For some artists, the sentimentality of traditional ink painting is a spark for their sardonic wit.
Often the characters in Mr Solzhenitsyn's books were one-dimensional, the tone sardonic, the detail turgid.
One of the charms of the world's most famous painting is that she appears radiant one moment and then serious and sardonic the next.
The tone was no longer sardonic, but sober.
There is little of Satie's sardonic wit to be heard in Skempton's works.
Last week, the Christian Science Monitor offered this sardonic headline: "Biden Speaks at Wake forest-does not disclose nuclear launch codes."
Eg. He was proud, sardonic, and harsh to inferiority of every description.
SPOILER: Heath Ledger improvised when he started clapping inside his jail cell in a mocking and sardonic capacity as Gordon is promoted.
The gardener continued to lean against the wall, arms folded, watching them with a sardonic expression.
A flippant typically sardonic remark or retort.
After all, while one economist describes the method of his field, striking a note of sardonic triumph, as "spreading like a cancer," that spread has only strengthened the position of economics.
There was a sardonic expression on her face.
His whole countenance was instinct with a look of wise and sardonic humour impossible to describe on paper.
But contemporary scholars have reappraised: "dear Aunt Jane" as an independent and worldly-wise woman who wielded a sardonic pen.
