Word: sardonicism
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Mild and Mellow. In San Francisco, lean Harry Bridges, in sardonic good humor, sat back and read his congratulatory messages (some from employers). Both West Coast business and labor heaved a sigh of relief. Employers who would never learn to love Harry Bridges had learned how to live with him...
Not Broad-Minded. Willie and Joe, speaking their sardonic mouthfuls, usually say what youthful Bill Mauldin himself has to say on the subject of war. But in a book (Up Front, published this week) written around them, Mauldin has added further remarks, for the benefit of those civilians who find...
Just as it was on the air, it is clear in the film that Fred Allen could be still funnier and much more fierce if he were taking a few million fewer people into account. The fact remains that Allen is not only a first-rate humorist but also the...
For U.S. smokers, inhaling more air than they liked last week, there was a sardonic note of cheer. So many cigarets were being diverted into the black market that racketeers grumbled that prices were falling. In Manhattan, where tobacconists guessed that half of all the popular-brand cigarets were being...
That is the kind of whimsical and sardonic oversimplification to which Hopkins is addicted. Actually there are many other reasons why he has lasted as long as he has. For one, he and the President are alike in many respects. Both have been severely racked by illness. The clinical history...