Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

The aardwolf is usually classified with the Hyaenidae, though it was formerly placed into the family Protelidae.

Astatine is usually classified as either a nonmetal or a metalloid.

An atom is classified according to the number of protons and neutrons in its nucleus: the number of protons determines the chemical element, and the number of neutrons determines the isotope of the element.

Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.

They can be further classified as homogeneous ( consisting of a single phase ), or heterogeneous ( consisting of two or more phases ) or intermetallic ( where there is no distinct boundary between phases ).

The Apache Software Foundation ( ASF ) is a non-profit corporation ( classified as 501 ( c )( 3 ) in the United States ) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

In the different systems these emanations are differently named, classified, and described, but the emanation theory itself is common to all forms of Gnosticism.

In the 1990s, Jürgen Schmidhuber described an algorithmic theory of beauty which takes the subjectivity of the observer into account and postulates: among several observations classified as comparable by a given subjective observer, the aesthetically most pleasing one is the one with the shortest description, given the observer ’ s previous knowledge and his particular method for encoding the data.

Because letters usually stand for consonants, it is classified as an abjad.

The progression from HIV to AIDS is not immediate or even necessarily rapid ; HIV's cytotoxic activity towards CD4 + lymphocytes is classified as AIDS once a given patient's CD4 + cell count falls below 200.

It is classified as a hard fiber, along with coir, henequin and sisal.

The way that the spines are joined together at the center of the cell varies and is one of the primary characteristics by which acanthareans are classified.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

Aerodynamic problems can also be classified according to whether the flow speed is below, near or above the speed of sound.

Southeast Alaska is a temperate rain forest within the Pacific temperate rain forest zone, as classified by the World Wildlife Fund's ecoregion system, which extends from northern California to Prince William Sound.

Analcime is usually classified as a zeolite mineral, but structurally and chemically it is more similar to the feldspathoids.

Even though the saxophone is classified as a woodwind instrument and the harmonica is a free reed aerophone, both are also often made from brass.

Bridges can also be classified by their lineage, which is shown as the vertical axis on the diagram.

Though geographically surrounded by Indo-European Romance languages, Basque is classified as a language isolate.

It is classified as a Menippean satire, a fusion of allegorical tale, platonic dialogue, and lyrical poetry.

The oldest form of satire still in use is the Menippean satire by Menippus of Gadara.

Moronia parodies Catholic customs ; in its province Variana is found an antique coin parodying Justus Lipsius, a target for Hall's satire ad hominem ( here the personal attack goes beyond the Menippean model ).

The Menippean satire genre is named after him.

His writings exercised considerable influence upon later literature, and the Menippean satire genre is named after him.

The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes instead of specific individuals.

The genre continued with Seneca the Younger, whose Apocolocyntosis, or " Pumpkinification ", is the only near-complete classical Menippean satire to survive.

The Menippean tradition is later evident in Petronius ' Satyricon, especially in the banquet scene " Cena Trimalchionis ", which combines epic form, tragedy, and philosophy with verse and prose.

Marshall McLuhan also makes extensive use of menippean satire as he suggests: “ Most of my writing is Menippean satire, presenting the actual surface of the world we live in as a ludicrous image .”

In Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin treats Menippean satire as one of the classical " serio-comic " genres, alongside Socratic dialogue and other forms that Bakhtin claims are united by a " carnival sense of the world ", wherein " carnival is the past millennia's way of sensing the world as one great communal performance " and is " opposed to that one-sided and gloomy official seriousness which is dogmatic and hostile to evolution and change ".

In a series of articles, Edward Milowicki and Robert Rawdon Wilson, building upon Bakhtin ’ s theory, have argued that Menippean is not a period-specific term, as many Classicists have claimed, but a term for discursive analysis that instructively applies to many kinds of writing from many historical periods including the modern.

This single encyclopedic work, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (" On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury "), sometimes called De septem disciplinis (" On the seven disciplines ") or the Satyricon, is an elaborate didactic allegory written in a mixture of prose and elaborately allusive verse, a prosimetrum in the manner of the Menippean satires of Varro.

The term Menippeah ( Menippeah is a variant spelling of Menippea, referencing the Menippean satire in classical literature and in the literary theories of scholars including Mikhail Bakhtin and Northrop Frye ) has been adopted as the name of a literary genre or theory, based on the principles of philosophical aesthetics, semiotics and narratology, developed by Alfred Barkov.

His point is simply that the Tories have showered him with personal satire, despite the fact that as a private subject he has a right to speak on political matters without affronting the prerogative of the Sovereign.

In them, there is usually a group of Anglo-Americans with tragicomic problems, worthy of being explored either in the novel or in the play or in comedy and satire ''.

There is a bitter satire for a future writer in that ''.

More than a beautiful visualization of the illustrious adventures and escapades of the tragi-comic knight-errant and his squire, Sancho Panza, in seventeenth-century Spain, this inevitably abbreviated rendering of the classic satire on chivalry is an affectingly warm and human exposition of character.

In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.

In the tradition of Roman satire, Swift introduces the reforms he is actually suggesting by paralipsis:

Wittkowsky counters that Swift's satiric use of statistical analysis is an effort to enhance his satire that " springs from a spirit of bitter mockery, not from the delight in calculations for their own sake ".

A Modest Proposal is included in many literature programs as an example of early modern western satire.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

" For most Swahili speakers, the use of satire in writing is unfamiliar.

* Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ) is a landmark poetic political satire by John Dryden.

Among his very numerous works two poems entitle him to a distinguished place in the Latin literature of the Middle Ages ; one of these, the De planctu naturae, is an ingenious satire on the vices of humanity.

The Caucus Race as depicted by Carroll is a satire on the political caucus system, mocking its lack of clarity and decisiveness.

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

" Just about anything could be a target for Capp's satire — in one storyline Li ' l Abner is revealed to be the missing link between ape and man.

In Isaiah 44: 09 – 20 this is developed into a satire on the making and worship of idols, mocking the foolishness of the carpenter who worships the idol that he himself has carved.

Typical of his satire and cynical humour, the book included a discourse on Parkinson's Law of Triviality ( debates about expenses for a nuclear plant, a bicycle shed, and refreshments ), a note on why driving on the left side of the road ( see road transport ) is natural, and suggested that the Royal Navy would eventually have more admirals than ships.

Candide, ou l ' Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.

For example, " Holiday in Cambodia " is a multi-layered satire targeting both yuppies and Cambodia's then-current Khmer Rouge regime.

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, veracity, and even nationalism.