"And obviously the president would sign this, right?" he asked sardonically.
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"All the ads are the same," Lindsay sardonically tells a friend.
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"At least then we'd feel something," the site said, sardonically (we hope).
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In 2017 journalists sardonically reported the installation of the state's first escalator.
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"He seems to have learned how to behave himself," he said sardonically.
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Because it implies a degree of escapism, the term can be used sardonically.
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Officials there sardonically jested about sending the comedian Cantinflas to Washington in retaliation.
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"We say here that summer only last two months," my host Laure acknowledged sardonically.
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"It's a privilege, my boy, living in the world today," Streeter tells Charleston, sardonically.
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" One reader noted sardonically that I must be a man, because I didn't mention "safer.
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"I'm glad the governor is finally understanding the importance of diversity," Mr. Williams said sardonically.
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Not long after, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg sardonically thanked the U.S. president for showing up.
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A "city like Naples, or Mumbai, or Kinshasa", as he sardonically puts it, is ideal for the purpose.
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" Dana Hull, who covers Tesla for Bloomberg, sardonically referred to it as "a high performance tensioned membrane structure.
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On one side is a man, on another a woman, and grinning sardonically between them is a skull.
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Having tried running politically hot and sardonically cold, this year it wondered if warm might be just right.
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Then, aware that he's being watched, he sardonically strikes the pose of a ham actor greeting his audience.
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He was the one hollering at his entourage, rolling his eyes, spreading his arms in frustration or smiling sardonically.
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It is must-see TV. While sardonically entertaining, the drama is as vulgar and declasse as any reality show.
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Trump started the day by sardonically thanking Senate Democrats for a "nice present" a year after he took office.
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He retired to his Virginia plantation, which he sardonically rechristened as "Sherwood Forest," in honor of his outlaw political status.
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"Allow people 'born male' to use the ladies room, and you open the floodgates of bathroom abuse," Schiappa says sardonically.
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He loves the law, some lawyers who have been before him say sardonically, almost as much as he loves himself.
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When Lloyd, speaking to Joanne Rogers (Maryann Plunkett), describes her husband, a bit sardonically, as "a saint," she corrects him.
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"Vaybertaytsh"—sardonically named after the religious texts men wrote for women in Eastern Europe—is a podcast for Yiddish-speaking feminists.
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I don't presume to know their political affiliations, but the ability to smile, even sardonically, was beyond me at that moment.
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THE easiest way to get an economist to laugh sardonically is to compare a country's finances to those of a family.
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One Twitter user noted sardonically that the actor appeared to be teaching Mr. Trudeau about "playing the role" of a prime minister.
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Bruce Rauner's record, featuring five actors sardonically thanking Rauner on a litany of sensitive cultural issues, including gender identity, abortion and immigration.
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Even the words of praise it receives are semi-ironic, using the city's apparent lack of likability to sardonically present it as endearing.
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In effect handing over the creative prerogative, Mr Lund sardonically gives the same impression as Instagram seeks to give: everyone is an artist.
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Van Emmerik and her third husband, Peter, ran a rough miners' pub, sardonically named the Glengarry Hilton, near a cluster of opal mines.
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They will sometimes pause midscene to say how and when they died or to note, often sardonically, how history has summed them up.
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However, his longevity and frequently dashed rumors of ill health delighted supporters and infuriated opponents who had sardonically predicted he would live forever.
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And it also works if you want to sardonically call out someone else's perceived indifference to an urgent issue, whether tiny or huge.
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"It's great to be back in the warming embrace of Washington," Cruz sardonically told reporters in front of his Senate office on Tuesday.
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Readership soared after September 4, 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany's borders to refugees in what the newspaper sardonically calls a "welcome putsch".
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Corker sardonically praised Blitzer for "having a great time with this interview" when the CNN anchor pressed him on the reversal of his position.
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Immigration authorities recently raided a public basketball court, sardonically called "Hotel Caracas" by locals, that had become an impromptu shelter for some 900 Venezuelans.
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They're corny and cheap, but actor Matthew Porretta's performance of Darling slowly becoming more sardonically fatalist is one of the game's best character arcs.
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But such mirth came mingled with despair, and one could plausibly define literary modernism as the washing of the corpse of tradition, albeit sardonically.
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" When asked in 1967 why there was no news censorship as there had been in previous wars, Johnson replied sardonically, "Because we are fools.
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The humor is self-explanatory: a cartoon antihero in a Lucha Libre mask sardonically answers his fan mail in the lowest-fi text interface imaginable.
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If Mr Sanders has come to praise Ms Clinton's speeches—sardonically supposing them "Shakespearean" to deserve a $600,000 speaking fee—he ends up damning them.
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While she was working on "Intercourse," one colleague told her to include a "prechewed" introduction "to explain what the book said," which she did, sardonically.
