Word: sardonicism
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Elizabeth Dole is given much of the credit for her husband's transformation from a partisan hatchet man to a legislative power. Although he still has the sardonic wit that made him the acid-tongued heavy when he was Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, his humor...
DIED. Elio Petri, 53, sardonic leftist Italian film director who won an Oscar in 1971 for his Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, a complex, unsettling study of a high police official who perversely becomes a killer but is unsuspected by his system-bound colleagues; of cancer; in Rome. Although...
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have...
Jackson has always been sardonic and strident as a musician and a social critic. He was one of those feisty, harsh rockers that rode the New Wave from England to the States a few years ago. Singing tunes like "I'm the Man." "On Your Radio," and "Sunday Papers," he...
The war, which brought images of bombings and suffering to television audiences everywhere, had stunningly served to portray Israel as the aggressor in its dealings with its Arab neighbors. The massacre involved more than 300 known deaths, and by the weekend it was believed the final total could reach the...