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She can be a great movie actress, but a key to that greatness is how her dryly sardonic voice--with its edge of neurotic insecurity--plays against her ethereal features and brings her down to earth.
The film opens with DeVito delivering a sardonic ode to L.A. that captures both the gleaming surface and the underlying rancidity.
The first is a grimly sardonic portrait of Alaska as a kind of Third World melting pot--full of desperate poverty and crime and on the verge of a transition to a tourist-based economy in which the interior will be cleared of timber but an illusion of wildness maintained.
Anne H. Soukhanov, who oversaw the most recent (third) edition of the American Heritage Dictionary and is now the North American editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary , recalls coming across the word these days mostly in speech, "especially in sardonic and sarcastic replies to negative-context statements such as 'Dad, I just wrecked your new car' or 'This to inform you that the IRS has targeted you for a 10 year audit,' where its use as an interjectional reply parallels similar use of standard terms like 'beautiful,' 'terrific,' or 'great.
While News Quiz has avidly solicited sardonic comments on Kosovo and Littleton, the Abner Louima case confounds me.