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An angry woman, presumably from out of town, had just called him and asked, sardonically, when the city would be holding its next Klan meeting.
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Discussing a proposal to push the internal deadline for fixing the problem to a later date, the auditor asked sardonically what would be the point.
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"You're stressing me, yeah I say it to your face, but it doesn't mean a thing, no!" cheers Lanza, sounding both sardonically cute and brilliantly sarcastic.
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Credico has said he was speaking sardonically when he referred to himself as a back channel because he knew Stone was referring to him as such.
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She is grinning, her hands clasped beatifically in front of her, and every now and then, she looks sardonically out of the corner of her eye.
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Men in Black Panther berets sardonically chant the restrictions of the Negro Act, and then they and their fellow dancers demonstrate the limitations of such limitations.
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Sardonically musing that he was "getting old" and needed to "cash out this credibility," Mr. Rock asked Mr. Abrams whom he'd like to work with most.
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Second, there has been a proliferation of what Duke University law professor Jedediah Purdy sardonically labels "crisis-of-democracy literature," involving Americans' apparent rebuke of democratic norms.
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Shelby is a sardonically sweet Sarah Paulson in a chintzy documentary's dramatic reenactments and a straight-faced Lily Rabe who provides the doc's voiceover in the present.
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After the election, Mr. Baldwin recalled, he was distressed to receive an email from a friend sardonically thanking him for humanizing Mr. Trump and helping him win.
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"Dalí is very lucky to be able to knock them off as he does," she wrote sardonically to James, who had been one of Dalí's biggest backers.
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Then, at the height of the Iraq War, he joined the newly launched liberal talk radio station Air America, where his show was sardonically called The O'Franken Factor.
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"Perhaps someday in the future there will be a magical moment when the countries of the world will get together to eliminate their nuclear weapons," he said, sardonically.
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Mr. Cuomo has persevered, toying with sincerity and distance, even collaborating — sardonically or with commercial calculation — with rappers (Lil Wayne) and radio pop professionals on "Raditude" in 2009.
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Moreover, the chorus in which the Jews protest the designation of Jesus as "King of the Jews" echoes a chorus of Roman soldiers sardonically crying the same phrase.
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In the 1970s it vigorously enforced anti-segregation laws; today the "People's Republic of Oak Park", as it is sardonically known, is 64% white, 21% black and 7% Hispanic.
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Meanwhile, a series of brilliant monologues and dialogues, by the artist Jayson Musson and rendered mostly as subtitles, rove sardonically through art, life, spirituality and the lack of it.
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These include, in rapid succession, flying Stormtroopers — yes, they fly now, as Poe notes sardonically — quicksand and a giant, carnivorous worm, as well as many scenery and climate changes.
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The "Fun City" tag would stick, but sardonically, conjuring up the variety of urban ills — municipal service disruptions, street crime, snarled traffic — that Lindsay couldn't seem to do much about.
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At home, political reporting involved a tour of what was sardonically known as the "chicken-and-chips circuit," named for the dominant catering choice at campaign events across the country.
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They also came for the Fitzgerald aspirations and cocaine that were Mr. McInerney's own contributions to the city's mythology and are still with him in this latest novel, however sardonically.
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The area is so replete with French residents, French bakeries and Parisian accents that it is sometimes referred to sardonically by Montrealers as "Nouvelle-France," France's former North American colony.
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"Granted, I suck at flying, but even this was egregious," he said sardonically to a colleague, according to a transcript of the exchange reviewed on Friday by The New York Times.
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They can present us with the exhibition histories of the works in a photograph and end sardonically in "This will mean more to some of you than others" in red type.
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Always sardonically intelligent in his designs, Mr. Ervell, a former fashion editor at V, has been focused on redefining the line between streetwear and formal wear long before his American contemporaries.
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Their humiliations at the hands of a brazen plutocrat, sardonically filmed with soaring camera work, are matched by their riotous efforts to work in the entertainment business—at a folkloric theme park.
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Using the definite article rather than "my," even sardonically, also might be seen as elevating one's child from the pack and effacing the rest, as if theirs is "the" sole child in existence.
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Jingle Hell's reflects that reality perfectly: You dine on sardonically-named bar snacks, blast the heads off of snowmen in a custom light-gun arcade game, and admire a Christmas tree trimmed with pill bottles.
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Used as propaganda and often denigrated as such, it can be interpreted more subtly, its crude bombast sardonically indicting Stalinist as well as Nazi totalitarianism, its pathos expressing private emotions forbidden by the Soviet state.
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The son of a movie technician, Goupil had been making films since childhood, and "Half a Life" includes clips from some of them—sardonically playful comedies from the mid-sixties and subsequent documentaries of protests.
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No Miss Anthropocene is mentioned directly in any of the songs, but a sense of impending doom fills most of the album: to be worried over in complicity, met head-on, mourned or sardonically embraced.
