sardonicism

• “He moves persuasively from a kind of Restoration sardonicism to an obsessive despair.”

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• “Cynicism and sardonicism is great if your writing material for the Daily or Colbert Show.”

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• “Now, just six months in, my friend's sardonicism seems well-judged.”

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• “I always appreciated his appealing mixture of sardonicism and naiveté.”

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• “Instead, he was influenced by Turner's tumults, ­Bosch's visions and Daumier's sardonicism.”

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• “Which is why, when Costello announced his new album was entitled “Momofuku,” I immediately hopped onto the handy internet searching engine Google Dot Com to get to figure out what, if anything, this surely inspirational bit of unparalleled, witty sardonicism meant.”

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• “And evidently Simon, with no sense of humour cannot understand sardonicism and gave me another infraction.”

  June 5th, 2007

• “Smith, for his part, made reference to Lovecraft's "Kthulhut" and "Yok-Zothoth" with a flippancy that has as much to do with the sardonicism of Bierce as with the lyrical fantasy of Lord Dunsany.”

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• “This is why we need sarcasm, irony, sardonicism, hyperbole and other flags or emoticons.”

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• “Despite her limited range exasperation, nervousness, sardonicism, she knows how to write for herself, and she has enough presence and persona to let her being stand in for her acting: as with Allen, the glasses and the jaded-New-Yorker bearing do 90% of the lifting.”

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