Word: sarcasm
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...some of the shared traits she finds, but the book does more than extol the virtues of Irish-Americans. Dezell delves into “the very crowded category of things the Irish don’t like to discuss” to uncover their problematic characteristics: a caustic sarcasm, a talent for holding grudges, a dark cynicism and, most significantly, a crippling weakness for the sauce...
...won’t find this rationale on the cover, however. Instead, there are only veiled references to the fact that men might have a real stake in understanding so-called women’s issues. Any seriousness is masked by a sarcasm that begs men to look, if only for the eye candy. “You go to Hahvahd, don’t you?” it asks. Well, then “you’ve gotta have some kind of natural intellectual curiosity!” Read on, young man, but mind the parenthetical aside...
...football accident, Mikey still vying for affection, hypnotizes his father and has him fire the Hispanic housekeeper, Consuelo. Feeling used and underappreciated, she exacts revenge in an explosive fashion on the Livingston household. Oxman thirsting for audience approval finally screens his documentary American Scooby (Solondz is dripping with sarcasm) for a hip, New York crowd, who yuck up the misery of the Livingstons. Scooby finds his way to the screening and leaves feeling, well, exploited...
...prefer not to know, because I think sarcasm at least shows that, whatever one thinks about his recent behavior, West has style. The SNL skit reminds us that it’s not what you tell your dog—it’s how you tell it. One can admire a funny, stylish comment even if in the process it is necessary to find quarrel with it. For me, the conservative Crimson column by Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a prime example of this phenomenon—I disagree with his arguments even if his style...
...even deeper fact of sarcasm is that it gives the reader some measure of interest and opens writing up to interpretation—a side effect unknown to funereal earnestness. Whether the readers laugh, nod or wring out angry letters to the editor, they have learned something about themselves. One might argue that journalism should be unbending and obvious, that we don’t read The New York Times to learn about ourselves. Perhaps sarcasm is strictly the province of novelists and playwrights. But might we include columnists under the sarcasm umbrella? My own published sarcasm gives...