Word: sarcasm
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Herschbach described the difficulties in his task with sarcasm, referring to Summers’ economic background...
Well, if “structure” means giving us a space where we can pursue our leisure, I think the answer to this question should be yes. Sarcasm aside, Lewis’ statement is rather telling in its expression of the administration’s position with respect to student social life—they want nothing to do with it. And while I’m not asking Lewis to begin spinning at the next party I go to, I am asking the administration to tacitly endorse student social life by giving us a place in which...
...death of irony" may be exaggerated too. Many critics read Letterman's emotional return as the sudden maturing of a wiseacre who had never manifested any real beliefs. As any Letterman fan knows, this is reductive hogwash. "Irony"--as popularly misused to mean a mishmash of easy sarcasm, cynicism and detachment--is ludicrous at a time of mourning, as is Letterman's meaningful irony (which is really a principled response to phoniness). But real irony--the basis of satire--is possible and valuable in addressing war. (Catch-22 and M*A*S*H, for instance, are darkly ironic yet serious...
Note to self: sarcasm will get you nowhere with a driving teacher...
...would expect Johnson, having most recently appeared in A Lion in Winter, a piece filled with dry humor and witty barbs that he handled quite effectively, to flourish with Pseudolus’s sarcasm; nevertheless, Johnson seemed to gloss over a number of moments that could have been brilliant...