How To Use Sardonic In A Sentence
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In my more sardonic moments I add that the problem with England cricket is not the absence of a level playing field but the lack of good players.
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The narrator is somewhat sardonic about his guests and is perhaps influenced by the three whiskies he's had and the cleanskin he's finishing up with.
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I am never quite clear on whether all this is sartorial or sardonicDads way of announcing that he used to be a punker but is now a middle-school English teacher, or if becoming a teacher has actually turned my dad into this genuine throwback.
Excerpt: If I Stay by Gayle Forman
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Really?" she said, raising a sardonic eyebrow.
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Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes.
The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
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She gave him a sardonic smile.
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I see it as more sardonic and astringent, in the manner of Prokofiev.
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He retains his wonderful sense of humor and continues to make his sardonic comments on life, as it is lived in the ballet world of George Zoritch.
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Fan though I am of his great performances of yore, his perpetual air of sardonic superiority is now getting very grating.
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Skate - he imagined that was one of those flat bony fish, with the teeth showing in a sardonic grin.
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Even at best, in the Hiller variations, in some of the string trios and organ fugues, some of his grave adagios, even in some of his sardonic and turbulent scherzi (perhaps his most original contributions), his art is rather more a refinement on another art than
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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Not that any proper Canadian would ever say something so tart or sardonic.
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The Third Man is very much a jape - a sardonic waltz set to the mocking gaiety of its infectious zither theme.
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In listening to these works with their clumsy blocks of tone, their eternal sunless complaining, their lack of humor where they would be humorous, their lack of passion where they would be profound, their sardonic and monotonous bourdon, one is perforce reminded of the photograph of Reger which his publishers place on the cover of their catalogue of his works, the photograph that shows something that is like a swollen, myopic beetle with thick lips and sullen expression crouching on an organ-bench.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
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Peter laughed, his voice sounding harsh and ugly, and his mouth twisted into a sardonic sneer.
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Diogenes, known for sleeping in a tub in the porticoes of temples, eating with dogs and defecating in public, was a sardonic reminder of how thin the veneer of Athenian civilization could be.
Tales of Jaunty Anarchy on the Nile
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Williamson possesses a deep, sardonic baritone that makes for a curious counterpoint to his exuberant indie-pop dancercise routines.
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“I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George,” he would say, in his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical discourse upon the fall of man, and his faults, and shortcomings; and wonder why Heaven had not made us all brave and tall, and handsome and rich?
The Virginians
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She could imagine that hard, sardonic grin beneath the tufted eyebrows.
RIOT
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A sardonic Scherzo follows, then a funereal passacaglia set in motion by ‘wrong-note’ chords on piano.
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His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face.
In Chancery
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It's a very rum go, and in the end, despite the occasional hoots of sardonic delight which it all provokes, it just makes you feel a bit depressed.
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Hers, I thought, must be a curious soul, where in spite of a strong, natural tendency to estimate unduly advantages of wealth and station, the sardonic disdain of a fortuneless subordinate had wrought a deeper impression than could be imprinted by the most flattering assiduities of a prosperous
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
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Critics come in vastly varying styles: from subtle, self-effacing, and sardonic, to oracular, vatic, apocalyptic, to plain damned intelligent.
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I find it amazing that my flippant and sardonic comments on one 600 pound butterball of a women has provoked such a response.
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Blithe and boldfaced, Xena: Warrior Princess's quest is to entertain despite the slings and arrows of scathing, sardonic criticism.
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He cannot be called a caricaturist, for in his work there lacks that fierce quality of critical conception -- above all, that subject-matter that makes one think, that sardonic appeal to head and heart at once, which make up the sum of true caricature.
The History of "Punch"
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When once deceived, however, or undeceived about the character of a person, he became utterly incredulous, and he saluted this fine speech of my lord's with a sardonical, inward laughter, preserving his gravity, however, and scarce allowing any of his scorn to appear in his words.
The Virginians
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Many show the popular imagination at work, with jocular and sometimes grotesque names, names that betray attitudes -- amused, derisive, envious, sardonic, rejective.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2
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What fascinates is his vision of our world, a vision both grim and sardonic, though his sympathies are plainly with victims of every stamp.
Comments On Reviews Of Travel Advisory
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You can bet, though, that the Frenchman has allowed himself a sardonic smile.
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Elsewhere sardonic mockery gave way to the radiant Mariinsky chorus and the harmonies of the Orthodox church.
Times, Sunday Times
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He tries to convey the humour to Phil, but Phil looks at him sardonically and talks of other things.
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the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams
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While each arm-chair dean is entitled to his or her own opinion on the matter, I'd say sardonic observations and a surface knowledge of such matters does not an expert make.
Discourse.net: Yes, We're Hiring
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With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.
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If you did nothing but pursue the main battle missions in Fallout 3 , the game would be much less melancholy, because all you'd encounter would be sardonic rejoinders, brutal attacks and corpses to ransack for bad-ass weapons, precisely like every other shoot'em-up in history.
Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression
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He describes a similar shift a bit more sardonically, saying that his relationship has settled into a state of "depressing comfortableness.
Douglas LaBier: Recharge a Declining Relationship Through "Indifference"
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THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner.
My Seduction
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Their sardonic remarks to each of the arguments put forth by the other teams sent waves of laughter among the crowd.
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Their blunt way of describing some of the ills of society might alienate some people, especially those unaccustomed to sarcasm or sardonic humour.
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But these songs have a sly, sardonic and subtle wit, underpinned by silky jazz melodies that once under your skin stay there.
The Sun
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They were written very coolly, very detachedly, very sardonically – saying, well if this is what you, mankind want to do with the world, then this is how it will be.
Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
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Even when he toured with Squeeze, the essential London song-writing band of the 1980s, and went on to present the genre-busting youth show The Tube alongside Paula Yates live on Channel 4, Holland always seemed sardonic and quirky rather than dangerous or louche.
Jools Holland: why I'm happy just to play the blues
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It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous, troubled kid character.
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She offers brightly sardonic descriptions of everything from cuisine to her brother's marriage.
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If there's a common thread running through Payne's films it is a strong sardonic sense of humour through which characters embrace life's vicissitudes.
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Some say sardonically that combat pay is good and that one can do quite well out of this war.
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In his prose he becomes a powerful presence, a personality with obstinate opinions and sardonic asides.
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The best writers in this kind were Middleton and Dekker -- and the best play to read as a sample of it _Eastward Ho! _ in which Marston put off his affectation of sardonical melancholy and joined with Jonson and Dekker to produce what is the masterpiece of the non-Shakespearean comedy of the time.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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She was in thick stage make-up, sardonic expression drawn upon her visage.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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In 1961, American film director William Castle's horror film Mr Sardonicus allegedly had two endings.
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Right at that moment, a young boy, hardly 20 or even younger, looked up at me and said sardonically, ‘To propitiate the gods, babu, we do not have to look up these days.’
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But the junior magistrate, a kind-hearted man, troubled at what seemed to him a certain sardonical disdain, lurking beneath the foundling's humble mien, and in Christian sympathy more distressed at it on his account than on his own, dimly surmising what might be the final fate of such a cynic solitaire, nor perhaps uninfluenced by the general strangeness of surrounding things, this good magistrate had glanced sadly, sideways from the speaker, and thereupon his foreboding eye had started at the expression of the unchanging face of the Hour Una.
The Piazza Tales
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‘Not to fast or I'll be having to clean up barf,’ the redhead vampire's sardonic voice chided.
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Stephen could place his own sardonic stamp on what were in some cases widely shared late Victorian literary tastes.
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TV Land and sardonic, cat-loving alien Gordon Shumway -- better known as Alf -- have struck a deal for six more episodes of 'Alf's Hit Talk Show', which debuted as a special in July.
Archive 2004-11-07
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General George S. Patton, for instance, took umbrage at the portraits of slovenly and sardonic warriors.
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To this end, helpful responses are mildly sardonic, while acerbic comments are scathing, derisive insults.
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The film deals with this classily, choosing a sardonic and comic portrayal of issues such as affirmative action.
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He gave a slight sardonic grunt, remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt.
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The image suggests a sardonic reintegration of the natural and human worlds.
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Fred is the ultimate lie detector, puncturing European faux sophistication and prejudices with sardonic élan.
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He smiled up at me; he was a sardonical corpse, a doomed arkhyios.
Wildfire
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If Mr. Hardy had not had such sardonic emotions, such desire to "hit back" at the great "opposeless wills," and such Goblin-like glee at the tricks they play us, he would never have been able to write "Tess.
Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions
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He was commanding, domineering, sardonic and intimidating.
