He is known for his sly writing and sarcastic yet playful language.
Never mind that there was a 1973 federal consent decree that explicitly banned police officials from using "harsh, violent, coarse, profane, sarcastic or insolent language".
Neal Broverman used sarcastic and biased language in The Advocate to describe Bayna's experience of what happened that night: "El-Amin — who is 6 foot 6 and weighs 280 pounds — claimed he used the chair because the men were attacking him and he feared for his life".
Whitehead's delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice fit this teenager who's slowly constructing himself.
In the Book Review, Touré praised Whitehead's "delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice" and asserted that "it's time for us to hear more post-black stories like his".
In a sarcastic column in the English-language newspaper The News on Thursday, Farrukh Saleem wrote, "If over the past decade the lone superpower has failed to tame 10,000 to 15,000 tribesmen, then the American military-intelligence complex has really failed and should be heading home".
An audiotape was used for data collection during the interviews, and a videotape and field notes were used to record the subjects' non-verbal language or incomplete or sarcastic expressions.
Work on your sarcasm by first learning to recognize when someone is being sarcastic, and then try to imitate or mimic their tone, language, and remarks.
It is often hard to gauge tone, facial expression and body language over text so don't say something sarcastic or ironic that may upset her, even if you intended it to be a joke.
The department contends that the tape is a kind of audio illusion, with the provocative-sounding sections actually best understood as jokes, sarcastic remarks or, in the case of the racial slur, simply inappropriate language.
Chris longs for his father, his partner in sarcastic repartee, to awake; when Bernie does emerge from his coma, his language is impaired, but not his sense of humor.
