sardonicism

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In fewer than 250 pages, the 28-year-old has captured the touchstone millennial tension between sardonicism and sincerity — the electric ambivalence of figuring out how to be a person in these times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2020

For all the fearsome moral stakes at play in the world he’s written, Whitehead never lets his signature sardonicism drift too far out of reach.

From Slate • Aug. 10, 2016

Indeed, notwithstanding a notably bumpy opening stretch, I’ve never before seen a London staging of “Threepenny” that came so naturally by the sour sardonicism of this collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill from 1928.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016

There's a dip in energy when Rahman replaces Hussain, but his wry sardonicism keeps the laughs, and the insights, coming.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2011

MacMaine laughed, allowing the touch of sardonicism that he felt to be heard in the laughter.

From The Highest Treason by Garrett, Randall