But I know John will just offer a sardonic rebuttal.
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Pacific Russians have a sardonic take on Moscow's imperial eagle.
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He amused the crowd with sardonic asides and actorly impersonations.
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Is Pepsi now officially the sardonic weapon of the resistance?
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Life is full of many a sardonic twist of fate.
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News of Wednesday's ruling inspired sardonic commentary on social media.
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Bonnell was rewarded with sardonic comments on his YouTube page.
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Baldessari's work was hailed as cool, funny, cerebral, sardonic, provocative.
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I'm glad it's starting to get more attention, however sardonic.
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These colorful, sardonic expressions of negative emotions quickly became Evelyn's specialty.
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"Goodbye Earl" is sardonic and, in its hymn to friendship, upbeat.
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Facing elimination before the game, he was his normal sardonic self.
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He is famously elusive and his humor tends toward the sardonic.
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It is a darkly sardonic statement of societal dis-ease and discontent.
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This was in part a sardonic comment on British cartoonists doing likewise.
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His dialogue isn't peppered with one-liners or doused in sardonic humor.
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Bateman and Goodwin have fantastic chemistry, helped by his sardonic, punchy delivery.
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It was as nuanced and tender as it was grim and sardonic.
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In the novel, the line was a sardonic comment on moral rigidity.
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Like cat videos, something about a sardonic princess meme is simply irresistible.
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Kimmel and Seth Meyers reacted with their own brands of sardonic glee.
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"What a mistake that was," Gomez told me with a sardonic laugh.
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He's all angles, rakishly slim, with slightly surprised, slightly sardonic blue eyes.
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The essential picture keeps shifting from sweet to angry, sardonic to sincere.
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Mr. Day-Lewis composes a symphony of moods: sardonic, melancholy, inspired, impatient.
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The clap was seen as loaded and self-amused and captivatingly sardonic.
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On a larger scale, it hints at just how sardonic this generation is.
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The bizarre episode prompted sardonic jokes among government opponents, who cried foul play.
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Sardonic humour and gothic plot-twists add a layer of macabre rustic comedy.
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With great skill and economy he sets the sardonic "Hollywood-Elegies" by Brecht.
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His spiritual mood, marked by a sardonic cultural pessimism, is suited to match.
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Others shrugged off the bleakness with sardonic humor, as people here often do.
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In a meme group, sardonic and sincere Williamson supporters unite against the haters.
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Ryan Reynolds reprises his role as a sardonic antihero in this Marvel sequel.
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We can see Larry Wilmore be trenchant and sardonic any night of the week.
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" Still, he admitted with a sardonic shrug, "I've tried Tinder and Grindr and everything.
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The sardonic humor and quick editing still has that beloved DIY Vine quality, though.
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First, though, let me just note that this post title is intended as sardonic.
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Mr Balint's scrupulous and sardonic prose makes you love Kafka, and dread the law.
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And as inspiration for a sardonic, ramshackle show, you could do a lot better.
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They have an eruptive sardonic energy; devotion mixes with a sharply humorous misanthropic edge.
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Its current president is the sardonic, unflappable Italian Mario Draghi, a career central banker.
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When he was being sardonic or laid back, he has a flickering blue flame.
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It's a sharp, sardonic line (one of many) and also an anguished existential question.
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It has a wonderful kind of sardonic humor that we know from Polish cinema.
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It's a bleak, sardonic message, and it leaves Dick's actual sympathies in the novel uncertain.
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The show blends the sincere with the sardonic, making room for the multitudes gays contain.
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Cards Against Humanity is famed for being snarky and sardonic — now it's socially progressive, too.
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Somewhere, I thought, his sardonic and intensely wry sense of humor must have remained intact.
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That outlook doesn't match up with the sardonic nature of the most popular superheroes today.
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In parts, the synths were harsher, the mix was muggier, his either bitter or sardonic.
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Ms Jefferson, it must be said, is a master of the arched-eyebrow, sardonic quip.
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"I'm the one who's embezzled most of your money," said one sardonic commenter on Sina.
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When they sometimes refer to the classical/Renaissance time frame, the tone is pleasantly sardonic.
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The sardonic laughter of Pepperstein's characters is not reassuring — it's a pointer toward the void.
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Her work lacks the cynicism of more sardonic writers, like Stephen Malkmus or Frank Black.
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Beksinski himself, while a painter of apocalyptic, sci-fi landscapes, is a cheerful, sardonic sort.
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Jo, the sardonic friend and sometime girlfriend of the Healys' daughter, isn't a major character.
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Where Ms. Sanders tends to the dry and sardonic, Mr. Scaramucci is over the top.
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"I don't want a Grammy for a fucking box," Healy said, with a sardonic laugh.
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He leavens this sardonic disenchantment with a dark seam of comedy, in meticulously sculpted prose.
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I'm fond of Mordecai Richler's protagonists, who tend to be sardonic, somewhat self-destructive boozers.
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The formula of deceptively sophisticated funk and sardonic philosophizing would become Steely Dan's calling card.
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His stories were by turns sardonic, compassionate and joyful, especially when skewering the academic life.
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In the Aria I duet, Ms. Rausch was at her best: unhesitatingly bold, sardonic, calmly strange.
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The tapes, notable for their subject's clipped, sardonic replies, form the revelatory backbone of the movie.
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Pink's sardonic new video for "Beautiful Trauma" offers a hilarious take on domestic misery and bliss.
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So do Ms Weyand's sardonic asides at the negotiating table and AKK's routine with the mop.
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The romanticism of internet culture as a whole burns in the flames of his sardonic contempt.
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I am a dryly sardonic protector of the weak in a world controlled by corporate interests.
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Lately, when the girls come to him with complaints, he listens skeptically, with a sardonic smile.
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The 32-year-old shared the photograph on Instagram, alongside the sardonic caption: "Aging's a bitch."
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Simonyan often deploys sardonic humor to bat away allegations from Western governments about her broadcaster's impartiality.
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The always sardonic Aubrey Plaza shows up to chats with Mr. Colbert — as does Cookie Monster.
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So many lines shimmer with somewhat sardonic discovery — a matter-of-fact staring-down at togetherness.
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Besser, in a Weakerthans concert T-shirt, his tone sardonic, began relating the U.C.B. origin story.
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Fribourg's voice is sardonic, like he's being forced to read words off a page he's just encountered.
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She cribs catchphrases from advertisers, and they in turn flatten her sardonic imagery into effective marketing materials.
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Add some kids to the mix for a new twist on the show's sardonic perspective on family.
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It's a sardonic way of dealing with vulnerability, like an Addam's Family episode or Edward Gorey cartoon.
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Like the voices he assumes in Future Of The Left's skewed, sardonic tracks, he's funny but pointed.
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Last month, Didi received a $1 billion investment from Apple, which provoked a sardonic reply from Kalanick.
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Sharon, played by Ms. DeVido with a veneer of sardonic toughness covering an innate sensitivity, pushes back.
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When we ask Wästberg about the album's title, the answer is sardonic and silly and distinctively Scandinavian.
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Midge is like a sardonic Hulk; she gets hurt, she gets angry and her superpower bursts forth.
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Jimmy Kimmel once again brought his dry, sardonic style to his role as host of the Oscars.
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The OC and Gilmore Girls were good because they were self-aware, sardonic and, most importantly, believable.
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To the end, Mr. Cohen took a sardonic view of both his craft and the human condition.
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This is not the time for sardonic memes, funny though they may be, about the Space Marines.
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This novel could have easily sagged into dogma, but Leichter keeps the narrative crisp, swift and sardonic.
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I was prepared to find Jojo Rabbit cloyingly sardonic, if not offensive, within a tricky comedic territory.
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Ms. Walker's visual efforts have generally been aided by a sardonic ventriloquism that recycles 19th-century elocutions.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi wore one, and her apparently sardonic applause for Mr. Trump turned into a meme.
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Expect doleful references to Europe's new east-west cleavage and sardonic asides about the predicted "end of history".
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None of this keeps the authorities from dismissing the Liars' concerns through a bit of sardonic social commentary.
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I can't really text people because I have a dry sardonic wit and it doesn't really come through.
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The characters alternate between abject horror over Robert's treatment of them, and cavalier, sardonic responses to eternal anguish.
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Mr Nesmith's fifth solo LP, in 1972, would bear the sardonic title "The Hits Just Keep On Coming".
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While Albini remained as sardonic as ever, he became a bit less direct as the years went on.
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Their candid responses, range from funny to sad to sardonic, but all are steeped in genuine heartfelt emotion.
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The sardonic view is the football fanatics got their team back and the party lights are back on.
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Set to the soaring vocals of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," the trailer offers a sardonic introduction to the squad.
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"Even better, on that last conference call, he revealed his true rigor without the sardonic quips," he said.
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The tone of the lyrics conforms to Mr. Merritt's sardonic character, as does his use of unexpected rhymes.
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Deadpool, a profanely sardonic antihero, has been one of Marvel's most popular characters since its debut in 1991.
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One illustrates the sardonic, repressed topography of an Englishman's Freudian mind and the other is, well, a jar.
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Between the leather jacket and the facial expression, Holtzmann will be bringing the arch, sardonic wit to the crew.
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He had a brilliant pictorial wit, not just sardonic and sharp, as is often remarked, but full of sympathy.
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Whether or not this is true, the NRA is promoting their own policies — in a sardonic tone, no less.
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The campaign has also spawned some sardonic responses to the government, including tweets of pictures of storks delivering babies.
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"TRUSTING CHINA is like trusting pigs can climb trees!" read one of the many sardonic placards held by protesters.
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Bungie recognizes this, and members of the development team have become increasingly candid, almost sardonic, in on-camera interviews.
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Kok was sardonic and charismatic—a class clown—but also tall, beefy, and imposing, with a streak of ruthlessness.
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It was a distinctive sardonic drawl, made for expressing disappointment, judgment, and a feline mixture of malice and pleasure.
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For as disturbing as the plot can get, there are always laughs — often twisted and sardonic — around the corner.
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He was as avuncular and courtly as his movies were hectic and bruising, and more than a bit sardonic.
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Are the scrawled words "Today is Great" meant as inspiration or a sardonic admission that all is not right?
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That's because they're enraged rather than merely sardonic, and also because 14 of these low-lifes die, often hideously.
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For as disturbing as the plot can get, there are always laughs - often twisted and sardonic - around the corner.
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A Skilled, Sardonic Writer Ms. Fisher was a prolific writer, and her personal struggles inspired much of her work.
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On the screen, a wonderfully funny and sardonic Entertainment Weekly segment explains that it all started with Walt Disney.
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Anne also aims her satire at the limited food options in the Annex, offering sardonic menus and diet tips.
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Editorial It's difficult not to be a bit sardonic about women in Saudi Arabia getting the right to drive.
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"It's all around ideas of hunting," she says, but with a typically sardonic twist: Men hunting women, not animals.
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It had been sardonic, but urgent, too, when a virginal Stolarsky had interrogated Bruno on Bruno's experiences with girls.
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BoJack, a former sitcom star, is a horse in a Cosby sweater; Diane, his sardonic biographer, is a human.
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Adam McKay is among the show's executive producers, and it includes his brand of celebrity cameos and sardonic asides.
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Fans of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown can now dive even further into the world of their favorite sardonic travel host.
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Underneath his sardonic shell and stylish words, empathy is what really defines Snagglepuss — and it's what he'll need to survive.
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" Or, to throw in a British TV reference, Holly the self-depreciating yet sardonic human-faced computer in "Red Dwarf.
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No. I was just kind of ... I was always making observational jokes kind of from the sidelines, not ... Like sardonic.
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"I wanted to win Carter over with sardonic wit, so I chose PowerPoint as my artistic medium," Fenton tells PEOPLE.
