Word: sardonicism
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And anyway, there's another reason to choke off all the sardonic snorts: Caspar isn't the first foreigner to head the Michelin guide. That distinction went to Englishman Derrick Brown in 2000, an appointment that caused outrage in France and delight in Britain. France seems to have moved on...
If there is a Church of What’s Happening Now, Paul Chan and Tina Fey can be its anti-priests. At the start of every mass they’ll stand up, give a “hey,” and then open the floor for sardonic...
His greatest hit, 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, was his high point - black and scary, but featuring a cannibal so smart and sardonic that you had no problem imagining Jodie Foster sort of falling for him - or at least having a wary dinner with him. This was Demme...
The film's narrative voice doesn't take any of these liaisons too seriously. That is the movie's sunny strength and its ultimate limitation - since life is not perhaps simply a series of bed partners from whom we discover that the greatest wisdom is realizing we always have more...
Quite often, though strangely not in Kerry's case, the referendum gambit is a rationale for mudslinging. This year we have John McCain's attempt to paint Obama as aloof, messianic ... a celebrity, like Paris or Britney. The McCain ads have the slightly sordid quality of an inside joke: Oprah...