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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 ...
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  • have been consigned to oblivion. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce." His views ...
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  • for poisonous wit and cruel and sardonic humor also developed. His ability to draw caricatures was matched by his ability to shoot someone down ...
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  • :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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • or leave. The eighteen-year-old Cheever wrote a sardonic account of this experience, "Expelled," which was subsequently published in The New ...
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  • is a term coined for especially outlandish and sardonic parody. Although his many pamphlets and attacks on religious corruption and intellectual ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • War" Thucydides displays a sardonic sense of humor, such as in his description of the Athenian plague (Book II), when he remarks that some ...
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  • change is painful." She also had a lively, sardonic sense of humor, often based in the disparity between her characters' limited perceptions ...
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  • focused mainly on rock songs with Zappa's sardonic social commentary satirical lyrics targeted against teenagers, the media, and religious and political ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Kantara, he finally surrendered. In a fit of sardonic irony, Richard had Isaac confined with silver chains, scrupulously abiding by a previous promise ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In a fit of sardonic irony, once Isaac had been captured Richard had him confined with silver chains, scrupulously abiding by a previous promise ...
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  • Well respected by the British, the sardonic comment by one defender at Rorke's Drift "here they come, black as hell and thick as grass ...
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  • a little ironic, considering The Ambassadors sardonic treatment of the "great new force" of advertising. Many of these examples are ...
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