Word: sardonicism
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No one goes to graduate school to get rich, or even to have a particularly good time. Dissatisfaction seems to be the doctoral candidate’s God-given right; we hoist giant chips onto our shoulders with sardonic pride and carry them around for years. At some...
The book, a mix of sardonic text and cartoons, describes what Adams has dubbed the Weasel Zone--"a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities." Adams says he came up with the concept when he realized that "weasels had gone from being the exception to the...
Nearly every female lucky enough to have both a child and a byline--and I plead guilty--has strip-mined Pearson's theme: how to squeeze babies, marriage and a high-powered job into a day that cannot be stretched beyond 24 hours. But Pearson's Kate, a brisk, sardonic...
Smith's narrative is like Adam's diagram: all the pieces seem to fit, but we never feel the animating emotion behind it. We know Alex is driven by unresolved grief and anger, but we don't feel it except at aremove, as when the inebriated hero scrawls out sardonic...
Chesin manages to find more interesting levels in his performance. He supplies Kaffee with enough charisma to convey his sardonic humor perfectly, and his relationship with Galloway grows subtlely, yet palpably. Nevertheless, he fails to sufficiently convey his internal battle between security and self-respect far enough, making scenes like...