Jelinek has created a witty, sardonic creature, rather than the demure-seeming public Jackie familiar to Americans.
The director, Joseph Cedar, an Israeli filmmaker born in America, has a sardonic view of them both.
Sir Nick, a languid old Etonian with a sardonic sense of humour, is a veteran of such occasions.
When Quinn and the new guy moved on, they left a sea of sardonic smiles and smirks in their wake.
Poland was well served by its finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, a sardonic English-born economics professor, who adeptly managed the borrowing splurge.
Every news outlet in the world was reporting the story and flashing pictures of his snow-white hair, skinny ties and sardonic smile.
Katherine Borowitz makes an elegant, compelling impression as Solness' politely sardonic wife.
So Jack, a doughy, sardonic carnivore, is saddled with a tetchy lesbian vegan who eats dried banana out of a plastic bag.
Nephew Richard Cromwell sits down and gives the bags a sardonic glance.
Reading aloud from his memoirs, legendary Venetian seducer Giacomo Casanova (Malkovich, languid and sardonic) looks back at some of his most memorable 18th-century liasons.
Instead, we mostly content ourselves with grudging and sardonic references to the silly side of gentrification, along with a few all-purpose explanations, like broken-window policing.
In a sardonic reshuffling of classic sentimental tropes, the story ominously turns on the difficulty of getting a goose-liver dinner in Munich on Christmas Eve.
Even more telling is when health system failures spark sardonic commentary.
It's a sly, ironic portrait of a Goethe-quoting 60-something gent who is dating a considerably younger woman, much to the sardonic amusement of her friends.
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But he will never be prime minister, let alone a Byronic hero of grim aspect and sardonic humour, until he rushes upstairs with an axe.
Again and again, they drive in the nail with a single blow a sardonic turn of phrase, a pause, a silence that allows us to draw our own conclusions.
He was funny in a way that superheroes had never been hip, droll, sardonic and self-ironic and his quick wit meshed beautifully with the movie's sophisticated style and elegant action.
" Indeed, humorist Finley Peter Dunne's sardonic Irish bartender Mr. Dooley was of the opinion that Rockefeller was a one-man society for "the prevention of croolty to money.
They are servicable tune-wise and feature some slyly sardonic lyrics.
Lucid, sardonic, cinema-centric asides (especially one great set piece involving an aged, hearing-impaired movie technician from the silent-film era) adorn their all-night tangle of intimacy, building to a grungy, furiously self-deprecating .
With her tomboy glamour, she suggests a sensibility that echoes back to Rosalind Russell: the sardonic brunette, as incarnated more recently in Roseanne, Janeane Garofalo, Sarah Silverman, Sandra Bernhard, and Tina Fey.
But sardonic souls in other parties are prone to observe that, as dinner time approaches, they are particularly prone to vote, not with their head or their heart - but with their stomach.
What this meant on the page changed over time, in stories and essays that ranged from playful postmodernism to sardonic surrealism, in language that dazzled with a semantic mix of high and low.
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Steichen preferred clear images, stark lines, interesting angles and a strong independent woman, standing at the center of the frame, hands on her hips, in a short flapper dress and flashing a sardonic smile.
The movie is a sardonic look at the mechanics of the rock world: we get the clear idea that in this kind of high-schlock touring band no difference exists between the original and the copy.
The movie is funny in a dryly sardonic way about movie-colony rituals and easy sex, but the funk of a noodling movie star is hardly a revelation of the absurdity of the human condition or whatever Coppola was getting at.
One of my favorite movies is "Waiting for Guffman, " Christopher Guest's sardonic yet ultimately hopeful 1997 comedy about the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, and its against-all-odds attempt to put on a one-day musical for the town's 150th birthday.
As witty, sardonic and opinionated as his songs suggest, Mr. Tillman peppered his conversation with references to Arthur Schopenhauer and is aware that by creating a mythical Father John Misty persona who's either a mystical being or a comedian he's ripe for misinterpretation.
Eyal (Lior Ashkenazi), a hard-bitten and sardonic Mossad agent whose job normally entails such things as assassinating Palestinian terrorists, gets assigned to two young Germans visiting Israel Axel (Knut Berger) and Pia (Caroline Peters), a brother and sister whose flower-child tolerance infuriates Eyal.
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