| 单词 | sardonic |
| 例句 | Mentor laughed, but it was a sardonic laugh. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The psychologist cast a sardonic glance at him, “I take it you asked him whether Lanning had resigned. You wanted to hear that he had resigned and so that’s what Herbie told you.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z His manner was unexpectedly civil from all accounts, absent his standard sardonic remarks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I had ill-judged him, he was neither hard nor sardonic, he was already my friend of many years, the brother I had never possessed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He wore a black windbreaker and had a sardonic edge to him. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He laughed and then thought of what it would be like if she found out and left him and he never heard that sardonic voice over the phone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Finally, with a wry, sardonic little shudder, Bernabe said, “Welcome, ball fans, to the World Series of Sex,” and he pushed down a little, dropping his thick lips over one breast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the sardonic look on his face his family knew so well—the joke on himself that made him laugh inwardly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Annoyance flashed across Artemis’s features, only to be replaced by his customary sardonic grin. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Again, Citra couldn’t tell if she was being serious or sardonic. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Snape raised his eyebrows and his tone was sardonic as he asked, “Are you intending to let him kill you?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He missed the easy if largely wordless comradeship he’d had with gruff, sardonic old Roger Morris right from the first day of freshman turnout. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She wrote with an endearing, intelligent voice, and her entries were filled with self-deprecating humor and witty, sardonic asides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The question and the use of her name was sardonic. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The corners of his mouth were turned slightly up in a sardonic smile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He looked down at us, mocking, faintly sardonic, a ghost of a smile on his lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z At his saying that, everyone around the fire broke out laughing— a sort of sardonic laughter intended to convey deep-rooted rancor and hatred. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The distant gramophone stuck now, suddenly, on a grinding, wailing, sardonic trumpet-note; this blind, ugly crying swelled the moment and filled the room. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z A trace of a sardonic smile was all the recognition I got when we passed in the courtyard outside the massive Salle Richelieu of the Sorbonne. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Lyra looked again at her uncle, who was watching the Scholars with a glitter of sardonic amusement, and saying nothing. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z His sardonic mind glowed and his speech took on its old singing rhythm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He said nothing; the slight sardonic raise of his eyebrows said that she, too, would have to grow up. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He stood in the entry to the hall staring at them, with a sardonic smile on his face. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Richard watched the smile that pulled her mouth up at one end, a sardonic smile that he imagined hid something else, perhaps dissatisfaction. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the faint, faint light she made out the lean form and the sardonic smile of the Texan aeronaut, and her hand reached forward of its own accord, in vain. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He could feel her watching him in that sardonic, Dimple way she had—eyes calculating, eyebrows slightly furrowed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Samuel’s jeweled, sardonic eyes dwelt on Tom’s face until Tom said, “What’s the matter, Father?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a tall, lean man with a thin black moustache and narrow blue eyes, and a perpetual expression of distant and sardonic amusement. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Stubbs laughed with sardonic amusement at the prospect. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Kainene raised her eyebrows, sardonic, as if his reasoning did not make sense to her, and because of that he was afraid to tell her that he sometimes thought he loved her too much. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Yeah, but I’d rather be them than be here,” the sardonic kid said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In a backstage interview, Kenny Jr. answered Mr. O’Brien’s sardonic questions about “Mr. and Mrs. Sanmagnetron Claus” with deadpan sincerity, seemingly oblivious to the incongruity of a man in full Islamic dress designing Christmas decorations. House Proud: Pink Robots at the Gate 2013-08-21T22:22:38Z As ever, the tunes were standard Rollins fare – calypsos like Global Warming and a finale of Don't Stop The Carnival, tender ballads racked by sardonic diversions, barging runs and sly quotes. Sonny Rollins/The Bad Plus 2010-11-21T22:30:00Z “There’s nothing worse than spilling your guts and having people hate it,” he said with a sardonic chuckle. Judd Apatow’s Life as Art in ‘This Is 40’ 2012-11-14T15:13:43Z “Wuthering Heights,” by contrast, is a fluid marvel of intricately layered flashbacks, with outrageous incidents filtered through the eyes of oddly stoic, sardonic or accepting witnesses, allowing Brontë to strike droll and savage notes simultaneously. ‘The Lost Child’: an homage (of sorts) to ‘Wuthering Heights’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Well," a sudden, sardonic smile, "it is, but with enormous amounts of irony. Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke' 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z “It felt really surreal,” Parker says with a sardonic laugh. Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The sardonic march of the Second is trademark Shostakovich, who alludes to Stravinsky in the violin solo of the Fifth Fragment. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z The Czech writer Milan Kundera has always stressed, in his fiction and elsewhere, the importance of sardonic, irreverent humor as a saving human and even political trait. Again and Again, Literature Provides an Outlet for the Upended Lives of Refugees 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z While Patterson denies that his divorce severely impacted the song’s sardonic bite, he admits that something may have seeped in. ‘Everything Is Awesome’ for Shawn Patterson, the most unlikely of best original song Oscar nominees 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z But in the pressure-cooker decade before Germany’s complacent bourgeoisie and corrupt rulers facilitated Europe’s plunge into World War I, the Expressionists helped modernize the idea of the artist as obstreperous rebel and sardonic social commentator. Art Review: Bleak Visions From Early-20th-Century Rebels 2011-03-24T22:07:05Z His urbane and sardonic poems were increasingly filled with sex and philosophy and blues songs and late-night conversation and time spent at the dinner table. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z No convoluted backstory, no sardonic attitude, no pretension whatsoever: just easy, straightforward video game fun, elevated by splashy visuals, tight controls and an attention to detail that borders on perfectionism. ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ Review: This Ain’t No Game 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z In any case, Bob’s horror turns to sardonic laughter as he reveals that he’s been bitten. Walking Dead Recap: The Zombies Aren't the Gruesome Part 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z Jack’s redemption and development, his sensitivity and sardonic humor, are most winningly represented in his exchanges with other characters. Marilynne Robinson’s New Book Explores Love in Segregated America 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Beneath my teenage son’s Joe’s “Vendetta” mask, I sense a sardonic eyebrow raised. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z And when Lowrie's sardonic Falstaff shows us, for a change, he's no doltish dupe but a shrewd hustler who meets his match. Review: A wise Mistress Page and a well-rounded Falstaff shine in Seattle Shakes' 'Merry Wives' 2011-04-27T21:33:07Z It would be years before the Vietnam War made the draft an issue — so Trumbo, at his most sardonic, thought of an alternative crime for Paul: associating with parrot smugglers. Kirk Douglas’s Film ‘Lonely Are the Brave’ 2012-07-28T22:47:18Z But nothing about Ms. Harper’s choreography was antic or sardonic, and there weren’t many steps, invented or borrowed. Review: Attacca Quartet Serves Up John Adams, With Dance as a Side Dish 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Alternately silly, sardonic and tender, cowboy poetry gives us access to life on the range with all its accompanying excitement, hardships, and dreams. An unlikely player in the war on cowboy poetry 2011-04-11T17:03:00Z She had distinguished herself on Broadway in Edward Albee’s sardonic “American Dream,” in which she played Mommy, the cartoonishly overwhelming wife of a spineless husband, and in Samuel Beckett’s bitterly comic “Happy Days.” Sada Thompson, Actress Known for Maternal Roles, Dies at 83 2011-05-06T04:38:16Z Like all the best memes, the “Queen of” rubric is sardonic in form and cheerful in content. Carly Rae Jepsen’s Ecstatic Hymns to Love 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Since then, Mr. Capaldi, 56, has spent several months filming “Doctor Who” in Cardiff, Wales, trying to bring to the role his own personal take, which he says is more sardonic and elusive. Peter Capaldi Goes From ‘Doctor Who’ Fan to Its Star 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z And, while the show has a few sardonic things to say about our capacity for credulity, the biggest myth of all is that it's somehow a landmark American musical. The Book of Mormon – review 2013-03-21T23:00:02Z It's clever, witty and sardonic, so why not? Six Songs of Me: Barry from Barrygruff 2012-08-30T08:19:21Z It opened with a set featuring light-fingered, countryish songs citing particular locales — Tennessee, Texas, Utah — and its encore was the gleeful, sardonic “U.S. Blues.” No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The dialogue never failed to be sharply sardonic. It's Not Too Late to Get Into Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and virtuoso whistler Andrew Bird riffles through moods and genres on his holiday album: He’s wistful, sardonic, jaunty and pensive by turns. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z My stepdaughter is naturally eloquent; my son is naturally sardonic. I do, again: ‘There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z His offstage persona is fairly close to the stage one he favors — rumpled, excitable, mildly sardonic, casually authoritative. In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Muzijevic, a tall, sardonic figure behind whose features one senses a perpetually lurking smile, has a wonderfully clear, conversational way with Haydn, whose smiles are likewise never far below the surface. In Pedja Muzijevic’s recital, talk gets in the way of ‘Haydn Dialogues’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Sister: Your tone might be sardonic, but I reckon you’ve got some real wisdom to share. Perspective | Ask Amy: Layabout son should be shown the door 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Because the film doesn’t begin to explore the wider implications of that loss of trust, its findings don’t add up to more than a sardonic gloss on a provocative subject. Review: ‘(Dis)Honesty — The Truth About Lies’ Assumes Everyone Tells Them 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The dry, sardonic humor displayed in the series hints at what Akhavan would eventually bring to “Appropriate Behavior.” ‘Appropriate Behavior’ filmmaker Desiree Akhavan on her debut film and how she got her role on ‘Girls’ 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Ms. Metcalf, the veteran of television’s “Roseanne” who has profitably returned to her stage roots in the last decade or so, brings savory sardonic inflections to her performance as this tough-hided character. | 'The Other Place': Confronting an Illness and a Life in Shambles 2011-03-29T08:30:23Z Deayton's character George Windsor is described as some one who "works to live, is sanguine, sardonic and deeply selfish". Angus Deayton joins Waterloo Road 2012-12-12T13:09:06Z In Neal you saw the threat of a razor shining in the light of her sardonic smile. Patricia Neal: a beauty that cut like a knife 2010-08-09T13:09:00Z The image, of a nude white scowling man sitting as erect as a raised thumb and surrounded by his ready-to-wear wardrobe as soldier, executioner and butcher, is as sardonic as the Alice portraits are tender. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Like many of those artists, Conner was shaped by the clash between the intense emotionality of Abstract Expressionism and the sardonic worldliness of Dada. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z To which her mother responds, “Whenever it’s sardonic, a moment later it’s generous again.” Book review: ‘How to Be Both,’ by Ali Smith There’s also a double-edged view of popular culture in a sardonic clip from “The Jungle Book,” which Jeremiah is watching, and with his own efforts at drawing comics, his principal hobby. What to Stream This Weekend: “Burning Cane” 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z His rote delivery paled in comparison to Jean Shepherd's sardonic off-camera narration. Review: ‘A Christmas Story Live!’ Wasn’t Lively Enough 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The marchlike Allegretto had sardonic humor, with its theme in sly staccato chords over a galumphing bass line. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z Tool harnesses rock aggression to apocalypse, while Puscifer favors electronics and often blends the ominous and the sardonic. Music Review: A Desolate Croon That Seethes and Hints at a Band?s Next Phase 2011-07-15T22:44:06Z “America is famously ahistorical,” a sardonic Barack Obama observed in 2015. Criminal justice reform in the U.S. has a long history of repressive outcomes 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z This is what it might be like to see through the eyes of a depressed person whose most intense emotion is sardonic cynicism. Searching for Light in the Darkness of the ’80s 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But his second career as a sardonic musical satirist brought him far more notoriety. Local shows of note: 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Tom Lehrer tunes, Mexico City troupe 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z With its video game imagery, slacker geek protagonist and sardonic 20-something humour, it is not the type of fare which generally tends to capture the imagination of Hollywood awards body members. Take that! Twice. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World wins two Satellite awards 2010-12-20T11:29:02Z The narrator is a teenager named Evie, one of several sardonic older kids in a large group of young people with free run of the house and grounds. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z At her best, O'Connor could equal Tori Amos in cutting through the sardonic Gen-X emotional defenses so many people around my age developed in our macramé-covered childhoods. The gospel according to Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z He was also brilliant: sardonic, whip-smart, and taut with nervous energy. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z The sardonic “A Bad Day in Utopia” posits the casual retribution available to a woman in a post-patriarchal society. Review | In Matthew Baker’s ‘Why Visit America,’ the U.S. is an absurd place, but also full of hope 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Cusack’s sardonic, understated portrayal of Rat, who is not quite what he says he is, grounds the movie in a wistfully cynical realism. Movie Review: In ‘Adult World,’ a Naïf Dreams of Literary Glory 2014-02-13T23:21:16Z The songs of Connie Converse sound at first like your average 1950s folk music, but closer listening reveals quirkier attitudes and sardonic humor. Review: Barnard/Columbia Dances at the Miller Theater 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Trust Roth to trust derision: A magnificently sardonic 1969 letter to Diana Trilling, never sent, appears in Roth’s nonfiction “Reading Myself and Others.” Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Creators Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Duncan Sheik blend the scary with the sardonic in a production that lethally wins style points even when making the most fiendish mess with a hatchet. 'American Psycho' boldly blends the scary with the sardonic 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The tone of the essay was similarly sardonic. Holy Joker: Father John Misty releases “Pure Comedy” 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z “What, and give up show business?” she will ask, with sardonic incredulity. Early-’60s Absurdism in ‘Red Eye of Love’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The stories collected here are variously surprising, sardonic and darkly humorous, and are always intelligent and beautifully written. For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z I then went on to Joseph Conrad’s sardonic novel of pretense and betrayal, “The Secret Agent,” E.F. Perspective | I did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead. 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Berman’s sardonic approach and light touch, however, kept things winsome enough to encourage enthusiasm. Sitting in front of David Berman's old apartment in the middle of the night 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z But, as she puts it, with a typically sardonic edge, “everything about me” — like her taste for black leotards while vacationing in Paris in 1956 — “announces that I am opposed to country clubs everywhere.” Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z The tapes, notable for their subject’s clipped, sardonic replies, form the revelatory backbone of the movie. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Balsam gives an assured, sardonic portrayal of Bernice, a jaded TV producer so accustomed to piling work onto her understaffed team that she almost seems to enjoy forcing them to adapt. Review: New play tweaks TV's addiction to ratings 2013-06-05T00:18:07Z The second movement was more sly than sardonic; the climactic burst of dissonance in the third movement was beautiful, not brutal. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z It’s here, when the comedy curdles and the aesthetic choices gel, that you can see Mr. Slavick’s sardonic aims and envision “Icarus” really taking off. ArtsBeat: New York Musical Theater Festival Report: ‘Icarus’ 2013-07-25T21:02:49Z He even gave us a new Solo scion, in the darkling form of Adam Driver’s Kylo Ren, to replace departing sardonic space scoundrel Han. Has JJ Abrams ruined plans to expand the Star Wars universe? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z What is striking about “Chocolate,” though, is the way its seemingly unvarnished earnestness is coated in a generous robe of sardonic tastemaking. The Hidden Depths of Sandra Boynton’s Board Books 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Jane Austen is a "steely, tough-minded, sardonic social critic"? The curious US cult of Jane Austen 2013-01-28T01:12:48Z In a way, Levinson is right in a "boy who cried wolf" kind of sardonic way. Why "The Idol" being canceled is causing so much joy 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z He is famously elusive and his humor tends toward the sardonic. Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z He later became well-known for his TV work, including Clive James On Television, in which he delivered sardonic commentary on international programming, such as the Japanese gameshow Endurance. Clive James is 'saying goodbye' 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Vidal knew how to play up to his image, and was obligingly both preening and sardonic, inviting me to notice for instance his facial resemblance, in the cheekbone area, to Pasolini. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z When I first read the script I thought that's the part to be, always wry and sardonic. Star Wars original cast looked 'a little melted' for Episode VII – Carrie Fisher 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z She skirts the action, providing sardonic commentary on the trials of being a boxer’s mother. | 'Beautiful Burnout': Hoping to Punch a Path to Glory 2011-03-02T03:01:01Z Although there has been no shortage of Jewish characters in movies and TV over the years, they tend to be primarily sardonic, rootless cosmopolitans kvetching about social encounters while working on a novel. Soldiers, survivors and lovable rogues: the new wave of Jewish cinema 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Jacobson was a pleasure to watch in the later seasons of “House M.D.,” but his short introductory appearance made you wonder whether his sardonic style would be a good fit for “The Americans.” ‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 10: Family Anguish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z At their best – on, say, White Rune – they approach the taut sonics and sardonic minimalism of Wire. New band of the day ? No 1,079: Iceage 2011-08-08T15:54:00Z His style is intense, sardonic, philosophical, with a tendency to skitter away from the spotlight even as he places himself center stage. Review: Recalling an Electric New York in ‘Radicals in Miniature’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z A few sardonic shots suggest an eye for corny absurdities, but the director indulges in more than a few of his own making.—R.B. Movies 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Scott manages to be sentimental and sardonic in the same breath. Theater Review: Sherie Rene Scott: Semi-Star From Kansas 2010-04-30T02:27:00Z “C’est le ballet,” as the recurring song by that title makes clear with its quarrelsome, keening notes, takes on a sardonic meaning, along the lines of “business as usual.” ‘Little Dancer’: Big roles for women in the Susan Stroman, Tiler Peck ballet musical The sardonic tones of the accompanying narration — voiced by someone whose identity will be revealed later on — are an early indication that Mr. Pitt may not be the hero of the story. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Online which might just count as his most sardonic public missive yet. Joss Whedon bares his teeth over new Buffy film 2010-11-23T13:07:00Z The program opened with Vaughan Williams’s dark-hued Symphony No. 6, completed just after World War II. Mr. Botstein conducted a vigorous interpretation, with the sardonic brass fanfares and eerie string motifs boldly executed. American Symphony Orchestra Samples the 20th Century 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z So yes, this Lydia is brave, sardonic, soulful, honest, resilient, wise beyond her years. She’s 17, Sardonic and Ready to Sing in ‘Beetlejuice’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z They are dressed in clownish fashion, with brightly painted faces and wigs, and they add a fanciful element that sits oddly with the somewhat sardonic tone of the rest of the ballet. Dance Review: ‘Cinderella’ at Edinburgh International Festival 2012-08-31T22:50:44Z Those suspicions then blossomed into full-fledged, sardonic mistrust. 'The Americans' Recap: Season 2 Ends With an Answer (Jared) and a Question (Paige) 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z In the novel, the line was a sardonic comment on moral rigidity. Review: ‘The Secret Agent’ Is Reimagined on AcornTV 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Castro may emerge here as a cynical amoralist, but he is also something of a regular guy: shrewd, sardonic, finely intelligent and abrasively honest. The Autobiography of Fidel?Castro by Norberto Fuentes 2010-04-30T23:14:00Z In accordance with the book’s sardonic instructions: “Dear me, let us be elegant or die.” We watched 15 straight hours of ‘Little Women,’ and things got weird 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Kim is never quite sure why she makes the decisions she does, and is only intermittently able to be the sardonic observer of her own life typically demanded by the post-“Bridget Jones” genre. Tina Fey reinvents herself in the rich Afghan War dramedy “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Michael Williams continues to develop his sardonic, richly embellished paintings in big, slightly disorienting leaps, through an engaging combination of intuition and rigor. Art in Review: Michael Williams: ‘Paintings’ 2013-12-05T21:41:16Z DeWitt, dryly sardonic, clicks instantly with his rhythms as she creates a moody woman who nonetheless knows how to laugh at herself. 'Your Sister's Sister': a poignant visit with a believable trio 2012-06-14T20:45:04Z White’s signature tone is sardonic and sincere at the same time. Review: ‘The White Lotus’ Offers Scenery From the Class Struggle 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Shostakovich’s seven-minute Allegretto, composed in the early 1960s, bears its composer’s signature boldly in dark themes shared by the viola and the cello and quickly darting violin lines in Shostakovich’s sardonic folk dance style. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z It's a bracingly vicious take on spending Christmas with dull people – best if you imagine it delivered in a sardonic drawl. Season's readings: Three stories by Saki 2010-12-23T13:04:07Z For all the faithful man-servants we’ve seen maintain their decorum over the years, we may be fondest of those who manage to slip in a sardonic wisecrack at the boss’s expense every now and then. At Your Service: 10 Great TV and Movie Butlers 2013-08-19T09:45:46Z When I think “Victorian,” I think Melville and Dickinson: passionate, sardonic moral thinkers, too in love with beauty to be morbid. Art Review: ‘Jasper Johns: Regrets,’ a New Series at MoMA 2014-03-21T16:46:57Z He mimics what he thinks the shelter’s staff might be thinking in a sardonic riff, “OK, we did our part, now hit the bricks.” “Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z This new, sassy and sardonic Sally is the one who has become familiar over the past couple of years to the thousands of people who follow her on Twitter and Facebook. Careers of Former Stars Renewed by Social Media 2012-12-26T21:36:33Z One day he will allow himself a sardonic chuckle at the irony. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z That makes her an appealing character for the sizeable audience who don’t give two hoots about comics; she is a thoroughly modern misanthrope, relatable even when delivering sardonic putdowns along with her bruising smackdowns. Jessica Jones recap, episodes 1-7: what do you make of Marvel’s newest TV hero? 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Yet one watches their sardonic and heartfelt encounters from a cool distance — and, in my case, with fluctuating degrees of interest and empathy. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z These markets are as much for publicity as for action — it projects an irreverent company with a sardonic sense of humor. Irish bookie puts odds on Trump’s administration, inauguration and impeachment 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In the early scenes, Mr. Firth’s eyes convey a profound hurt barely camouflaged by a sardonic joviality. Movie Review: ‘The Railway Man,’ a True Tale of Wartime Torment and Reconciliation 2014-04-10T22:30:18Z As a sardonic drug dealer in “Go,” from 1999, a frenetic cult comedy about young night crawlers in Los Angeles, he showed off his comic chops with a caustic riff on “The Family Circus.” Television: Timothy Olyphant in Elmore Leonard?s ?Justified? on FX 2012-01-05T12:00:00Z This striking update of the reverse-glass painting technique conjures cheap Rothko clouds and West Coast Finish Fetish art, surfboarding and go-go boots with sardonic but seductive efficiency. Art in Review: Mika Tajima: ‘Negative Entropy’ 2014-03-27T20:28:25Z Blue,” but Mr. Imperioli has enough of his own sardonic, brooding charisma to make it his own. Television Review: He Treats His Partner as Badly as He Does the Suspects 2010-09-20T23:36:00Z West was not a morning person, and the sardonic nickname Pep stuck with him throughout his life. Books of The Times: ?Lonleyhearts? by Marion Meade: Lives of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney 2010-03-18T23:29:00Z It is one of several scenes from her life that Stone, the 63-year-old star of films like “Basic Instinct,” “Casino” and “The Quick and the Dead,” relates with candor and sardonic humor. Sharon Stone Is Telling Her Side of the Story 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z A portrait of the desperate life of the Russian lower-middle class, the opera was sardonic, nervy, and violent, veering constantly between satire and vaudeville and naturalism. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z “At the time, I thought I was oppressed,” he said with a sardonic chuckle. The Original ‘Real World’ Cast Reunites, Older but Still Not Polite 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z But when he finished “The Sympathizer,” he had grown attached to his sardonic narrator, whose voice came to him so naturally that it feels like his alter ego. He Writes Unreliable Narrators Because He Is One, Too 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Pithy and sardonic as ever but now with added heart. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-06-27T13:38:00Z Often your music has an uplifting feel but your lyrics are ambivalent or sardonic, and I wonder if that comes from your having encountered that side of life … New Order’s next album is coming: Bernard Sumner talks “Complete Music,” Peter Hook and why it’s important to “glow for a very long time” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Come December there’s always room for Crumpet, the sardonic gay adult who rather desperately takes a job as a department store elf and dishes to us about the needy customers and the sad-sack Santas. Review | A comic ‘Santaland’ needs frost 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Or how about the sardonic triumphalism of the finale of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, or maybe the tragic hollowness of the first movement of the Fifteenth? The Shard will open to the wrong music 2012-07-05T13:00:00Z But throughout the play her keen ear for comic absurdity grounded in truth is matched by a probing compassion for her characters, even when they are viewed through a sardonic lens. Review: ‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ With Elisabeth Moss, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z It is a superbly sardonic turn, enlivened by bursts of gratuitous comedy. Best European Fiction 2013, edited by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-02-01T09:01:01Z And her story must remain nested inside another that is sardonic and bleak. Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” Is the Truest Portrait of Female Consciousness Since Sappho 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The mood was more candied than mysterious in the second-movement “night music,” its lilting cello section feeling genuinely nostalgic rather than tangily sardonic. Review: Alan Gilbert Leaves the Philharmonic, Violin in Hand 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z As Mike tells her in his sardonic way, the system is broken. ‘The Program Assistant’ at Capital Fringe Festival hits on harsh truth of post-grad life Last month, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic played a version here attuned to the work’s tragic and sardonic potential. Review: Semyon Bychkov Makes the Philharmonic an Event 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Cattelan paused, then settled for a sardonic euphemism: ‘‘a family moment.’’ A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z That is at least in part the sardonic content of Ahmed Mater's epigrammatic black-and-white photograph of a black magnetic cube drawing ring upon concentric ring of iron filings to its Mecca. Light from the Middle East: New Photography – review 2012-12-09T00:05:48Z With a sardonic smile, he added: "We love to be hated." Insane Clown Posse feels qualified to host Fuse show 2013-08-20T13:55:09Z The speaker is none other than dashing Sam Darrow, who is, according to one of his sardonic colleagues, “more commonly known as Mr. Vietnam.” Books of The Times: Tatjana Soli?s ?Lotus Eaters? Offers Lessons From Vietnam 2010-03-29T04:59:00Z Star, a neurodivergent foster kid with a sardonic sense of humor, clearly doesn’t register the gravity of her actions. ‘Queens of the Qing Dynasty’ Review: Secret Soul Mates 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z Now magazine called him one of the “most brilliantly sardonic voices in indie rock.” David Berman, founder of indie rockers Silver Jews, dies 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Chin, best known for “The Joy Luck Club,” exudes cool, and she’s effortlessly funny with her dagger eyes and sardonic jibes. ‘Lucky Grandma’ Review: Mean Streets of Chinatown 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Putting a sardonic spin on a modern classic of misanthropy, the movie “Hyenas” transposes a dark comedy by the Swiss dramatist Friedrich Durrenmatt to rural Senegal. A Dark Swiss Comedy, Transported to Rural Senegal 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Maybe I'm the only one, but I want the nerve-shredding mayhem of Jason Bourne combined deftly with the sardonic asides of Jeeves. Let's start a comedy crime wave 2010-08-03T10:36:00Z Which may be the reason “Elementary” is able to land such substantial thematic punches without seeming sardonic or sanctimonious. ‘Elementary’ affirms its place as the smartest study of recovery on TV 2014-04-24T19:18:54Z The comic starred Binky, a crudely drawn, anthropomorphic rabbit whose hopes collide with a bleak, sardonic vision of modern urban life. 'Simpsons' celebrates its 26th season with — what else? — a death 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In fact, Karkinnen is still with us, but sometimes imperiled, and her uncertain future reflects her creator’s amused, often sardonic view of human nature. John Sandford: A thriller writer having a little fun with the genre 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Still, Mr. Jung said, there are limits: no R-rated-style theater would ever pass muster, and even a PG attitude is limited to sarcasm or sardonic humor. Disney Taps New York Stage Talent for Cruise Line Theater 2012-03-13T23:08:21Z She was an editor at Gawker, ran a feminist publishing imprint, has written two novels and dispenses lively, sardonic, mama-bear commentary on Twitter. ‘Raising Raffi,’ a Father’s Lucid Book About a Chaotic Scene 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z This spot was made around that time, and it’s a wild one—it could be a sardonic anti-bourgeois riff from a Buñuel film. Cultural Clicks: Frida Kahlo’s Lovers and Parenting Advice from Metallica’s James Hetfield 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z They resemble grad school seminars that have been hijacked by the sardonic kid in the back, the one with the black sweater and nicotine-stained fingers. Books of The Times: Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a New Nuclear Age 2011-03-01T16:45:09Z But while Rigoletto is sardonic and vengeful, he is also racked with the pain of his wife's death and of love for his daughter, Gilda. Rigoletto 2010-06-27T21:01:00Z Crowe starred in "L.A. Confidential" and "American Gangster," Gosling appeared in "Gangster Squad" and Black lent his dark, sardonic wit to the aforementioned "Weapon" as screenwriter and "Kiss Kiss" as director. Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe's 'Nice Guys' stakes out June 2016 release 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z But more importantly, like Lloyd, Augustus is both cracklingly sardonic and utterly vulnerable. The best imaginary boyfriends of all time 2013-06-06T14:43:00Z Enormous cherry still lifes and loony faces, macabre chorus lines of legs, hapless-looking Ku Klux Klan figures: These paintings deliver a sardonic commentary on art, art-making, politics and life that never goes out of style. MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Juggling both the pretentiousness of a mad scientist and the grief of a father, Offerman is working way outside the sardonic stylings he’s known for, and he doesn’t always meet the challenge. Review | Does fascinating techno-thriller ‘Devs’ hold the key to FX’s streaming future? 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z He gestured toward one of the oncoming trucks, his voice shifting into a sardonic gear: “I’m pretty sure that guy didn’t read it.” An Artist’s March to Freedom 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z With Fox News, Stewart offered his sardonic congratulations for finding the “aggrieved white man angle.” Jon Stewart slams Fox News for turning Selma coverage into “white conservative victimization” 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Yeah, some of it’s kind of sardonic and sarcastic and stuff, but yeah, it is romantic. The poetry of “Mad Men”: When Matthew Weiner first read Frank O’Hara, “it was just like total time travel” 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z As for the man in white with the sardonic air, he hasn’t appeared lately, though Ms. Yiadom-Boakye said she had no doubt he would show up eventually in some form. A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Obviously, Colbert owes much to Letterman, who made sardonic de rigueur and eventually settled into the role of late-night’s cranky truth-teller in contrast to Leno’s part as sweet and affable uncle. Will Colbert’s truthiness survive the ‘Late Show’ switch? 2014-04-11T21:42:53Z His spiritual mood, marked by a sardonic cultural pessimism, is suited to match. A Polymath Author With More Ideas Than He Can Handle 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The sardonic voice in the Cambodia-inspired “Ghost” seems to be the project’s guiding spirit, reveling in an appetite for lost traditions “resounding in meaning without attachment,” whose “potential is not ruined by being realized.” Dance for the People (by the Pros) at the River to River Festival 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z It is sardonic and playful, bleak but parodic, disturbing and deeply moving. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z On its most recent previous album, “Popular Songs” from 2009, Yo La Tengo was joshing and sardonic at times, but “Fade” stays serious and pensive, unafraid to whisper through most of the songs. New Music: Yo La Tengo’s ‘Fade’ and Cristina Pato’s ‘Migrations’ 2013-01-14T22:57:43Z Murphy closed the Madison Square Garden show with “New York, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down,” a sardonic, meandering lament for lost or sullied dreams. The Weirdness of the LCD Soundsystem Reunion 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Comstock invested “That Great Come-and-Get-It Day,” from “Finian’s Rainbow” with a sardonic, lighthearted humor after an introduction in which he explained he did not believe in an afterlife. Music Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano at Metropolitan Room 2012-10-16T22:16:16Z Invoking 1960s girl-group harmonies, the trio projects coyness and competence, with barely a trace of the sardonic. Playlist: Inside a Troubled Mind and Mideast Musical Theories 2010-03-25T19:46:00Z Their partnership, combining avant-garde music and performance art with technology, became a media sensation thanks to Moorman’s willingness — underwritten by her sardonic, sensation-seeking intelligence — to shed her clothes. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z MacLeod achieved stardom as Murray Slaughter, the sardonic TV news writer on the 1970s comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” Gavin MacLeod, ‘Love Boat’ captain, dies at 90 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z The jokingly sardonic Hunter and his horn-driven band turned the lush, sylvan winery grounds into a neighborhood British pub. Soaking up sun & soul at Chateau Ste. Michelle bluesfest 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons put his hands-on, detailed approach to good use in the anniversary concert with a kaleidoscopic account of “La Valse,” Ravel’s sardonic deconstruction of the Viennese waltz, with the Boston Symphony. Music Review: Andris Nelsons Conducts Boston Symphony at Tanglewood 2012-07-16T22:18:50Z “Waiting For That Day” takes the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” under its wing, turning the Stones’ sardonic track into words of comfort. How George Michael Transformed Pop Music 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Their discussion of the series, an autobiographically inspired comedy about an actress raising three daughters on her own, quickly evolved into a sardonic symposium on the indignities of motherhood. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Following the line, “If I should die before I wake,” however, Mr. Wong had added a few more — a darkly sardonic apology to his partner in case he hurt anyone while asleep. The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer 2010-06-25T22:17:00Z The target audience had already been hoovered up by the sardonic blockbuster Deadpool. Is it cos I is wack? The rise and fall of Sacha Baron Cohen 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z His obvious itch to kill criminals is a subject of many sardonic comments by his partner. 'Justified' Recap: Then I Have Already Won 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z At times, the endless recrimination is a bit wearing; but Reiss combines sardonic observation with confessional honesty. Review 2010-07-20T23:05:00Z Sometimes his work caught perpetual social truths with sardonic acuity; in an unpublished cartoon, for example, a well-dressed man and a woman sit holding hands at a restaurant table. Bernard Schoenbaum, 89, New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies 2010-05-18T16:19:00Z Mr. Day-Lewis composes a symphony of moods: sardonic, melancholy, inspired, impatient. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Some of his best-known compositions from the 1950s and 1960s, such as “Young Man Blues” and “Parchman Farm,” began as spare, sardonic laments about social concerns and alienation. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z James Forbat, in particular, nails the mood of the piece, dispensing a brutal, sardonic narcissism. Ecstasy and Death; Romeo and Juliet – review 2013-04-20T23:06:09Z His style was to yell into the camera, in a voice reminiscent of Andy Kaufman, or of a sardonic game-show host. The Tragic Death of Mark Baumer, a Prolific Poet and Environmental Activist for the Social-Media Age 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The contrast subverted the finale’s stylized rusticity, the dance turning strident and sardonic by turn: Schubert as teenage punk. Review | Arod Quartet’s program explores generations, but its performance is determinedly youthful 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s easy to be charmed by this piece, which begins with impishly jazzy spurts and hints of sardonic Parisian salon music. Review: Martin Frost, Clarinet Virtuoso, Dazzles as He Dances 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z He's one of the great rock'n'roll personalities of recent years: needy, confessional, sardonic, lovable – his voice wraps you up in a warm golden fleece and rolls you in space dust. Other Voices – review 2013-04-09T16:59:39Z The sardonic one-eyed profile, slightly cross, the narrow, ectomorphic head, badly combed, the wide and nervous and well-muscled rump all suggest deskwork: shipping rates by day, Schopenhauer by night, and endless coffee. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Michael has a perpetually adolescent, sardonic attitude, and he subtly mocks his own arrested development with some of his jokes. This May Be the Most Polarizing Comedy Special of the Year 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But “One-Man Show” never quite pulls off the self-aware, sardonic mix of cabaret, theater and dance that it aims for. Dance Review: John Heginbotham?s ?One-Man Show? at Joe?s Pub 2010-06-07T22:26:00Z With a smirk and a raised eyebrow, Mr. Goldblum succeeds in giving his generic character a gentle, sardonic charm. | 'The Switch': Jennifer Aniston Stars in Tale of Fatherhood Mix-Up 2010-08-19T23:53:00Z I’m fond of Mordecai Richler’s protagonists, who tend to be sardonic, somewhat self-destructive boozers. Calvin Trillin: By the Book 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Thom, whose name seems to deliberately echo that of Thomas Paine, the author of “Common Sense,” is full of righteous indignation and sardonic put-downs about the buzzwords and pieties of the social media generation. Review: Showtime’s ‘Happyish’ Is Funnyish 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The key exception to this air of sardonic detachment is Chrissie Hynde, whom Kent met long before she was successful at anything, and who became the one true love of his young life. Apathy for the Devil: A 1970s Memoir by Nick Kent | Book review 2010-03-27T00:08:00Z Of the book’s eight stories — four of which were first published in the New Yorker — most address the bitter disappointments of romantic relationships with her trademark sardonic wordplay. ‘Bark:’ Lorrie Moore casts her eye on modern relationships 2014-04-10T21:14:38Z The show’s final gallery is devoted to “I Am Not Me, the Horse Is Not Mine,” a seven-projection installation inspired by “The Nose” and accompanied by Shostakovich’s blaring, sardonic music. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z In conversation, as on the show, the hosts are a bottomless well of sardonic judicial analysis. The Hosts of ‘5-4’ Never Trusted the Supreme Court 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The poems, at times wry, sardonic and surrealistic, were set to musically eclectic gestures, like the agitated piano motifs accompanying Virginia Woolfe’s appearance in a fancy detox clinic alongside a “Liberace look-alike.” Music Review: ‘Pierrot Lunaire,’ at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-06-09T21:17:20Z Martinez, a teenage contestant on “The Voice” a decade ago who has since explored a sardonic form of art-pop as a recording artist, lands at No. 2 with her latest release, “Portals.” Morgan Wallen Spends a Fifth Straight Week at No. 1 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z She sang Mrs. Lovett in the New York City Opera’s 1984 production of “Sweeney Todd” and appeared as the sardonic grandmother Madame Armfeldt in a production of “A Little Night Music” in Hawaii. The Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias in ?Follies? on Broadway 2011-10-23T22:55:37Z The French tried to claim him as an existentialist and others described him as an old-fashioned stoic, but he would have dismissed such labeling with a sardonic wisecrack. Books of The Times: Talent Is What Made Him Dangerous 2011-02-14T23:29:12Z Coster’s adaptation, in turn, fed inspiration to the painter Jan Steen, whose 1671 canvas “The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” contained within it a sardonic critique of the religious and political powers of the time. How Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter Realized His Dream: an Opera 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z She somehow projects a sense of chatty, unflappable friendliness with a nicely sardonic edge. Emma Stone on Woody Allen, whitewashing and why Hollywood pairs her with older men 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Anne also aims her satire at the limited food options in the Annex, offering sardonic menus and diet tips. Anne Frank’s Diary, in Graphic Form, Reveals Its Humor 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z The first season’s third episode, written by Will Smith and directed by James Hawes, best encapsulated the show’s seesawing mix of sardonic humor, deft characterization and sometimes brutal suspense. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as a sardonic antihero in this Marvel sequel. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘We the Animals’ and an Olivia Newton-John Biopic 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Supporting performances from Laverne Cox, as Cassandra’s sardonic boss, and Alison Brie, as a former school friend, add snap and texture to a movie that’s too tentative to sell the damage at its core. ‘Promising Young Woman’ Review: Courting Dangerous Liaisons 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z “It felt too sardonic to me,” Lynne Meadow, the longtime artistic director of Manhattan Theater Club who’s helming the production, said afterward. How Much Does a Play Change During Previews? Just Ask ‘The Perplexed’ 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z So there was something more than a little sardonic in Magritte’s new attitude. Review | This is not the Magritte we know 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The Newsroom is an exponentially tedious undertaking for the viewer, when really all the show needs to be is slightly sardonic, occasionally frantic and mildly amusing. The Newsroom: 'It's self-indulgent, but it feels so good' – critics have their say 2012-06-25T16:07:00Z His appearance is nothing short of a Larry David masterclass, as he wrestles the nervy, teary-eyed tone into something far more sardonic. Larry David and death row: the amazing tale of how Curb saved one man's life 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Bruce McKinnon brings a sardonic, slightly sneering edge to Touchstone, so often Shakespeare's most superfluous clown. As You Like It 2010-09-26T20:45:00Z “There are times where we go, ‘How do we tell Comedy Central we don’t have a show?’” he said with sardonic delight. ‘South Park’: After Two Decades, It’s Still by the Seat of Their Pants 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z This mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic, maybe more so -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the 2010 Cannes competition. "My Joy": Nightmare voyage into the Russian heartland 2011-09-30T22:01:00Z For it is in its score that “Into the Woods” burrows from its bright, sardonic surface into the shadowy, thorny recesses of the conflicted heart. Theater Review: ‘Into the Woods,’ by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 2012-08-10T04:58:42Z Surreal, sardonic, mock formal, markedly goofball, it thrived on contradiction and self-critical self-awareness. David Letterman's 33-year journey from cult hero to late-night institution 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z When I asked if he personally identified with Squidward, he became sardonic. Squidward Tentacles, voice of millennial despair 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Unexpected outbursts interrupt meditative interludes, culminating in a sardonic climax that eventually subsides to a whispered conclusion on double bass. Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z If she gained any insights from all this research into the meaning of life, she's not telling: the experience is mined for sardonic remarks alone. Judith Lucy – review 2012-11-27T17:40:38Z One of Krenek’s rivals on the Weimar scene, Weill was also eager to sketch sardonic moods. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Her sense of humor is sardonic and unsentimental enough to appeal to men, which helps explain why Judd Apatow is an executive producer. Television Review: Lena Dunham?s ?Girls? Begins on HBO 2012-04-12T18:49:02Z He increased our sense of the work’s strangeness and stature, showing how it recycles rhythmic and melodic material as it goes on while almost imperceptibly transforming from sardonic to sincere. Music Review: She Can Be Tender, but She May Be a Killer, Too 2011-06-10T23:00:13Z There were curious moments of imprecise playing in the genial second movement and the sardonic third. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z Marion Meade, who helped revive interest in Dorothy Parker, the celebrated writer and sardonic wit of the Algonquin Round Table, with her 1988 biography, died on Dec. 29 at her home in Manhattan. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z A much-beloved modern fable with a sardonic twist, “Groundhog Day” has the narrative makings of a successful musical comedy. With a heroic performance by its injured star, 'Groundhog Day' limps through opening night 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The show's balance of sardonic humor and sincerity remains intact, and the ensemble's chemistry still sparks. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Or wanted to be her — or one of the sardonic Cinderellas she conjured in irresistible romantic film comedies like “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You’ve Got Mail.” ‘The MOST of Nora Ephron:’ everything for the Ephron fan 2013-12-18T23:03:05Z The source material for this justly beloved musical, Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker" might be wry and a tad sardonic. This Dolly hits all the high notes 2010-12-28T15:32:00Z This Aunt Lydia is publicly devout but privately defiant, outwardly pious but inwardly sardonic. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z All the great, violent, sardonic characters of the good ol’ days. Film: Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz on ?Shrek? 2010-05-15T02:23:00Z Ms. Lavin evinces with every sardonic inflection and studied pause the cool distance with which Ruth observes the world, beginning with her students and their fledgling attempts at displaying their literary plumage. | 'Collected Stories': Linda Lavin as Donald Margulies?s Vision of Faded Fame 2010-04-28T23:01:00Z There was room for his brand of mischief in the encores, which featured a gleefully committed Bad Brains cover and a more sardonic genuflection to George Jones. Music Review: Tomahawk at the Best Buy Theater 2013-06-04T21:41:58Z Here in Los Angeles, his pace was patient even in the middle movements, which, more than sardonic or sour, felt proud and feisty. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Davis’s humor had a sardonic, even cynical, sting, he said, but retained “sweetness and a Minnesota outlook.” Tom Davis, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedy Writer, Dies at 59 2012-07-19T21:41:39Z And there are a few glimmers of sardonic humor, even at his lordship’s expense. Television Review: Sincerest Forms of Flattery for British Shows 2011-01-06T23:10:24Z Fear, rage, disgust, helplessness, a sardonic amusement and a sorrow beyond tears — these responses ebb and flow in a seemingly unending cycle during the show’s time-bending 80 minutes. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Deadpool’s brand of sardonic humor, delightfully stunted in adolescence and therefore rarely exiting the realms of the bedroom and the bathroom, was not for everyone. What We Learned From Superhero Movies in 2016 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Their sardonic approach has strong echoes of Dada. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z The songs are a series of sardonic, occasionally angry, often moving statements that work individually but don’t quite cohere. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The sardonic comments lift the poem from nostalgic overdrive. Poem of the week: Among His Books by Edith Nesbit 2012-10-01T12:07:58Z They sought observant eyes and sardonic and witty voices with a serrated edge, which is a pretty good way of describing New Yorkers. Driving to Work With Keith Hernandez, the Real Mr. Met 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Black is perhaps too sardonic a presence, but Ms. Blanchett — as a fellow spell-caster — takes evident pleasure in deadpanning lines like “I melted Salvador Dalí’s watch once, right off his wrist.” Review: ‘The House With a Clock in Its Walls’ Is Demented Fun (for Kids) 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z One of the best sections of “Lives of the Eminent Philosophers” focuses on the author’s namesake, the sardonic Diogenes who lived in a tub. Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z With a sardonic chuckle that would often come to the fore in the face of war's unspeakable horrors, Slater asked, "Did what I think happened just happen?" Life and death in the US Marines 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Dave is gone, he is gone and it is impossible to imagine a balance of opposing forces to match his sardonic compassion, his stalwart self-deprecation. Farewell to David Letterman, 'a force of nature' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But for the most part, “Raised in Captivity” is an engagingly sardonic collection that will leave you, like one of Klosterman’s own bewildered characters, “relaxed and confused.” Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z But the psychology of Ms. Rabe’s Nora, with her sometimes sardonic comic inflections and her flashes of disgust at her husband’s domineering ways, doesn’t line up with the character’s circumstances. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z The ensemble work hard, though, and there are some neat characterisations and sardonic lines. Company ? review 2011-02-10T17:35:05Z Or more like David Letterman, who, if he could have summoned the energy to do so, would certainly have given both candidates a sardonic vetting? We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Matthew Cooke’s sardonic yet informative documentary presents America’s war on drugs not only as a no-win scenario but as a boondoggle kept alive by corruption, profit and political opportunism. A&E highlights: wooden boats, smoke on water for July 4 2013-06-26T22:25:18Z Photograph: Bob Peterson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images In their own individual, rancidly sardonic way these novels of which I speak are always funny. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z In his hands, the arioso second movement of Opus 31 No 1 was restless, its pretty ornaments aggressive and sardonic, its simple accompaniment turned into barbed staccato jabs. Ll?r Williams ? review 2011-08-23T10:26:37Z Ms. Borowitz’s sardonic line readings do not suggest a woman whose life has been overshadowed by guilt. Theater Review: ‘The Master Builder,’ at the Harvey Theater at BAM 2013-05-21T02:00:02Z His voice — a raspy, baritone rumble — still carries a hint of the sardonic street-smart hustler he once was. Up Close: Making Peace by Serving Wings 2010-10-13T23:51:00Z That collective knowledge probably accounts for the tone of sardonic fatalism in a film that has the jovial attitude of a higher-brow “The Bucket List.” In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z But there’s also something off, even a bit sardonic, about the juxtaposition of Laura, a mousy little blur, and this particular song, with its louche, emphatically unromantic world-weariness. ‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: Strangers on a Russian Train 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z A sardonic chronicler of his own failings, Matt is unable to suppress his worst impulses. ‘Poets’ at Book-It: an Everyman’s hilarious downward spiral 2013-06-14T04:08:58Z His pictures of people are humane, but they rarely have the needling clarity of Frank’s portraits, or the sardonic force of Garry Winogrand’s. Elliott Erwitt’s Visual One-Liners 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z It provides no distance, no humor—however sardonic or bitter—to account for the near-impossible distance between trauma and retribution, the absurdity of expecting any meaningful redress. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z In the Aria I duet, Ms. Rausch was at her best: unhesitatingly bold, sardonic, calmly strange. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z With her deep, sardonic voice, her blazing eyes and pickaxe cheekbones, Neal was a most imposing leading lady. Patricia Neal: a career in clips 2010-08-09T11:06:00Z Still, the silliness put an aptly weird spin on Verdi’s nod to the sardonic, French-styled humor. Music Review: ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-09T21:13:05Z "Going the Distance" doesn't always click but has a distinctive, sardonic voice and vision. "Going the Distance": Can Drew Barrymore save the rom-com? 2010-09-03T11:01:00Z Although generally Degas is a meticulous realist, he occasionally exaggerates; and then we feel a connection with both the caricatures of the older French artist Daumier and the sardonic views of the younger Toulouse-Lautrec. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z One typically sardonic example, from December 2001, showed an alarmed Santa Claus being forced through airport security in the panicky days following the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z An enigmatic figure of apparently shifting loyalties, Snape evolved from a sardonic teacher of potions into a key player in Potter’s ongoing battle with Voldemort. Alan Rickman: 10 key performances 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z This novel could have easily sagged into dogma, but Leichter keeps the narrative crisp, swift and sardonic. ‘Temporary’ Is a Debut Novel That Leans Into the Absurdity of How We Work Now 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z One critic said he could pack a whole emotional universe into the twitch of an eyebrow, a sardonic slackening of the mouth. John Hurt obituary 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Martin was a far too chipper Che, and while he danced well and sang passably, he signally lacked the fervor and sardonic bite the role required. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Short Life of 'Evita' 2012-12-13T21:26:51Z Iris can be sardonic and ruthless in her observations, especially about her simple and ineffectual ex-husband. In ‘My Name Is Iris,’ a Mother Learns the Limits of Protectiveness 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Dr. Lyubomirsky writes: “It appears that unhappy individuals have bought into the sardonic maxim attributed to Gore Vidal: ‘For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself. ... Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z Even famed author Fran Lebowitz, who is known for her sardonic wit that occasionally borders on good-natured kvetching, declared herself a fan of the regional delicacy in an interview with The Cincinnati Enquirer. Does cinnamon belong in chili? The Midwest says yes 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The show’s great ensemble piece, the vaudevillian “Yellow Shoes,” is a little masterpiece of sardonic efficiency in its use of color in motion. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Against all the optical pleasures of his art runs a tide of darkness and pain; and within that a strain of sardonic humour. Gauguin: Maker of Myth 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z That improbably provides considerable hilarity -- Edlow’s knack for sardonic zingers is in peak form -- and each family member’s personal traumas emerge with increasing velocity. 'ICU' at Atwater Village Theatre: Family dysfunction for the 'Shameless' crowd 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Their own random musings tend to be sardonic tales of drug adventures, philosophical ramblings or defensive justifications for their habits. 'The Connection' links addicts, their audience 2011-08-11T21:04:04Z Like cat videos, something about a sardonic princess meme is simply irresistible. Disney Gets Its Head in the Bad Lip Reading Game 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The essentials: In the center ring of this sardonic world premiere musical, a charismatic con man dupes the innocent with flashy assurances of instant wealth. The 99-Seat Beat: An Actors' Gang 'Carnival,' a riff on 'Heart of Darkness' and more 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z No one of that new wave generation made more films than Chabrol, or so many that were sardonic at best, routine at worst. David Thomson on Claude Chabrol 2010-09-16T22:25:00Z Netflix’s biggest sleeper hit last winter was “You,” a sardonic thriller — So well written! Perspective | America already binge-watches violence against women. Kylie Jenner just took a selfie while doing it. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z Daho brought a heavy measure of Trenet's unruffled old-world charm to electronic pop in the early 1980s, a suave, sardonic voice in an otherwise frenetic era. Sounds of France - day one: a history of French pop in 10 songs 2012-05-28T10:32:14Z Aside from her inscrutable nature, Rosa is known for her sardonic tone and dedication to being a solid detective. ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Is Back, and Stephanie Beatriz Is Making the Most of It 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Yeah, it was much more of a sardonic kind of place. The Post’s Marty Weil remembers when moving buildings was a snap 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Luke is rash and self-centered, his attention to Cora bordering on creepy, which makes the sardonic lines that Dillane delivers so well fall flat. "The Essex Serpent" review: Apple TV+ series needs more bite 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z All of Portis' sardonic wit has been retained this time, and then some. A grittier 'Grit': Talent upgrade matches classic novel 2010-12-21T14:49:00Z It is only when Eagleton wields his own positive criteria that things go awry: they seem to spring, unargued-for, from the same Romantic-influenced, individualist modernity about which he is elsewhere so sardonic. How to Read Literature by Terry Eagleton – review 2013-07-26T07:01:00Z With her tousled hair and forbidding aloofness, May was a figure of bewitchment, la belle dame sans merci of the sardonic comeback. Mike Nichols’s Brilliant Career 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z At its most sardonic, “Falling for Eve” it is not really clever enough to justify even its relatively modest length. | 'Falling for Eve': Joe DiPietro?s Look at Eden by York Theater Company 2010-07-16T03:54:00Z I can safely say that I’ve never seen anything quite like “Burnt Toast,” which mixes sardonic comedy and splatter horror and which was staged on the Schaubühne’s small studio stage. At a Berlin Festival, Avant-Garde Theater from Europe and New York 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z This is where I stop sounding snarky and sardonic and start sounding like a movie lover: This is one hell of a group of women. Oscar 2016 is almost here: Here’s who will win — and who should 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z The formula of deceptively sophisticated funk and sardonic philosophizing would become Steely Dan’s calling card. Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Whoever put the leftist firebrand George Carlin among his influences on Wikipedia must either be completely ignorant, or cracking a sardonic joke. Comedy gold: Jimmy Carr's Stand Up 2012-07-12T14:12:27Z They play fast and loose with white supremacist iconography, remixing it with pop culture and the sardonic tone of internet subculture. For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z An admirer of classic Hollywood films, he made his own in a muted visual voice with sardonic, subversive undertones. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z WhatTheFlicka.com is a land of sardonic coffee mugs and wine-o’clock-Wednesdays, and scented candles with names such as “Juice Cleanse” that purport to smell like “greens, mint, and regret.” Perspective | Where is William H. Macy in the college admissions scandal? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The voice that Plath eventually created is indeed fresh, brazen and colloquial, but also sardonic and bitter, the story of a young woman's psychological disintegration and eventual – provisional – recovery. Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z It was only on his last film, Clash of the Titans, that his creative imagination was finally matched by the castlist, which included Laurence Olivier, as a sardonic Zeus, Maggie Smith and Claire Bloom. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z His most recent book, published last year, is “Postcards From Camp,” a warmly sardonic correspondence between a first-time camper and his father. Simms Taback, Writer and Illustrator of Children?s Books Dies at 79 2012-01-01T06:47:20Z Mumps songs never featured gay love scenarios, preferring sardonic observations and satirical exaggerations. Lance Loud Was an Early Reality Star. He Was Also a Gay Punk Pioneer. 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Her measured tone rarely alters even as her material morphs from sardonic to solemn to silly and back again. Laurie Anderson: Dirtday! – review 2012-08-05T17:57:31Z Though she posted photos of her daughters looking adorable, she also sometimes wrote about them with the same sardonic tone in which she had formerly written about her workplace. A Woman’s Place Is on the Internet 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z But the title of this collection of 14 short stories hints at the general disposition of the tales — flinty, truculent, sardonic. 'Happiness is a Chemical in the Brain': down, out and confronting death 2012-06-06T21:18:09Z Ginny on Frederick is currently presenting sardonic video diary works by Emily Pope, 32, which, according to the artist, aim to “produce an unflattering self-portrait, something that engages with failure.” Small and Scrappy Is the Way for London’s Galleries After Brexit 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z With a sardonic chuckle, she added, “And we do like a challenge.” Can Hasan Minhaj Make Topical Comedy Work on Netflix? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Otherwise Tesson's is an alternately rapt and sardonic diary of solitude, fortified by vodka and books. Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z Later, alongside the play's author, David Javerbaum, the actor described the heavenly character he incarnates as "very self-righteous, egotistical, sarcastic, sardonic." As God in 'An Act of God,' Sean Hayes has his OMG moment 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It is a book both sardonic and tender, like an edgier version of Jonathan Franzen. Women's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner 2013-06-05T19:48:54Z The show certainly manages to be smooth and slick, but the sardonic frame also has the effect of reducing your involvement in the actual events of the play. 'Mandrake' a puzzling departure for Red Orchid Theatre 2011-04-18T22:15:03Z Accordingly, the series is at its best when sardonic and subdued. Television Review: Laura Linney in Showtime?s Cancer Comedy 2010-08-15T22:05:00Z Most Reagan documentaries make ample and sometimes sardonic use of his filmography, juxtaposing a presidential decision with an echoing scene from an old B movie. TV Watch: Remembering the Reagan We May Never Know 2011-02-04T18:54:16Z The NBC series “The Slap,” a sardonic look at middle class mores, is one. Review: In ‘Battle Creek,’ the F.B.I. Sets Up Shop With the Police 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The songs have Mann’s signature sardonic humor, wry lyrics, moody melodies and powerful emotional resonance. New this week: ‘Finch,’ ABBA and ‘The Harder They Fall’ 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z At 42, Mr. Murphy is a rumpled bear of a man, gray and sardonic, who speaks in neat rows of complete, emphatically punctuated sentences. Pop: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ 2012-07-07T04:51:37Z I was pale and dark-haired, serious, sardonic, and it’s not very surprising that boys my age were not scrambling to talk to me. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z Adding just a touch of humor by sardonic emphasis on a word here and there, he turns this long, logorrheic meditation on the differences among life, literature and the stage into an endearing bedtime story. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z On CBS on Monday, Kat Dennings makes her debut as the sardonic star of “2 Broke Girls,” and her sidekick is sweet, soigné and a punching bag. Television Review: Three New Sitcoms Put the Focus on Young Single Women 2011-09-18T22:09:46Z As a political commentator, Mr. Olbermann was clever and sardonic, but also intensely self-righteous, and his combativeness spilled over into public spats with network executives and producers. The TV Watch: Keith Olbermann’s Show Has Its Debut on ESPN2 2013-08-27T21:44:31Z With his trash-talking and sardonic wit, Piper was a popular draw with older audiences. Clip joint: wrestlers who act 2013-07-10T11:16:19Z The evil overlord is an elegant and sardonic fiend somewhere on the scary scale between Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the Penguin. Review: ‘The Bone Clocks,’ by David Mitchell On the controversy over Mr. Sterling, he adopts a sardonic tone. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Then again, bypassing the nuts and bolts of Rivers’s life let the singer put her own sardonic wit to great use. Nellie McKay Blossoms Under Pressure From Joan Rivers’s Lawyers 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The veteran supporting actor who achieved fame as sardonic TV news writer Murray Slaughter on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and stardom playing cheerful Capt. Stubing on “The Love Boat.” Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He found the trilogy "tragic, sardonic, provocative and sharply insightful, often all at once." Eduardo Galeano, author and journalist, dies at 74 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z His best showcase was in the straightforward cowboy-crime drama “Longmire,” in which he gave vivid life to a sardonic, capable, eternally frustrated tribal policeman. ‘Dark Winds’ Review: Murder Most Foul in the Navajo Nation 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z “Supporting performances from Laverne Cox, as Cassandra’s sardonic boss, and Alison Brie, as a former school friend, add snap and texture to a movie that’s too tentative to sell the damage at its core.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Big Leap’ and ‘The Wonder Years’ 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z This work, with its sardonic invocation of the Miranda warning, has been memorably recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in November 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z The next day, a sardonic post on the blog Eater was titled, “Le Baron Opens: Declared Greatest Place on Planet Earth.” French Impresarios Infiltrate New York?s Party Scene 2012-02-24T22:57:05Z Because this is a comic novel, albeit more sardonic than droll, those eggs will wind up scrambled. Review | In ‘The Pessimists,’ privilege collides with desperation 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Black humor, gallows humor, sardonic humor — these better describe the overall tone of Greenwood’s tale of the 83-year-old Dowager Duchess Arabella, Lady Engleton, who decides to do away with a handful of her inconvenient relatives. ‘The Deadly Dowager’: A new look at one of the great villains of modern literature 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Chandler, though, stands out as the one who strolls into every situation with a flawlessly quotable sardonic reaction locked and loaded. Matthew Perry's death reminds us what we need to be doing right now 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z And in cases in which a production can place its focus squarely on the musical’s emotionality, rather than on its penchant for sardonic commentary, the show becomes child’s play in the optimal sense. Once upon a time, there was a fairy tale musical for grown-ups . . . 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Gay characters were once confined to niche markets, or to peripheral roles and tragic endings in the mainstream — a tendency that spawned the sardonic catchphrase “bury your gays.” ‘I Just Want Something That’s Gay and Happy’: L.G.B.T.Q. Romance Is Booming 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z These are cleverly, often hilariously, woven into the story as sardonic commentary on the proceedings. ‘Found,’ a Musical Based on Literary Detritus 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Anna Kendrick’s Beca refuses to turn bubbly and peppy in Pitch Perfect 2, maintaining a sardonic tone throughout the film while also thinking seriously about her future. In Praise of This Summer's 'Complicated Women' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In the tradition of 'personal' documentaries, London could be the sardonic, mischievous heir to Humphrey Jennings' lyrical, wartime films of the capital. Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z Some of the diction is biblical; some is drily sardonic. Arts & Leisure: Leonard Cohen Reckons With God in ?Old Ideas? 2012-01-27T16:00:00Z The tone is sardonic but also genial, at once sharp, critical, empathetic, and companionable. The joy of literary destruction: Writers who broke all the rules 2014-01-19T15:00:00Z If this sounds heavy-going on paper, in reality it is a show that tackles difficult themes with a sardonic edginess and an often frantic pace that is in keeping with its comic-book origins. The End of the F***ing World’s Alex Lawther: ‘He’s not a psychopath, he’s just very sad’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z The trailer is very, very sweet, which would make it a better fit with “New Girl,” that most emo of shows, than the spiky, sardonic “Mindy Project.” Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z Mr. Harris found the self-protective sardonic humor inside the Fats Waller standard “Black and Blue.” Music Review: Remembering the Tunes That Broke Boundaries 2011-05-20T21:06:48Z The sardonic attitude to post-dawn broadcasting is enhanced by the fact that the network producing the celluloid Daybreak, IBS, shares initials with the distressing condition irritable bowel syndrome. Mourning television: Mark Lawson 2011-01-19T22:00:02Z The producer of Chalet Girl had seen That Face at the Royal Court and my part in that was quite sardonic; I think they thought they wanted something similar from Kim. Felicitations 2011-02-20T00:04:06Z The film is one of Balabanov's most savagely sardonic and entertaining examinations of Russian society. Aleksei Balabanov obituary 2013-05-19T17:18:05Z Studying its sign, Mr. Wenders waxed sardonic: “Look at that, “The world’s first doggy spa,’” he said. What’s Faith Got to Do With It? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z She is best known for playing April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation, a sardonic and contrarian member of the low-level local government department who spends her days spouting morbid soundbites and making people feel uncomfortable. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s from her new album, “Kitchen Sink,” which is by turns sardonic and haunted. Beyoncé’s Surprise Juneteenth Anthem, and 12 More New Songs 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Screams of recognition greeted each song, and Ms. Martinez’s voice — whispery, sardonic, tearful, furious — was joined by high-pitched singalongs, throughout verses and choruses. Review: Melanie Martinez Performs ‘Cry Baby’ and Other Songs From Her Debut Album 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Hypocrisies, absurdities and injustices of every stripe are met with fear, anger, dismay, disbelief and an invigorating degree of sardonic humor. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The comedian, known for his sardonic wit, announced his retirement in April. David Letterman's final 'Late Show' set for May 20 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z But we see plenty of his small crew, and his increasingly sardonic voice dominates the proceedings as it becomes increasingly difficult to decipher just what, in fact, this woman is hiding. The Hidden Stars of This Year’s Sundance: Hoaxes, Hucksters, and Glamorous Frauds 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z With a sardonic, dark wit, Mr. Currin is alert to his reputation. Rachel Feinstein and John Currin, Their Own Best Creations 2011-03-11T21:40:24Z For the rest, there is a stark, sardonic contrast between the splendid chateau where the officers live and the mean barracks for the enlisted men. Paths of Glory: No 7 2010-10-19T10:48:00Z The table is shot from above, “Umbrellas of Cherbourg”-style, the women almost pirouetting, their slow-motion, nimble movements in sardonic contrast to the shabby room and the schlubby Army men. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And “BoJack Horseman” never neglects to expand its rich, Hollywood-parallel universe, which is largely responsible for the show’s sardonic brand of humor. Review | ‘BoJack Horseman’ returns with its most emotional season yet 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z He has a kind of gaze that can freeze you at times, but he also has a pretty good sense of humor, very sardonic, Russian sense of humor, something out of Gogol. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z “It looks as though the painting is a sardonic comment on our society,” Mr. Hamilton wrote of “She” in Architectural Design. Richard Hamilton, British Painter and a Creator of Pop Art, Dies at 89 2011-09-14T04:55:53Z Sloterdijk can be very funny, in an intensely sardonic way, about "quasi-homeopathic philosophers", "loser romanticism", or the notion of intellectual "commitment". Non-fiction roundup - reviews 2012-10-05T21:55:05Z Packing a lot into a short space, it is lyrically witty, musically rich and has the sardonic satirical appeal of the Sondheim-Weidman Assassins. Road Show ? review 2011-07-06T17:00:02Z Ms. Harrison, who is transgender, said industry folk don’t always get her sardonic edge. Patti Harrison Bucks Transgender Stereotypes, One Joke at a Time 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z Although trendy British cafes serve gluten-free muffins and soya latte these days, I assumed that most Brits were too sardonic to go too far down this path. Green is the new black: the unstoppable rise of the healthy-eating guru 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z Even a whiff of the sardonic would be refreshing. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z As the sardonic, bookish Olivia, Morales embarks on an arc of self-discovery that culminates in her aching performance of the show’s title song. Review | Road-trip musical ‘Miss You Like Hell’ embarks on a bumpy ride to catharsis 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The right is the party of reverence, the left is the party of sardonic disavowal. Jon Stewart fought the good fight during the Bush era: “You had the mainstream media … reduced to taking seriously the garbage that was coming out of the right” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z “Welcome to the new world order,” he announces with sardonic delivery, giving painful contrast to the phrase President George H.W. Bruce Springsteen's "The Ghost of Tom Joad," then and now 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Children "tend to be sticky" and "respond inadequately to sardonic humor and veiled threats." "Public Speaking": Scorsese's Fran Lebowitz doc delights 2010-11-22T16:01:00Z The Shostakovich concerto, written six years after Stalin’s death in 1953, seems a sardonic look back at the composer’s times of troubles under the thumb of that dictator. Music Review: Andrey Boreyko Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-01-24T22:15:22Z He brings humor and a light touch to the clever British dialogue and sardonic social interactions. Review: 'Quartet' has a winning, classy charm 2013-01-08T14:37:08Z You sense this in his sculptures, made from rice-sack hemp hand-twisted into cords wrapped around armatures, of freakish animals, crucifixions and sardonic riffs on traditional African masks — or rather on Picasso’s riffs on such masks. An Art Critic In Africa: Salif Diabagat? and Other Artists Struggle in Africa 2012-04-15T04:10:00Z This screwball road movie of dirty jokes and bad manners pairs Russell Brand's brainy madness with the sardonic shtick of Jonah Hill. The Week Ahead: Tom Petty, Joe Cocker, 'Cider House Rules' on stage are arts highlights 2010-06-02T22:29:00Z But it happens to be the perfect instrument for the manic desperation and sardonic defiance of his band, Cage the Elephant. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z And perhaps the most glaring omission concerned one of the show’s funniest characters, Damian Hubbard, the sardonic gay sage of North Shore High School, played by the effortlessly glib Grey Henson. Tina Fey and her ‘Mean Girls’ team wrote him a showstopper. Then he got a Tony nod. 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z His singing is intoxicating and complex with emotion, flickering between sardonic amusement and appalled sorrow. John Grant 2010-06-27T21:15:00Z He was as avuncular and courtly as his movies were hectic and bruising, and more than a bit sardonic. Remembering Andrzej Wajda, Unflinching Observer of Modern Poland 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z His sardonic, richly embellished images still emanate from a wellspring of self-deprecating cartooning recently supplemented with graffiti-like scrawls and doodles. Museum and Gallery Listings for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:27:54Z The last two movements, a sardonic waltz and a riot of frantic, scurrying figures, are trademark Shostakovich. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z Washington Post television critic Tom Shales once wrote that Mr. Garner embodied “the crusty, sardonic and self-effacing strain of American masculinity.” James Garner, disarming leading man of film and television, dies at 86 Still, I thought this mordant, slow-motion horror film about a truck driver's journey into hell -- the title is 100 percent sardonic -- was the most unexpected and arresting picture in the main Cannes competition. Best of Cannes: Russian horror movie "My Joy" 2010-05-22T16:30:00Z Mr. Aw’s array of characters lets him examine what we used to think of as the American dream, transplanted to China, from multiple angles, some sardonic. Books of The Times: Tash Aw’s ‘Five Star Billionaire’ Captures China’s Changes 2013-08-01T20:48:21Z “I call it the first punk rock — it’s got that irony, that sardonic take on the events of the day. It’s current.” In the key of blood: Concert marks centennial of Everett Massacre 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Playing a reluctant secretary of State, Tea Leoni brings female sanity and political heroism to a world perhaps grown weary of broken heroes, twisted ambitions and a universally sardonic view of American government. TV Picks: 'Sleepy Hollow,' 'Gotham,' 'Blacklist,' 'Madame Secretary' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z "Our story is mostly about photocopying," says one in a characteristically sardonic assessment. Glasgow Girls – review 2012-11-07T17:43:32Z Even at the height of his fame, in 1960, he was sardonic, bitterly ironic, unsparing. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Earlier in the season, he had defied Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime with a staging of his own opera “The Red Heifer,” a sardonic indictment of modern Hungarian anti-Semitism. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Opening with a sardonic cry of "Look out Hollywood, here I come," Tillman stumbles through the haunted, hysterical LA of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust or Neil Young's On the Beach. Father John Misty: Fear Fun – review 2012-12-20T22:45:01Z They were aggressive, most not fit for a newspaper — but capped by a sardonic, “Does this sound like poetry yet?” Review | Jazz meets poetry with Heroes Are Gang Leaders at Blues Alley 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Annie Rosen, a mezzo, gave a game portrayal of Anna, the main singer, but she sang so prettily that the bite of this sardonic, satirical piece was absent. Review | Opera trains the best young singers. At Wolf Trap Barns, a recent performance revealed a young artist. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z When it comes to talking about his work, the elusive Mr. Taylor is cagey, flickering between sardonic humor and wide-eye innocence. Paul Taylor Dance Company Comes to Lincoln Center 2012-03-09T18:58:14Z But it’s coupled with the sardonic wit of Anne’s character. ‘Persuasion’ Director Thinks Jane Austen Will Be Just Fine 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z With great skill and economy he sets the sardonic “Hollywood-Elegies” by Brecht. Review: Songs of Exile With Matthias Goerne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Dave Frishberg, the jazz songwriter whose sardonic wit as a lyricist and melodic cleverness as a composer placed him in the top echelon of his craft, died on Wednesday in Portland, Ore. He was 88. Dave Frishberg, Writer of Songs Sardonic and Nostalgic, Dies at 88 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z At the start is a panel with the sardonic words “The City Is a Garden” written on it in brushy, drippy black paint. Review: Kim Gordon’s ‘Design Office: The City Is a Garden,’ Scrawled Words in Critique 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z This includes "Arrow's" rich-kid-turned-vigilante, which allows him to be flip but not sardonic, a refreshing change in itself. In a 'Flash,' there's more fun in TV's comic-book land 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Costello also had a sardonic tune with God as its cynical narrator, “Come the Meantimes,” from “Wise Up Ghost,” his 2013 collaboration with the Roots. Elvis Costello Treats Carnegie Hall to a Solo Show 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z The show-tune shapeliness of her melodies is often a sardonic frame for grim sentiments, to be faced with a ballooning bass line and a self-conscious smirk. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Harry is the slam dunk part in this film, the curmudgeon with the funny lines and the sardonic sense of humor. Nora’s brand new world for women 2012-06-27T19:36:00Z Narrator Euan Morton delivers the novel in a wonderful range of voices and accents — his Scottish burr is especially engaging, and his wry manner iswonderfully suited to the novel’s sardonic wit and trapdoor plot. Review | For your playlist: The best new audiobooks of the month 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z He brought to criticism a sardonic eye and a slicing voice, and held the art world’s feet to the fire in a way nobody else did. The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z The young people in movies need difficult relatives, sardonic role models, dying mothers and eloquent old crones. David Thomson on Patricia Clarkson 2011-08-25T21:15:01Z Pascal claims to be descended from Norman noblemen, though nobility isn’t the first thing called to mind by this sardonic handyman with rough hands and bedroom eyes. ‘Beast’ Review: In Hot Pursuit of Love and Danger 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z That transformation allowed Mr. Lowe to age gracefully in a youth-obsessed industry, he said, while retaining the sardonic perspective that spiked early singles like “Music for Money” and “Nutted by Reality,” a Paul McCartney parody. ArtsBeat Blog: Popcast: Nick Lowe, an Interview, Performance and Album Preview 2011-09-08T18:30:58Z He was "wonderfully poised, informed," patient and kind and animated by a "markedly sly, sardonic and satiric" sense of humor. Joyce Carol Oates writes memoir of grief 2011-02-11T13:01:04Z “A little Domingo,” he called himself with a sardonic tone. He Sings, He Conducts (and He's Not Bad on the Oboe) 2010-08-03T20:53:00Z It’s a funny, sardonic premise, but “Enlightened” is not just one big joke at the expense of crystal-carrying California narcissists. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z Was that a literal nuance or just a taste of his sardonic humor? Hippies, radicals, pranksters: Jerry Rubin has a bio and Paul Krassner has our review 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z With a sardonic chuckle, Mr. Ferrell described himself as “the guest who got brought to the wedding, that everyone said, ‘No, no, we have an extra seat.’ ” Television: Discomfort Zones 2011-04-06T16:02:12Z The guys behind me are sardonic, too smart for their own good. AMC Best Picture Showcase: Dispatches from the Oscar Endurance Test 2011-03-20T06:50:00Z Scott-Heron's smart, sardonic voice comes across so strongly that it's a great shame he didn't live to record an audio version. Christmas gifts 2012: the best music books 2012-11-29T08:00:04Z Ms. Basilova played with flair in the jovial outer movements, which are full of witty touches but lack the sardonic bite of many of Shostakovich’s darker works. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2012-10-09T22:16:43Z Another is that his sardonic friend Dot, his agent back in the day, asks Keller nicely. Sleuths for our time: smarts, not guns 2013-01-11T00:47:17Z Marshall-Green invests Rapp's sardonic dialogue with deep emotional layers, as Lloyd insults his visitors, jokes around with black humor, and is occasionally consumed with grief. Last part of Adam Rapp's trilogy is often tedious 2011-02-25T18:06:15Z And even those who don’t consider themselves in that camp can anticipate moments of gentle, sardonic entertainment. A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Her Hazel is cunning, feral and sardonic on the lam; in flashbacks to her married life in the Hub, you can almost hear her scream behind her 10,000-watt smile. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z But with subtle prose and sardonic humor Ms. Olafsdottir upends expectations, steering clear of sentimentality throughout. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Under Letterman, "Late Night" has long been a dry and sardonic alternative to the celebratory showcase of "The Tonight Show," but it's not subversive and it's certainly not satire. The sun sets on Stephen Colbert's sterling satire 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z And as inspiration for a sardonic, ramshackle show, you could do a lot better. Review: ‘Field Guide’ Brings Standup to a Dostoyevsky Downer 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z To balance the mercurial and overbearing Morse, Lewis was a plain-spoken Everyman with a sneaky, sardonic wit. Critic’s Notebook: First Things First: The Case, Then the Pint 2013-06-13T22:43:18Z This slender and sardonic novel, already a prizewinning best seller in France, features a middle-aged heroine as a drug-running crime boss and offers an entire ethnographic study of North African immigrants in the Parisian suburbs. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “Station Eleven” involves a bigger loss but it has a similar sensibility: wistful, sardonic and focused on life after catastrophe rather than the catastrophe itself. Review: In ‘Station Eleven,’ the World Ends, Beautifully 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Rolling Stone would note their contrasting styles, labeling Slick “the Acid Queen of outrageousness” and Mr. Kantner her “calm, dry, sardonic flip side.” Paul Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, dies at 74 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Ms Jefferson, it must be said, is a master of the arched-eyebrow, sardonic quip. A world apart 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z This week he conducts performances of Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with the orchestra’s new principal clarinetist, Anthony McGill, taking on the solo part that flips through emotions ranging from sardonic humor to deep melancholy. Emotions Flip From Note to Note 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z O.K., so Dan Savage, the sardonic sex columnist, may be a different breed of journalist from the men who broke the Watergate story. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z She wandered off the page, chastising her overlord and cracking sardonic jokes from her prison cell. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z There are curiosity and empathy beneath the sardonic pose. 