The phrase "a sarcasm" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a particular instance or example of using sarcasm in speech or writing. Example: His comment about the weather being "just perfect for a picnic" was clearly a sarcasm, given the heavy rain and thunder outside.
It is delivered with a sarcasm bordering on menacing.
Both the author and his protagonist share a sarcasm and irreverence that comes through in some of the book titles.
"What, with heels on?" Andy Pettitte chimed in, with a sarcasm unusual for him: "He looks like a Navy Seal".
Dickens, as so often, wrote like a casting director making notes: "The thin straight lines of the setting of the eyes, and the thin straight lips, and the markings in the nose, curved with a sarcasm that looked handsomely diabolic".
January 19 , 20147.03pm GMT Preamble So this year's AFC Championship Game match-up pits the New England Patriots against the Denver Broncos and I know what you're thinking, hey if only there were storylines for this game (searches in vain for a sarcasm font).
By the time she entered Vassar she was the fully formed person she would be for the rest of her life: beautiful and brilliant, possessed of an eye protected against sentiment coupled with a steel-trap mind and a tongue feared by all who had been at the receiving end of its talented sarcasm, a sarcasm that for some would always be wickedly amusing, for others just wicked.
Instead of reading off a teleprompter — something Mr. Eastwood is said to despise — he pretended to have a sarcasm-filled conversation with President Obama, seated by his side.
Mr. Romney's super PAC has been running ads sporadically, including a sarcasm-laden Mother's Day spot that took two notable Democrats to task for their dismissive comments about Ann Romney, a stay-at-home mother.
It would help Yoo's cause if he didn't just roll his eyes at it all; in a sarcasm-rich column in the Wall Street Journal, he said that his critics "harrumphed" about rights, as though those people talking about the Constitution were a bunch of Mrs. (or Miss) Grundys.
But Mr. Reubens finally got the room going by reacting to the more saccharine fan recollections of "my favorite Pee-Wee moment" with big eye-rolls, and a sarcasm-soaked refrain: "I l-o-v-e that story!" Mr. Reubens, in the midst of a career revival, has been working with Judd Apatow on what he hopes will be the next Pee-Wee Herman movie.
He uses humor as a shield, sarcasm as a sword.
