Word: sardonicism
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Unfortunately, nothing else in The Lottery is as good. The other 24 pieces are brightly lacquered sketches trimmed to New Yorker specifications-deadpan, passionless portraits of cruel children, quietly miserable spinsters, clumsy middle-class drifters, city people lonely in the country. Shirley Jackson accumulates little piles of irrelevant detail, topples...
Rough, tough Louis Ruppel limped into the Manhattan offices of Collier's and cast a sardonic glance around. Most of new Editor Ruppel's worried staff, who had heard about his temper, his Anglo-Saxon expletives and "off-with-their-heads" methods, half-expected to be eaten alive...
No Champion when it comes to realistic boxing scenes (TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films...
Bedazzled by his own lust for power and for a woman, Mitchell eventually loses the ability to say "Get thee behind me, Satan." Shedding his wife, his honest friends and his self-respect as he wins the governorship, Lawyer Mitchell is on the point of delivering himself for shipment to...
As played by British Actor Leo Genn (recently seen in Mourning Becomes Electra and memorable as the sardonic Lord Constable of France in Henry V), Dr. Kik is the ideal psychoanalyst-patient, handsome, experienced and endowed with a deep, beautiful voice as intricately gentle as a surgeon's hands...