Dr. Strangelove

American  

[streynj-luhv] / ˈstreɪndʒˌlʌv /

noun

1. a person, especially a military or government official, who advocates initiating nuclear warfare.

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Etymology

Origin of Dr. Strangelove

After a character in a movie of the same name (1963) by U.S. director Stanley Kubrick

Example Sentences

Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satirical masterpiece “Dr. Strangelove” brilliantly parodied the lunacy of the nuclear threat during the Cold War.

From Salon

Mr. Duvall seemed as unhinged as anyone in “Dr. Strangelove,” and yet he’s so deadpan, and so commanding, that as he crouches in the chaos wearing an 1860s-style Cavalry Stetson it’s easy to understand why his boys might follow him everywhere, and even attempt to surf amid the explosions.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s easier to howl at a classic like “Dr. Strangelove,” which mocked the leaders giddyuping the planet’s destruction, than at a present-day satire where we ourselves are the joke.

From Los Angeles Times

Using satire and humor in the vein of an equally powerful film of the early 1960s, “Dr. Strangelove,” it exposes the grotesque, absurd nature of the Stephen Millers and Gregory Bovinos more accurately than a documentary ever could.

From Salon

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon