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Although The Onion is known as a satirical publication, Harris said having a sense of humor is more important.— Iowa State Daily
Two elements are still in conflict, the photographic and the satirical; and the satirical is the only relief from the photographic.— Figures of Several Centuries
He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up near the beginning some singular epithet, which, serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which as with a knitting-needle he catches up the stitches if he has chanced now and then to let fall a row.— At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe
He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up, near the beginning, some singular epithet, which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting needle, he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced, now and then, to let fall a row For the higher kinds of poetry he has no sense, and his talk on that subject is delightfully and gorgeously absurd.— On the Choice of Books

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