Word: sardonicism
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Shostakovich, only 27 at the time of the opera's premiere, set his text with stunning effectiveness, the music by turns tragic and sardonic. Often, as in the seduction scene, the score simply overwhelms the listener with its irresistible force. At other tunes it beguiles, charms and saddens, as...
For all the sardonic wit of the book's modern narrator, the novel envied the hidden passions underlying the Jane Austen world of garden parties and social proprieties. The contrast of Pinter's parallel stories preserves that envy, for the 19th-century drama features powerfully driven characters whose passions are...
As outlandish, grotesque and sardonic as the world according to John Irving often is, it is also a world filled with compassion, joy and truth.
In 1963 we got a middling traditional production. In 1969 came a sardonic Brechtian version placed in our own time--a fascinating show, but a failure. Now Coe has avowedly set out to rely almost wholly on the words and the audience's imagination (as the text itself repeatedly states...
It often begins with wheezing and shortness of breath. Eventually it can lead to death. Byssinosis (nicknamed "brown lung" disease) is caused primarily by cotton dust that fills the air in textile plants. As many as 150,000 employed and retired cotton-mill workers may suffer from some form of...