Word: sarcasm
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...abilities as a politician." That was ABC's Bill Lawrence. A third was berated for claiming that Nixon "was following the Pentagon line." That was ABC's Bill Downs. "Others," the Vice President said, "by the expression of their faces, the tone of their questions and the sarcasm of their responses, made clear their sharp disapproval...
...asked one captain why they were all suiting up right there in the street and he typified the prevalent level of sarcasm by answering that it was only part of their regular Saturday afternoon drill. And then he pretended to thank us for the extra overtime pay he would receive...
...anti-Hitler resistance (a half-sister was executed by the Nazis in 1944). He is not a rabble-rouser by any means: he speaks forcefully but with little passion, devoting much of his speeches to denying charges of Nazism. When hecklers interrupt, he either rebuffs them with sarcasm or stands coolly by, purling on a cigarette, until the ruckus dies down. Occasionally, he has even given his detractors time on the rally dais...
...boredom in rosy bloom-she is about as seductive as the average waitress at a teahouse." At times, she can be downright mean. Melina Mercouri, she reported, "had wall-to-wall hips, an ear-to-ear mouth, and more teeth than a pretzel has salt." Occasionally, the sarcasm cuts closer to home. Before she married Douglas Cramer, who is now head of TV production at Paramount, in 1966, Joyce described him in her column as "the kind of man who takes traveler's checks to Santa Barbara...
Though he is at odds with what is commonly known as "the system," the tone of Gilligan's voice is more dryly incredulous than righteous. His attitude towards the much abused middle class comes closer to sympathy than sarcasm. "The problem is ignorance, really," he said this month. "During the campaign, I'd often use a speech to reel off some statistics that would shake a few of them quite plainly: things such as, we spend twenty times as much on pet food in this country than we do on the food stamp program." He shrugged his shoulders and continued...