Word: sardonicism
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THE NOTEBOOK Commentary on the floor of the convention during the tense moments of the nomination roll call ranged from despairing and sardonic to jubilant.
They are products of the television age: their regional accents have been smoothed and diluted, their dress is subdued, their ambition is high. They eschew the flamboyant rhetoric of old pols like Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd and House Majority Leader James Wright of Texas, preferring a more measured and...
Yasenak acts like a charming older brother toward his signed-and-sealed recruits, by turns sardonic and heartfelt, especially with the ones who stay around town for some months between enlistment and basic training. They treat him like a favorite teacher, his office almost as a hangout. "He showed me...
By this time too, Hynde had met Ray Davies, the sardonic main spring of the Kinks, and become pregnant. Daughter Natalie, currently on tour with her mother and a nimble au pair, also forced Hynde to "tame down. Suddenly, you can't imagine sitting down and smoking a pack...
TO READ Margaret Atwood's own voice--as opposed to one of the many voices of her fictional and poetic personae--is to see the feminist motto "the personal is political" in a new light. Atwood once described herself in an interview as a "de facto feminist," taking the position...