Sentence examples for sardonic laughter from inspiring English sources
On press night it was a line from her that provoked the most sardonic laughter.
"I don't know what to tell you," Derek Jeter said late Friday night at Yankee Stadium, with his familiar accompaniment of sardonic laughter.
Undeterred by official disapproval, including a thundering invocation of Pirandello by the bishop, Montalbano hangs tough and makes his murder case, proving that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English.
SEVENTEEN years ago, Frances Whitehead and James Elniski were married inside a florist's leaky old greenhouse, where the resident parrot seemed to mock their vows with what sounded like sardonic laughter.
Certainly More's sardonic laughter found its way into his Latin epigrams, many of which must date from these years; but a more solemn undertaking was the translation of the biography of the syncretist philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 1494) by his nephew Gianfrancesco, which would seem to date from about this time.
Pause for sardonic laughter, fast forward to today.
Intended to provoke a riotous standing ovation among the audience, the remarks were instead greeted with a ripple of sardonic Scouse laughter.
Failure can be just as spectacular and telegenic as it is on "MXC" or "Jackass," but it inspires sympathetic groans rather than sardonic frat-house laughter.
Monika noticed this once and started braying with sardonic and distinctly Slavic laughter.
#Egypt — Egyptian Presidency (@EgyPresidency) 2 Jul 13 That Mr. Morsi chose to use such a forum was greeted with laughter and sardonic comments from bloggers and journalists in Cairo.
The laughter, however, retains a sardonic edge.
