Word: sardonicism
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But Shiva's persistent sardonic tone undermines his anecdotes' effectiveness. The reader tires quickly of his smug arrogance, and yearns for some affirmative statement about Africa. Everyone on the "dark continent" seems to be a caricature--all racist and drugged white tourists, or insufferably dogmatic bureaucrats.
Alcatraz's cool, cinematic grace meshes ideally with the strengths of its star. Not a man to sell himself to the audience, Eastwood relies on a small as sortment of steely glances and sardonic smiles. Thanks to his ever craggier face, the gestures pay off better than usual, and...
Since her book's publication in February, Wallace has become something of a heroine to the white feminist movement, which relishes such sardonic Wallace lines as, "Could you imagine Ché Guevara with breasts? Mao with a vagina?" She has appeared on the cover of Ms. with Editor Gloria...
Canning, one of the very best of the English thriller writers, with 35 titles to his credit, combines suspense with ro mance, erudition and sardonic wit. He also reveals hard facts about some soft underBellies of Britain.
Necessarily, such a self-conscious form as punk will involve parody; as for the doomed Adrian Leverkuhn of Mann's Doctor Faustus, everything is a parody, of previous forms or even of itself. Creation of the new means the "deconstruction" of the old, and a sardonic snipe at other contemporary...