Word: sardonicism
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Sardonic Humor. At first, Woodward wanted to be a participant sportsman, not a spectator. But a series of operations for cataracts cost him his peripheral vision and closed athletics to him as a career. After graduating from Amherst, he went to work for local newspapers; in 1930 he moved to...
Conservatives also showed that they can throw a punch-or in some cases, a boomerang. In New York, sardonic William Buckley led the fledgling Conservative Party into third place in total votes, but there is a strong possibility that he lured away more Democrats (because of his Catholicism) than Republicans...
The acid and sardonic Bundy, who in past months has belittled academic criticism of the government, was absent from the platform. Instead, a polite, restrained, and occasionally affable man fielded questions from a panel of critics that included: Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government; Albert M. Craig...
Baal dies without the play's ever having come wholly alive. Despite the spirited work of a proficient cast, the drama is a historical curio that contains something of Brecht's sardonic mood but little of his subsequent theatrical-mastery. Seemingly hailing the life force, Baal paradoxically suggests...
The chauvinistic, miracle-mongering high rabbis will hear nothing of this apostasy of fleshly bliss, and in an ambiguous ending, Judith either embraces or resigns herself to the duplicity of her sainthood. If Shaw, in Saint Joan, implies that saints are too pure a currency for the world, Giraudoux, with...