The novel's dialogue has a technical chill, like that of the speech of robots imitating humans; Cronenberg gives Pattinson an implacably blank declamatory style to match and often films him at off-kilter angles that distort Packer and his satellites, slightly but decisively, into sardonic no-fun-house masks.
Both documentaries are sardonic, informative and fun: the perfect cocktail for self-hating celebrity watchers.
It's great fun, interesting, sardonic, with Ireland's terrible beauty on full display.
"I think it's a just criticism of the modern Beatrix Potters is that they lack the sardonic humor that makes Beatrix Potter so much fun for kids and grown-ups," Mr. Bidwell said.
His sense of fun is contagious, and his gigs push sardonic humor through a raucous group sound.
One is to attach spectrum tendencies to increasingly valued "normal" social roles, and they've seen the utility, as well as the fun, of contesting ownership of the word "normal" and coming up with a sharply sardonic account of the disease symptoms of "neurotypicals" (NTs) — "preoccupation with social concerns, delusions of superiority, and obsession with conformity".
And questions of vice and virtue aside, the opera's sardonic view of history might have rankled not just noblemen but the wider audience of fun-seeking Venetians.
A Propos de Nice is witty, sardonic, funny (it plays camera tricks of the kind beloved by Vertov), and it manages to make fun of the bourgeoisie in Nice while showing the Côte d'Azur as a paradise.
His secret is sardonic understatement.
She raises a sardonic eyebrow.