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Sam Strike ("Eastenders") and Angus Sampson ("Fargo") are particularly strong, playing an emotionally volatile psychic and a sardonic xenobiologist, respectively.
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Midge and Ben go boating, and Benjamin immediately proves to be a walking archetype of the lovable, sardonic rich asshole.
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While the animated Bojack was sardonic, Flaked looks more inclined toward heartwarming moments, colored pastel shades by the California sun.
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Emphasizing the adventure-movie feel of Near Death is the weary, sardonic written banter between your pilot and her dispatcher.
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Alongside these young singers, two stage veterans, Franz Hawlata and Anne Sofie von Otter, are winningly sardonic as Voltaire/Dr.
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There are clip-clop ole West numbers, solemn hymns of uplift and lamentation and sardonic Brechtian ditties of social evil.
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But I also think it's a big mistake to get too cynical — that's right, too sardonic — for your own good.
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This sardonic approach is not without risks, and the movie's polished surface, to my eye, bears a sheen of smugness.
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Lyall has an arch, sardonic tone and she wasn't afraid to poke fun at the whole experience and the team.
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But as the year progressed, the comparisons to Jesus began to turn sardonic, as Wilson's perfectionism grated on his allies.
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But that earnestness could easily skew toward cheesiness — hence the popularity of grittier heroes and Stark's cynical and sardonic personality.
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It's an ideal Christmas-week event for those who like their year-end cheer with a twist of sardonic humor.
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Then one day he discovers that his new neighbor, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame), matches his sardonic temperament, tit-for-tat.
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It was lyrically weighty, extremely bold, a little trippy, and sardonic enough at points to carry all of that off.
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In fact, I'm not sure a more sardonic version of Pretty Woman could have stood up onstage in 2018 at all.
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Negan has been a lot of things this season: a perpetual bad guy, a violent psycho, a rapist, a sardonic jackass.
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That translated into a few sympathetic comments, some disbelief, but mostly a ton of sardonic analogy to Facebook's own privacy practices.
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The young president was formerly a minister in a Socialist government; the sardonic prime minister belonged to the centre-right Republicans.
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They play fast and loose with white supremacist iconography, remixing it with pop culture and the sardonic tone of internet subculture.
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But at the same time, the sardonic sheen that coats everything oozing from internet subcultures helps provide cover for white supremacists.
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In the podcast, Keener played Heidi with a note of sardonic detachment in her voice, a quality that Roberts doesn't emulate.
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With lovely, soft textures and a palette given to muted blues and grays, are the works nostalgic, or are they sardonic?
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Pulling narratives and themes from your favorite documentary films, this show puts a sardonic and witty spin on a familiar format.
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In Spanish, however, his full talents as a sardonic raconteur are on display; he's even prone to the occasional philosophical soliloquy.
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Then again, bypassing the nuts and bolts of Rivers's life let the singer put her own sardonic wit to great use.
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It's easy to be charmed by this piece, which begins with impishly jazzy spurts and hints of sardonic Parisian salon music.
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But the films' politics are served up with appealing, accessible pop-culture aesthetics, sardonic humor and the odd four-letter word.
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A recent art-school graduate, he was simply heeding career advice that would become a sardonic watchword for young people: 'Plastics.
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Last month, Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic played a version here attuned to the work's tragic and sardonic potential.
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Sam's middle child, Frankie (Hannah Alligood), is a sardonic, self-righteous teen who wears baggy clothes and goads her sisters ruthlessly.
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Quibi knows that where willpower has failed, self-deprecation steps in to give our bad habits a patina of sardonic resignation.
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"We consider Vesper Fairchild to be the sardonic Voice of Gotham," showrunner Caroline Dries told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement.
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The song that opened Father John Misty's 2012 debut, "Fear Fun," was "Funtimes in Babylon," a sardonic embrace of Hollywood excess.
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A professor allowed that she was not exactly in mourning, noting with a sardonic laugh that she was not wearing black.
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The year has barely woken up, but the prize for the Most Sardonic Film Title of 2016 has already been won.
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This sardonic novel imagines an innocent Huck and a murderous Tom Sawyer as adults in a savage post-Civil War West.
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Often compared to the satirical news site The Onion, The Betoota Advocate has become the sardonic voice of disenchanted millennial Australians.
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Mr. Michael has a perpetually adolescent, sardonic attitude, and he subtly mocks his own arrested development with some of his jokes.
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Arguably, the expressions of incredulity and sardonic shade were statements as politically significant as anything President Trump read from his text.
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Collins stars as Ellen, a 20-year-old funny, sardonic, artistic young woman whose anorexia is hurling her toward rock bottom.
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" The series "follows a sardonic girl in her final year of college whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and hilarious mishaps.
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The novel presents a sardonic view of violence, war, and climate change, as well as the actions required to counter climate change.
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Iggy, who was punk before the word existed, uses "fuck" as an adjective, verb, and noun—but always through a sardonic grin.
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What I love about Nibokun's writing is not only her sardonic humor, but her refusal to define healing as a linear journey.
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Now Bridle is trying to build his own self-driving car, and made the sardonic artwork Autonomous Trap 001 in the process.
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Nobody exemplifies it better than Qai Qai, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr.'s sardonic doll who's constantly on the brink of existential crisis.
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Each gallery highlights one aspect of his interdisciplinary sensibility: the early paintings, sardonic assemblages, exquisite collages, magnificent films and miraculous inkblot drawings.
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Mets 243, Dodgers 313 LOS ANGELES — As Noah Syndergaard squared around to bunt, a sardonic murmur seemed to circulate among the fans.
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Will doesn't believe in the discovery quite as much as everyone else, he tells Isla, who seems both sardonic and obviously depressed.
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Its sardonic evocation of the pain and loss from the Troubles in Ireland may (fortunately) be less immediately shocking than it was.
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"The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965," edited by her biographer, Tim Page, is as witty and sardonic as Powell's satirical novels.
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The plot was suspenseful but what I liked best was the sardonic first-person narration by its hero, First Officer John Carter.
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SOULWAX Three drummers slammed home the sheer overkill of Soulwax, a Belgian band with an aggressively sardonic attitude toward pop and technology.
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Shortly after the backlash over a transphobic tweet by J.K. Rowling, Gervais tweeted several things that many readers took as sardonic TERFdom.
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These sardonic mash-ups of Pop Art, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism exemplify the ugly gorgeousness that is something of an Oehlen signature.
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His style is intense, sardonic, philosophical, with a tendency to skitter away from the spotlight even as he places himself center stage.
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Yet even with sardonic charm radiating from Lillis throughout the show's entire atmosphere, Netflix's I Am Not Okay With This is insufficient.
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"Merry Xmas Everybody," a sardonic and brazenly British romp through the oddities of Christmas Day, regularly ranks among Brits' favorite festive tracks.
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Yet Coover's sardonic revulsion toward the often profligate, prodigal nation his literature has lampooned for 50 years has not yet grown absolute.
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Callahan has always been quick with a joke in his songs—a wry aside, a sardonic observation, a perfectly self-skewering stanza.
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Also looking out for the boy, for reasons no one can quite figure out, is the mystical, sardonic python Kaa (Cate Blanchett).
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"It felt too sardonic to me," Lynne Meadow, the longtime artistic director of Manhattan Theater Club who's helming the production, said afterward.
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"Smithereens" builds a sardonic look at the state of modern social media around the classic tale of an abduction scenario gone wrong.
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In Iron Man, the studio found a different hero (sardonic, tech-savvy, arrogant, damaged, etc.) than ones we were used to seeing.
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Brecht's savage, sardonic view of war as a man-made machine that produces as much profit as blood glimmers darkly throughout the show.
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He's sardonic and irreverent in a way that's different from Tony Stark or Scott Lang, because it's missing Stark and Lang's charming affability.
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In the past, that character could have been placed next to the main character, you know, saying something sardonic every once in awhile.
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Both sometimes deployed sardonic grins in lieu of interruption: generally an ill-advised tactic, especially when the subject under discussion is gun violence.
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Alan Rickman, a singular, sardonic legend of stage and screen, has died at the age of 69 from cancer, his family confirmed Thursday.
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A snappish, sardonic section near the end had some savage charm, but also seemed to be holding back, unwilling to be truly dangerous.
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Lyonne's strongest muscles as an actress are sardonic detachment and antsy discomfort, and she flexes both in full force in these early scenes.
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This is what it might be like to see through the eyes of a depressed person whose most intense emotion is sardonic cynicism.
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But the movie travels beyond the sardonic, as Reitman's " Up in the Air " (2009) ventured to do, into the realms of world-weariness.
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They're a natural pair: Yachty is the more outwardly animated one, while Perry is quieter and more sardonic, but both are winningly genuine.
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One of the most memorable features of Hazel Grace's narrative voice in "The Fault in Our Stars" is her sardonic sense of humor.
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And Emily handles her orphanhood and transition to a new place with the kind of sardonic restraint that would have appealed to Nadia.
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But the film's sardonic sense of humor, courtesy of director and co-screenwriter James Gunn, was more than enough to carry the day.
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In San Francisco, the Dead Kennedys would offer a sardonic bit of storytelling and sci-fi to lyrics that were often simplistic sloganeering.
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But as my sardonic friend had noticed, and my own highly unscientific survey confirms, a number of our contemporaries deem those somehow inadequate.
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While Mr. LuPone seems far too hale to play the ailing Gio, he lends the character moral authority and flickers of sardonic humor.
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Every diner, trading jokes with the always-just-a-little-sardonic waitstaff, looks like a regular, even when they don't understand the menu.
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Here's the UN investigators: A single photograph is texted to Mr. Bezos from the Crown Prince's WhatsApp account, along with a sardonic caption.
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Photos could be excavated from the morgues of bygone magazines and science journals, blown up and bannered with jarring, sardonic captions (Barbara Kruger).
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Her later portrait photography, critiqued and lampooned the flawless visions of commercial photography, deploying sardonic humor as a means of consolation and defense.
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Ms. de Leon was more sardonic; she photographed a girl in an enormous field of pulverized stone in the South Bronx in 1977.
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That sardonic self-deprecation is reflected in his encompassing, have-it-all aesthetic, which stubbornly combines the political and the decorative, and more.
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In contrast, Büyüktaş's photos are not sardonic, but rather sincerely explore the visual possibilities created by extending the expected depth of an image.
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This massive dark painting has a sardonic commedia dell'arte aspect that speaks to me of political withdrawal and is well worth languishing over.
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The show is based on a 2007 Israeli film of the same name, songs by David Yazbek and a sardonic story by Itamar Moses.
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My style morphed, in year one, from eager and breathless to cynical and sardonic as the avalanche of post requirements took over my life.
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Veronica from Riverdale), even though any fool can see that he's meant to be with sardonic cool girl Celia (a nicely deadpan Laura Marano).
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Back in 2008, Marvel found itself a hero in Iron Man's Tony Stark, who was sardonic, quippy, and smarter and cockier than his peers.
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Like many of those artists, Conner was shaped by the clash between the intense emotionality of Abstract Expressionism and the sardonic worldliness of Dada.
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What he wants to be is an erudite, sardonic breaker of false idols, the man who says the unsayable and does it with style.
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The sensitive, comedic cast is uniformly excellent, but I was most moved by Chris Perfetti, who gives sardonic expression to Masha's dreaminess and rage.
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Asked well after midnight what she would tell her younger self, Keys (whose default mode is sardonic) thought for a moment and answered earnestly.
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When you picture Lucille in your mind, she's invariably holding a martini glass, which she often complements with a barb and a sardonic look.
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Kate Bishop, his more skilled, smooth, and sardonic partner (who is also a beloved character with a dedicated fandom), cut through all of that.
