- 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...
-
Italian fascism was
influenced by the
tradition of
Italian nationalists scornfully looking down upon Nordicists'
claims and
taking pride in
comparing the...
- 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...
- to
white people. When I go to church, I am met by no
upturned nose and
scornful lip to tell me, 'We don't
allow ****s in here!' Still, Dougl**** was astounded...
- mistress's husband. She
attempts to
convince him that he is
wrong by
laughing scornfully at the idea that a
glamorous woman like
herself could possibly be a lowly...
-
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...
-
prince an
enchanted rose in
exchange for
shelter from a storm. When he
scornfully declines, she
reveals her true form and
transforms him into a
beast and...
- this wild and
rebellious music."
According to
Robert Christgau, punk "
scornfully rejected the
political idealism and
Californian flower-power silliness...
- 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...
