Word: sardonicism
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There are several possible reasons that the Committee did not find "concerned" undergraduates in the Houses. One is that many of these undergraduates were not there at the time: they were out eating in restaurants because they couldn't get into the House dining room. Another is that many upperclassmen...
It was a pleasure to hear a concert made up of complete song cycles, rather than the usual recital of individual isolated songs. most familiar of the cycles presented was Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte. While Gartside's musicianship and sense of phrasing were apparent, his voice did not...
Despite his seeming success in becoming what Sociologist David Riesman has called an "other-directed" person, Hal Hingham develops a bad case of jitters. At novel's end, he goes in search of the great confidence man himself and, in a sardonic, O. Henry-sudden finale, finds Dr. Modesto...
Sardonic "gusts of laughter" shake the goddess' sides, says Graves, when she sees the havoc that has prevailed ever since "the restless and arbitrary male will" usurped "the female sense of orderliness" and loosed upon civilization the sort of ruthless character typified by "Alexander, Pompey and Napoleon."
After the Java Sea defeat, he wrote a sardonic song called I Wanted Wings. Pilots were still singing it, eight years later, in Korea. As famous throughout the Pacific as his war song was Dowling's personal courage. Terrified of flying, he tried to overcome his fear by parachuting...