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The mood was more candied than mysterious in the second-movement "night music," its lilting cello section feeling genuinely nostalgic rather than tangily sardonic.
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The only thing standing between humans and extinction is a sardonic demon hunter named Trevor Belmont, one fabulous fur coat, and Belmont's trusty whip.
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And Michael Jibson's sardonic ruler cuts so richly florid a creation that the character justifies its own elevated niche in the corridors of camp.
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It's a question that's especially relevant to late-night TV, where hosts have been offering sardonic takes on the headlines almost daily for decades.
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Though her humour is sardonic and self-deprecating, she appraises her home, which includes an infinity pool guarded by a ceramic Buddha, with uncomplicated pride.
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Janet Wygal: There's a certain deadpan quality in the singing of the theme song—there was emotion, but it was very salty-sweet and sardonic.
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Early in his career, fueled by his association with Martin Kippenberger and other Junge Wilde artists, he employed a sardonic and deliberately ham-fisted figuration.
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The snark levels may be toned down, but the Deadpool star makes no effort to disguise his voice or his natural predilection for sardonic humor.
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Because Red is voiced by the sweetly sardonic Jason Sudeikis and the film is a cartoon, it was easy to play the violence for laughs.
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Rains, known to all as Mo, is a compact, lightly sardonic woman in her forties who has worked at the prison since she was nineteen.
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The style calls to mind the early films of the American director Jim Jarmusch, but this picture does not emulate Mr. Jarmusch's knowing sardonic tone.
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Early in the season, Bojack meets a teenage filly named Hollyhock (the comedian Aparna Nancherla, whose voice contains just the right gloss of sardonic angst).
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The result was "Yule Shoot Your Eye Out," a sardonic and disgruntled acoustic track that would live far longer than they ever could have expected.
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In Abbott's hands, Yossarian is less sardonic than Alan Arkin, arguably sanded down from his tetchy persona in the novel, but easier to empathize with.
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The sardonic joke among some Revolution supporters is that now they're not even the neglected second child, but something even worse: the ignored middle child.
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It's a story that's full of sardonic humor and joy, alongside real-life strife and thoughtful metaphors for the biggest problems our society is facing.
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Six months after the hack, Bezos received a photograph with a "sardonic caption" from the crown prince's WhatsApp account, according to the UN experts' timeline.
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Despite the sardonic way Mr. Cohen's films equate gangsterism with all-American capitalism, there's not much in the way of effective subversion, subtextual or otherwise.
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Robinson has been a ubiquitous, if oddly shy presence on the gallery and museum circuit, a sardonic dandy seemingly embarrassed by his soft-hearted core.
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Large and square, intense, a bit bug-eyed when he is feigning incredulity, he is unquestionably good on TV: fluent, even slightly sardonic at times.
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Ragnarok lives in that afterthought — the silly extended joke, the sly check-in to gauge whether the audience is paying attention, the sardonic eye roll.
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Few shows work so well as lighthearted summertime watches as Rockford, which was TV super-producer Stephen J. Cannell's sardonic spin on the private eye genre.
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It demonstrated the kind of sardonic, unrestrained humor that she often shows in private interactions with friends and reporters but has refrained from displaying in public.
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The night was punctuated by her sardonic humor, corny clown jokes, controversial political statements and heartfelt moments about how much the hospital project means to her.
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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.
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The German Foreign Office, in a sardonic reply, found it "astounding" that other countries would decry Germany's treatment of Jews and then decline to admit them.
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Jimmy Kimmel's got jokes • Wielding his dry, sardonic style, Mr. Kimmel delivered an opening monologue that took jabs at Mr. Weinstein, Mel Gibson and President Trump.
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It's a 360-degree 3D video — a sardonic "lesson" in market strategy and the dialectics of seeing — projected onto the interior of a cardboard geodesic dome.
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The German auteur — a wildly prolific wunderkind whose sardonic melodramas served to re-establish German cinema on the international stage — appeared at once affable and menacing.
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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.
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But Bejar never pushes himself all the way there, instead recoiling when he cares too much, drenching himself in a layer of irony or sardonic wit.
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Dud, a sweet-sad little Lebowski, is the central character, but the ensemble quickly grows more interesting, particularly his sister, Liz (a terrific, sardonic Sonya Cassidy).
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She's 17, Sardonic and Ready to Sing in 'Beetlejuice' Condescend at your own risk to Sophia Anne Caruso, the go-to girl for adventurous stage roles.
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So does some of the poetry, like Yusef Iman's sardonic 1966 comment on nonviolent resistance called "Love Your Enemy," recited by Ms. Sanchez in a video.
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These movies, with their sardonic bluntness and their suggestive dialogue, were made in pre-Code Hollywood, the brief, giddy period that lasted from 1930 to 1934.
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On the monument's core and around its edges, she has installed allegorical figures of her own that offer a sardonic counterprogram to the celebration of empire.
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Later, there was punk: Something about its harsh sardonic insolence — born of early de-industrialization, low wages and even lower clouds — made Manchester a congenial venue.
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Easy to like and hard to shake, he was a kind of elevated prankster who never had to choose between being sardonic, accessible, or emotionally complex.
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The portrait of Hillary is tart and unflattering, with shifty eyes and a sardonic half-smile, while Bernie gazes impassively, if not blandly, toward the horizon.
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Shaun parses these dense bureaucratic documents and cryptofascist character constellations with his trademark droll, sardonic narration, which makes for a strangely compelling and often amusing experience.
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On one hand, it can be seen as a sardonic response to Minimalism's purity and faultless execution, but I think that is too limited a view.
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Most of Battle of the Sexes was comedic and sardonic, with Sarah Silverman and Steve Carrell broaching serious topics, like gender parity and chauvinism, with lighthearted humor.
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Stallworth keeps the ruse going by persuading his sardonic Jewish partner, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to take his place for face-to-face dealings with "the organisaton".
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Her book is relatable not because of who she was, but for the person she is now — insightful, slightly sardonic, and someone who is unafraid be vulnerable.
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After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.
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The characters are Howard, an essayist-cum-poet with populist ideas, his daughter Judy, a brilliant, sardonic sort adept at cocktail party chatter, and her lover Jack.
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" Whether you choose to take O'Connor's sardonic observation as a put-down depends on how seriously you take novels for children -- or, if you prefer, "young adults.
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On the walls hang paintings of charming Tbilisi streetscapes, while the building's red brick exterior features sardonic street art depicting the current President of the United States.
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One of my first cultural memories of a sardonic adverbial take on super comes from the 1999 movie "Election" ("Fargo" used it memorably as an adjective, too).
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The Times critic Vincent Canby called the movie "a mixture of the sincere, the sardonic and the classically sappy" when it opened in New York in 1992.
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The first voice on the LP is member MFnMelo, whose gravelly flow is the perfect foil to the Chilliams' sardonic delivery and Saba's emotive and versatile voice.
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It's been a while, so Maureen Ryan provided a helpful Season 1 refresher of the pleasantly sardonic British series from the creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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Rewind 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.
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We briefly see a video of the kidnapped Princess on YouTube; it has received 19,345,973 views and, in a sardonic touch, more likes (8,471) than dislikes (8,20133).
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Even before Tinguely's satirical noise sculptures came into being, his abstract drawing machines functioned along sardonic, pataphysical, and musical lines through the superimposition of different harmonic oscillations.
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With a literary career spanning over twenty-five years and including nine essay collections, it's clear that Sedaris has established himself as the foremost contemporary sardonic writer.
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Even characters such as Parks and Recreation's sardonic goth April and Orange Is the New Black's wild-haired, wisecracking Nicky owe their identities to the original rule breaker.
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On a single keyboard, their hands constantly crossing each other's, Juho Pohjonen and Orion Weiss played this kaleidoscopic music fairly straight, adding little extra to Bartok's sardonic edge.
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Since Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000) set the tone, superheroes on film became more serious and sardonic, more cynical and jaded about the world they wanted to save.
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It is a true ensemble piece, built around Hendricks's seething grace, Whitman's sardonic tenderness, and Retta's impeccable ability to weave between biting one-liners and and weepy vulnerability.
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And as if to make a sardonic mockery of its own ruling against Muslims, the Supreme Court at the same time essentially overruled its 1944 decision, Korematsu v.
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In the weeks after his death, I think of Giorno's poetry — exuberantly queer, unabashedly pornographic, frequently hilarious, sometimes furious, and almost always as compassionate as it is sardonic.
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Buried between sludgy riffs and delivered in Molko's reedy voice and sardonic tones, "decaying" sounds like something to aspire to; the perfect tagline in an anthem for outsiders.
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In 1998, I co-wrote "Daddy's Little Prostitute: The JonBenet Ramsey Story," a sardonic but pointed romp with scenesters Flloyyd, Sweetie, and David Ilku in the leading roles.
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In it, McHale plays an "outdoorsy guy's guy with a sardonic sense of humor" who is a well-respected magazine writer for a fake version of Outside magazine.
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Ryan McGinness' approach to art and the art world is sardonic yet earnest, a mature version of the rebellious ethos that defined his youth in 90s skate culture.
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Optima, a division of Sentara Healthcare, invited customers to share their personal stories on its Facebook page, and they obliged, with a fusillade of plaintive and sardonic comments.
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As well as the sardonic humor and imagery: an inscrutable floor manager who'd 'take the nickels off a dead man's eyes / To buy Coca-Colas and Eskimo Pies.
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Nadine's closest thing to a confidant is her history teacher, Mr. Bruner (Woody Harrelson, in top form), who has a knack for deflating her grandiosity with sardonic humor.
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Some political insiders respond to the suggestion that impeachment could cause a worsening of polarization with a sardonic question of their own: How much worse could it get?
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As the year's unrest spiralled out of control, the four characters spelling Fengjiu biluan were used in sardonic hashtags on social media, usually featuring Xi's name or face.
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It's a side of Hillary Clinton sharpened by what you might call the default voice of Twitter: Sardonic, mildly bitter, unafraid to say what everyone else is thinking.
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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.
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The Babadook's queerness could be both a satirical take on cinema's ongoing failure of representation and a sardonic response to the media and social media's "hot take" economy.
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On Tuesday morning, Clinton, 71, shared that photo with a sardonic swipe at how blatantly it sounds like her "Stronger Together," the slogan for her most recent presidential bid.
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If Williams painted "Smile" (and who could come up with a more sardonic title?) before November 8th, it's a safe bet that this particular idea wasn't on his mind.
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She was cast as Christina Plutzker, a sardonic bookstore employee, in what would go on to become one of the most celebrated rom-coms in history, You've Got Mail.
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In Iron Man, they found a hero that was cut from a different cloth (sardonic, tech savvy, arrogant, damaged, etc.) than Peter Parker or Professor X's mutant-rights warriors.
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Your article on its owners' woes adds a sardonic log to the epic dumpster fire of a team whose home city's biggest river once caught fire from toxic waste.
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Still, many Mexicans wholly embrace sardonic humor to respond to scandals, whether corruption in the president's office or the escape of the notorious drug lord Joaquín (El Chapo) Guzmán.
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Tina says of her aunt, for instance, who has lived so long, "She'd like to try dying for a change," and the words come as a hard sardonic shock.
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One of their collaborations was "Operation Supermarket," a series of large photographs of everyday household goods whose packages they had rebranded with sardonic messages to mock consumerism and capitalism.
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The exception, an artist who calls himself Thecatamites (Stephen Murphy), takes a sardonic look at old-school games in a click-heavy conquest narrative that goes nowhere, very slowly.
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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.
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The performance is a marvel of sardonic voice-over and subtle eye acting as Offred tries to make sense of a mad world from inside her starched white bonnet.
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" 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.
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Martin Shkreli, the so-called Pharma Bro, took an interest in Duca, sending her sardonic pickup lines and creating photographic collages of them together, until Twitter suspended his account.
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But since we've been getting puzzles from Mr. Agard (alone and in collaboration) at a regular clip, we've come to expect a heavy dose of unique and sardonic humor.
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His new works, sardonic sculptures in which the artist bottles and sells tainted water from the Flint River, has helped raise funds to combat that city's ongoing water crisis.
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Greg Ahee's guitar is a frothing whirl when the chorus kicks in and Joe Casey's voice is as sardonic and perfectly tinged with cynicism as it is on record.
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"That feeling of unity you felt at the end of season one really comes from the unity in the cast," said Colton Dunn, who plays sardonic customer service rep Garrett.
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For years, my wife and I watch Fox News "Special Report" with Bret Baier where Charles softly delivered his insights on politics with impressive and often sardonic wit and intelligence.
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If you were a sardonic proto-goth coming of age two decades ago, there was no teenager on TV more iconic than Darlene Conner, played by razor-sharp Sara Gilbert.
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Netflix needed a movie good enough that any resistance would look like entrenched old-school bullying, and it found that in Okja, an epic that's equal parts sardonic and sincere.
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Its masthead reads like a who's who of European photographers and stylists, and the content is thought-provoking and humorous, wavering from sardonic style guides to conversations between modern philosophers.
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In fact, Letterman seems to be treating the new show as an opportunity to move a little bit away from his usual sardonic style and offer more depth and seriousness.
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The pop progression and catchy tune are meant to serve as a hopeful counterpoint, the absurdity of writing pop music about painful subjects meant to evoke a certain sardonic comedy.
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It offered up the chunky brushstrokes of Japanese painter Aine Kinashi, the bright geometries of Cuban painter Waldo Díaz-Balart, and the sardonic, stylized pop of American artist Ed Ruscha.
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Before entering the work force, my emails to my college co-op, friends, family, and professors were devoid of exclamation points, like the dutiful sardonic-yet-earnest student I was.
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The gesture — interfering with the value of an artwork by unabashedly monetizing it, in a way that also eradicates it — was intended as a sardonic comment on the art market.
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A wink of self-awareness feels necessary in all art-making communities as indebted to internet culture as this, and hardvapour's reliance on sardonic self-reference seems almost without end.
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Even his parents don't know why he dropped out of school, and he channels his feelings about his ex, Van (Zazie Beetz), into sardonic comments on her taste in men.
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It's the stuff of great drama and blackly sardonic comedy, but not exactly spritely seasonal cheer, which box-office receipts have determined to be the prevailing tone for holiday movies.
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Here's what you'll need to remember about the fourth wall-breaking Fleabag (we never do learn her real name), the sardonic manager of a failing, guinea pig-themed London cafe.
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Then NPR aired his reading of "SantaLand Diaries," the sardonic account of his stint as a Macy's Christmas elf named Crumpet that turned him into a seemingly instant literary star.
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And she has peppered the script not only with her own sardonic songs but also stretches of dialogue in a foreign language she invented for the discussion of matters gynecological.
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Their brand of DIY, sardonic, and above all else, unapologetically leftist commentary soon became mainstream, with a thriving Patreon page and a number of other shows following in their steps.
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When "West Side Story" débuted, in 1957, critics praised its lush, syncopated score, by Leonard Bernstein; its sardonic lyrics, by Stephen Sondheim; and the profane energy of Arthur Laurents's script.
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Jasper is fey and feisty, sardonic at best, more often caustic, severely alcoholic; Milo is a boxer and a poet, as broad and muscled as he is earnest and sensitive.
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There's a scene in The Golden Girls (hear me out) where the sardonic Dorothy, teaching a professional development class, encounters a bunch of adult slackers, save one: a Mr. Tanaka.
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He named the grant to help scientists relocate to France the "Make Our Planet Great Again" grant in a sardonic nod to Trump&aposs "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.
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I have joked about this, in the sardonic way that women have of joking about sexist or uncomfortable encounters, the humorous pose that helps us get through all of it.
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Similarly, 2016's Escape from Hell, which was first shown at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, presented a sardonic portrait of the ongoing conflict between secular and religious ideologies in Turkey.
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Randeep Hooda, in a brief role as a fighting coach is the perfect foil to Khan's often sardonic demeanour, and Anant Sharma shines as Govind, Sultan's sidekick and long-time friend.
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Adding a shot of sardonic silliness to any room it occupied, these Garfield phones waited in slumber, only opening their eyes when answered and falling asleep as soon as calls ended.
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LONDON — Well, the bad news is that the final episode of Sherlock Season 22017 has now been broadcast, and the adventures of everyone's favourite sardonic detective are wrapped for another year.
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But just as 2010's Old Ideas packed a sardonic punch worthy of a 78-year-old road dog, on 2016's You Want It Darker his voice was a husk.
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He was perceptive and sardonic, the perfect leader in our search for the vanished Will Byers, and a comforting presence as we hid under the covers and the Demogorgon drew close.
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But what Roiland and Harmon are doing is asserting the value of sentimentality, cloaked in Lovecraftian postmodernism and delivered by one of the most sardonic characters in the history of television.
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Thirty-four years ago, on the record "Milo Goes to College," they figured out the sardonic blueprint for pop-punk, in short and tuneful songs with bass lines running wide patterns.
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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.
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Bill Callahan's wry and sardonic writing style, lo-fi approach and commanding baritone have made him one of the most evocative and compelling songwriters and lyricists of the last two decades.
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Here, they're sardonic voices of reason, pragmatic figures to help Danny Rand understand the cynicism and the way the world around him (which he's been removed from for 15 years) works.
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As far as musical aliases go it manages to be both self-effacing and sardonic (also true, turns out), which makes it the perfect reflection for the project as a whole.
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The affable jock is there to meet his secret girlfriend — the deeply sardonic Chris (Madeleine Arthur), essentially his polar opposite — and wrongly assumes they are the only ones in the room.
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The sheer diversity of references—Japanese anime, Hollywood classics, Tang-dynasty poetry—was dizzying, and the sardonic delivery, laced with anger, cynicism, and wit, embodied the exuberant swagger of the movement.
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Since her every sardonic smile is a reign of terror, the script scarcely needs to spell out the secret of her political strength, but it's at its best when it does.
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He harks back to foot-stomping country blues in "The Governor," a sardonic take on the justice system, and in the lovelorn "Dirty Dishes Blues," proving his command of blues essentials.
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He delivers the lion's share of comic relief with a sardonic wit that's a bit at odds with his character's sycophantic personality, but he's so funny it's hard to really care.
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This harsh miniature romanticism has by now been so well distributed and diffused through punk culture that its lugubrious repetitions are recognizable only as languor, or as a certain sardonic laconicism.
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In March, the Public Theater in New York will host the debut of "Dry Powder," a sardonic take on private equity shenanigans that stars John Krasinski ("The Office") and Claire Danes ("Homeland").
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You might want to keep "Vinyl" spinning, though, if only for Bobby Cannavale's smart, sardonic portrayal of Richie Finestra, president of a once-dynamic but now foundering label called American Century Records.
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"Kevin is all sardonic, he's the guy who would give you the 16-word phrase at the end of the story that would summarize what someone was just talking about," he adds.
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Oh geez, I have never seen such a failure of sardonic humor, because the sarcasm expressed throughout this entire trailer is basically the perfect representation of how we all feel about it.
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In a BBC Radio 6 interview on the Radcliffe and Maconie show, Father John Misty went from typically sardonic to actually kind of pissed off with the strange confusion of the interview.
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The outsized circumstances end up making it funnier, too — the film has a kind of locked-jaw sardonic sense of humor that is the perfect counterbalance to its moody camerawork and soundtrack.
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Over the last 13 years, the band has worked its way through God-fearing acoustic reckonings, beautifully harmonic rock music, and crushing distortion, always keeping a self-deprecating, sardonic humor close by.
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In its first season, "End," written by Charlie Covell based on Charles Forsman's graphic novel, was exactly the type of show — unpredictable, sardonic, disorienting — that didn't call out for a neat resolution.
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The first memoir was written in the present tense, with interjections from the adult writer looking back, a sardonic, affectionate, sometimes cringing voice letting us into what she knows and feels now.
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LOFTOPERA (Friday through Sunday) "Così Fan Tutte," Mozart's sardonic comedy, gets an infusion of hipness in this latest production by LoftOpera, the company dedicated to bring opera to unusual spaces in Brooklyn.
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As a cash-strapped student at Columbia University, the author of this sardonic, moving memoir discovers that her violin playing, deemed extraordinary at home in Appalachia, is merely mediocre in New York.
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Instead, she wrote a sardonic essay to Seventeen magazine about the experience — which nabbed her an unpaid guest editorship at the magazine in New York City, the publication's youngest-such guest editor.
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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.
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De Palma's career took off with the paranoid comedies "Greetings" and "Hi, Mom!" five decades back, and his filmography has encompassed horror, crime and other genres, all delivered with a sardonic edge.
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The longer version, with which Isobel does not belabor her date: Lydia Smith and Christine Drinkwater first met the married Alexandr Klimec (a sardonic Czech-born erstwhile poet) as their French instructor.
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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.
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Promising Young Woman punches its way through rape culture with perfectly manicured nails and a sardonic lipstick smile, and in the end, you may find you're the one who comes out bruised.
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But focusing on the "weird" of Twin Peaks ignores much of what the show actually is: a sardonic twist on the usual murder mystery procedural with a real sense of humor, besides.
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It's just far enough to accommodate a sardonic god (Julia Brothers) who amuses herself by taking an interest in Procne (Kate Kilbane, also the band's bassist) and Philomela (Lila Blue, appealingly sultry).
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Both Jim and George were delightful interviewees, alternating between earnestness about the elusiveness of a perfect sound and sardonic "what are ya gonna do" about how any of it might be perceived.
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In sardonic Dada, there is a challenging mix of affirmation and critique of the fusion of man and machine; with Léger, it is predominantly affirmation, enhanced by his populist attitude to art.
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The recent Russian artists on show all take a sardonic view of Suprematism because they know too well, from personal experience, the conditions of life in Russia, and the fate of the USSR.
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Whether it's your sardonic sad self who tweets gags about anxiety, or your thirst-trap Instagram alter-ego, it's more and more the norm these days to present multiple selves on the internet.
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Marano, who previously starred on Disney's Austin & Ally alongside other Disney-Netflix convert Ross Lynch (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), plays a bluntly sardonic and sarcastic high schooler from a wealthy Connecticut town.
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Whether it's a more whimsically dysfunctional family like the Hoovers in Little Miss Sunshine or a decidedly sardonic group like the Burnhams in American Beauty, your nuclear unit probably seems normal in comparison.
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Ron Glass, the handsome, prolific character actor best known for his role as the gregarious, sometimes sardonic detective Ron Harris in the long-running cop comedy "Barney Miller," has died at age 71.
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Brandishing a sardonic smile that masks true sweetness, Danielle isn't afraid to speak truth to power, especially when it comes to Whammie's "rainbow" policy of only scheduling one person of color per shift.
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It attacks the uninformed citizenry immobilized by religion and prescription drugs while mocking hipsters and hypocrites on the left, all through the lens of his sardonic sense of humor that he calls petulance.
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A man of sardonic wit and robust physique, Rikard had rebuilt on the same site and reestablished his practice in a first-floor home office, where we spoke as afternoon bled into evening.
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Timberlake walked a fine line between sardonic and sassy in his comments, calling out the audience for being so young, complimenting Swift's accomplishments, and also managing to sneak in a politically charged slam.
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Riverdale's sardonic sad-boi narrator, Jughead (Cole Sprouse), is a jarring amalgam of the pretentious teenager I once was, as well as the number of the reedy, slouching queer women I've crushed on.