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Posted at eye-level, it sardonically invited him and Ivanka to brunch at the Plaza, their then-recent $400 million purchase that had been contingent upon convincing a rent-controlled tenant to give up her apartment.
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It is a verdant platter filled with slivered (albeit not julienned) vegetables tossed in a lemon, pomegranate, molasses, and sumac dressing, that winks at — and then totally ignores — the classic Waldorf Salad that it sardonically references.
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When she responded, it was sardonically and slyly, refocusing the discussion on his manic performance: CLINTON: I have a feeling by the end of this evening I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.
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" In that story, an uncharacteristically earnest meditation on the 9/11 disaster, Moore makes light of the frenzy surrounding Osama bin Laden by sardonically referring to him as "our current mujahedin [sic] Moonraker, our beige Blofeld.
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There's that scene where her black English teacher, Mr. Morgan (played by Daryl Mitchell) sardonically rags on her for her rich white girl problems, while he can't get anyone to teach a novel by a black author.
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Mazurenko became a founding figure in the modern Moscow nightlife scene, where he promoted an alternative to what Russians sardonically referred to as "Putin's glamor" — exclusive parties where oligarchs ordered bottle service and were chauffeured home in Rolls-Royces.
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With Sidney Zion, a former legal affairs reporter for The New York Times, Mr. Hinckle founded Scanlan's Monthly, named for a pig farmer and reprobate whom the two men had heard being toasted, sardonically, in a pub in Ireland.
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" That changed in January 1935, when, according to the Lindbergh biographer A. Scott Berg, Flemington became "nothing less than an amusement park" during the Hauptmann trial, which H. L. Mencken sardonically described as the biggest story "since the Resurrection.
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At a memorial service for a prosecutor held at a packed Justice Department auditorium just days before the November election, Comey joked sardonically in a eulogy about how unpopular he seemed to have become in the eyes of some colleagues.
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OSAKA (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday sardonically asked his Russian counterpart to please not meddle in U.S. elections, appearing to make light of a scandal that led to an investigation of his campaign's contact with the Kremlin during 2016 elections.
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As a chapter of history, it makes great drama, and for the first act "The Hello Girls," at 59E59 Theaters, is a rather thrilling thing — smart, human and sardonically feminist, with a lively ragtime-and-jazz score by Peter Mills.
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He became an outspoken advocate of the Me Too movement, and an ally to women who experienced harassment and assault, forthrightly labeling Harvey Weinstein a "rapist" and sardonically calling out other powerful A-listers who remained silent on these issues.
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David Harrington, Kronos's first violinist, and Ms. Vo are listed as collaborators in the composition of the sardonically titled "My Lai Lullaby," a sort of instrumental overture, in which the quartet sets the bleak mood with a blanket of dissonance.
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Indeed, Communist leaders from Lenin to Brezhnev are sardonically grinning from hell and watching in disbelief as what was impossible for the Soviet Union to accomplish with all its military might and nuclear arsenal is being endorsed by the duly elected American legislators.
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A female liberation story set in Tbilisi, Georgia, and in a sardonically funny, touching key, "My Happy Family" follows Manana as she leaves her shocked family without explanation, shutting the door on a claustrophobic whirlwind of jostling bodies, hectoring voices and competing needs.
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Conveniently, he said sardonically, the tech industry and the establishment both have a long history of unfairly excluding whole swathes of the population — women, Black people, and Latino people, to cite three — so the best way to perpetuate our golden age is also the simplest.
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The music flaunted its influences and drew the best ideas from them; the lyrics could be acutely self-conscious — "Losing My Edge," part of Sunday's set, itemizes a record collection — or sardonically defiant or heartfelt, or all at once in songs like "You Wanted a Hit," which grapples with commercial expectations, or "Someone Great," a song of loss.
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This was the birth of the project Young Turks (2015), composed of an artist's film and installation, which is currently on display at Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and makes reference, perhaps sardonically, to the 20th-century political movement that oversaw the period of transition between the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish republic, mediated by the horrors of the Armenian Genocide.
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As well as slaying as hard and sardonically as ever with songs both fast and slow, the record sees the band expand its palate by including two of its longest ever songs, as well its catchiest composition to date ("Everything Sucks, And My Life Is A Lie"), alongside two instrumental pieces, the second of which proves unexpectedly tender ("You Owe Me, Iommi").
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"If I were to die, my kids get this bag," Mr. Altucher said sardonically as he packed away his laptop, iPad, three sets of chinos, three T-shirts and a Ziploc bag filled with $4,13 worth of $2 bills ("People always remember you if you tip with $2 bills," he said), and departed a friend's loft on East 20th Street.
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At a 2018 show in Vancouver, Costello sardonically described "Green Shirt" as "a song written last century".
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In 2015, Patrick Ballantyne started the sardonically titled "hitamonth.com" project, aiming to release a single every month for the year.
