Word: sarcasms
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...behind-the-scenes intrigues, these memoirs are at first appealing in their simplicity and gossipy perceptions, but soon melt into each other. Straightforward once-upon-a-time rhythms become monotonous, especially since Prose does not shift tones of voice. She introduces few variations--in speech patterns, humor, or sarcasm, for example--to distinguish the players' musings...
...regiment, beaming, innocent, full of patriotic fervor, and consumed by contrition because somehow he can't seem to find it. Only on rare occasions, with other ordinary soldiers, does Svejk let his real opinions show, and even on these rare occasions he usually allows himself not openness but sarcasm--long accounts of how overjoyed he'll be if only he's allowed to suffer for the Emperor, like Hasek's description of a patriotically religious painting of a dying soldier with his leg torn off, smiling blissfully, as though they were bringing him an ice cream...
When James sleeps now, he finds it wiser to keep one eye open--a Confederate catnap, they call it. He is thin and wiry with a lot of freckles on his face. Some say they're the stains of the fiery sarcasm that spits so naturally out of his mouth. His voice is high pitched, like his mother's, and falls easily into evangelical cadences. His record is still clear, now he is married and he will be applying to law school soon...
Sherrill seems both fascinated and disgusted by such facts. He armors him self against his conflicting feelings with bitter sarcasm and hyperbole. Yet they are perfectly appropriate to a situation where there is a gun for every man, woman and child in the U.S. The Saturday Night Special is the most valuable and engaging book you are likely to read on the subject...
...since Beatrice has not built up to this, when Tillie a moment later says: "What a beautiful world," there is no contrast. There is no contrast between sarcasm and tenderness when Beatrice comforts a sobbing Ruth. We lose the conflicts and the inter-relations between very different personalities that are the purpose of this show...