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He skewered hypocrisies in "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy," recorded by Bonnie Raitt, and mastered the sardonic put-down in "Your Mind Is on Vacation (And Your Mouth Is Working Overtime)," covered by Elvis Costello.
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A precedent for such portrayals can be found in the proud sardonic oil portrait of Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, from New York's 12th Congressional District.
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Even if his style is relatively approachable, Thomas Adès still is Thomas Adès, the once-iconoclastic composer of mischievous, sardonic works like "Powder Her Face" (1995), "Totentanz" (2013) and "The Exterminating Angel" (2016).
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The rhetoric allowed Mr. Sanders' sardonic side to shine as he argued that his policy ideas were, in fact, far from radical, as evidenced by the increasingly warm embrace from the Democratic mainstream.
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However, Maddow herself will not appear onscreen during the upcoming season — only her voice will be featured as the "sardonic Voice of Gotham," according to a statement from the show's creator, Caroline Dries.
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BoJack, in particular, was a familiar archetype — deeply sad, steeped in self-loathing, quick with the sardonic one-liners, always deliberately pushing people away in spite of his desperate need to be loved.
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Both are memoirs of young women who worked in tech; Wiener's is a sardonic tale of four years in startups, whereas Fowler's chronicles a year working at Uber, filled with rampant sexual harassment.
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In Julie Saul, 17 recent watercolors by Pavel Pepperstein, a sardonic Russian artist, depict Jacqueline Kennedy as a cartoon character in mythological extremis, carried forth by satyrs or kneeling before the goddess Athena.
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Joshua Kurlantzick's engrossing book, "A Great Place to Have a War," titled after one old C.I.A. hand's sardonic remark, is a sobering account of the American engagement in Laos and timely reading today.
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"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.
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We'll check out work by sardonic Israeli artist Saint Hoax, trip down memory lane to revisit Hotline Bling and Sad Drake, then round out the Drake loops with GIF artists' reactions to Views.
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He appears calm and composed, and his speech is peppered with sardonic humour: about his race, his salary and his prospects of now being made a pilot by Alaska Airlines, an affiliate of Horizon.
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Usually, this is a time when sardonic Kourtney will roll her eyes over Lord Disick's often-destructive antics before announcing she's forgiven him and they're getting pedicures later, which literally happened earlier this season.
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DANGERS are, if not the most pissed off, probably the most sardonic hardcore band to come out of Los Angeles, which is truly saying something considering the city also birthed Suicidal Tendencies and Germs.
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McGee is a likeable, noble, sardonic houseboat-dwelling dilettante in all his books, but the horror he endures (and by necessity, causes) in this one was as powerful as any "literary" novel I've read.
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Drifting into an affair with a flighty teenager, Elena (Daisy Granados), Sergio equates her lack of education with Cuba's underdevelopment, taking her to museums that, in a particularly sardonic sequence, include Ernest Hemingway's villa.
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Blase, a French artist, filled this role by repurposing old portraits of aristocrats with a sardonic twist, adorning them with beauty queen sashes and MAGA hats and exposing sex abuses in the Catholic Church.
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A small painting of a brick wall, suspended from the high ceiling by two slender cables, hangs at eye level in front of the desk, a sardonic reminder of the nature of her task.
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Why she visits the courtroom of Judge Munsinger (an amusingly sardonic Ethan Phillips), is a mystery, unless hizzoner has guessed correctly that she is trolling the place to rediscover her love of the law.
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Some of these were fairly mainstream, like pink grapefruit and chamomile; others were more recherché, like aniseed and cassia; and one, Grains of Paradise, sounded like a gnarly and sardonic rock band from Hawaii.
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As sardonic and irreverent as it aims to be, I love that Deadly Class never shortchanges the anxiety and fears of being a teen, and the cast really nails their performances of those feelings.
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Now face tattoos are "happening" again, a testament to Lil Wayne's legacy and to the enduring sardonic energy of Gucci Mane's choice, in 2011, to cover half of his face with an ice cream cone.
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I guess it really kind of allowed me to find my sort of darker, sardonic humor that I might not have known existed, in my sort of Rebecca-of-Sunnybrook-Farms existence that I had.
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The love between a human woman and a sea-bound man echoes the plotline of the recent Oscar-winning film "The Shape of Water," but Ms. Broder infuses her narrative with a sardonic, youthful twist.
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The offer, made with Putin's trademark sardonic humor, came as the Russian president poured scorn on Comey for his role in a row in Washington over alleged Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election.
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In the early 1990s, Tom Waits and Robert Wilson teamed up in Hamburg for two productions at the Thalia Theater that brought the promise of Weill and Brecht's savage, sardonic approach into the modern era.
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Over the years, the publishing house has expanded their design strategy, but their covers remain iconic mainstays in any Barnes & Noble, which is what makes Miller's Penguin paintings, and their sardonic titles, so viscerally amusing.
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Sloane Crosley's latest collection of essays possesses the same sardonic wit and keen appreciation of the absurd; it's as good a time as any to be reminded that everyday life is full of great comedy.
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The film is an inside joke aimed to please devout comics nuts, the people who've followed the sardonic, self-aware mercenary with a penchant for cock jokes through the pages of various Marvel comic books.
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I create sardonic and humorous portraits of OPEC Oil Ministers and Western government officials based on real events; each of the photographic scenarios proposes an interplay of fetishistic love and sex between those in command.
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"The bakehouse is my church," quips Blakey (Steve Nicolson), the sardonic foreman, at the play's beginning in a phone conversation with his boss (who is never seen but has the resonant name of Mr. Beckett).
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It's a horde, naturally with ups and downs; the highlights — like the somber "Kepler" (2009) and the sardonic "The Perfect American" (2013), a vivisection of the Walt Disney legend — balance soggier efforts like "Appomattox" (2007).
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We're talking about the hopeful, sardonic, complicated individual who can't stop discussing Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and is in a love affair with a Hot Priest — or, you know, just wants to be in 2020. Goals!
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Lyrically, the band leads with sardonic political wit in songs like "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" and "Waiting Around to Die," embracing a twisted and absurdist mentality that makes heavy music so goddamn wonderful.
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" Now, Daniel Kreps at the Rolling Stone, whose perfectly sardonic nature made this all more bearable, said that this interview was part of "another probing TMZ interview conducted while Ted Cruz waited for an elevator.
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In her six years out of college, Sorenson had worked continuously on campaigns, all but one of them in Northern Virginia, and despite her youth, she exhibited the grim, sardonic cheer of the veteran operative.
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I remember first seeing Kat Stratford—the smart, sardonic, Sylvia Plath-loving riot grrrl immortalised by Julia Stiles—and feeling like I was setting eyes on everything I hoped I'd be when I got older.
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You're the Worst, a romantic comedy beloved by TV fans who like their love stories streaked with sardonic despair, differs from my proposed TV series above in one major particular: Its third season had problems.
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And Leigh, played with sardonic, scarcely concealed rage by Elizabeth Olsen, has a lot of years ahead of her in "Sorry for Your Loss," Kit Steinkellner's darkly comic elegy on grieving, debuting on Tuesday, Sept.
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JON CARAMANICA Courtney Barnett's latest droll, sardonic anatomy of everyday frustration has a rockabilly backbeat, twangy guitars and a not-so-rockabilly chord progression that droops into dissonance and pulls itself upright, again and again.
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They were moved about 35 miles south of the city, to a swiftly constructed detention center on the Puyallup fairgrounds — which the government, she pointed out with a sardonic laugh, preferred to call Camp Harmony.
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I initially intended to write an article about the bro culture that had sprouted up around D.F.S., which, from a distance, reminded me of the sweaty, sardonic camaraderie you typically see at high-stakes poker events.
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Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) is sure to become a fan favorite, as Sabrina's sardonic cousin who gets the kind of fun lines Salem The Talking Cat (Nick Bakay) would have gotten back in the Teenage Witch day.
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While many fans are taking to the internet to offer their tributes and praise of Fisher's many talents, sardonic humor, and importance in their lives, we also wanted to collect some of Fisher's own words here.
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The picture has a take-no-prisoners verve and sardonic humor to spare, but one leaves it as if having been bludgeoned with a hammer, unsure of up or down, left or right, teetering on collapse.
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This Roxanne and Cyrano at first seem like a matched set of sharp, sardonic and eloquent fatalists, in the tradition of immortal literary couples like Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, or Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.
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It was, in many ways, a typical, sardonic showdown between fans of the two soccer-mad, South American rivals — except it was happening on Wednesday night at a basketball game between Argentina and the United States.
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It was, in many ways, a typical sardonic showdown between fans of the two soccer-mad South American rivals — except it was happening on Wednesday night at a basketball game between Argentina and the United States.
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After two albums of 70s-inspired sardonic and brash bubblegum, followed by yet another refusal on the part of the general public to embrace him as a radio and TV-friendly megastar, Denim faded from view.
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Former prominent feminist friends of Green's have also distanced themselves from her recent rightward movements, and her former media outlet, Everyday Feminism, has apparently dropped her, in a move which prompted a sardonic response from Green.
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Where other presidents have treated natural disaster tours as dignified, even grave affairs, Mr. Trump has deployed sardonic humor, a candidate's pep-rally enthusiasm and a real estate developer's talent for always finding a silver lining.
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So instead, I took 10 Things I Hate About You as another sardonic, untruthful teen movie: where the teen girls are just SO, SO MAD, and HATE BOYS, and then FALL FOR THE BOYS THEY HATE.
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Cady, in her naïveté, starts out as a double agent, joining the Plastics so she can report back to her sardonic rebel friends, Janis (Barrett Wilbert Weed, in the Lizzy Caplan role) and Damian (Grey Henson).
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The five-piece, centered around Teranchi and bassist/vocalist Nuha Ruby Ra, have been spitting out caustic and frenetic missives for the past half-decade, building a reputation as a manic live act with a sardonic twist.
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St. Vincent's Annie Clark embodies the spirit of the late great Prince on "Pills," a frenetic, guitar-led ode to the troubles of drug addiction that finds her model ex-girlfriend, Cara Delevingne, singing a sardonic hook.
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And here, as she shimmies menacingly across the stage in her "Rose's Turn" number, she at last releases all of the pent-up rage she's been carrying in an explosion of angry jazz hands and sardonic patter.
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Marvel has turned the afterthought joke — the moment when a major character of status, usually a powerful superhero or villain, delivers something so self-serious only to be undercut by silence or a sardonic riff — into art.
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Back in Philadelphia, Ms. Crumb appeared in the Polly Pen musical "Bed and Sofa" (1999), played Maria Callas in Terrence McNally's "Master Class" (2010) and portrayed the sardonic aunt in Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" (2014).
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It's a sardonic piece of pop art that would foreshadow Waits' very public disdain for commercials, especially when crafty advertisers tried to absorb the essence of his persona (a very expensive business for them in the end).
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The overarching theme of the memes is that, even amid a worldwide health crisis, it's possible to properly prepare and take health precautions — a unique and encouraging contrast from the usual tack of the sardonic jokester internet.
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In his sardonic 21976 painting "Brilliantly Endowed (Self Portrait)" — its title borrowed from Mr. Kramer's review — he stood naked except for a pair of drooping striped tube socks and a floppy white cap perched on his head.
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A copy of the one photograph of him that is widely available online, in which he looks like a character actor available to play sardonic police sergeants, was fixed to a wall in the restaurant's back stairwell.
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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.
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After a long orchestral perambulation, black, sardonic chords were exhumed in the brass, which was Kirill Gerstein's cue to unleash punishing chords that thunder up and down for at least a minute too long to take seriously.
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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.
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Obviously, there are many variations on this theme — sardonic novels like "Catch-22," or narratives that only obliquely reference war like "The Sun Also Rises" — but much of literature adheres to this basic framework and its moralism.