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When questioned whether McMinn was a "micky taker," teammate Mark Fiore replied sardonically "yes." At the end of the season he retired due to arthritis of the knee.
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Blue/Orange is a play written by English dramatist, Joe Penhall. The play is a sardonically comic piece which touches on race, mental illness and 21st- century British life.
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10th edition. Pg 281. In crime writing and works about police misconduct, it has become something of a cliché to sardonically refer to contempt of cop as the worst possible crime.See, e.g.
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Poet Shu sets off on a business trip across the entire province of Xinjiang, hitching rides and befriending the local Uighur population. Along the way he composes 16 poems that sardonically capture his journey.
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When Madeline hesitates to help her, Helen grabs Madeline and the two tumble down the stairs, breaking to pieces. As their disembodied heads totter down together, Helen sardonically asks Madeline where she parked their car.
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At persistent claims that faith in induction is a necessary precondition of reason, Feyerabend's 1987 book sardonically bids Farewell to Reason.Against Method (1975/1988/1993) Science in a Free Society (1978) Farewell to Reason (1987).
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The engagement was broken in 1950, shortly before Larkin moved to Northern Ireland. These events are referred to sardonically in the poem "Wild Oats", written in the early 1960s. She died in 2012, at the age of 85.
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Some time later Alceo realizes that loneliness weighs too much on him: he returns to Esther to take her home but, during the journey, to those who ask him where he is going, he answers sardonically to "go and get the cat".
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The assumption that individuals act rationally may be viewed as ignoring important aspects of human behavior. Many see the "economic man" as being quite different from real people. Many economists, even contemporaries, have criticized this model of economic man. Thorstein Veblen put it most sardonically.
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The work contained the inscription "I forgive you O Lord, for you know not what you do" – a sardonically reversed "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" – and depicted the naked figure with a slight hint of an erection.(9 March 2008). "A Mainstream Embrace". The Jerusalem Post.
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Blue/Orange is a 2005 television film by English dramatist, Joe Penhall adapted from his play of the same title. This sardonically comic film that touches on race, mental illness, and 21st century British life, was directed by Howard Davies for BBC Four, starring Brian Cox, John Simm and Shaun Parkes.
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On 14 June 1946 the site was vested in the New Zealand Marist Brothers' Trust Board and there was a small ceremony and Bishop Liston was thanked by the Marist Brothers. One brother later observed, perhaps sardonically, that the Marist Brothers had been paying for the land for over forty years and had effected great improvements.Tony Waters, p. 124.
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Like other industrial rock at the time, the compositions of War Music made heavy use of sampled movie and television dialogue. Because of this, coupled with Vahnke's vocal technique, publications drew comparisons between the Rodents' music and that of early Skinny Puppy. The album also received attention for the lyrics, which utilized dark humor to sardonically critique Western culture.
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Reed argues that the transparent violence employed by white society is no match for the diversity and adaptability of African-American religion and culture. Reed also comments on the ethnocidal history of the Western Expansion. Chief Showcase's poetry bitterly reflects the atrocities committed against Native Americans by white imperialists, and Showcase sardonically jeers at the promises of white leaders.
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"They are going to get me this time," he yelled, sardonically; "Just you watch, Phil Kaye!" Kaye and his MAG gunner, Trooper Pat Grogan, waved away this comment and told Lamb to get moving. "Go nail gooks!" Kaye called after Lamb as he and the rest of Stop 2 took off aboard their Alouette III gunship.
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Yukinojō brings about their deaths, then, having achieved his goal, and apparently overcome by the death of an innocent woman who was part of his schemes but whom he became fond of, retires from the stage and disappears. The events are coolly observed and sardonically commented on by the Robin-Hood-like thief Yamitarō, also played by Hasegawa.
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Music critic Simon Reynolds says that indie pop defines itself against "charting pop". Abebe explains: Despite their relatively minor commercial success (their third album was sardonically titled They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles), the Television Personalities are highly regarded by critics and have been widely influential, especially on the C86 generation.Buckley, Peter. The Rough Guide to Rock.
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Critics describe these exhibitions as sardonically humorous, sprawling arrangements of cast, excavated studio objects—often forming Rube Goldberg-like systems or organisms—unified by snaking skeins of wires, cables and tubes connected to cast outlets, transformers and fuse boxes that functioned like drawings in space.Glueck, Grace. "The Antithesis of Minimalism's Cool Geometry; Fleshy Rubber," The New York Times, February 13, 1998, p. E40.
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In the fifth inning, the New York Times reported the next day, Wilson discovered their transgression after he called out Babe Ruth in an attempt to steal home, whereupon he ejected the same nine Yankees a second time, prompting the Times reporter to write sardonically that, "It was fortunate that Mr. Wilson was in such an amusing frame of mind".
