Word: sardonicism
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Scoreboard Mentality. Their show, its creators say, is not intended to make invidious judgments about television. "We're just holding up a mirror to a mirror," notes Margolies. Yet their selection and juxtaposition of slides add up to a sardonic view of the TV age and of the current...
Moral Chill. Brown's book is considerably more than a rich thesaurus of anecdote. A sardonic muckraker, Brown demonstrates why commercial broadcasting, now a half-century old, remains "Babbitt at 50." The moral chill of the McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an...
Russell's film script is based on both Aldous Huxley's sardonic history The Devils of Loudun and a play by John Whiting. It presents the Jesuit Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) as a sexually profligate and politically dangerous priest who threatens the intricate schemes of the insatiable...
This younger, tougher G.O.P. breed, largely from the suburbs, is more eager for battle than its Republican elders. The new breed's leader, Assembly Speaker Perry Duryea, a silver-haired, sardonic lobster dealer from the semi-rural tip of Long Island, likes to emphasize the "limitations of our society...
Comedian Dick Gregory's sardonic commentary all too accurately sums up the prevailing cynicism concerning poverty programs. Critics from suburbia and the ghetto alike tend to view the war on poverty as a disaster area in which money filters down from the unwilling hands of taxpayers into the inefficient...