Word: sardonicism
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Primarily, Inserts revolves around the character of The Boy Wonder, and as The Boy Wonder, Dreyfuss succeeds remarkably given his limitations as an actor. Dreyfuss' performance is, of necessity, a studied one. Dreyfuss is not an actor who commands the screen, lacking the presence of a Brando, a Newman, or...
Howe, who spoke on "The Jewish writer and the American tradition," traced the evolution of Jewish authors from their expression of alienation through "gross sentimentality and self-comforting softness" to their eventual creation of an articulate style characterized by a mixture of the "sardonic and the sentimental."
At first this seems appropriate. The first half of Barry Lyndon comes on like a picaresque fairy tale, though too sardonic and materialistic to be an actual fairy tale, and too dreamy and slow-moving to be truly picaresque. Barry is tricked into enlisting, deserts, impersonates an officer, is caught...
According to one sardonic French saying, half the riders in the Paris Metro wear the Legion of Honor while the other half have applied for the medal. More than most people, the French love to get awards, and last week, at annual awards ceremonies, medal mania was in full swing...
It takes some prodding to get Will to discuss his general philosophical outlook. Asked what his major intellectual influences have been, he says with a slight, sardonic smile, "That's an invitation to be pompous or obscure. If you say Irving Kristol and Aristotle, you're probably both." But he...