Word: sardonicism
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They greet his sardonic understatement with appreciative howls. The speech starts with a warm celebration of the site?s achievements (including the somewhat dubious claim that Jon Tester owes his primary Senate victory in Montana to them and not to his opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory...
Although Adams House still provided Gold Coasters with high ceilings, fine finishings, and comfortable common rooms, a University-wide space crunch trailed the Class of 1956 through their graduation. During their senior year, the University launched a major physical expansion project that would produce 33 new buildings and 86 major...
Sounds bleakly fascinating, eh? It isn't. The movie means to be a mix of the sardonic Thank You for Smoking (this would be Thank You for Poisoning Yourselves) and the plaintive exposé Maria Full of Grace (but with the illegal immigrants forced to slaughter meat instead of serving...
By MARY A. BRAZELTONCrimson Staff WriterThere were riots in the streets of Dublin when John Millington Synge’s provocative “The Playboy of the Western World” was first produced in Ireland in 1907. Running until May 6, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production...
Wandering the streets of St. Petersburg, which Bissell describes with luscious detail, Timothy is a spiritually fragmented man. Despite the companionship of his gay lover Sasha, Timothy is stuck in the aimless pursuit of curing his loneliness, and Bissell paints a movingly somber portrait that is never gloomy or drab...