Word: sardonicism
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Brigit Fasolino (Janc) gives a powerful performance at times, but fails to sustain it throgh the second act. As Jane moves along the emotional register through anger to bitterness to frustrated resignation, she seems to go too easily, too quickly, with a lack of feeling that confuses us. In some...
"The aliases from this end," Roosevelt replies with his sardonic humor, "will be (a) Don Quixote and (b) Sancho Panza." Churchill feels slightly piqued: "However did you think of such an impenetrable disguise? In order to make it even harder for the enemy and to discourage irreverent guesswork propose Admiral...
On their new EP, Changing the Weather, Persian Gulf comes across as sardonic rather than cynical, concerned rather than overbearing, slangy rather than sloppy. Persian Gulf is also one of the very few groups who not only manage to come out of a political sing-along number ("It's a...
Yet the effect in print is not muddle, but barbed and often authoritative reasoning. Says Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz: "New Republic has become indispensable for anyone seriously interested in the climate of political opinion." Syndicated Columnist George Will describes the magazine's writers, particularly Essayist Charles Krauthammer (who also...
Mondale was introduced by a fit-looking, relaxed and sardonic Edward Kennedy, who lashed Reagan with Boston clubhouse punches. "Send him back to Hollywood, which is where both Star Wars and Ronald Reagan really belong," shouted Kennedy, who went on: "By his choice of Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale has already...