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La Bouche de fer, the Mouth of Iron, may have derived its name, sardonically, from Lucius Licinius Crassus's observation about the consul, Domitius, "that it was no wonder that a man who had a beard of brass, also had a mouth of iron and a heart of lead."Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xviii. 1Suetonius, Nero, 2Valerius Maximus, ix. 1. § 4Macrobius, Saturnalia ii.
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" 411Mania called his tutelage of Liu Kang "hippie Native American Yoda spiel." Patrick Coyle of Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension included Nightwolf among the film's "shallow, one-shot characters that serve little or no purpose." Kate Willaert of Game Informer sardonically remarked, "Nightwolf delivers the best line in the movie when he tells Liu Kang he must test his courage, and find his Animality.
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Critic Peter Childs describes the Titanic as "full of Edwardian confidence but bound for disaster"Peter Childs. The Twentieth Century in Poetry: A Critical Survey. Routledge: London, 1999. p10 and it is this display of vanity and pride that Hardy sardonically highlights in the first five stanzas, as he contrasts the ship’s current position at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to its glorious construction and launch.
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"Schizogeny" was written by Jessica Scott and Mike Wollaegertheir first for the series.Gradnitzer, p. 166. Due to it being Scot and Wollaeger's first episode, "Schizogeny" took a long time to write and, according to executive producer Frank Spotnitz, "went through many, many incarnations and versions." Due to the episode's plot and setting, it became sardonically known as "The Killer Tree Episode" among the cast and crew.
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Holly makes a list of humorous individuals, ranging from most humorous to least: "Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, 'Charlie Bit My Finger,' Michael Scott […] Todd Packer". When asked if he would like hot chocolate, Packer notes that the only "hot chocolate" he likes is Vivica A. Fox. Jim mentions Justin Bieber, and Dwight says "Who is Justice Beaver?" This leads Jim to say sardonically, "A crime-fighting beaver".
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He denounces both for squandering their many talents and luck in pursuit of a monstrously bloody life of crime. Vonderschied directs Doc to Carol, hiding in the room. The couple acknowledge that they love each other, but neither denies that it will end with murder so one can avoid the cannibal village for a little while longer. As the clock strikes midnight, they sardonically toast their "successful getaway".
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In 2012 he published the sardonically titled How Not To Kill Your Baby. Sager Weinstein is the author of the Hyacinth Series, a middle-grade fantasy trilogy about enchanted rivers under London. In 2018, he published the picture book, Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian, with art by Vera Brosgol. He also wrote a screenplay adapted from the 1937 novel Utas és holdvilág (Journey by Moonlight) by the Hungarian writer Antal Szerb.
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Returning to Long Beach in March 1960, Wilkinson entered the naval shipyard there for a five- month overhaul. During that period of repairs and alterations, the ship's combat intelligence center (CIC) was enlarged and modified; and a long-range air search radar was added. In addition, a DASH (Destroyer Anti-Submarine Helicopter--sometimes sardonically nicknamed the "Down At Sea Helicopter") system--was installed. This change increased Wilkinson's ASW capacity severalfold.
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In later life, Hentoff was an atheist, and sardonically described himself as "a member of the Proud and Ancient Order of Stiff-Necked Jewish Atheists"."Having Writ for 50 Years, Hentoff Moves On from The Voice", New York Times, January 6, 2009.Hentoff, Nat, John Cardinal O'Connor: at the Storm Center of a Changing American Catholic Church, p. 7 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988) He expressed sympathy for Israel's Peace Now movement.
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He was above all fastidious in the royal tradition of Charles I.Pope-Hennessey, p. X. Edwin Montagu claimed, somewhat sardonically, that one of his female constituents died of boredom listening to the Marquess. His father-in-law, Lord Rosebery, had been Liberal Leader six years before he himself became Leader in the House of Lords of that party. Rosebery thought Crewe a reliable politician but a poor speaker.
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A large brawl soon erupts, and police arrive on the scene not long afterward. John spots Eldorado and chases after him; during the chase, John is tackled and arrested by police. Eldorado manages to get away. Meeting with the Police Commissioner, John is informed where Eldorado is, the Commissioner sardonically explaining that John can understand that at the moment the police are "too busy" to arrest Eldorado and in effect invite John to assassinate Eldorado.
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The escape of the first party took place as planned on 15 January 1943.English, R., Armed Struggle: A History of the IRA, p. 69 When they found that their home-made grappling hook was too short for the external wall, and two members of the escape party began arguing over whose responsibility it had been, it was Donnelly who supposedly advised sardonically that they should finish the argument 'the other side of the wall.
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In this version, Friday became a beautiful woman, but named 'Wednesday' instead. Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree co- starred in a 1975 film Man Friday which sardonically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an inferior creature, while Friday is more enlightened and sympathetic. In 1988, Aidan Quinn portrayed Robinson Crusoe in the film Crusoe. A 1997 movie entitled Robinson Crusoe starred Pierce Brosnan and received limited commercial success.
