In its own sardonic and skeptical fashion, “Foreverland” is a tender book, full of touching descriptions of falling and staying in love, even in the face of the profound frustrations that inevitably spring from prolonged interpersonal contact.
Source: The New Yorker
What makes Friedman’s approach so distinctive? (The deceptively sardonic set and deliciously, pathetically pretentious costumes are from the brilliant Soutra Gilmour.
Source: Chicago Tribune
Bonus: If you don’t have time to watch an entire series, or even a full episode, find joy in these quirky dance numbers: the satirical dance routine in the title sequence of HBO Max’s superhero parody “Peacemaker”; a competitive dance-off to the tune of “Footloose” in the season opener of Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy”; and the spasmodic zombie shuffle of Wednesday Addams in Episode 4 of Netflix’s dry-witted, sardonic teen comedy “Wednesday.
Source: Los Angeles Times
And why not? The noble princess and the dashing and sardonic bad boy? It’s the stuff Rom Coms are made of.
Source: Nerdist
“Just avoiding the six minute of horrible basketball we string together, with turnovers and compound mistakes,” was his sardonic answer.
Source: MinnPost
Many of these films revolved around different comedy tropes, such as the crude humor of the "American Pie" movies or the irreverent, sardonic comedic moments in Amy Heckerling's "Clueless.
Source: Looper
In one role, he managed to be a Black Robin Hood, a tender friend and lover and a ruthless avenger with a sardonic wit that challenged ideas of what is permissible in the lives of Black men on the screen.
Source: The New York Times
When it comes to crafting alternative songs, it’s easier to be sardonic than sincere – but Morissette manages both simultaneously.
Source: hotpress.com
I love this sort of sardonic sci-fi tone, I found it incredibly original, and refreshing.
Source: Gamesradar
But every time Bellic accidentally ragdolls a pedestrian with a passive-aggressive shove on a Broker sidewalk thanks to that electrifying RAGE engine, you can feel the city’s sardonic soul.
Source: Gamesradar
In what is one of his most memorable roles, Norton ably projects the perverse, profoundly morbid thoughts of his character with sardonic wit and a sickly physicality.
Source: Indie Film Hustle
It has been just over a week since Tim Burton’s new series Wednesday debuted on Netflix but already tweens and teens are channelling the sullen and sardonic daughter of the Addams family.
Source: Screen Rant
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Billy woods‘s vital follow-up to 2019’s essential Terror Management is produced entirely by Preservation, who delivers a collection of blues-laced minimalist backdrops that prove to be the snuggest sonic match yet for the Brooklyn MC’s patented blend of autobiographical flashbacks, studious historical references, and sardonic asides.
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All of this is narrated in a sardonic voiceover by Caplan’s Libby, one of Toby’s oldest friends.
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In the latter category, company member Phyllis Kay plays Scrooge with the character’s expected crankiness but with a hint of sardonic humor that Kay uses subtly and to great effect.
Source: The Independent
Kravitz makes the updated version of the sardonic record store owner her own, breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience, allowing us to gaze upon the rich tapestry of her failed relationships, her veil of detachment cracking into something much more vulnerable with each episode.
Source: TV Guide
He sings the lyrics with a sardonic twinge that perfectly displays his mockery.
Source: Paste Magazine
Not only does del Toro deliver it all with wit and filmmaking flair, but the casting of Ron Perlman as Big Red himself proved a masterstroke – both sardonic and sincere, sulky and seriously badass, whether firing his oversized revolver in muscular, tentacular action sequences, or rekindling a tentative on-off relationship with Selma Blair’s firestarter Liz.
Source: Empire
It’s characteristically sardonic and spot-on, particularly about the ways traditions can hamper real freedom.
Source: Vox.com
Likewise, McLeod shines as Jo, Frankie’s sardonic “best friend with benefits,” whose religious mother refuses to accept their sexual and gender identity.
Source: Daily Bruin
“And also, at the end of the day, they have to figure out ‘Are our audiences even on Tumblr? Or is that even something they want?’”
Tumblr could be a good fit for companies that have cultivated a playful, sardonic brand voice, Freberg said, as dry humor and memes characterize the platform.
Source: AdAge.com
Adding to “A Leg Up’s” direct visual and aural delights is the playwright’s ability to include all kinds of contemporary sexual trends and present them with a witty combination of sardonic commentary and open-minded respect.
Source: Community News
One such performance saw legendary punk icons The Clash in their only televised performance for the BBC (after they refused to lipsynch for the weekly show Top of the Pops), playing ‘Clash City Rockers’ and ‘Tommy Gun’ in the 1978 appearance on the first airing of Something Else as well as a typically sardonic interview.
Source: Far Out Magazine
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
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When perpetually sardonic NYC comedians Julie Kessler and Billy Epstein cross paths, their kindred spirits immediately align — much to the chagrin of literally everyone they meet.
Source: Looper
Then again, one of the new paintings does get at the artist’s sardonic side.
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While the original is dark, sardonic and broken, it's usually covered as a more reverent piece, and that approach worked here.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch
With swathes of vibrant color and a steady pulse, the writer-director Nikyatu Jusu, making her feature debut, briskly sketches in Aisha’s world with pinpoint detail, naturalistic performances and sly jolts of sardonic humor.
Source: The New York Times
23, 2022)
THE PERFORMANCE | Before the supernatural mystery’s finale, leading lady Jenna Ortega had already impressed as the sardonic teen.
Source: TVLine
The other posts their results ironically, conscious of the banality of the trend and, cringing at themselves for capitulating to it, accompanies the post with a self-deprecating or sardonic caption.
Source: The American Conservative
Whether I Get Knocked Down offers much beyond insightful reminiscence is debatable—after a bit, Bruce’s warring inner monologues go from sardonic to overly self-critical to unnecessarily navel-gazey.
Source: Kansas City Pitch
While George’s sardonic diatribe over the merits of history and science echoes dully in a modern rendering, the more subtextual exploration of toxic masculinity and gender normativity piercingly resonates through today from its roots in the social turbulence of Albee’s 1960s.
Source: Daily Bruin
Obama has been liberated, punchy and sardonic on the midterm campaign trail, eviscerating Republicans in a way that few Democrats can.
Source: The Guardian US
In one of the oldest poems in English literature, there is a beautiful moment when a lone sailor, battling against stormy winter seas and his troubled soul, describes how birds have replaced human company for him on the ‘ice-cold way’ – an admission that carries both comfort and sardonic misery.
Source: Aeon
Amirio Freeman begins with the sardonic brutal reality check for the Anthropocene.
Source: STIRworld
It has been just over a week since Tim Burton’s new series Wednesday debuted on Netflix but already tweens and teens are channelling the sullen and sardonic daughter of the Addams family.
Source: The Guardian
“You ever have an old rubber band?” Williams said, with a sardonic smile.
Source: Sports Illustrated
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