The painting's brutalized characters, drawn from history, the Bible, popular culture and even Ensor's family, align the Symbolist artist with a satiric tradition that includes such earlier Northern painters as Hieronymous Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.

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Gradually, a team was put together that began with Douglas Carter Beane writing a new, longer book with a more satiric and political edge.

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It's a very satiric movie or satiric idea.

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He had a great deal to say, with a steady gaze into my eyes, about my reading the New York Post, which he interpreted as a sign of a highly satiric yet demotically moral intelligence.

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But Geena Davis, as a hot-shot TV reporter, is smashing: she strikes a lovely balance between warmth and satiric precision, and holds it in the midst of the general chaos.

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In the weeks leading up to Election Day, the political jokes continued on social media, culminating on the big day with a steady stream of cheeky humor, fake, parody Twitter handles and satiric mashups.

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