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Holmes observes that the picture was kept in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the right bell pull. He was unable to steal it at that moment, however, because the coachman was watching him. The following morning, Holmes explains his findings to the King. When Holmes, Watson, and the King arrive at Adler's house at 8 am, her elderly maidservant sardonically informs them she had left the country by train earlier that morning.
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Title page of The War That Will End War by page=7 Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. President, with whom the phrase is often associated "The war to end war" (also called "The war to end all wars")The war to end all wars BBC News 10 November 1998 was a term for the First World War of 1914–1918. Originally idealistic, it is now mainly used sardonically as this is not what happened.
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Mercy Dee Walton (born Mercy Davis Walton, August 30, 1915 – December 2, 1962) was an American jump blues pianist, singer and songwriter, whose compositions went from blues to R&B; numbers. According to journalist Tony Russell in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, "Walton created a series of memorable blues about the unattractiveness of rural life, sardonically aimed at the black migrant workers in southern California who constituted his typical audience".
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The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee, who referred sardonically to President Herbert Hoover whose policies he blamed for the depression.Hans Kaltenborn, It Seems Like Yesterday (1956) p. 88 Unemployment reached 25 percent in the worst days of 1932–33, but it was unevenly distributed. Job losses were less severe among women than men, among workers in nondurable industries (such as food and clothing), in services and sales, and in government jobs.
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As the V-2 explosions came without warning, the government initially attempted to conceal their cause by blaming them on defective gas mains. However, the public was not fooled and soon began sardonically referring to the V-2s as "Flying gas pipes". By October the offensive became sustained. A particularly devastating strike was on 25 November 1944, when a V-2 exploded at the Woolworth's store in New Cross Road, killing 168 people and seriously injuring 121.
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Hellsgard thanked FrankenCastle for his mercy, to which Castle sardonically replied, "Yeah, right... Mercy". Back at Monster Metropolis, Manphibian was badly injured from the battle and was bandaged up. After FrankenCastle was healed, Manphibian led FrankenCastle to Monster Metropolis' cells where the captive members of the Hunter of Monster Special Force soldiers are being held and did not know what to do with them. As no court would prosecute them, Manphibian asked FrankenCastle what should be done with them.
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The Rolling Stones, newly signed to Atlantic Records, arrived in Sheffield, Alabama in December, 1969, two nights after a performance in West Palm Beach, Florida. They had been assured that the planned recording session could be kept secret. The little studio at 3614 Jackson Highway was still in its infancy with only one hit thus far plus a Cher album that was not a commercial success. Rick Hall sardonically said "The Rolling Stones thought they were cutting at FAME".
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24-25 Stenberg's next project was an assignment by Charlie Chaplin (United Artists) to write and direct A Woman of the Sea starring Edna Purviance. This episode also ended badly: the film was never released and Chaplin felt compelled to destroy all film negatives. As Sternberg sardonically quipped in his 1965 memoir Fun in a Chinese Laundry, "It was [Edna Purviance]'s last film and nearly my own." Rodriguez-Ortega, 2005 Sarris, 1966. p. 13Weinberg, 1967. p.
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Yaroslav was constrained to deliver the oath to live with Olga in peace but in next year had her expelled to her native Suzdal with a son, Vladimirko. He bequeathed his throne to a natural son by Anastasia (Oleg, sardonically called Nastasyich by the populace), while the lawful heir Vladimirko had to content himself with Przemyśl for the beginning. Very soon, the illegitimate brother Oleg was killed and Vladimirko rose to the entire principality of Halych.
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Gira described his vocals as "screaming/testifying", and Jake Cole of Spectrum Culture called them "locked into an endless loop of provocation, filled with unending allusions to violence, rot and rape". In a positive review of the album, Robert Christgau sardonically wrote, "lyrics are available to suckers on request". Despite the dismal, overwhelming nature of the music, some critics called the album occasionally danceable. Gira retrospectively recognized The Stooges and Throbbing Gristle as primary inspirations for Filth.
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Critic Donald Kuspit described her work as both painted with "a deceptive, crafty beauty" and "sardonically aggressive" in its use of animal stand-ins to critique humanity;Kuspit, Donald. "Sinister Beauty, or the Return to Pleasures of the Imagination: Five Illinois Painters," (un)earthly delights, Catalogue, Chicago: Illinois State Museum, 1996. Ann Wiens characterized her "roiling compositions of barely controlled flora and fauna" as "shrewdly employing art historical concepts of beauty for their subversive potential."Wiens, Ann.
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Reed also described Guillermo del Toro's native country as Spain, despite him coming from Mexico, and Benicio del Toro himself coming from Puerto Rico. The same year he included the film Get Out on his list of 10 Worst Films of 2017, and later sardonically stated in a CBS Sunday Morning interview, "I didn't care if all the black men are turned into robots." A writer on Sunday Mornings website noted that there were no actual robots in the film.
