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Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals. -- Michael Azerrad
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses. -- Alexandra Ivy
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America... -- Don DeLillo
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average, nice people, so it's fun to have some complications there. -- Neil Patrick Harris
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo. -- Wyndham Lewis
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things like: 'The poem's sardonic tone is curiously at odds with its plodding syntax. -- Terry Eagleton
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible. -- L. Ron Hubbard
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed. -- Christopher Hitchens
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom. -- Alice Munro
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. -- Frank Herbert
Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won. -- Charlotte Bronte
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. -- Terence Young
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile"Best in small doses. -- Alexandra Ivy
Obviously, when I first came to the land of blond-haired, blue-eyed surfer types, I was the sardonic, sarcastic, liquor-swilling, chain-smoking, dark-haired, dark-eyed guy from New York. -- Reid Scott
If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view. -- James Hunter

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