Word: sardonicism
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Who really runs the U.S. economy? Not the same kind of people who did a few years ago, says that fashionably sardonic Harvard economist, John Kenneth Galbraith.
"I have kept my cool. I haven't bugged out. I am still in Fat City." So, acting in his capacity as President of all the people, Lyndon Johnson pulled from his hippie pocket a speech that took sardonic note of "the generation gap." Addressed to 121 Presidential Scholars...
For an actor, Vaughn gave a terrible performance. He was tense and rigid. His lips were set as tight as his fisted grip on the podium. In his outrage and indignation he overran words, phrases, whole sentences like a boy delivering an oral report to the sixth grade. But he...
In Britain's political pantheon stands one statue raffishly askew, absurd finger-curls atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on its decidedly un-English face. Benjamin Disraeli was as unlikely a Prime Minister as England ever had, as prodigal a son as the mother of parliaments ever...
So much for the legends. The hero of this good, old-fashioned adventure novel wishes that they were true. He poses as a tough, sardonic young bastard, but he is really a shy and gentle man who thinks long thoughts about almost everything. When walking a ship's bridge...