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This factory-style studio organization, to use Warhol's sardonic term, would seem to suggest an atmosphere less than conducive to the sensitivity we find in many of van Dyck's portraits that was so crucial to his success.
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You don't often meet a woman of Patience's age in a crime novel unless she is a background character or a victim, but Cayre's middle-aged protagonist delivers her darkly comic adventure in the underworld with sardonic intelligence.
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The meta-humor behind Michael Keaton's villain is that he played a megalomaniacal, bird-inspired ex-superhero in Birdman (2014), the odd, sardonic superhero satire from Alejandro González Iñárritu that was named Best Picture at the 2015 Oscars.
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In the legal profession, the sardonic "Queen for a Day" description of such an important process is a form of gallows humor deriving from the name of a popular television show, whose heyday was from 1956 to 1964.
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But Wemba soon became associated with a more compelling and subversive fashion movement, the Religion Kitembo, or "worship of clothes", which was in part a sardonic comment on the charmless weeds and general decay that Zairianisation had brought.
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Each of these artists helped redefine indie as a sound and ethos, rather than a label association, by harnessing the tension between sloppily performed, loosely arranged instrumentals, and piercing, sardonic lyrics to highlight the density of their thoughts.
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" So Keen decided to address the similarity with a sardonic meta-wink: It gathered a group of employees (and one black dog called Ridley) and created its own version of the Gucci shot, with the message "Dear @Gucci.
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In "The Age of Lead," a televised account of the excavation of another body — this one from a 19th-century Arctic expedition — stirs one woman's aching memories of the life and death of her dear, inscrutable, sardonic friend.
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" The article's author, Adam Piore, later recalled that his editors couched the item in joking terms, adding a sardonic kicker: "In search of comment from Barney's people, Hit Entertainment, Newsweek endured five minutes of Barney while on hold.
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Dave Barrett, who owns George's Bar with his wife Tina, said that George is the only Seinfeld character who would likely hang out in Fitzroy; it's a good home for his sardonic wit and extensive collection of plaid shirts.
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The shock and appreciation viewers may feel for actual laughs in a horror film may reflect poorly on the state of the industry, but the lines written for the sardonic Phone Doc running the store have a genuine wit.
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The insults in the "pwnco" battles, as they're called, are milder these days, and the drinking a little less heavy, but the sardonic grin of the horse skull, sometimes with a spring-loaded jaw, remains to haunt your Yuletides.
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Barry features an affecting and affected performance by Devon Terrell, and in their electric scenes together, Terrell and Nash are two men of color who are comfortable with their sardonic pose of mild disaffection from the elite pale faces.
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Digitally blurred, the images have a woozy, painterly quality at odds with the starkness of the sex acts they depict — a sardonic assessment of the male gaze, perhaps, as well as a commentary on the proliferation of online porn.
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At the time of the searches, prominent Russian cultural figures had defended Mr. Serebrennikov — then a witness — fearing that the raids signaled attempts by conservatives to limit artistic freedom in response to his sardonic depictions of absurdities in Russia.
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In a voice-over that skews (for reasons you learn later) more sardonic than Culkin's onscreen performance, Oystein lays out his origin story (he takes credit for inventing Norwegian black metal) and fills in the world he helped make.
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It would prepare me for my later life, I suppose, but despite the projectiles and insults that I associate with my one and only prom — I look back on the set of that brash, punk, sardonic, wild movie with love.
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Seeing the mise-en-scéne of some of the resultant paintings alongside the archived and annotated photograph, theatrically presented to the point of being tinged with religious sanctification, is one of the sardonic delights of this slim but formidable exhibition.
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Its chosen tone is heightened and sardonic, and it leaps from the past to the present and back again, based (per its own description) on "wildly contradictory interviews" with Harding and her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly (played by Sebastian Stan).
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As Sancho, Mr. Joseph cuts a pensive and gently sardonic figure, affecting a slight lisp and turning a mordant eye on life in 18th-century England, carefully guiding us from Sancho's blighted childhood to his later ascendance to the middle class.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Charles Yuen's home in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, is comfortably domestic and suburban in feeling, which somehow surprises me, after having seen his zany and sardonic paintings earlier in the year at Studio10 in Bushwick.
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There's a terrifically sardonic slant to this chap's ever-so self-aware patter, however styled out it is, and that's a wonderfully refreshing thing to come across in a field where everyone has the most original ideas, all the time.
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Photos by Ibra Ake, courtesy of Kari Faux In the summer of 2014, a rapper from Little Rock, Arkansas, released a very cool and good song called "No Small Talk," announcing her arrival as a sardonic new voice in the genre.
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Adopting a mocking, sardonic tone toward Trump that would've been unthinkable even a week ago, Cruz presented South Carolina Republicans with the outline of what is likely to be his argument up until they head to the polls on Feb. 20.
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One room juxtaposes Warhol's garishly tinted Mao Zedong with Mr. Ai's own vaguely sardonic portraits of the Great Helmsman; another places Warhol's Coca-Cola paintings alongside a centuries-old Chinese vase that Mr. Ai scrawled with the Coke trademark logo.
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Shot in just over a week on a scant budget in the woods of Maryland, "The Blair Witch Project" dispensed with the run of 1980s slasher films and even laid waste to the '90s sardonic horror of the "Scream" franchise.
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He attempts to revive his career by writing a memoir, which he only completes by hiring a sardonic co-writer, a human woman named Diane Nguyen (Alison Brie), married to a galumphing, ever-optimistic Labrador named Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tomkins).
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Ms. Tomei's performance, rich in Italianate color (if, admittedly, lacking the bone-deep realism of Magnani's), is also sparked with sardonic humor, never more so than in the scene in which she subjects a bewildered Jack to a verbal hiding.
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Whatever target she's skewering, Douglas's tone remains calm and sardonic; it's easy to picture her as the witty but gimlet-eyed friend who sits at your kitchen table, listening sympathetically to your complaints while making rapier jabs at their patriarchal roots.
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Though some "virtual theater" screenings began rolling out around March 763, the weekend of March 27 has the first full crop of movies available to watch, from slick noir to sardonic comedies to repertory titles from the 1970s to Oscar nominees.
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Even after the curtain calls, this sardonic show can't resist one more uncomfortable joke: He reappears in his wheelchair as the janitor tasked with cleaning up confetti, and (jovially) makes the children in the audience feel guilty enough to join him.
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A series of 193 dye-infused images on 30-inch in diameter reflective aluminum discs are going on view at the museum this month, not far from the wall of 139 Hyrtl skulls with their sardonic smiles and gaping sockets.
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Repetition, it is said, is often a habit of the mentally unwell, but the Mercy Hospital paintings contain a sardonic self-awareness of the situation that propagated them — Applebroog did, in fact, make these works while interned at a hospital.
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While the focus is art, the grasp is wide, including an abstract painting by Frank Stella not far from more folk art pieces like fabric ball toss targets painted with sardonic smiles that are somewhere between a grimace and a grin.
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Moira joins the town's singing group and directs a play; Alexis falls in love and goes back to school; David opens a posh general store; and Johnny partners with the motel's sardonic receptionist, Stevie (Emily Hampshire), and takes over the inn.
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"We can't wait to see the energy he brings to Radio City on Tony night," said Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League, and Heather Hitchens, president of the American Theatre Wing, in a reference Spacey's wry, sometimes sardonic humor.
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This stop-motion animated odyssey, directed by Travis Knight, follows the title character, a one-eyed Japanese boy, as he pursues a heroic quest in the company of a sardonic monkey and a sillier soul who's half beetle, half samurai.
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A masseuse, a twin, a dedicated performer: Her character gave a charming face-lift to the sometimes drier, more sardonic escapades of her peers, and if she could inspiring passing New Yorkers to adopt a cat or two, then even better.
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Directed by Kevin Connors, the fine cast is led by Jessica Tyler Wright as the mother of a soccer newbie (a sardonic Zoe Wilson), ably abetted by Megan Kane and Frank Viveros as parents whose marriage takes one for the team.
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Expect this piece to be her most sociopolitical one yet: The performance will explore what she calls her "love-hate relationship with America," which she will expand upon with hilarious and sardonic storytelling — and using her undeniable set of pipes.
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Though she ultimately fell into poverty, Austen was born to great privilege and brought a sardonic eye to her own social world and a revelatory one to how the lives of women were changing at the turn of the century.
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On some level, it's not difficult to get into the Kardashians' mindset and find some dark, sardonic humor in Kim's obvious weight loss — that women's bodies are held to impossible standards, especially women who are famous and in the public eye.
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Tatum goes back to his dancing roots, playing husband to Pink's retro housewife in the singer's sardonic music video, which finds the couple playing dress-up and participating in a ménage à trois with a latex-clad, riding crop-wielding dominatrix named Rhonda.
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During a press tour earlier this week accompanied by Tate Modern curator Clara Kim, Walker called her project a "sardonic counterprogram to the celebration of empire," linking the installation to debates around Confederate monuments in the United States, where she lives and works.
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Yes, this is a show that wants to present the full spectrum of The Way Things Are Now, but it's completely upfront about that, and its earnestness — tinged, of course, with Cody's occasionally sardonic tone — proves to be one of its greatest strengths.
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President Barack Obama took his leave of the White House press corps Saturday with a sardonic blast at Donald Trump, the Republican Party and even fellow Democrats in his final tart-tongued stand-up riff for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.
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His contemporaries aren't the modern scenecore staples Palisades and Attila; they're the massively popular Miami trash-rappers Fat Nick and Pouya, the sardonic art kid burnouts in Atlanta's Awful Records, and the one-man rap game Blink-182 that is Lil Uzi Vert.
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It was musically bright and sardonic, full of playful guitars and rising, affirmative open chords to accompany the self-referential, mocking lyrics: "Only an idiot would swim through all the shit I write," sang Hutchison, taking his own bleak outlook to task.
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When reporting on the breakup of the Communist world in the 1980s, he befriended East European dissidents, saw how truthful speech could sap the will of wrongful power and collected a private lexicon of sardonic political jokes that here lighten the going.
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Among the many African writers who emerged on this continent with notable work, Oyinkan Braithwaite made an impressive, accomplished debut with "My Sister, the Serial Killer," a crafty, sardonic psychological thriller taking place in the streets and hospital rooms of Lagos, Nigeria.
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The biggest difference is that while the book sticks exclusively to Joe's perspective — a twisted, sardonic subjectivity that, like the sociopathic protagonist of "Gone Girl," nonetheless voices some sharp cultural critiques — the series expands its scope to include Beck's private thoughts and experiences.
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It was this British reporter who had gone to Zambia to report on [them], and he ends the video with this sardonic way, like, 'To most Zambians, these people are a bunch of crackpots, and from what I've seen today, I agree.
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Mr. Friend's performance of end-stage addiction may not convince every viewer, but it is, counterintuitively, fun to watch — he brings the same edge of sardonic humor to Quinn the junkie that he brought to Quinn the killing machine in past seasons.
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But outside the occasional loosie—2011's cocky throwback "Da Mob" or sardonic obscurity "Handsome"—Hus seemed to play the margins, holding on to rumored vaults' worth of music but not actively pursuing any kind of career, even as fans clamored for more.
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Donald Trump apparently can't figure out when someone is clearly joking, because he took Joe Biden's sardonic, high school-like pugilistic challenge as serious, and the President of the United States just responded by saying he could kick the former Veep's ass.
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The Russian leader and former KGB officer could not resist some sardonic trolling on a day when the tortured legacy of the 2016 election sowed fresh mistrust and discord in Washington and the US President's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., got caught in the fallout.
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It could not capture Mr Hewlett's distinctive style: a frenetic, gleeful yet always lucid melange of MAD magazine's early spoofs; the sardonic dystopianism of 2000 AD, a British cult science-fiction comic; more than a touch of Manga; and most crucially, punk-influenced street fashion.
