Word: sarcasms
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...this is very clever indeed, but goes nowhere toward making us feel what Giles felt. We are not able to picture the young Giles' cynicism at Cambridge from the narrator's sarcasm. Giles himself does not seem to have learned anything from his experience either. We long for anecdote, gasping with renewed interest when a crumb of plot is revealed. Wilson may have done this intentionally is make us feel how petty Giles Fox's life is. If so, the idea fails, because the result is overblown in its melodrama and moreover-tedious to read...
Responsible college newspapers should not print articles that are offensive of in bad taste. You did. Paul L. Choi and Clark J. Freshman's "Stanford Who?" (12/5/83) conveys a brand of sarcasm and "wit" that I find very distasteful...
...play's limited action poses a comparable problem. Because so little of Old Acquaintance involves actual physical movement, the play depends heavily upon the strength of its dialogue to carry it through. Moreover, since much of the undercurrent of hostility and sarcasm is subtly woven into the script, delivery is often more important than substance...
...require me to keep in touch with momentous issues of the world. TIME for two years has spared my feeble eyes much labor among papers and magazines in sifting for me the gold from the sand. But how cruelly you have betrayed my trust in you with your flippant sarcasm...
...winning game. "Gentlemen!" he says reprovingly, as he expropriates a bottle and glass from a giant paw. "This is Paul Masson champagne." Holding a bottle close to one dull-looking jock, he asks, "Can you read?" "Vintage 1980," the (cowed) player replies. "Remarkable," responds Gielgud with good-natured sarcasm...