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Union Station was eventually restored, expanded, and viably reopened in 1988 as both a busy train station and a popular commercial retail area. In retrospect, the National Visitor Center was viewed as a classic case of "federal tinkering" gone bad, "one of Washington's major embarrassments" and an idea that "failed miserably ... [and] closed in disgrace". Along with the new parking garage, one National Park Service historian later wrote sardonically that the primary legacy of the National Visitor Center was "100 surplus Carousels".
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This was against Kurosawa's wishes. When the re-edited version was also deemed too long by the studio, Kurosawa sardonically suggested the film be cut lengthwise instead. According to Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, there are no existing prints of the original 265-minute version. Kurosawa would return to Shochiku later to make Rhapsody in August (1991), and, according to Alex Cox, is said to have searched the Shochiku archives for the original cut of the film to no avail.
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Inara is also concerned about the other crew "ogling" her client. Later, Zoe and Wash puzzle over Jayne's generosity as they munch on the apples. Kaylee asks why Zoe and Mal always cut up their apples, and Zoe (and Mal, who joins them) tell a war story about "griswalds", tiny pressure- sensitive explosive grenades that were embedded in apples by Alliance troops. Wash sardonically embellishes the story, annoyed at the frequent references to his wife's long history with the captain.
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Teodoro Nguema Obiang, known as Teodorin, is the President's oldest son and was for many years the country's minister of forestry. He has been sardonically called "the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry." Through his solely owned firm Grupo Sofana and its affiliate Somagui Forestal, Teodorin owned, and may still own, "exclusive rights of exploiting and exporting timber in Equatorial Guinea." Teodorin also owns the nation's only TV station, as well as Radio Asonga, the nation's main radio station.
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This created a joint black–white transitional government, with the country due to be reconstituted as Zimbabwe Rhodesia in 1979, pursuant to multiracial elections. ZANU and ZAPU were invited to participate, but refused; Nkomo sardonically dubbed Smith's black colleagues "the blacksmiths". ZANU proclaimed 1978 to be "The Year of the People" as the war continued. Officials from Muzorewa's United African National Council, sent to the provinces to explain the Internal Settlement to rural blacks, were killed by Marxist–Leninist guerrillas.
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Press In some later writings in the 1890s, he was less optimistic about the goodness of God, observing that "if our Maker is all- powerful for good or evil, He is not in His right mind". At other times, he conjectured sardonically that perhaps God had created the world with all its tortures for some purpose of His own, but was otherwise indifferent to humanity, which was too petty and insignificant to deserve His attention anyway.Twain, Mark, ed. by Paul Baender. 1973.
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The war diary of the Canadian Scottish regiment sardonically noted: "The grim fighting was such that Piats and Bazookas were used to blow down walls of houses where resistance was worst. These anti-tank weapons are quite handy little house- breakers!"Copp, Terry & Vogel, Robert Maple Leaf Route: Scheldt, Alma: Maple Leaf Route, 1985 page 90. By October 9, the gap between the bridgeheads was closed, and by early morning on October 12 a position had been gained across the Aardenburg road.
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English professor Kurt Koenigsberger of Case Western Reserve University stated that the consumer advertisements constitute Zooropa as a "sardonically dystopic" location. In the book Reading Rock and Roll, Robyn Brothers said that the song conveys a "sense of confusion in the wake of a technology speeding beyond our control", while referencing the lyrics "I hear voices, ridiculous voices / I'm in the slipstream". Brothers also compared the song to "Acrobat", stating both songs reference a response to uncertainty and an unavoidable feeling of alienation.
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Campbell, pp. 30, 101, 151, 283, 296, 310, 324–26, 360; Transcript bow after the collision She was converted into a submarine depot ship shortly afterwards and briefly deployed to Russia later in the year.Transcript Fearless later became the leader of the 12th Submarine Flotilla, initially based in Scapa Flow, but later in Rosyth. On 31 January 1918, she accidentally rammed and sank the submarine at night in poor visibility as part of an incident that sardonically came to be known as the Battle of May Island.
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The 3-point shot was adopted by the NCAA in 1986, which was midway through Knight's coaching career. Although he opposed the rule change throughout his life, it did complement his offense well by improving the spacing on the floor. He sardonically said at the time that he supported institution of the three point shot because if a team's offense was functioning efficiently enough to get a layup the team should be rewarded with three points for that basket. Knight's offense also emphasized a two-count.
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Since Algeria's independence in 1962, the army has played an important role in the political life of Algeria: > "It was often sardonically remarked by Algerians that while every state has > an army, in Algeria the army had a state." Military forces had fought against French rule for independence before an authoritarian regime was put in place in 1962. It was led by the Front de Libération Nationale who worked with the army. Until President Houari Boumédiène's death in 1978, the military forces had been under control.
