Word: sarcasms
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...Alone there with The Stable Boy, Frederick’s sarcasm gave way at once to fearful anticipation. This was the man who had appeared to him in Felicity’s bedroom. Surely there could have been nothing of great importance in that fleeting vision. He tried to calm himself as he spoke...
...After riding around for a few hours, I come to the conclusion that, idiosyncracies aside, Chester French are good guys. Wallach’s less-desirable, self-interested side is tempered by an amiable enthusiasm. Drummey, on the other hand, is an undiluted cynic. His interjections are slathered in sarcasm, and he becomes candid only when discussing his music and whether he would be pursuing this career if not for the immediate attention he and Wallach have received...
...controlled press would play up this angle, using a boycott to demonize Western nations and to fuel Chinese nationalism, the country's most potent, and dangerous, political force. In January, the People's Daily previewed this strategy, writing that China suffers "accusations from all over the world, including misunderstandings, sarcasm and very harsh criticism" over the Games. Shortly after Spielberg's withdrawal, Chinese bloggers, among the most ardent nationalists, made the People's Daily sound tame with their fury at the West...
...defined herself as a public figure, and an attractive one at that, with a personality independent of her husband's. She isn't as clever as he is, but she's just as tenacious ... and, in an odd way, more vulnerable and more real. Her flashes of anger and sarcasm, her occasional emotional overflows, her willingness to just go on about health insurance - these are all recognizable human qualities that, in the strangest turnabout of this campaign, have made her seem more accessible than her opponent. For the first time, she doesn't seem élite and entitled...
...banter in the second half of the show. “Valentine’s Day is in the middle of February so that anyone without a date will freeze to death,” he quipped. “How Darwinian.” His dry, somewhat misanthropic sarcasm provided a refreshing contrast to the otherwise sappy holiday. As with any indie show, tight jeans and black plastic glasses were omnipresent. In this case, however, they were worn almost entirely by older (read: post-collegiate) people. This is partially because the Magnetic Fields have been around since...