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1. In the preparation of this tome, I advertised its availability in the bi-weekly satirical paper Private Eye
2. A satirical smile played over her face and she shook her head
3. Catch 22* is a brilliant satirical novel by Joseph
4. a little too long for him, he gave a callous, satirical snicker and
5. of his satirical theatrics, his hands would finally drape back down
6. A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
7. “Thanks for coming, ladies,” he said with a satirical smile, “I needed you here to celebrate my failure
8. The moment called for a witty remark, a viciously satirical observation to unsettle the Grand
9. And if such subjects are ever brought up in their company, they brush them away with some satirical remark, or some oft-repeated old smart saying of scepticism
10. Don Quixote is the hero of a romance (1650-15) by Miguel de Cervantes, a satirical account of chivalric beliefs and conduct
11. Lots of his countryfolk might not've thought all he did or ordered done was strictly kosher (excuse the satirical reference, please!)
12. enmudecerá Talía: Thalia is the muse of comedy; hence the passagewould mean 'your laughing satirical tongue will be silenced
13. rondelet; usually humorous or satirical
14. to be on the point of committing himself,a satirical or ironical
15. As Comrade Pelican, in the satirical Hungarian movie "The Witness", would say: "For the life of me, I just don't understand it!"
16. satirical xxxiverse, epigrams, parodies and letrillas in racy Castilian;he was less successful in the
17. satirical and humorousjournal, El Padre Cobos, Selgas won the attention of the publicby his
18. This is why such a universal affinity exists for this character: A thing that has the intelligence of a bean; almost as indestructible as a dried bean, a mindless fool, a level of satirical comedy so low, so crude, so bestial and infantile: designed to brainwash people down to the lowest level of mindlessness possible
19. That he was still in Seville in November 1598 appears from a satirical sonnet of his on the elaborate catafalque erected to testify the grief of the city at the death of Philip II, but from this up to 1603 we have no clue to his movements
20. Mary Kinglsey insisted on lending her her watch till recess, and Jenny Snow, a satirical young lady, who had basely twitted Amy upon her limeless state, promptly buried the hatchet and offered to furnish answers to certain appalling sums
21. After all, I am grateful to this gentleman, the author, for saying that my novels are more satirical than exemplary, but that they are good; for they could not be that unless there was a little of everything in them
22. dispositions favourable to love, while satirical writers have attributed the
23. It is all very well to be a bit satirical till you see her
24. Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify
25. "Do you?" replied the other, soft, satirical, abstract
26. His dislike of capital punishment, and plans for the reformation of offenders; his detestation of priests and lawyers (Compare his satirical observation: 'They (the Utopians) have priests of exceeding holiness, and therefore very few
27. Like Plato he is full of satirical reflections on governments and princes; on the state of the world and of knowledge
28. He was accused on several occasions of groping, fondling, and taking other sexual liberties with his young female employees, which was one plot thread of a thinly veiled 1937 satirical novel of Grantham, Rotten Borough
29. points out in an interesting communication published by an evening contemporary) of the harsher and more personal note which is found in the satirical effusions of the famous Raftery and of Donal MacConsidine to say nothing of a more modern lyrist at present very much in the public eye
30. Mademoiselle Danglars was still the same—cold, beautiful, and satirical
31. It is nonsense to have such thoughts in this kind of case, which is rather one for satirical laughter than for tragedy
32. She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling
33. Lydgate had often been satirical on this gratuitous prediction, and he meant now to be guarded
34. Issued only two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this was Kubrick’s blackly satirical response to the nuclear tension of the Cold War
35. Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical: perhaps without exactly knowing what it was to be satirical; but THAT did not signify
36. The Old Huntsman and Other Poems (1917); Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918); War Poems (1919); Satirical Poems (1926); Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (1928)
37. It is therefore not in strict character, however admirably satirical, that after going to school himself, he should then go abroad inculcating not what he learned there, but the folly of it
38. Napoleon was very satirical in chronicling the fact that the Russians had celebrated Borodino as the first victorious encounter of their forces with the invader
39. [Note 76: One of the obscure satirical allusions contained in this poem
40. You will be promptly held up to shame in the Chronicle of Progress and in our satirical prints
41. He was a solid youth with a free-and-easy though mistrustful manner, with an unchangeably satirical smile, together with a calm air of triumphant faith in his own perfection
42. I felt that her laughter was not satirical, but only natural and free; so that, as we laughed together and looked at one another, there seemed to begin a kind of sympathy between us
43. It is this inner contradiction which, besides its satirical significance, forms the chief meaning of Bel-Ami
44. “I had no idea your uncle’s notion of honor was also eccentric,” said I, with a satirical smile that made the blood rush to her face
45. With satirical courtesy Buck lifted his—and at that psychological moment the only plug hats in the whole town of Smyrna saluted each other
