Word: sardonicism
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Country's appeal is not a function of the leading economic indicators, however. It draws its power mostly from people like Jyne Kubas, 52, an Alan Jackson fan who is not embarrassed to say she still hurts from her divorce 10 years ago. " 'Cowboys don't die and heroes don...
Anarchists like Felix Feneon praised his work for its social insight, and a journalist in 1893 credited him with creating "the epic of the lower classes" -- a visual equivalent, as it were, to Zola, Balzac and other literary realists whose project was to record the "real" France, top to bottom...
This, one realizes, is Lautrec's sardonic revisitation of the timeless Arcadia, whose images in older French painters like Puvis de Chavannes he had mercilessly parodied as a student: a classic instance of how an artist may be unconsciously captivated by the very thing he had sought to escape.
This son of a Paduan carpenter, who rose to become the cynosure of every humanist eye in northern Italy, once sent a gang of thugs to bash up a printer who fell foul of him, and then had the poor man denounced for sodomy -- a crime that, in 15th century...
While Tolstaya is a caustic chronicler of perpetual yearning and casual cruelty, she can also be wildly funny, capturing the lunatic humor that leavens these hardscrabble lives. Lyonechka, a rarely employed writer who has already thrown away one newspaper job by introducing an unwelcome sardonic note to the obituary column...