Word: sardonicism
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Deathtrap is not the ingenious successor to Sleuth that Levin obviously wanted to write, but a desperate imitation of it. The same sorts of turn-arounds preponderate, and the playwright-protagonist, Sidney Bruhl (John Wood), as unscrupled as Wyke when it comes to murder, speaks in similarly sardonic conceits. But...
Last week, for example, Opinia included in its seventh issue a sardonic history of Poland over the past 150 years that referred to the "temporary owners of the Polish nation" since 1944 who have used the "physical force that stands behind them." Another article discussed Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of...
Drabble's sardonic treatment of the British attitude toward money calls to mind a conversation earlier this year in North House with two economists, an American and a Briton. A question was put forth: How can a country with a skilled industrial work force and a scientific establishment that regularly...
Le Carré's astringent, melancholy tones will be familiar to anyone who has read his works or those of such eminences as Eric Ambler (The Mask of Dimitrios) and Graham Greene (The Third Man). Still, Ambler's works are written from the outside with sardonic imagination. Greene's achieve more...
All this-and more of a similarly sardonic, ironic nature-enlivens this animated feature from Italy. Clearly not intended for the eyes of young children, Allegro Non Troppo (fast but not too fast) aspires to do for modern audiences what Fantasia did in its day: demonstrate the state of the...