Word: sardonicism
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The Heiress*-a period play of mid-19th Century Manhattan-centers in Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic...
Monsieur Verdoux. Charles Chaplin's sardonic comedy about a man who murders for profit (TIME, May 5) which reopened in Washington last week.
Morning Afters. The story that goes with the pictures is spun out in disarmingly unliterary prose, a kind of sardonic self-portrait of a Matthew Brady in paratrooper's boots. It is held together by an elusive, improbable and unresolved love story involving a pink-haired British girl named...
A jug-eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer...
In the eclogues of Theocritus and Virgil, shepherds met in bucolic settings and conversed in polished verses. In Auden's eclogue, three men and a woman fall into a wartime conversation-in nine-syllable lines-in a Manhattan bar. They are: Quant, a sardonic shipping clerk; Malin, a medical...