Here's where I should warn readers that I may sometimes be sarcastic.
Satire
Definition:
(a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
(a.) Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) After heading for Rome with his long-term partner, Howard Auster, he returned to fiction with a bestselling novel, Julian, based on the life of a late Roman emperor; a political novel, Washington DC, based on his own family; and Myra Breckinridge, a subversive satire that examined contradictions of gender and sexuality with enough comic brio to become a worldwide bestseller.
(2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
(3) A Cairo heart surgeon inspired by the US news programme The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has captivated Egyptian viewers with a new style of satirical TV show poking fun at politicians on air for the first time.
(4) I'd like to say it's all a biting satire of American military practices (I know Busty Cops Go Hawaiian certainly was) but chances are it's just about a bunch of big meanie spiders.
(5) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
(6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Some recent statements on gay marriage from Ireland: "This is really a kind of a satire on marriage that is being conducted by the gay lobby.
(8) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(9) Homegrown talent Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s not much in the way of English-speaking talent, but Papi Jiang has become China’s biggest internet sensation after her satirical rants on topics of popular culture went viral on Youku (A Chinese version of YouTube) earlier this year.
(10) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
(11) Vice, folly and humbug – it is the point of satire really.
(12) So yes, it might sound far-fetched, the sort of proposal that lends itself to endless satire from the triumphalist neoliberal right.
(13) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(14) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(15) But Oliver now seems to have accepted his fate as a satirical news anchor who covers the Trump campaign, wading into the recent phallus-based Trump news in his headlines section on Sunday night.
(16) "But I think, as comics, we need to be braver and address what's happening in the world, and in this country, with satire based on real knowledge of the political situation."
(17) We wear its many dysfunctions as a badge of honour, proudly swapping real-life stories that elsewhere in the world would belong in the realms of sci-fi or satire.
(18) In a related development, on Saturday, I was supposed to host a discussion with Roger Drew, a writer on the political satire The Thick of It , about the 2012 Leveson-inspired Goolding inquiry episode .
(19) Laughing in the face of danger: the state of satire in the Muslim world Read more “The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table.
(20) The game's co-writer Dan Houser has described it as a satire on Los Angeles, and more specifically a modern Hollywood fading into insignificance in an era of outsourced production.