Word: sardonicism
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Sardonic or Phrase-Chomping. On second thought, they probably will. Its just that they shouldn't. "The problem," as Matthau accurately puts it, "is that I'm too good." Each of his character creations has a fine-tuned completeness that leaves no room for Matthau the personality to...
Spade is the quintessence of the heartless pragmatist--the sardonic, self-interested loner who rolls his own cigarettes, and who just happens to operate within the limits of the law most of the time because he knows he's better off that way. He's so callous he hardly reacts...
In "Beat the Devil" Bogart is but a shadow of his former self. He's still cool and cynical, but there's not as much sting in his sardonic comments, and the latent violence of the tough guy of old just doesn't seem to be there. Still, in all...
Such lines are poetry only by courtesy; they justify Robert Graves's sardonic gibe: "What I like most about Eliot is that though one of his two hearts, the poetic one, has died and been given a separate funeral . . . he continues to visit the grave wistfully, and lay flowers...
"Executions are so much part of British history," said Viscount Templewood, a Cabinet minister of the 1930s, "that it is almost impossible for many excellent people to think of the future without them." As late as the mid-19th century, when an Englishman could be hanged for 200 different offenses...