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson': Public Theater Stages a Populist Musical 2010-04-07T04:12:00Z It’s more sardonic than the book and, being governed by Hollywood codes, more tactful in recounting the fate of a woman who loved not wisely but too well. Obsession, Unspoken and Unacknowledged: ‘Letter From an Unknown Woman’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z She is exotically right for the part, but one wishes the Cunises had taken a cue from Disney’s Scar or Ursula and infused the witch with a more pronounced sardonic wit. Theater review: Synetic Theater’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The film unspools with the dreamlike pace of a Michael Cunningham novel, while Murray’s sardonic wit saves it – as in his previous collaboration with Coppola, Lost in Translation – from ponderousness. Rashida Jones: 'I didn’t know if I was coming or going' 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Pricking the heroic egos of Lancelot and Galahad would suit Edmund’s sardonic skillset, and operating in an era of magic would stretch his self-centred ingenuity to the limit. A cunning plan: if Blackadder returns, where and when should it be set? 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z In “Fleishman Is in Trouble,” Caplan’s Libby at first appears as a minor character, a sardonic observer of her friends’ breakups and breakdowns. In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z At the top of his game, Craig's Bond is steely and sardonic. 'Skyfall': Bond is back on target with a killer villain 2012-11-07T00:43:03Z Ms. de Leon was more pointedly sardonic; she photographed a girl in an enormous field of pulverized stone in the South Bronx in 1977. Mean Streets, Kind Cameras 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z We may or may not see this plain- spoken, mildly sardonic yet compassionate cowboy on film again. A moving portrait of 'Buck' and his work with troubled horses 2011-06-23T20:41:08Z In a Pennsylvania mining town, Léger talks with an older waitress from a mining family who describes the process in great detail and with sardonic good humor. Barbara Loden: “A Woman Telling Her Own Story Through That of Another Woman” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z It was hard to tell whether she was being sardonic or serious, and as it turned out, she was being both. Charlize Theron’s Sick Work Ethic 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Over three seasons, Rebecca rode the waves of three romances—with dopey Josh, sardonic Greg, élitist Nathaniel—until each crashed into a wall of dysfunction. Losing Her Mind: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Ends with Hope 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z The sardonic, sarcastic hostility would be like a cloud above the table between the two of them. ArtsBeat: David Steinberg's Theory of Unstable Comedians and Funny Canadians 2012-02-02T12:00:06Z Makine's laconic, sardonic portrait of the new Russia is laced with fury. The Life of an Unknown Man by Andre? Makine 2010-10-02T11:18:00Z Vergette presents three snapshots of the men's relationship to provide a sardonic prediction of America's political future. As We Forgive Them 2010-09-06T20:30:00Z Adrian, shown at different ages in the film, was a charming, curious child, but he became guarded and sardonic as a teenager and began skipping school and experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Movie Review: Ross McElwee’s ‘Photographic Memory’ Documentary Opens 2012-10-11T23:50:09Z It benefits from a slightly lighter tone and at least a glimmer of a sardonic sense of humor. Review: ‘Hand of God,’ on Amazon, Is a California Neo-Noir Thriller 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z I think most of us, in one way or another, go through that sardonic phase where we're armed with pithy barbs or withering looks ready to be leveled against anything deemed too mainstream or basic. Hummus, peanut butter and sour cream: The "butter board" trend has officially gone too far 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z She was fun and sardonic, but I thought she'd fail at this, because it was the kind of thing a mother should do, and she wasn't one. What my mother's "selfish" writing retreat taught me about being an artist and a parent 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z The musical quotation is punctuated by eerie slides and tumbling scales in the higher winds and by sardonic blasts in the brasses — a Shostakovich-esque touch — as the orchestra rises to scary fury. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Low-key sardonic, politically charged humor it would be, apparently. Comic or Graphic, Shows About Abortion Surface a Stark Divide 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z Brecht’s savage, sardonic view of war as a man-made machine that produces as much profit as blood glimmers darkly throughout the show. Review: A ‘Mother Courage’ Deployed to Africa 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z It was packed with sardonic advice about how to behave at openings and elsewhere. Books of The Times: ?Draw It With Your Eyes Closed,? Edited by Paper Monument 2012-03-29T16:33:22Z Drawing inspiration from the death of her father, it includes the sardonic title "Don't Let Me Die in Florida". U.S. country star Patty Griffin gets Londoners stomping 2013-11-18T13:57:30Z That may sound strange, given the grizzled and sardonic heft that Ford brings to the party, but his role has an elegiac strain, too, and he knows it. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Reviewed 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Today, it is a bit jarring to see Chandler greet Turner in full makeup and a dress with a sardonic “Hi . . . Dad,” followed by a laugh track. Should we forgive ‘Friends’ for feeling a little offensive in 2016? 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The actor, as sardonic in conversation as Gob is boorish and needy, called recently to discuss blind spots, brand awareness and why he won’t chicken dance on demand. ArtsBeat: Will Arnett on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-22T17:51:13Z The band found chart success with songs like the sardonic “Stupid Girl,” “#1 Crush” and the lush James Bond theme “The World is Not Enough.” Blondie and Garbage team up for show at Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Clue: it's a medical drama named after its protagonist – a cynical, unconventional, emotionally damaged genius doctor who shows a sardonic contempt for authority . TV review: Monroe, The British at Work 2011-03-10T22:05:01Z The brass played with panache, the fanfares more sardonic and ominous than victorious. New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The lyrics greeted countless letdowns, romantic and otherwise, with a sardonic shrug. Music Review: Tunes to Play After You?ve Been Fired 2010-12-03T23:19:00Z Or, perhaps, Groucho and Harpo, with Penn playing the sardonic, scamming motormouth to Teller’s devilishly angelic silent partner. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z His pungent, sardonic stories depicted flawed, likable folk whose "petty little lives" were "not so petty and not so little," as one of the film's scholarly commentators notes. 'Sholem Aleichem' documents 'the Jewish Mark Twain' 2011-09-29T20:01:06Z One could write a dissertation -- indeed, I bet somebody has -- about why the sardonic, satirical mode of British comedy often translates so poorly into the Amurkin idiom. "Arthur": Russell Brand as Dudley Moore, from Mars 2011-04-08T01:01:00Z Who else could have inhabited its 12 highly distinct characters — among them a runaway punk, a bored one-percenter and a trio of disillusioned feminists — with such sardonic sympathy? 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2022 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The finale is a swirling, savage dance that becomes yet another march, more sardonic than the first movement’s, before a sinister, full-throated gallop to the end. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z Marion’s novel is even better, digging deep into sardonic observations about humanity, comic takes on zombie behavior and stirring reflections on what it really means to be alive or dead. Isaac Marion’s ‘Warm Bodies,’ in theaters this Friday, is a portrait of zombie/human love 2013-01-26T04:43:16Z Lewis, but with a sardonic, contemporary lilt of its own, "The Magicians" was a lively, addictive read. 'The Magician King:' Ready or not, young magicians grow up 2011-08-18T23:50:05Z He has a tendency to camouflage his feelings behind a facade of calm, punctuating his habitual reticence with an occasional flash of irritation or sardonic humor. One Indelible Scene: When the Show Must Go on in ‘Drive My Car’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But luckily there's an antidote: the darkly sardonic geek girl. Darkly sardonic geek girls: A slide show 2011-03-24T22:15:00Z While Mr. LuPone seems far too hale to play the ailing Gio, he lends the character moral authority and flickers of sardonic humor. Review: A Priceless Violin, a Cut-Rate Caper 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z A sardonic, deeply British gallows humor infuses the songs, along with the conviction that no scenario or structure is too convoluted. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z This initial face-off establishes that despite the film’s light, sardonic tone, the discussions that it includes about its disabled characters are blunt and often cruel. ‘Wildflower’ Review: The Parents Are All Right 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Fela also supplies some gritty details, in sardonic fashion, about the authorities’ constant but often inept hounding of him. ‘Fela!’ musical captures complicated character 2013-05-29T22:58:00Z It may sound like I’m using sardonic humor to conceal grief. Perspective | What every member of Congress should know about vaginas 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Aiming for the sober, character-driven storytelling of “The Walking Dead,” this play tells its story with less humor and sardonic distance than you typically see in a Vampire Cowboys production. | 'Death Valley': The Undead Are Uneasy in the Untamed West 2011-07-03T21:10:27Z If you can't understand sardonic humour then maybe don't go and see one of the most sardonic acts in the US? Stephen Merchant flies solo and Simon Pegg crash lands into 'sexism' row 2012-07-24T15:24:39Z The actors, including Jeena Yi as the sardonic Brin, perform passionately, and it would be difficult to leave “Chairs” without feeling pretty wrathful on their behalf. ‘Chairs and a Long Table,’ About Slighting Asians Onstage 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z It was typical: people weren't sharing confidences, reader to writer, they were testifying, one fan speaking up in front of everybody else, with sardonic humour, wounded pride, pain. Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Buddy too is a source of perpetual comedy; from his turkey-gizzard manhood to his dreadful fear that he drives women to suicide, his awfulness is set down with sardonic glee. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z At his most sardonic, Korvette impresses as someone who enjoys rubbing a taut balloon to annoy bystanders with the sound it makes. A Punk Band That Knows “The Bar Is Low” for Straight White Men 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The New York Times critic Mike Hale said the series “unspools with the fluidity, narrative finesse and sardonic, dirty humor” that its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, brought to “Fleabag.” What’s on TV Saturday: College Football and ‘Killing Eve’ 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z “What I love about my character is I feel like she’s always one step ahead,” Caruso said of her role, which makes the most of the actress’s gift for sardonic delivery. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z An over-the-top satire of operatic quest narratives and would-be coups d’état, Prokofiev’s opera shoots ripe parodies of Romanticism through with sardonic punchiness and zany chaos. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “Ah,” Mr. Vanska replied with a sardonic twinkle, “it’s my personality.” Critic’s Notebook: No Decisions Yet on Minnesota Ensemble’s Conductor 2014-03-31T21:43:57Z In a fluently sardonic diary, explained that one artistic director suggested his play's salvation would be in working out its "unrealised" themes. The Late Middle Clases; The Crucible; Ingredient X 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z When they sometimes refer to the classical/Renaissance time frame, the tone is pleasantly sardonic. Review: Balanchine and Shakespeare Catch Some Waves in Miami 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z She dispatched every technical test with astonishing ease and visceral joy, and took obvious pleasure in the music’s often sardonic humor. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Guest Challenges Common Wisdom 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Their sardonic lyrics deal with everyday subjects such as cell phones, sweaters or, in this case, the online purchase of a new trolley. July's best music from across the MAP 2012-07-18T09:17:04Z Those in the know could see how personal it was, and how sardonic its comments were on Hollywood. Jane Russell obituary 2011-03-01T13:00:28Z Whippman notices after a while that her reflexively sardonic British brain is suddenly looping around a new set of questions: Am I happy? Why Are Americans So Anxious? 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z He lay, like the biblical David, a dying king, a maker, if not of psalms, then of a tower of sardonic, tempestuous and tragic imaginings. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Like Faust, he’s incessantly creative and ambitious; like Mephistopheles, he has in a sardonic eye for human vanity and striving. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Were that to be the extent of it, Midnight Cowboy might be regarded as a slightly sardonic snapshot of a time and place. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Midnight Cowboy 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z “Luckily, all those girls were busy,” Ms. Fox said of the well-known actresses as her food arrived, giving a sweetly sardonic smile. Julia Fox, Diamond in the Rough of ‘Uncut Gems’ 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z This novel is a dark beast of desolate nostalgia but imbued with Heller's trademark sardonic humour and a gnawing and worrying truth. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z He stumbles through the scorching streets, and fixes his sardonic gaze on the materialistic citizens of the city, “a boho theme park perched on a real estate bubble.” ‘Eyrie’ by Tim Winton, a remarkable novel about a bitter environmentalist in Australia Some of the diction is biblical; some is dryly sardonic. Leonard Cohen's new album, 'Old Ideas' wrestles with death 2012-01-30T22:33:07Z It was a young man, seated, wearing a white top, with a kind of sardonic air. A Portraitist Whose Subjects Are All in Her Head 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z But the ancient flags and stained-glass windows of Manchester Cathedral still create a hushed atmosphere worthy of one of America's finest creators of pithy, sardonic love songs. The Magnetic Fields | Pop review 2010-03-21T21:45:00Z During Letterman's tenure, guests were the subject of his sardonic wit. Feeling the loss of David Letterman 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z In photographs, he often appeared to be on the verge of laughter; small, gleaming eyes behind wire-framed glasses and a sharp V of eyebrows added a sardonic if not demonic note. Sigmar Polke, Whose Sly Works Shaped Contemporary Painting, Dies at 69 2010-06-12T02:59:00Z Otto Dix’s self-portrait in wash and pencil drawn in 1922 says more about his harsh sardonic vision of German society than about his empathy with small children. Art: Art & Design London Succeeds With an Outstanding Mix of Pieces on Offer 2011-10-14T13:00:17Z And he delivers his sardonic monologue, a deadpan treat in an age of overenthusiastic and wildly gesticulating television presenting. The Mary Berry Story; Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex – TV review 2013-01-30T07:01:08Z Its sardonic and even romantic brilliance now gives it the dislocated grandeur of a baroque statue on a municipal dump. How Margaret Thatcher left her mark on British culture 2013-04-13T17:00:00Z Yet even in songs about tensions and betrayals Jenny and Johnny sound more sardonic than enraged. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z A brassy interpretation of Dave Frishberg’s sardonic “Peel Me a Grape,” a spoiled woman’s demand for obedience to her every whim, offered a clue to her personality. Review: Vanessa Williams, Strong and Steady, Without Taking Chances 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He turns too much to a sardonic vein to comment on the Nazis. ‘The Passenger’ at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Saldivar’s Pablo, whose paintings eventually earn him a gallery show, radiates confidence even in the face of his friends’ sometimes sardonic comments about his work. Review: ‘Daphne’s Dive,’ Where Everybody Knows You’re Broke 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z But the electric, erotic, sardonic architecture remained intact; the souffle didn’t collapse. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z In many ways these sardonic and very short fables are the next installment in the series of strange scenarios cooked up in Keret’s brain since his first collection appeared in Hebrew in 1992. If Kafka Were Israeli and Wrote About Talking Goldfish 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The artists who worked in Hamburg, such as Oehlen and Kippenberger, also responded to the national spirit of the times, but with a more sardonic edge. ‘Citizens’ Museum’ of Frankfurt Celebrates 200 Years 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Goya’s dark visions — his sardonic, scathing, urgently exploratory tone — are behind so many of Thompson’s final works, with their black magic and bat wings and arcane allegory. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z A Yale University grad who later earned a master's degree in education from Antioch University, she reached young people in part through her sardonic sense of humor. Service set at Seattle Repertory Theatre for theater figure Andrea Allen 2012-12-08T22:19:04Z Its ingenuity is signalled even by the casting alone: it stars Marc Maron as Jacob Malco, a jovial yet sardonic graphic novelist whose work is relentlessly, ruthlessly autobiographical and whose career is on a downswing. Eight Tales of Art and Sex in Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z In my early 30s, I used to have brunch with a sardonic guy who bragged about his blackouts. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z A sardonic riff on the difference between postwar and prewar ideas is matched by an angry discussion on the gap between constitutionally guaranteed rights and brutal realities. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z But I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t see more memoirs like this one, in which excessive design and sardonic verbiage hit just the right balance. | Marian Bantjes, Illuminated 2010-12-01T18:45:00Z Besides being a deliciously sardonic tale of reversals and comeuppance, “Ezra Slef” pays deft homage to Nabokov, Borges, Flann O’Brien and numerous other tricksy writers. Review | What to read in April: A critic’s pick of books that aren’t on the bestseller list 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The film has a mise-en-scene that the musical can’t come close to matching: the witches are scarier, the giant more poignant, the scenes of Norman Rockwell small town life both sweeter and more sardonic. Broadway’s Big Fish: Small Potatoes 2013-10-10T09:45:50Z The signal being sent at Coagula Curatorial is sardonic – an elaborate engagement with the self-absorbed condition of worldly disengagement. Clayton Campbell's beasts of the wild and the cellular come to life at Coagula Curatorial 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It offers a fascinating glimpse of a sardonic Salinger, then serving in the Army, in the period before the 1951 publication of "Catcher in the Rye." JFK Library to show Salinger letter to Hemingway 2010-03-26T10:44:00Z The show’s moral horror at the marriage of technology and entertainment sometimes recalls a less sardonic version of “Black Mirror.” Review: ‘Westworld’ Is a Provocative but Flawed Sci-Fi Shoot-’Em-Up 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In 1989, he started a syndicated column in Indian newspapers, “Fond du Lac Follies,” offering sardonic observations about the changes wrought by casinos, a tribal college and other relatively recent innovations. Jim Northrup, Vietnam Veteran Who Wrote About Life on the Reservation, Dies at 73 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Call them mere thrillers, à la Hitchcock, with a sardonic Gallic accent and little chance of a climactic Hollywood resurrection. Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z One silly, one sane; both endorsed by Thomas and his sardonic, furious-paced wit. Radio review: Mark Thomas ? The Manifesto 2011-01-07T07:59:01Z The Dukes play it as a rollicking hootenanny, with Earle growling its sardonic twist on a folk cliché: “I don’t know where I’m going no more/I don’t know, and I don’t care.” The Album Steve Earle Never Wanted to Make: A Tribute to His Son 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z There’s also the fact that Dave’s distinct guitar work and edgy vibe were as much a part of The Kinks’ DNA as Ray’s sardonic wit or spry melodicism. “He stabbed a fork into my hand”: Dave Davies on The Kinks’ brotherly love 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z According to Laura Wexler, a professor of women’s studies and visual media at Yale, Liu’s images are “reminiscent of a strain of contemporary Chinese photography that is ironic, sardonic even, about human social space.” The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Blackadder, extremely verbal, the character rather static, rather sardonic, rather adult. Before and after 'Bean': A talk with Rowan Atkinson, continued 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Immense haunches of Serrano ham hang from the ceiling, and sardonic, battle-scarred barmen siphon wine from wooden barrels built into the wall. 36 Hours in Seville, Spain 2014-04-10T14:19:24Z As he has said – and you can hear that droll sardonic voice enunciating it: "I'm certainly not aware of suppressing more sophisticated ambitions." Comedy gold – Rowan Atkinson Live 2013-02-28T16:26:02Z Daniel Craig had to face a lot of internet bickering when he was cast, but he blew everyone away with a performance that was just right: cool, cruel, ruthless, yet sardonic. James Bond on film – ranked! 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But Dreyfuss talks about the past with a sardonic intensity, recalling the moment he became "the star I always knew I was going to be". Richard Dreyfuss on Duddy Kravitz: 'I hated it. Then I realised I was nuts' 2013-05-30T16:50:34Z Instead of being contemptuous and sardonic, the portrait of inchoate adolescent longing in is poignant. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Hope,’ the Third Film in Ulrich Seidl’s Unblinking Trilogy 2013-12-16T22:48:24Z It was less his handsome face, with its deeply grooved cheeks and the bushy eyebrows he deployed like sardonic brackets, that landed him the role than his feline way of moving. Clothes Make the Spy 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Besides my grandfather, Uncle Stan was always my favorite among the male relatives of that generation: witty, charming, and refined, with a deceptively sweet and gentle way of being sardonic and even, on occasion, sharp-tongued. The True Meaning of Nostalgia 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Instead, the sardonic, acid-laced tone of the piece came through in a dark and psychologically probing production that appeared abstract and timeless. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z The always sardonic Aubrey Plaza shows up to chats with Mr. Colbert — as does Cookie Monster. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Lost in Space’ and ‘Chef’s Table’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Two Sarcasms, inspired by Prokofiev, mixes attractive lyricism with sardonic spikiness, skilfully written if not yet quite distinctive in style. Carmen; the Manson Ensemble; the Nash Ensemble – review 2012-11-25T00:05:46Z And it brings forth a remarkable letter, one of the book’s sardonic highlights, in which Julia purports to apologize to “You, African-Americans” for any grievances that might be held against her. Review: ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman,’ Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Debut Novel 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z With sardonic perspicacity, they note that the possibility now on the horizon of screening for genetic predisposition to diseases "serves to expand the potential demand for drugs to people with no symptoms". Genes, Cells and Brains by Hilary Rose and Steven Rose - review 2012-12-19T10:10:01Z Though it’s hard to imagine the singing, dancing, magic-trick-playing Harris as a bad guy, Snicket’s tone in the books ranges from sardonic to absurd. Neil Patrick Harris Will Star as Count Olaf in Netflix's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The idea that madness might make for great ratings is the sardonic heart of “Network.” Review: An Electrifying Bryan Cranston Is All the Rage in ‘Network’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The case of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who pretended to be black and actually headed up her local NAACP, generates pages of sardonic observation. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z No hump, no crooked smile, no looming shadow, no sardonic wheedling. Richard III; The Doctor's Dilemma; The Fire Garden – reviews 2012-07-28T23:06:10Z “You can’t act … take it from me,” Jordan said, to what I’m guessing was the sardonic delight of many viewers. 'True Detective' Season 2 Finale Recap: In Search of a Better World 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Tart and sardonic as Quinn, the actress in conversation is more prone to smiles that seem to swallow her entire face, and her distinctive raspy voice softens. On ‘UnREAL,’ Constance Zimmer Leans In to Darkness 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z James’s “Ghost Stories of an Antiquary” and the plot complexities — and sardonic humor — of Wilkie Collins’s “The Woman in White.” Review | Looking back to a time when leaders and millionaires were also men of letters 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Over all, the performance felt long, , but there were plenty of exciting moments during the vast sweep of ironic waltzes and marches, frantic moto-perpetuo string sections, brass and percussion climaxes and sardonic humor. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z The first big break was the chance to make a pilot for a show set in high school around a sardonic girl and her sidelong opinions. Claire Danes's secret diary 2011-04-01T23:03:12Z Readers should stay on their toes while glued to the pages of Harris’s smart and sardonic exploration of Black women trying to advance in New York’s publishing world. 10 books to read in June 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Where once her sardonic smirks and sultry looks spoke of old-school movie glamour, she is now more likely to grab the limelight by kickboxing than by smouldering. Scarlett Johansson, charismatic queen of science fiction 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z They also personify the lush, sardonic beauty that is the wellspring of Mr. Stingel’s art. Review: Rudolf Stingel at Nahmad Contemporary, Making Crowd-Sourced Art 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z The movie’s exquisite perceptiveness and its alluring details are part of a vision that ranges between the outrageously sardonic and the grandly tragic. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z But its sardonic approach to its dark historical subject matter was not exactly given a bear hug by audiences either, despite hosannas from the critics. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z In an open letter, available online, philosopher and visiting professor at NYU Slavoj Žižek bemoans the potential loss to the academy, because it is in need of her “ironic, mocking, sardonic” language. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Robert De Niro’s silly pompadour in “The Bag Man” is one sign that this sardonic neo-noir, the first feature directed by David Grovic, has a cheeky sense of itself as something extra clever. Movie Review: ‘The Bag Man,’ Starring Robert De Niro 2014-02-28T00:34:03Z The sudden lurch into sardonic eloquence goes unexplained. | 'Orange, Hat & Grace': A Salt-of-the-Earth Romance Amid Shadows of the Apocalypse 2010-09-23T02:01:00Z The sardonic look at a grieving mother’s quest to get closure for her murdered daughter did better than any other single film nominated. Despite its awards, Three Billboards is a shallow look at race in rural America 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z His opening monologue was a proper stand-up set that showcased his talent for dry, sardonic humor. Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller Drop By ‘S.N.L.’ to Help Skewer Michael Cohen 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z The original production, which coincidentally starred another Allen — the renewed baritone Thomas Allen — as a brilliantly sardonic Schicchi, was a model of comic timing right up to a surprisingly nasty ending. L.A. Opera opens 30th season with Plácido Domingo staying busy 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z “Bad Rabbi” includes a sample of Kuper’s reportage — on a court where criminals mete out justice to their own — that is every bit as flavorsome and sardonic as a Bashevis Singer short story. The Good Kind of Schmaltz 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z His spoken-word monologues, especially those made late in his life, sound like angry incantations, even though they are often remarkably wry and sardonic. Review | The Smithsonian censored him in 2010. Now, the Whitney is celebrating his grandeur. 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z But the films’ politics are served up with appealing, accessible pop-culture aesthetics, sardonic humor and the odd four-letter word. Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power. She Uses It for Change. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Lennon adds in a sardonic reprise of “She Loves You,” as McCartney returns with “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window,” his thinly veiled commentary on the advent of Ono. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z We have Ben Fountain’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” a sardonic and disillusioned portrait of a wartime hero come too briefly back home. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z His beautifully delivered sardonic manner and his catchphrases 'lovely boy' and 'Mr. la di da Gunner Graham' still make me smile. Ain't Half Hot Mum's Hewlett dies 2011-06-05T13:30:45Z L.A.-based artist Andrade, whom I spoke with last week for Moment of Friday, presents a series of her sweetly sardonic text drawings at the popular Chinatown space. Datebook: Metal combines, photo-and-tin collages, art in a park 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Were Emma, so sardonic and yet so soft-hearted, and Dexter, such a dreadful show-off until life bites him on the bum, based on real people? David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry 2011-08-06T23:05:39Z And of course we have the sardonic, clarion voice of Tina Fey, one of the most seductive and smartest comic voices in America, in her script for “Mean Girls.” Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z He is equally sardonic on the prospect of losing one’s marbles. Michael Kinsley’s ‘Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide’ 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z |
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