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He was also the observant one, casting a sardonic eye on the absurdities of pop stardom, the Swinging Sixties and the aftermath of that crazy decade.
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Residents who every day face stinking brooks have sardonically named the township "Victoria Falls" after the waterfall, the country's main tourist attraction, first discovered by explorer
ANC Daily News Briefing
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McDiarmid brings a dryness of delivery and impeccable timing to the role while clearly relishing McGibbon's sardonic script.
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If you did nothing but pursue the main battle missions in Fallout 3 , the game would be much less melancholy, because all you'd encounter would be sardonic rejoinders, brutal attacks and corpses to ransack for bad-ass weapons, precisely like every other shoot'em-up in history.
Bleak Fallout 3 Dazzles With Great Depression
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There is an intensity and candour, along with a sardonic humour, that is simply unmatched in any other sport.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was witty, teasing and flamboyant and his dialogue delivery racy and sardonic.
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There may have been feelings too painful to probe, feelings for which he overcompensated by an excess of not entirely convincing sardonic mockery.
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The sardonic humour was wasted on him, and he begged me to give him the inside track on what drugs to take to win gold without the eternal shame of a life ban.
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In my experience all it takes to shatter the take-charge persona of a master is a mildly sardonic tone or a heel to the nuts.
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The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly.
Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
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Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as "Girlington.
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The sardonic humour was wasted on him, and he begged me to give him the inside track on what drugs to take to win gold without the eternal shame of a life ban.
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Or maybe it was just some sardonic concoction made by my real secret admirer!
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He sits in the court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
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He sits in the Yorkshire court with a sardonic but kindly female family judge and a humourless martinet.
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He's like Han Solo in Armani, ultra cool, aloof and with a sardonic put down for every occasion.
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Rops's entire oeuvre is informed by a satiric and sardonic eye for the follies of the world.
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`Solve the mystery with your legalistic mind," suggested Foden sardonically, partnering Mrs Van Leiden.
THE QUEST FOR K
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They travelled so royally and with such a long train of attendants that they attracted the sardonic notice of other tourists.
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Steele spoke now; his dark eyes shone strangely; a sardonic expression lurked there.
Half A Chance
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He adjusted the tie in the mirror and now it seemed to him that his reflection was smiling at him, sardonically.
AMERICAN GODS
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As centres of commerce, finance and fashion their buildings reflect the sardonic elegance of a bygone era.
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'M-A-S-H,' 'Tootsie' writer Larry Gelbart diesLOS ANGELES - Larry Gelbart, the award-winning writer whose sly, sardonic wit helped create such hits as Broadway's "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," the films "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!" and television's "M-A-S-H," is dead.
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his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists
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She weaves all this together by inventing a narrative voice that is sober and testifying, sardonic and humorous, always precise.
Times, Sunday Times
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It seems to be aiming for a modern Catcher in the Rye with its sardonic, rancorous troubled kid character.
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I have all these sardonical thoughts racing through my head.
Sierrazen Diary Entry
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Building on the idea of dramatic irony, the Romans concluded that language often carries a double message, a second often mocking or sardonic meaning running contrary to the first.
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His porcelain features, sardonic smile and shaved head strip two decades from his 67 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stephen could place his own sardonic stamp on what were in some cases widely shared late Victorian literary tastes.
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The British baritone seems born for this role, and his resonant singing is matched with a comic portrayal rich in sardonic humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a tall man with silver hair and a toothy smile that veers toward the sardonic.
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He raised a sardonic eyebrow as she sat down opposite him and started to eat.
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(That Cronkite has no heir is one proof that consensus TV is as dead as the dodo; that David Letterman and Jay Leno now split the legacy of sardonic Johnny and gee-whiz Johnny between them is another.)
The Murdoch Touch
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I mean, he had a lot of sardonic, sarcastic things like that to say and to make fun of himself, and so forth.
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He considers this sardonic memoir of childhood in a small corner of the British Empire
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That, said the Phoenix prosecuting attorney sardonically, was a story she could sell.
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The writer Michael Kinsley, sardonically noting the extent to which press organizations that used to invite prominent government officials to be their guests at Washington's ritual spring press banquets now prize guests whose fame rests on their notoriety as popsies, lawbreakers and figures of general unsavoriness, sums up the mindless, annual post-banquet boast as: "We had Hitler at our table!
