Word: sardonicism
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Granted, there were no easy solutions for people with American sensibilities living in South Africa. The Burgesses are fundamentally good people caught up in larger political forces. Ironically enough, Harry wants to take the family to visit Gandhi's house, and he pays the servants more than the British neighbors...
Okay, so the plot makes little sense. But come on, who plunks down eight bucks to see an Adam Sandler movie with a good plot? The movie is funny, and in this case, that's all that matters. Actually, perhaps I should specify. Sandler himself does not give a particularly...
With Luka and Peppel out of the picture, the fourth act suffers from lack of direction. This was partly Gorky's intention. Satin (Nick Meunier '02) picks up the slack by translating some of Luka's wisdom into a sardonic wit more accessible to many of the drifters. The cast...
While they were a slightly more subdued crowd, the Democrats were not to be outdone in the category of sardonic humor.
I think of PIERRE TRUDEAU as the first postmodern politician. He loved to repudiate conventional partisan ideologies, and if, in the end, that served his partisan goals, well, there would be just a little Gallic upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near perfect understanding of the...