While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works.

While satire of everyday life in the USSR was allowed, the most prominent satirist being Arkady Raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes that made fun of Soviet political leaders, especially Brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindness and love for awards and decorations.

While such material has earned Hustler much criticism from feminists and other critics, Flynt and his supporters defend the cartoons as bawdy social satire.

While Sonneveld became known for more serious, more searching kinds of cabaret as well as expansion into other areas of amusement such as musicals, and while Kan focussed more and more on purely political satire, Toon Hermans remained true to his one lifetime love: simple home-grown humor, the ability to make people laugh.

While this type of satire became more common as people imitated Swift, later, Swift is quite unusual in offering the readers no way out.

While Mencken praised Babbitt as unflinching satire, others argued that Lewis took his depiction of the American businessman too far.

While some critics criticized the film's depictions of violence and greed — such as death scenes, Kate's speech, and the gremlins ' gluttony — for lacking comic value, scholar Charlotte Miller instead interpreted these as a satire of " some characteristics of Western civilization ", suggesting that Westerners may take too much satisfaction from violence.

While the book pokes fun at contemporary society, the main thrust is a satire of romanticized ideas of chivalry, and of the idealization of the Middle Ages common in the novels of Sir Walter Scott and other 19th century literature.

On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an 88 % " Certified Fresh " rating from critics, with the following consensus: " While over-the-top and gory, RoboCop is also a surprisingly smart sci-fi flick that uses ultraviolence to disguise its satire of American culture ".

While Stade complemented Lessing on the book's satire, and her depictions of Zone 6, which he said " have the eerie beauty of ancient Gnostic texts ", he " disapprove " of the novel as a whole, but added, " that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy reading it ".

While Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson admired the play's " satire in Norwegian egotism, narrowness, and self-sufficiency " and described it as " magnificent ", Hans Christian Andersen, Georg Brandes and Clemens Petersen all joined a widespread hostility.

While journalism was his primary focus, this was also the period of time in which he developed his penchant for humor and satire.

While the story is fictional, the author included a bibliography section that informed the story's satire of globalization and modern corporate practices.

While in school, he published a satire and pinned it on the door of Dimitsana Pasha ( the Turkish local governor at the time ) signing it " Gregorios PHOS Kalamios " ( Φῶς Καλάμιος τοὔνομα Γρηγόριος ).

While The Revenger's Tragedy was apparently performed by an adult company at the Globe Theatre, its bizarre violence and vicious satire mark it as influenced by the dramaturgy of the private playhouses.

While at Yale, he co-founded and edited the political satire magazine Monocle.

Ortved said, " While the Simpsons people have always claimed evenhandedness in their satire, the show is, after all, hardly right-leaning, and it is hard to miss how gleefully the former President is mocked here.

" While writing the libretto, however, Gilbert took note of the criticism he had received for his very mild satire of a clergyman in The Sorcerer, and looked about for an alternative pair of rivals.

While teaching at Tulane, Spratling shared a house with writer William Faulkner, and they collaborated to produce Sherwood Anderson And Other Famous Creoles, a satire of the bohemian atmosphere of the French Quarter in the 1920s.

" While he didn't consider it the worst episode he's ever seen, he criticized the episode's pacing and lack of satire, writing " it ’ s just that the plates spin so fast and so pointlessly that it becomes just about the gags.

While Kipling may have intended the piece as a form of satire, much of Kipling's other writing does suggest that he genuinely believed in the " beneficent role " which the introduction of Western ideas could play in lifting non-Western peoples out of poverty and ignorance.

While Jean finds she is slowly able to tap into the powers of the Phoenix Force once again, her marriage to Scott begins to fail.

While this phase is executed, the pole begins to recoil, propelling the vaulter quickly upward.

While Roger retains his basic appearance and sustains no lasting damage from his swashbucklings and repeated near-mutilations, his hair begins the series brown and changes to blonde in the upgrade between parts III and IV.

While Maurice feels guilt for kicking sand into a child's eye, Roger begins to throw stones at one of the boys.

While lifting weights with Joseph, they discover that his physical strength is far beyond what he previously thought and Joseph begins to idolize his father and believe he is a superhero.

While criminal procedure differs dramatically by jurisdiction, the process generally begins with a formal criminal charge and results in the conviction or acquittal of the defendant.

** While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.

While a typical web server can handle a few hundred connections per second before performance begins to degrade, most web servers fail almost instantly under five or six thousand connections per second.

While searching for his friend, Robert begins to take notes of the events as they unfold.

While Caesar is in winter quarters among the Belgae, Commius the Atrebatian begins to harass the Romans by attacking their convoys.

While Jock begins to woo Queenie, Hank is upset that Queenie is building her success on her looks rather than her talent.

While the book provides the courtship as a backstory, the real novel begins upon his retirement.

While elements of Chaucer and Boccaccio have a picaresque feel and are likely to have contributed to the style, the modern picaresque begins with Lazarillo de Tormes, which was published anonymously in Antwerp and Spain in 1554.

While there is evidence for settlement of the area now occupied by the town that dates back to the Iron Age, Arbroath's history as a town begins in the High Middle Ages with the founding of Arbroath Abbey in 1178.

While Ellie ( Joan Bennett ), Kay's mother, immediately begins making preparations for the wedding, Stanley lies awake at night, fearing the worst for his daughter.

While new to Earth, Matrix begins a romance with the DC Universe's Lex Luthor, until she realizes Luthor's villainous nature.

While listening to a recording of " Penny Serenade ," Julie Gardiner Adams ( Irene Dunne ) begins reflecting on her past.

While Speer begins with his childhood, he spends most of the memoirs describing his work in the Nazi hierarchy.

While thoroughly aware he was inviting comparison with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ( both use a chorus as the centerpiece of a much longer final movement, which begins with references to the earlier movements ), Mahler knew he wanted a vocal final movement.

While the Franks fight magnificently, there's no way they can continue to hold off against the Saracens, and the battle begins to turn clearly against them.

While accompanying an old friend on a debt collection errand he meets Kate and begins a relationship with her.

While visiting each world, Sasshi is quick to learn the gimmick behind each one, and eventually begins playing by the world's " rules ".

While first naive and innocent and in the form of a young Sylia, she begins to learn and mature and cause boomers to go rogue as part of her plans.

While Lawrence starts off behaving normally during the party, as he becomes increasingly hen-pecked by his wife, he begins to act in a more neurotic manner, to the point where he too becomes an annoyance to his guests.

While the episodes were first shown in 1966, the show's setting begins in 1968, two years into the then-future.