The Art Of The Snub
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The icy-hearted Scandinavian, whose austere cooking and sardonic manner of waiting on table had so depressed Gloria, gave way to an exceedingly efficient Japanese whose name was Tanalahaka, but who confessed that he heeded any summons which included the dissyllable
The Beautiful and Damned
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Depicting a story of war, aggression and greed, he takes a sardonic look at the reality of this entire production.
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Like most of the first smart, sardonic novel, the story appears to have been thrown out with contemptuous ease.
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Fortunately his blog is still there to read and enjoy his sardonic, pungent wit - although it does seem to be growing mold.
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His music is undercut by a deadly sardonic wit which becomes more prominent the longer you spend in his company.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Ye may say that,” said Ratcliffe, with a sardonic smile; “and” (touching his nose) “a deevil amang the lasses.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Warm and funny, she has a nice line in sardonic humour and is adept at the tricky art of gentle flirting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I dare say you respect me no more than I respect myself, George," he would say, in his candid way, and begin a very pleasant sardonical discourse upon the fall of man, and his faults, and shortcomings; and wonder why Heaven had not made us all brave and tall, and handsome and rich?
The Virginians
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Rauschenberg's re-telling of the story becomes a sardonic portrait of American foreign policy, in which the imperial power claims exclusive rights to victim-status as a prelude to arrogating the right to inflict suffering on others.
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Tears scald his scabrous cheeks, and he can hardly laugh - even the sardonic bark he reserves for all humanity - without torturing his jaw.
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Dark, sardonic and often very funny portrait of today's young.
Times, Sunday Times
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The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly.
Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
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As centres of commerce, finance and fashion their buildings reflect the sardonic elegance of a bygone era.
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Many sardonic Australians find ways of making a play on these words.
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The play has moments of sharp humour, mostly emanating from the sardonic Jean.
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His latest book, After Britain, is a comparably sardonic performance.
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The accompanying roar of approval brought a sardonic smile to his lips.
The Sun
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The character is called Grim Reaper and is something of a sardonic wit while doing his works.
Freelancer.com - New Projects
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Many found his manner abrupt at times, but his sardonic humour and dry wit were much enjoyed.
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One critic sardonically called the biannual architecture show now up in Venice "the biggest, most glamorous architecture show on earth.
Todd Reisz and Rory Hyde: Reclaim Bahrain
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What this sardonic study of mutual fawning and posturing among the talking heads and editorial sages of Parisian society shows is a system of connivance based at least as much on ideological as material investment in the market.
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Once there, she's greeted by sardonic Englishman Mr. Dean (David Farrar), who takes great delight in ruffling Sister Clodagh's habit.
John Farr: They Sure Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: A Tribute To Deborah Kerr
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I got tired o 'going out, Cynthy remarked, with again a smile very peculiar, and, Fleda thought, a little sardonical.
Queechy
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Sorin (Jozsef Gyabronka, one of the actors who can always be heard) is not the usual whingeing ancient, but a sardonic, angry old man who can laugh bitterly at himself.
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Now each absurdly impossible picture returned to her with a sardonic caption attached: Oh, yeah?
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Do they really physically raise a sardonic eyebrow, and make a long face, or only metaphorically?
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In the early spring when the sparse grass first turns to green upon them, they smile saltily and sardonically.
Excerpt: Firebird by Janice Graham
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Happy to relate, acrimony is often enhanced by sardonic humour.
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I laugh sardonically at the news broadcasts for their dreadful misanthropy.
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I suspect that we see a trace of this same expression in what is called a derisive or sardonic smile.
The expression of the emotions in man and animals
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She was about an inch shorter than me, with long black hair, dark eyes, and a sardonic smirk.
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A curious pre-echo of Brecht's sardonic wit in East Germany 30 years later when the citizenry was rioting against the autocratic Communist rulers: ‘The government will have to dissolve the people and elect a new one.’
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To sum up, she was a cynic, a rake, an excellent literary critic, a sardonic and brilliant novelist, and she had a passionate, adoring and protecting affection for Neville, who was the only person who had always been told what she called the darker secrets of her life.
Dangerous Ages
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He does have a sardonic streak of humour, which erupts ever so quietly in sporadic bursts.
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Muscle tone is increased, producing the characteristic trismus, ‘risus sardonicus,’ and opisthotonus.
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Her lips curled up in a sardonic twist that would have made a mortal shriek with agony.
