Word: sarcasms
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Though there may have been more than a touch of sarcasm in the gesture, Union members said they honestly hoped Rudenstine would speed up stalled negotiations...
Seinfeld seems totally at ease as a sitcom leading man, all gawky insouciance and whiny sarcasm. When he visits his parents in Florida, the family conversation has the ring of truth, not shtick. Mom, commenting on Jerry's scuba diving: "What do you have to go underwater for? What's down there that's so special?" Jerry, unfazed: "What's so special up here?" Traveling to Los Angeles to appear on the Tonight show, he spends his time fretting because the hotel maid threw out his notes for a new joke. Seinfeld isn't the first TV show...
...They were so excited," he remembers. They made a joke of their Harvard aspirations, he says, but their sarcasm only loosely masked a genuine desire...
...what are these shows really attacking -- the family, or simply TV's sentimentalized portrayal of it? For all the Bundys' biting sarcasm and Roseanne's mordant wisecracks, the one thing that is never questioned is the sanctity of the family. Roseanne's rebellious kids have something most of their real-life counterparts do not: two wise, empathetic, firmly in-control parents. Even the crass Bundys -- TV's broadest caricature of a "bad" family -- have a stubborn, low-down sense of togetherness...
...identifiable. Leimbach uses Ginny tactfully to tie together the innumerable loose strands that hang from the cloth that comprises this narrative: Ginny draws together all these loose ends and is the catalyst for the consolidation of this story. Leimbach flavors her narrative with an assortment of literary devices, from sarcasm to poignance, from intensity to romantic love from irony to rhetoric and from imagery to chimera...