What is "satiric"

Usage examples of "satiric".

An acutely satiric man in an English circle, that does not resort to the fist for a reply to him, may almost satiate the excessive fury roused in his mind by an illogical people of a provocative prosperity, mainly tongueless or of leaden tongue above the pressure of their necessities, as he takes them to be.

He had him cited before the Faculty of Medicine to be examined on his knowledge of the eye, and procured the insertion of a satiric article in the news on the new operation for replacing the crystalline humour, alluding to the wonderful artist then in Warsaw who could perform this operation as easily as a dentist could put in a false tooth.

And moving in the rapid, stationary dance, he came a little nearer, and reached forward with an incredibly mocking, satiric gleam on his face, and would have kissed her again, had she not started back.

When satiric discourse represents the disturbances of culture, the metalinguistic function indicates how language embodies the underlying disorders.

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.

But it may also be self-consciously performative in two other ways that help define its satiric character.

The performative nature of satiric drama produces, in turn, a performance by its characters that reveals the evil or silliness of society.

Beyond the performative nature of language itself, it casts characters in social roles that, distinct from the personality of the character who plays them, become performative and, when the discrepancy between personality and role is pronounced, satiric.

Beggars sat by church doors asking for alms, mendicant friars begged bread for their orders or for the poor in prison, jongleurs performed stunts and magic in the plazas and recited satiric tales and narrative ballads of adventure in Saracen lands.

Hence the Jacobean plays that seem most satiric are those which retain the strongest elements of the Aristophanic pattern.

The interpretation of unresolved satiric performances in a real sense repeats the Aristophanic pattern of lodging its real subjects beyond the stage itself.

Many satiric Latin poems bear his name at Eton, and he continued that turn afterwards at Cambridge.

But although satires may have norms, norms are not essential to satire, which may make judgments by internal shifts of perception that do not appeal to external values or by identifying the satiric object as ridiculous rather than immoral.

Secondly, the satiric voice in both poets shifts in tone, topic, and values from section to section and line to line, avoiding universal statements as a matter of principle, and condemning whoever, Stoic or Tory, uses universals as a source of unworthy power.

Slade knew that he had come a long way out of a dangerous mental state when he could think of Amor and feel satiric about his impulse to ask her to marry him.