- To be
sardonic is to be
disdainfully or
cynically humorous, or
scornfully mocking. A form of wit or humour,
being sardonic often involves expressing an...
- The
Scornful Lady is a
Jacobean era
stage play, a
comedy written by
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and
first published in 1616, the year of Beaumont's...
- statement, or
behavior that is
often deliberately disrespectful, offensive,
scornful, or
derogatory towards an
individual or a group.
Insults can be intentional...
- as we all of us
found out. The
lawbreaker found it out who
predicted scornfully that he
would "knuckle down to
politics the way they all did", and lived...
-
Italian fascism was
influenced by the
tradition of
Italian nationalists scornfully looking down upon Nordicists'
claims and
taking pride in
comparing the...
-
Turns the
Tables (1941), also
published under the
title The Seat of the
Scornful, is a
detective novel by John ****son Carr. The
novel is a
mystery of the...
-
bootlegging alcohol. Upon
hearing this,
Daisy chooses to stay with Tom. Tom
scornfully tells Gatsby to
drive her home,
knowing that
Daisy will
never leave him...
- backs. With them are two
other children, Lily and John, and five adults—Mr
Scornful, Mr Fearful, **** Cowardly,
Gracie Grumble and
Sarah Simple. They have...
- the
public gathered in Jerusalem, a
performance which caused him to be
scornfully rebuked by his
first wife, Saul's
daughter Michal. In Zion,
David put...
-
between ****
Germany and
Fascist Italy, a
number of lower-ranking ****s
scornfully viewed fascism as a
conservative movement that
lacked a full revolutionary...
