The following is of later date, and seems, somewhat unjustly we think, to satirize the fair sex alone.
There is here also a covert allusion to Nero, who, though so open to sarcasm, yet took upon him to satirize others.
In Gothicism itself we have practically no satire, though Jane Austen and Barrett satirize the terror novel itself in delicious burlesques that laugh it out of court.
The tendency to satirizeimmortality has crept even into poetry, for in a recent volume by Rupert Brooke there are several satiric studies.
Mr. Tilney's ironic jests satirize all the elements of Gothic romance.
Do not think, my dear Clifton, I am unjust enough to mean any thing personal; to satirize what I can scarcely be said to have seen, or to condemn unheard.
This method is easily distinguishable from the typical, which aims to satirize a class.
The attempts, as we have seen, were numerous, and it is highly improbable that Jonson wished to satirize any one of them more severely than another.
Its hero serves to justify or to satirize an institution; for that end he exists.
To most Americans the smaller pictures of Leech and others in Punch, which gently satirize the foibles and fashions of the time, are more interesting than the political cartoons.
Among the heaps of albums to be found in a French collection we turn with particular curiosity to those which satirize the child life of France.
Nor can we claim much for their pictures which aim to satirize the vices.
Thus, week after week, for many a month, did Le Charivari "utilize" these impossible characters to expose and satirize the plausible scoundrelism of the period.
There are also many rude pictures from those centuries which aimed to satirize the more active foibles of the sex.
He dare not satirize the living, but will attack the dead.
He may do no more than satirize a vice embodied and typified in an imaginary personality.
It is true that vices flaunted themselves before his eyes that it would be hard to satirize without indecency.
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
The object of these periodicals was to reflect the passing humors of the time, and to satirize the follies and minor immoralities of the town.
It is true, also, that Thackeray approached "society" rather to satirize it than to set forth its agreeableness.
Shakspere never composed a play or poem without a purpose, to satirize an evil, correct a wrong or elevate the human soul into the lofty atmosphere of the good and great.
Schools, universities, monks, priests and popes were rungs in the ladder of his mind, and only noticed to scar and satirizetheir hypocrisy, bigotry and tyranny with his javelins of matchless wit.
After a year in Orleans he went to Bourges, attracted by the fame of the Italian jurist Alciati, whose ungainliness of body and speech and vanity of mind his students loved to satirize and even by occasional rebellion to chasten.
You can satirize a fallen angel who willfully refuses to regain his paradise; but you cannot satirize an animal who is developing through millions of years his own will to be used against his own instincts.
One might fancy that this passage had been written to satirize our own times rather than the sixteenth century.
Having occupied the ear of society by these preliminary fanfaronnades, he proceeded to satirize the Courts in general, and to vilify the manners of princes, without mentioning any in particular.
It is clear that under the allegory of witchcraft, in which at the same time he seems to have believed firmly, Folengo meant to satirize the secret corruption of society.
That purpose was to satirize the vice, hypocrisy and superstition of the clergy, and more particularly of the begging friars.
Scaramucca or Fracassa was added tosatirize the Spanish soldier.
Then the negro was used to burlesque and satirize the weaknesses, follies, and affectations of whites.
We know from Dr Hyde's Literary History of Ireland that an important function of the ancient bards was to satirize the rivals and enemies of their chieftain.
If Thackeray were now writing, he would not satirize snobs.
This play was first prohibited by the lord Chamberlain, but upon examination being found innocent of any design to satirize the government, it was suffered to be represented, and had great success.
To satirize this violation of the laws of Palladio, and inattention to the dictates of common sense, Hogarth has represented the royal carriage on the point of entering the arch, and the king's body-coachman without a head.
We will next inquire into the motives by which the artist was actuated, and the subjects he has intended to satirize in this his concluding enigmatical and pun-ical print.
The only person that can ever satirize your Excellency is yourself; and I think even then that, in spite of your candour, your self-examination must please us with a self-panegyric.
And who shall complain when the first person that I satirize is myself?
For instance, when Wolsey was in the fulness of his power, Sergeant Roo ventured tosatirize the Cardinal in a masque with which Gray's Inn entertained Henry VIII.
One supposes them merely intended to convey a ridicule on the old masters, or placed here to satirize the impropriety of adorning rooms with inappropriate subjects.
The leading object of this writer is to satirize the Tory principles of the University of Oxford; but as the book does not abound in subjects for the pencil, Hogarth has selected a scene described in No.
Men complain, and with reason, of the follies and caprices of our sex, when they do not keenly satirize our headstrong passions and groveling vices.
His talent is to formulate rules of poetry, to satirize fashionable society, to make brilliant epigrams in faultless couplets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "satirize" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
