satirist
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Gladiatorial combat in the arena was, in the satirist Juvenal’s phrase, “bread and circuses” for the Roman masses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
“Wake me up in a hundred years, ask me what is happening in Russia,” mused Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, a 19th-century satirist, “and I’ll tell you with my usual frankness: We steal, we drink, we make war.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026
Allen may have surprised listeners who know the director as a master satirist of the flawed personality, but Maher was right on brand.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2025
American musician and satirist Tom Lehrer has died at the age of 97, according to US media reports.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2025
Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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