Word: sardonicism
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Although Alfred Hitchcock Presents has settled for simply remaking old episodes from its earlier incarnation, it seems far fresher and more vital than The Twilight Zone. No supernatural morality plays here; just some deft storytelling and a refreshingly sardonic view of human nature. Hitchcock characters are greedy, vengeful and nasty...
The usual view of German modernism, which prevailed until quite recently, tells a very different story. It depicts young outsiders who are rapturously expressive in their rebellion against painterly norms before World War I and bitterly sardonic in their attacks on society after it. These artists rehearse the last phase...
Crisp seems to espound sincerely his philosophy of self-absorption, but with a sardonic humor that would make both Ayn Rand and W.C. Fields proud. It's simultaneously a deadly serious manifesto for happiness whose key points are hilariously funny. It's no wonder that Crisp has developed such a...
By coming to terms with himself, Baldwin was better able to come to terms with the problems of race. It gives him an objectivity, which he calls "sardonic distance," that is absent in most men who write on similar subjects. Through this self-analysis, Baldwin rids himself the slavish mentality...
What makes Greater Tuna's sense of humor honestly "American" is its sardonic yet down-to-earth spoof on what has become a revived common theme: family morality and the claustrophobic individual, the contemporary southern syndrome of small town suffocation. In Tuna, matters like segregation, Christian biology, and textbook censorship...