Butz is one of many amusingly creepy medical caricatures who inhabit this high-pitched social satire, whose scathing humor recalls "Network," the director's brickbat assault on television.

Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited.

In many instances rage comes out as scathing humor.

What unites these elements - and keeps the novel from sinking into stale allegory - is Marcus's vigorous imagination and scathing humor.

SHEWEY - Where in the movie are examples of the kind of brutal, scathing humor you like?

Unfortunately, we only get hints of Mr. Sendak's playfully scathing humor.

Marc laughed again with a scathing humour that seemed to cut Peter to the quick, but Marc went on, 'You don't mean you're going to enjoy Uncle's money, you mean you're going to squander it.

With scathing humor and bitter irony, Auslander wrestles with his Jewish Orthodox roots.

Behind that severity is a scathing humor, which she directs against all those who believed that women were capable only of child-bearing and husband-pleasing.