sardonic

Example Sentences

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When Lynskey’s Gloria isn’t watching or interacting with these figures, she addresses the audience, often exuding sardonic amusement at past and current sexism.

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times

The show's balance of sardonic humor and sincerity remains intact, and the ensemble's chemistry still sparks.

From Salon

She dispatched every technical test with astonishing ease and visceral joy, and took obvious pleasure in the music’s often sardonic humor.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times