Sentence examples for sardonic mood from inspiring English sources

"I was in more of a sardonic mood," she says of writing that song.

The arrival of Eduardo, a silver fox of a painter, scarcely assuages Eva's sardonic mood, although he obviously is mad about her.

Favreau had seemingly brought something new to the comic-book movie: a twitchy, sardonic mood that only someone as unorthodox and unpredictable as Downey could supply.

In New York, when Musk got onstage with David Letterman, he perched awkwardly in his chair, half-turned toward the host, who was fighting a cold and was in a particularly sardonic mood.

It immediately infuses this ponderous and serious music with a modernism, a sardonic mood, even a sultry wink.

But this early work, which opened the program, bears all the hallmarks of later Shostakovich, with a soulful lament, darkly sardonic moods, glissandos and propulsive rhythms.

The musicians highlighted the sardonic moods and satirical twists of the anguished work with vehement force, before an expressive rendition of the poignant concluding movement.

His quick wit and sardonic humor made him very likeable.

Peer into an online journal, and you find the operatic texture of teenage life with its fits of romantic misery, quick-change moods and sardonic inside jokes.

He brought to all these roles the same qualities that made him one of the very best parliamentary sketch writers of his time – a sharp eye, a pen that he wielded like a scalpel and a sense of humour that could be sardonic or warm, according to his mood and whether or not he liked the person he was writing about.

But their music is more a mood than a manifesto; its bitter, sardonic disquiet lingers.