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It's a record that opens with a peripheral vision, on "Fur Sale"—"See you in the corner of my eye / Please don't die"—before hurtling into a sardonic snarl[...] But it's just sweet enough in just the right doses to keep you hanging in there.
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But Williams brings a sardonic optimism to the role that makes small scenes, like the one in which she dances through the opening credits, or the one in which she clears space for herself on a subway seat without saying a word, a total joy.
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So does Ilana Harris-Babou who, in a video, casts a sardonic eye on the too-easy Western consumption of the Middle Passage by recasting Gorée Island in Senegal, once a departure point for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, as a contemporary lifestyle destination.
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Though the painting's title, "Last Dance" (2016), hints at an impending and predictably disastrous confrontation with a train, reconciling this threat with the lightness of the painting's color, its schematic drawing, and the artist's seeming sardonic indifference to the scene's outcome, suggests an anesthetized sensibility.
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After making a sardonic splash as a bathroom-trapped high school senior in the 1998 teen flick, "Can't Hardly Wait," she spent five seasons in the early 2000s on the prestige cable series "Six Feet Under" as Claire Fisher, the surly, sensitive art student.
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When she's in DA mode, Kamala can be ruthless and no-nonsense, cutting down horserace veterans like Joe Biden with the ease of a lumberjack: in auntie mode, she's sardonic and warm, quick to crack a cutting joke about herself, or slide into a laugh.
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The surreal, unsteady nature of his work is an aesthetic choice, sure, but also a byproduct of his feverish guerilla filmmaking—not to mention his sardonic wit, frequently relayed via voice-over in the director's characteristically deadpan voice, which has become a kind of celebrity in itself.
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Born in Limerick, Ireland, Wogan was best known for his work for the national broadcaster, where he presented a long-running radio program called "Wake up to Wogan," as well as a chat show and a beloved annual, and highly sardonic, commentary of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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" Kushner's portrait of her heroine, Reno, as a stylish motorcyclist was, Seidel felt, too much: "The novel too often sounds like the stylized voice-over narration of film noir, sardonic, self-conscious, very American, the sound of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity.
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With an early zeal for nanotechnology, a taste for head-turning cars, a sardonic tongue and a talent for luring major corporations with government financing, Dr. Kaloyeros, 60, is widely credited with transforming Albany from a drowsy government town into an unlikely center for high-tech research.
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In recent years, revisionist historians, sardonic politicians and even crooning poets have come around to carping that a deeply flawed America with its history of ill-conceived wars, of slavery and endemic racism, as well as its tacit barriers preventing social and economic mobility, is nothing special.
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Having embraced the heritage of Half-Hanged Mary—and having, at seventy-seven, reached an age at which sardonic independent-mindedness is permissible, and even expected—Atwood is winningly game to play the role of the wise elder who might have a spell up her sleeve.
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Both, actually, in Greg Kotis's "The Truth About Santa," a cheerily warped holiday sendup whose sardonic sense of humor can't hide its gooey heart — though it would amp up the festivities if this revival, directed by Ilana Becker at the Tank, were less susceptible to sentiment.
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Like his Arnold Beckoff in "Torch Song," Mr. Urie's Hamlet is often histrionic to the point of hysteria and sardonic in a way that lets us know that, yes, he's aware he's overdoing it a bit, but wouldn't you if you were surrounded by such meshugas?
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His supervisor is Professor Stanley Edgar Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg), whose wife is the sardonic and brilliant author Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss); her story "The Lottery" has just been published in the New Yorker, and she's starting work on the novel that will become 1951's Hangsaman.
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We hear Theron-as-Kelly before we see her in "Bombshell," in which she acts as tour guide, institutional memory and sardonic critic of Fox News, where she worked for 13 years as part of a mission to correct a perceived liberal drift in television journalism.
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What initially seems like a sardonic satire of aging in Hollywood, with washed-up TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) at the center of the action, turns into something more like a worshipful nostalgia trip back to the straight white man's world and his former earning potential.
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One of Waititi's most thrilling changes in the film is the choice to upend the power dynamic between the two characters by making Elsa a sardonic teenager who doesn't suffer any fools — and makes Jojo feel all the more childish whenever he starts spouting laughable fascist ideology.
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The movie, with Mr. Romm as its sardonic narrator, mocked Nazism and juxtaposed images of its evil actions with contemporary film that the crew shot in Moscow, Warsaw and Berlin — everyday scenes of students, lovers, mothers and children — that stood in counterpoint to the malevolence of fascism.
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The song clicks into a simple four-beat with Brownstein playing a grizzled half-solo—it's almost as satisfying as the flawless drop in "Turn It On"—and Brownstein gets a sugary verse to herself, but it's so pleasant that it seems sinister and sardonic at once.
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The essay tells you, in hilariously sardonic detail, far more than you ever wanted to know about the author's corporal imperfections — and nearly everything you need to know about the strange blend of decadent excess and harsh asceticism that prevails in a certain segment of elite American culture.
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The video finds Petty in his most unlikely phase to date, his sardonic-rocker transformed, just temporarily, into a free-spirited, Saturday-morning-ready cartoon (the fact that it accompanied such an urgent, riff-riding bit of let's-hit-the-highway spiritedness made it all the more joyful).
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He doesn't ape Fincher's wild stylizations, which include sardonic asides to the camera, dream-world hallucinations (like a detailed visualization of a plane crash), and heavy use of computer-animated procedural close-ups, like zooming into the guts of a stove to show the cause of an explosion.
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Sounds serious, but I stand by it — the sardonic account started by Lauren Garroni and Chelsea Fairless has some of the best critical fashion writing around today, even though it only tackles outfits worn by Carrie and the gang, and typically caps out at two sentences peppered with emoji.
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"As their daughter, Abby, Liv Hewson has some of the dry, sardonic impudence of a 1930s film heroine; she is in some respects the glue of the series and pairs well with nerdy boy-next-door (Skyler Gisondo), who becomes the family's guide to the paranormal," Lloyd writes.
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The movie adaptation of the book, which Goldman also wrote, is a cult classic that left us with a litany of great lines and is one of the classic examples of a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek genre story that manages to be as sincere as it is sardonic.
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It's entirely instrumental, and over the course of its 13 minutes it goes from full 11 PM banger to repetitive 4 AM trance in a way that will please LCD fans old and new—and the diversion from the band's trademark of Murphy's sardonic vocals is actually pretty interesting.
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Mr. Russell plays Dud, a sunshine-y former surfer who lost his mojo after a snakebite in Nicaragua and his father, the owner of a pool-supply store, vanished in the Pacific — leaving a limping Dud and his sardonic twin sister, Liz (Sonya Cassidy), in debt and untethered.
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Originally set for release in December 1987, The Black Album—also known as The Funk Bible in some press releases from the time—was murky, sardonic, and lyrically vicious, an apparent response to the critics who claimed Prince had drifted too far from black pop music through the 80s.
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Instead we travel from topic to topic in discrete, sardonic vignettes that culminate in pithy but unsatisfying kickers: a rueful jab at the "national symphony of commerce, the most authentic-sounding American music of all," or something about the orchestra on the Titanic playing as the ship went down.
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Sure this Dylan has "soul"—reservoirs of empathy and spiritual mojo the Dylan we know could only gesture at, cut with a deep seam of the sardonic skepticism that never leaves him alone and finished off with a range, texture, and definition beyond the capabilities of his aging larynx.
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It's ending stands as one of the most deliciously sardonic and poignant endings in gaming history, the word "REDEMPTION" flashing across the screen when John Marston's son kills the men who killed his father — restarting the cycle of violence his father had worked so hard to keep him from.
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His music and his public persona — the sardonic Twitter star who wears his gang affiliation (Crips) and his Sprite endorsement on his sleeve with equal aplomb — suggest that this praise has not skewed his lucidity regarding the streets he grew up on and still uses as source material.
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But over the last decade or so, as she's played a bigger role in leading the X-Men (though she's been missing since Marvel's Secret Wars crossover this year), I've developed an affinity and affection for the character's resilience, her sardonic humor, and how she sees the future of mutantkind.
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"It was the Sun wot won it," he said, a sardonic reference to an infamous headline in the newspaper The Sun on April 11, 1992, in which the popular and influential tabloid took credit for the Conservative Party's surprise victory in the 1992 general election over Neil Kinnock, the Labour leader.
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Mr. Baroni began, Mr. Wildstein testified on Tuesday, by telling Mr. Christie in a sardonic tone that there was a "tremendous amount of traffic" in Fort Lee and told Mr. Christie, a Republican, he would be "very pleased to know" that the mayor, a Democrat, was "very frustrated," Mr. Wildstein testified.
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Herrera's green triangle looks like a before-the-fact feminine riposte to Johns's sardonic sendup of painterly machismo.) The Herrera faces "Plum Nellie, Sea Stone" (1972), a purple-and-white painting by Robert Reed, an African-American artist who taught at Yale from 19703 to 2014, the year of his death.
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Then again, maybe it shouldn't be a surprise that the guy behind the near-pitch perfect 22015 blockbuster "Deadpool," about a sardonic Marvel antihero with a twisted mind and a filthy mouth, could only have developed his wicked brand of humor after a lifetime of alchemizing comedy out of angst.
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That explains the surging popularity of face tattoos, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes in a beautifully discursive piece for Vox: Now face tattoos are "happening" again, a testament to Lil Wayne's legacy and to the enduring sardonic energy of Gucci Mane's choice, in 2011, to cover half of his face with an ice cream cone.
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Then, a few months ago, I made a decision I'd been fighting for years, mostly out of the unfounded fear that I'd turn into a Stepford wife and lose my signature sardonic Daria-ness in the process: I went on the anti-depressant Wellbutrin, for reasons at the time that were unrelated.
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Harris is twenty-eight—the book's cover announces his birth year next to a sardonic illustration of elementary-school stickers—and he has already rounded the bases of young, literary, leftist media: he is a writer and editor for the online magazine the New Inquiry; he has written for Jacobin and n+1 .
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The episode's title, "Glanders," referred to a deadly disease carried by horses and their ilk and set up what apparently will be the season's big story line: Philip and Elizabeth's involvement in Soviet attempts to steal bioweapons from the Americans, helped by a scientist-agent played by the delightfully sardonic Dylan Baker.
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Mixing dark humor with sardonic analysis of Russia's direction under President Vladimir V. Putin, Mr. Gorbunov, 27, has become a social media sensation, outpacing Kremlin propagandists in the race for attention on Twitter, Instagram and Telegram, a secure messaging service developed by Russians that Moscow tried in vain last year to shut down.
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You like Joe, and, because of a combination of Badgley's performance and the incredible savvy of every member of the crew that points a camera or light at him, you frequently suffer whiplash for liking him, as he goes from charming book nerd to sardonic lead to super creep in the same shot.
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He ignores the recent Israeli hit film "Zero Motivation," a comedy about bored young women in the Israel Defense Forces (optioned for American adaptation by Amy Poehler), and skips younger authors like Etgar Keret and Assaf Gavron, whose 2014 novel, "The Hilltop," is a remarkably dark and sardonic portrait of the settler movement.
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Each of Marvel's Netflix series has a signature style or calling card: Daredevil boasts acrobatic fight scenes; Jessica Jones is sardonic, sexual, and dark; Luke Cage is an allegory about power that's laced with hip-hop; and the mess that is the first season of Iron Fist is all about mystical martial arts.
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Momoa's more buoyant, slightly sardonic take on the hero — not to mention his shiny golden version of Aquaman's classic costume — is a pronounced departure from the grimness of the studio's recent iterations of Batman and Superman (and not totally unlike the recent direction Chris Hemsworth's Thor has taken over in the Marvel universe).
