All 25 Uses of
sardonic
in
The Iceman Cometh
- He has a gaunt Irish face with a big nose, high cheekbones, a lantern jaw with a week's stubble of beard, a mystic's meditative pale-blue eyes with a gleam of sharp sardonic humor in them.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(with inner sardonic amusement—flatteringly) A shrewd business man, who doesn't miss any opportunity to get on in the world.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(sardonically) It's a great game, the pursuit of happiness.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(grins with sardonic appreciation) Be God, Joe, you've got all the beauty of human nature and the practical wisdom of the world in that little parable.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(with a sardonic grin) What is it?†
Act 1
- He grins sardonically.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(sardonically) She didn't, don't worry.†
Act 1
- (He chuckles sardonically—then irritably as if suddenly provoked at himself for talking so much) Well, that's why I quit the Movement, if it leaves you any wiser.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(sardonically) Nothing I could help doing.†
Act 1
- He quotes a translation of the dosing couplet sardonically.†
Act 1
- He begins to describe the sleepers with sardonic relish but at the same time showing his affection for them.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(breaks in sardonically) Be God, you're there already, Jimmy.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(in a sardonic whisper to Parritt) Isn't a pipe dream of yesterday a touching thing?†
Act 1
- LARRY—(as before, in a sardonic aside to Parritt) The tomorrow movement is a sad and beautiful thing, too!†
Act 1
- He cannot restrain a sardonic guffaw.†
Act 1
- LARRY—(who has been listening with sardonic appreciation—in his comically intense, crazy whisper) Be God, you've hit the nail on the head, Hickey!†
Act 1
- LARRY—(sardonically) Ha!†
Act 1
- Don't get no wrong idea—(But an interruption comes from Larry who bursts into a sardonic laugh.†
Act 2
- (He adds sardonically) Or as bad.†
Act 2
- masking pity behind a sardonic tone
Act 2 *sardonic = humorous in a mocking, cynical, or ironic way
- At this moment Larry pounds on the table with his fist and bursts into a sardonic laugh.†
Act 3
- LARRY—(gives a sardonic guffaw—with his comically crazy, intense whisper) Be God, you can't say Hickey hasn't the miraculous touch to raise the dead, when he can start the Boer War raging again!†
Act 3
- (with a sardonic laugh) Well, be God, it fits, for Death was the Iceman Hickey called to his home!†
Act 3
- LARRY—(glances at him—for a moment he is stirred to sardonic pity) No, it doesn't look good, Rocky.†
Act 4
- (He pauses startledly, surprised at himself—then with a sardonic grin) Be God, I'm the only real convert to death Hickey made here.†
Act 4
Definition:
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(sardonic) humor in a mocking or critical way from someone who acts as though they are superior
or:
humor that is cynical or ironic