Word: sardonicism
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In the opera, as in the original story, Wozzeck is a captain's batman who offers himself to the sardonic and sadistic regimental doctor as a physiological demonstration piece for the doctor's lectures. Wozzeck's purpose is to earn enough money to support his girl, Marie...
Berg developed his own unique "song-speech," with notes at definite pitches which are neither exactly sung nor spoken. But he could write beautiful melody too, most notably the lovely lullaby Marie sings to her child. Overall, Wozzeck has a sardonic, contorted quality, but one that is clearly the work...
Like The Barkeep of Blémont (TIME, May 15), Aymé's sardonic jab at the Resistance movement, The Miraculous Barber insists that even in times of historical crisis men display their customary capacity for making fools of themselves.
With the latest arrests, C.C.N.Y.'s whole first-string Cinderella team had been accused of throwing games for the gamblers. Summing up the investigations to date, the Manhattan press had taken to publishing a sardonic new kind of box score: total players under arrest (from C.C.N.Y., N.Y.U., L.I.U. and...
"Yesterday, on my [60th] birthday,' wrote Britain's sardonic Economist George Schwartz recently in his London Sunday Times column, "I came to a great resolve. I have resigned from the intelligentsia ... I have had enough of it. I have decided to line up with the damfool section of...