Word: sardonicism
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At 32, Bradley says he, like all athletes, is discovering the terrors of a fading life and is beginning to view the "Faustian bargain" of his professional career from the sardonic distance that a nagging vision of the end gives him. He defines fatalistically the repayment of the debt:
Bradley has a certain talent for descriptive lists and characterization, but his experience hasn't supplied the vocabulary for his mature vision. Two distinct styles of writing fall out in this loose weave of narrative and analytic musing; one of sardonic realism and another of patriotic camp. On one page...
Catherine's doctor father (Richard Kiley) is a sardonic man who resents his daughter bitterly. To him, Catherine is an aching reminder that his wife died in giving birth to her. He violently opposes the match. Having diagnosed Townsend's intentions, the doctor is quite unconcerned about the...
When Franco won the Spanish Civil War in 1939, thousands of left-wing intellectuals and artists fled the country, among them Luis Bunuel. Bunuel, who at that point had only made his surrealist shorts and a superb documentary on Spanish peasants called Land Without Bread, went into exile in Mexico...
WHILE MOST AMERICANS in the 1970s have lost the capacity to feel rage, or at least to express it openly with any amount of integrity, Edward Albee has consistently infused his work with an unsparing timeless fury, an articulate anger that refuses to eschew the audience. The free-flowing profanities...