“There is a strongly moral agenda to McInerney's satire which suggests a connection between the disordered individual and his degenerate society.”

“Its trenchant satire is directed at the creaking institutions of Victorian Britain, the Law above all, but also at a do-nothing government and a self-perpetuating governing class.”

“I used to think they were clever fiction, a satire on trendiness, a ludicrous but effective barb.”

“She suggests that the article is a horribly offensive diatribe that grossly over-generalises in its satirisation of the downtrodden Ulster underclass.”

“But where, in the Quran, does it say that violent reaction to the satirisation is a duty of the faithful?”

“Dr Jozajtis said The Simpsons frequently raised moral dilemmas through its satirisation of issues as diverse as teenage drinking and adultery.”

“The satirist differs from authors of other types of literature with regard to its way of dealing with his subject.”

“Ushenko is that rara avis in contemporary art, a big-hearted romantic satirist.”

“Famed in his day as patriot, satirist, and foe to tyranny, Marvell was virtually unknown as a lyric poet.”

“It is a drive-by satirizer of Christians, Jews, old people, police chiefs, groundskeepers, schoolteachers, doctors and the nuclear power industry.”

“We humans are inclined to sympathize with attractive people, which is why satirists often paint their targets in hideous garb.”

“The great satirists of the past did not worry about official watchdogs, and had greater targets in their sights than sports personalities.”

“But as apocalyptic literature has come in for criticism, so has utopian-by anti-utopians, often satirists.”

“Social dramas, folk farces, and satires also premiered during the nineteenth century.”

“It is not hard to see how libels and satires might foster conflict, for they offer mostly vitriolic attacks on individuals or vices.”

“He also published occasional verses, satires, and a free translation from Virgil.”