What is "satirist"

Usage examples of "satirist".

He now appeared for the first time as a formal satirist, and the Dunciad, in which he came forward as the champion of Wit, taken in its broad sense, against its natural antithesis, Dulness, is in some respect his masterpiece.

Besides the freethinkers, who will not yield to authority, but insist upon standing apart from the crowd, and the satirists, who level their shafts undiscriminatingly against what they perceive associated with absurdity, and the worldlings, who prefer the pleasures of time to the imaginarily contrasted goods of eternity, there is a fourth class of men who oppose the doctrine of a personal immortality as a protest against the burdensome miseries of individuality.

The satirist induces laughter by his exaggeration, the ironist induces indignation by his reversal.

The satirist is often good-natured, the ironist tends to be savage and bitter.

The tertiary level becomes theatrical because the satiric performance by a character echoes the theatrical performance of the satirist, calling attention to the performative nature of the play itself.

Some readers do not consider Don Quixote to be a complex, verisimilar character at all, but a puppet manipulated by a satirist, to engage in social criticism, or to tell us how not to read.

Hall, Bishop and satirist, who took an active part in the Arminian and Calvinistic controversy in the English Church, is of particular interest to Norwich, of which he became Bishop in 1641.

I wish to be of service to you, since you are the preeminent poet and satirist in Europe and I am but a simple patron of the arts who wishes to set forth an artistic enterprise.

The inversions of the Saturnalian occasion are in turn inverted by the performing satirist, who restores slave, fool, and beggars to their original nature.

Thus the dominant mode of satire shifts to fiction, which can imagine those values whose absence seems to rob satirists of their calling.

I began to imagine him as a brilliant satirist and social critic, a personage of Swiftian eminence, a post-Renaissance phenomenon, a bonfire around which we would all huddle for lessons and warmth.

Moorsedge, and had then beheld their strangely-hatted lieutenants and the regiments of the toneless respectable on the pantiles and the mounts, the curse upon the satirist impelled him to generalize.

There is not, indeed, a greater error than that which universally prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion from some ignorant satirists, have affixed the character of lewdness to these times.

The third type of great satire is that in which he satirist is enabled to rise superior to his victim in the only serious sense which superiority can bear, in that of pitying the sinner and respecting the man even while he satirises both.

And when Strength is not exercising, you are sure to see Satirists jump on his back.