Example Sentences

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Pacing the stage at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, on the last night of her fall 2025 tour, she traded her typical sardonicism for high-pitched sincerity.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

Cleese’s habitual sardonicism notwithstanding, it’s a gentle sort of farce, tenderly played and set mostly to the speed at which the elder cast members perambulate.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2019

Indeed, notwithstanding a notably bumpy opening stretch, I’ve never before seen a London staging of “Threepenny” that came so naturally by the sour sardonicism of this collaboration between Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill from 1928.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016

There's a dip in energy when Rahman replaces Hussain, but his wry sardonicism keeps the laughs, and the insights, coming.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2011

MacMaine laughed, allowing the touch of sardonicism that he felt to be heard in the laughter.

From The Highest Treason by Garrett, Randall