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Regardless of whether you relate more to Juno's stepmother, who views the pregnancy as "a precious blessing from Jesus in [a] garbage dump of a situation," or the sardonic clerk who sells Juno a pregnancy test, who calls it "one doodle that can't be undid, homeskillet," you have to admit that that's some terrible dialogue.
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In his last interview with Noisey, just before the release of 2013's How to Stop Your Brain in an Accident, he was roughly as gloriously bitter and sardonic as he is on Future Of The Left's records, jumping between left-field British pop culture references and less-than-glowing reviews of Smashing Pumpkins records.
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Without a hint of self-consciousness, she starts singing sweetly, "Oh babe, meet me in Tompkins Square Park..." Jahan, whose angular cheekbones stands in contrast to Yasmine's baby-faced features, joins in with a sardonic grin: "I wanna hold you in the dark..." Clutching each other's elbows, the sisters double forward in contagious laughter.
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" Yet 1992 years later Bar/None's alt-pop major domo Glenn Morrow has assembled a terrific 15-track comp that duplicates only five of Rhino's, none of which you'll mind hearing twice—in particular the supernally sardonic 1986 AIDS song "No Sex" and the supernally tender 1987 love/sex song "A Thing for You.
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Marshall can be tender and sweet; he can memorialize the dead (from children to Presidents and Civil Rights leaders); he can praise beauty and rewrite history; he can evoke histories and events that have been neglected or glossed over; he can be sardonic; he can evoke fear and embrace anger; and he can be enigmatic.
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"He was the first person I had met since Bobbi who made me enjoy conversation, in the same irrational and sensuous way I enjoyed coffee or loud music," Frances thinks, though the tone that she and Nick take with each other is so relentlessly sardonic that neither is sure if the flirtation is serious.
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" He takes a funny clip of Vanessa Huxtable complaining to her parents that they're rich and lays over it a sardonic Reaganomics statistic: "News Update: One of every two black children in the U.S. is born poor ... Median black male earnings declined 10% since 1979 ... Black teenage joblessness still tops 30% … Details at 11.
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Abacus News, a Hong Kong–based news site covering China's tech scene, reported earlier this month that a fan-made comedic meme depicting Venom as a socialist hero who just wants everyone to join the Chinese Communist Party — a sardonic take on American movies that make a point to cater to Chinese audiences — went viral.
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" Other guest animators in The Simpsons' opening slot include legends like Triplets of Belleville animator Sylvain Chomet, Rejected and World of Tomorrow's Don Hertzfeldt, The Ren and Stimpy Show's John Kricfalusi, claymation horror master Lee Hardcastle, and Steve Cutts, who made the sardonic short MAN and Moby's music video for "Are You Lost in the World Like Me?
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It was with Josh's best friend, sardonic and self-loathing Greg, that Rebecca was able to be herself — and it seemed clear that in classic romantic comedy form, Rebecca would eventually realize that Greg was the guy she was meant to be with, and that he had been right there in front of her all along.
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As written by Rene Gube in "I'm Not the Person I Used to Be," Greg is pretty much the same guy, but healthier: He still has the sardonic charm that made him so likeable back in season one ("That's funny, you are Greg, you're funny," Rebecca marvels when he cracks a joke), only now it's less viciously self-loathing.
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Milo's press conferences brought back shades of Andrew Breitbart himself — his edgy, sardonic side was a shot in the arm of a race once considered Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's.
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Speaking to a crowd of 2,800 at Florida Memorial University, in a tone that was sarcastic even by his sardonic standards, Mr. Obama asked how Republicans could stand by a candidate who called women pigs; threatened to silence reporters, jail his opponent, and expel Muslims from the country; and cozied up to the autocratic leader of Russia.
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After filming seasons one and two in an actual house in the Silver Lake hills, You're the Worst's crew has now painstakingly recreated the familiar blue living room where writer Jimmy (Chris Geere) hangs out with his equally sardonic girlfriend Gretchen (Aya Cash), his relentlessly earnest roommate Edgar (Desmin Borges), and Gretchen's longtime partner in crime, Lindsay (Kether Donohue).
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In an often frenetic profession, he found the time to mentor colleagues, maintained a sardonic — but never cynical — sense of humor, and managed to vitalize what in lesser hands might have been benumbing explications of why property tax assessments, revisions of the City Charter and affirmative action goals in granting municipal contracts were relevant to average readers.
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I teach a college class on film language, and in a session on self-consciousness in cinema, I usually begin by pointing out the gags in the Tex Avery 1946 short "Northwest Hounded Police," among them, the pursuit of a wolf by the sardonic, slow-moving but indefatigable basset Droopy (a hugely popular character in the '40s).
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" A standup comic and former writer on "Saturday Night Live," Smoove is best known for his role as Leon, Larry David's live-in pal on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," while Starr's career began with Judd Apatow-produced projects like "Freaks and Geeks" and "Knocked Up," and he currently appears as the sardonic computer engineer Gilfoyle on "Silicon Valley.
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Its bio promises "organic, certified fair trade memes manufactured from natural fiber w/ living wage distributed transparently to ur feed faster than u can say Primark," and the posts follow in much of the same sardonic vein, using sarcasm and highly relatable memes to take down everything from unethical diamonds and nylon and polyester garments to plastic bags and toothbrushes.
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It's hard to get Deadpool out of your head when you hear Ryan Reynolds as the voice of the titular Pokémon P.I. If only the superhero's sardonic sense of humor were evident in this confusing trailer about 21-year-old Tim (Justice Smith, from "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom") who searches for his missing father in the mythical world of pocket monsters.
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She was exactly the same as she is now — sardonic, witty, neurotic, mildly paranoid, indifferent to the content of her next meal (which may or may not have been a PowerBar and a piece of midpriced chocolate), showtune-belting and always kicking the competition's collective butt with a scrappy tabloid instinct that fueled New York's best municipal journalism at that time.
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Using the sardonic phrase "With all due respect," as a verbal wind up, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE landed the round house punch, "I don't get confused" squarely on Larry Kudlow's lockjaw.
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In the premiere, Sedaris's guests include Nick Kroll as a stringy-haired felon who joins her to make angel food ice cream cake (one of the episode's purer sketches), John Early as a particularly sardonic guest (in a very dry and funny sendup of talk show interviews), and Sedaris and Dinello's other Strangers with Candy co-creator Stephen Colbert as himself, but also her turtle sitter.
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The film (paralleling the crumbling of a modern woman's marriage with stories from the Hindu text the Ramayana) was produced independently by the director Nina Paley — who retains most rights to it and has released it to the internet under a Creative Commons license — but GKIDS helped get it into theaters and, thus, in front of the eyes of more critics, who were rhapsodic about its beautiful visuals and sardonic plot.
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The brilliant curators of the Clark show, Esther Bell and George T. M. Shackelford, demonstrate Renoir's pivotal place in French painting of the nude by interpolating apposite works by such predecessors as Boucher, Corot, and, especially, Courbet, whose nudes are like libidinous four-alarm fires; by Renoir's contemporaries, the sardonic Degas and the conscientious Cézanne; and by members of the next generation, notably Picasso, Matisse, Valadon, and Bonnard.
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Through painful trial and error, Carrie somehow learned to combine these two conflicting parental personalities: She went public with her many problems, resentments and trips to the edge, but reshaped and redefined them — using her rasping, sardonic humor and well-honed, self-conscious irony — so that she ultimately was able to embrace this embarrassment of incidents, with battered if justifiable pride, as her own experience, her own place in the sun.
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Especially since Steiner also gives us a traditionally flawed sleuth, Detective Sergeant Manon ("a Marmite name, you either loved it or loathed it") Bradshaw, her solitary life as disheveled as her hair, her sardonic perspective not quite camouflaging her intense need, at almost 40, to have personal connections that are as solid as those she has to her job with the Major Incident Team of the Cambridge police.
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With sardonic humor, Kasearu — living artist, and also woman, mother, and landlady — inverts the trope of the House Museum, while preserving several of its tenets: there is a gift shop (more a glowing vitrine of miscellaneous objects), a library (a stack of books in the bathroom), an archive (in the attic), and an artist's study (a bedroom blocked off to the public by velvet rope, and barely visible in a room beyond, the sleeping quarters of the artist's child).
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First seen last June as part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks series, "Plano" has deepened since then, sharpening its focus on the sisters: Anne (Crystal Finn), a dithery professor whose husband, John (Cesar J. Rosado), seems to be with her for the green card; Genevieve (Miriam Silverman), a sardonic sculptor more successful than her regular-guy husband, Steve (Ryan King); and Isabel (Susannah Flood), the sickly, saintly youngest, who seems O.K. (but is she really?) with being married to God.
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THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS In a six-part anthology film, the Coen brothers apply their sardonic wit and world-weary outlook to several different flavors of western: Tim Blake Nelson stars in a violent riff on a Gene Autry musical; James Franco tries his hand at bank robbing in Sergio Leone country; Zoe Kazan appears in what is, amazingly, her second wagon train picture (after "Meek's Cutoff"); and Tom Waits steals the show in a Jack London adaptation.
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It is to other literary forms and authors — in particular Shakespeare's contemporaries, the dramatist and pamphleteer Thomas Dekker, who wrote a series of feverishly inventive, sardonic prose pamphlets on the plague, or the poet and playwright Ben Jonson, whose play "The Alchemist" captures the manic energy of a house during a plague lockdown left in the hands of the servants while the master is away — that we must look to find the direct effects of plague on 17th-century society.
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It is to other literary forms and authors — in particular Shakespeare's contemporaries, the dramatist and pamphleteer Thomas Dekker, who wrote a series of feverishly inventive, sardonic prose pamphlets on the plague, or the poet and playwright Ben Jonson, whose play "The Alchemist" captures the manic energy of a house during a plague lockdown left in the hands of the servants while the master is away — that we must look to find the direct effects of plague on 17th-century society.
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For a crash course on the crazy haircuts, celebrity girlfriends and, yes, actual soccer, for this World Cup, which begins in Russia on June 14, we spoke to Roger Bennett, the Liverpool-bred New Yorker who is a host, along with Michael Davies, of Men in Blazers, the irreverent soccer site, podcast and TV show that has become a go-to for Americans who are obsessed with the sport and appreciate sardonic British wit served up by the Imperial pint.
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Reputation sounds less like Taylor Swift than it does a hybrid of popular music from the last 10 years, marrying dubstep with inadvisable dancehall mimicry, top 40 trap and top 40 pop-rock, Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" (an out-of-left-field sample you can imagine Swift thought might play well after watching her pal Selena Gomez pull a Talking Heads bass line and win critical adoration) and, particularly on the opening line of "Gorgeous," the sardonic snarl that has done wonders for Lorde.
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The search led through record stores: the cavernous Times Square markets with their tens of thousands of titles, the little Downtown storefronts with inventories calibrated to the changing tastes of one local clique, the flyblown neighborhood shops where they might have back stock neglected since 1962, the doo-wop museums manned by savants in obscure subway arcades, the head shops purveying bootlegs from a curtained alcove in the rear, the oldies row on Bleecker Street where all the clerks are critics and the discourse alternates unpredictably between impassioned and sardonic.
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"Acoustic Shadows" cross-cuts Matthias's forebears — his great-grandfather the Civil War veteran Albert C., his grandfather Edward Shiloh, a distinguished jurist — with the sardonic journalist Ambrose Bierce, who is represented by both his writings and his appearance in Carlos Fuentes's novel Old Gringo, putting these three figures and the poet himself into an imagined conversation on the horrors of war, the inhumanities of the law, and the insubstantiality of the recorded or written voice: We are the stuff that beams of light are made on; the stuff of reams of paper printed with the ambiguities of words.
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