Search results for "Sardonic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Joyce, Gaddis invented a highly complex, sardonic style that was unlike almost ... more accessible picture of Gaddis's sardonic worldview. The satire of ...11 KB (1,787 words) - 12:11, 8 May 2023
- have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." His views ...16 KB (2,410 words) - 02:48, 24 July 2023
- for poisonous wit and cruel and sardonic humor also developed. His ability to draw caricatures was matched by his ability to shoot someone down ...12 KB (1,891 words) - 04:22, 21 January 2025
- lifelong through Lautrec's life and art. Sardonic wit, alcoholism, debauchery, exhibitionism, and artistic flair all served to cloak the psychic ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 09:56, 25 June 2024
- :Blather doesn't care. A sardonic laugh escapes us as we bow, cruel and cynical hounds that we are. It is a terrible laugh, the laugh of ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- and litotes; repetition; symbolism; sardonic irony, oxymorons and paradoxes; and anthropomorphism. Of course, what is most striking to the reader ...16 KB (2,340 words) - 07:21, 27 March 2025
- Hall from 1947-1949, with Oscar Levant as a sardonic piano-playing sidekick. Despite such singers as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Perry Como being ...14 KB (2,198 words) - 04:22, 17 June 2023
- call it cynical—and sometimes sardonic. In Love in the Afternoon (1957), a young and innocent Audrey Hepburn who doesn't want to be young ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- began in the mid 1990s, as a series of bizarre and sardonic original passages which was "spoofed" to look like prominent web portals of the ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- or leave. The eighteen-year-old Cheever wrote a sardonic account of this experience, "Expelled," which was subsequently published in The New ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:31, 30 January 2025
- is a term coined for especially outlandish and sardonic parody. Although his many pamphlets and attacks on religious corruption and intellectual ...20 KB (3,110 words) - 01:32, 7 February 2025
- the new fall line-up. This mirrors a drunken and sardonic conversation between Beale and Schumacher at the start of the film, that they should have a ...21 KB (3,165 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- In 1964, Sartre renounced literature in a witty and sardonic account of the first six years of his life, Les mots (Words). The book is an ironic ...23 KB (3,517 words) - 09:02, 23 December 2024
- War" Thucydides displays a sardonic sense of humor, such as in his description of the Athenian plague (Book II), when he remarks that some ...24 KB (3,705 words) - 22:51, 5 May 2023
- change is painful." She also had a lively, sardonic sense of humor, often based in the disparity between her characters' limited perceptions ...24 KB (3,778 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- focused mainly on rock songs with Zappa's sardonic social commentary satirical lyrics targeted against teenagers, the media, and religious and political ...27 KB (4,049 words) - 05:10, 9 April 2024
- Academy Award for his supporting role as a sardonic butler in the 1981 comedy Arthur, starring Dudley Moore and Liza Minnelli, a New York Film Critics ...34 KB (5,145 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2025
- Kantara, he finally surrendered. In a fit of sardonic irony, Richard had Isaac confined with silver chains, scrupulously abiding by a previous promise ...33 KB (4,886 words) - 06:54, 12 January 2024
- daughter. Margaret Whitlam is known for having a sardonic wit equal to that of her husband and is a published author as well as a former champion swimmer ...39 KB (5,648 words) - 08:14, 24 May 2024
- In a fit of sardonic irony, once Isaac had been captured Richard had him confined with silver chains, scrupulously abiding by a previous promise ...37 KB (6,079 words) - 04:23, 10 December 2022
