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His grotesque, sardonic "Woman" paintings were seen as a betrayal of his earlier abstract phase.
In the Jewish tradition, this sardonic remark is intended to comfort a person who is grieving over having made a serious mistake.
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.
I'm jealous of the ideas that guy comes up with--always topical, hilarious, sardonic, smart.
He had the kind of neurotic, sardonic, satiric, manic, and generally -ic personality that I imagine was not so common 60 years ago (for who else was like him in American letters?