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In early 2001, the X-Force title was completely reimagined by writer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred, who replaced the existing incarnation of the team with an entirely different group of mutants using the X-Force name. Issue #116 saw the introduction of a new, sardonically toned X-Force consisting of colorfully dressed and emotionally immature young mutants put together and marketed to be media superstars. X-Force was canceled with issue #129 in late 2002 and relaunched as X-Statix in late 2002.
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The two groups eventually fell out. Brooke pressured Ka into withdrawing from joining Virginia's ménage on Brunswick Square in late 1911, calling it a "bawdy-house" and by the end of 1912 he had vehemently turned against Bloomsbury. Later, she would write sardonically about Brooke, whose premature death resulted in his idealisation, and express regret about "the Neo-Paganism at that stage of my life". Virginia was deeply disappointed when Ka married William Edward Arnold-Forster in 1918, and became increasingly critical of her.
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Ryan mentions his desire to found the "Dream for a Wish Foundation," a play on the actual Make- A-Wish Foundation. During Dwight and Darryl's gym scenes, Darryl sardonically corrects Dwight by telling him that the pronunciation for LeBron James is actually "LeJon Brames." Later, Dwight attempts to get Darryl to stretch his pelvic bowl by telling him that The Fonz did it to become cool. Near the end of the episode, Darryl admits that he is attempting to impress Val from the warehouse, but Dwight believes he is talking about male actor Val Kilmer.
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At Dwight's daycare, a poster for the American hip hop duo Insane Clown Posse is hung on the wall; however, Dwight has scribbled out the words "Insane" and "Posse" to make it fit into the daycare. In the episode, Dwight's subplot is inspired by Julia Roberts's character in the film Pretty Woman. Dwight even attempts to use Roberts's line, "Big mistake", but instead renders it as "You made a big mistake. Huge!" During Michael's counseling session, he sardonically tells Toby that he was probed by ALF, the alien star of the eponymous television series.
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Near the end of "Scary Monsters", Leyla and Gabe Rotter were supposed to walk off-screen, holding hands, which prompted series director Kim Manners to sardonically ask "when did this turn into the fucking Brady Bunch?" The sequence was subsequently cut. The writing staff used Leyla's character to comment on the state of the show and, most notably, the members of the audience who preferred Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) over Doggett. Due to Harrison's extensive knowledge of the X-Files, the episode contains several references to previous episodes.
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In the novel I Am Legend, the main character Robert Neville sardonically comments on his own internal monologue: "The last man in the world is Edgar Guest". Guest's poem "It Couldn't Be Done" was recited by Idris Elba on the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year Award on 16 December 2012 whilst celebrating Team GB and Paralympics GB winning the team award for 2012. Guest's poem "The Epicure" was reproduced in Mad #84 (January 1964) with new illustrations by Don Martin. Guest's poem "See It Through," was used in a Chrysler 300 commercial.
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While the Palestinians, and later also the Arab League, welcomed the "French initiative," the Israeli government rejected it, with one official sardonically asking "Perhaps France will push for peace process with ISIS next?" Netanyahu later clarified that he would prefer to hold direct talks with Abbas, without the involvement of the international community. Since Israel announced that it would not participate, the conference was to be held without any Palestinian or Israeli presence. First it was planned to be held on May 30, but due to scheduling problems, it was postponed several times.
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He put his own artistic touch, > or, or, his effort into that board. It wasn't just some hired artist. In a January 2013 article, by Andrew Reilly for The Huffington Post, the ethos behind Toy Machine (or, the company's full name: "Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Co."), is described as, "an adverse reaction to the misrepresented and highly corporate images of skateboarding in popular culture", with Templeton sardonically referring to fans of the brand as "loyal pawns". The company's popularity increased following inception, and tours—both domestic and international—followed.
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News that New Mexico's legislative assembly had passed an act for organization of a U.S. territorial government helped ease Mexican concern about abandoning the people of New Mexico. The acquisition was a source of controversy, especially among U.S. politicians who had opposed the war from the start. A leading anti-war U.S. newspaper, the Whig National Intelligencer, sardonically concluded that "We take nothing by conquest ... Thank God." Mexican territorial claims relinquished in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in white Jefferson Davis introduced an amendment giving the U.S. most of northeastern Mexico, which failed 44–11.
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Included is a jibe at unnamed groups who wear Burton suits. In an NME article at the time, Strummer said this was targeted at the power pop fad hyped by journalists as the next big thing in 1978. The lyric concludes that the new groups are in it only for money and fame. The final lines fret over the social decline of Britain, noting sardonically that things were getting to the point where even Adolf Hitler could expect to be sent a limousine in the unlikely event of flying into London.
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In 2011, Shelton released a series of one-minute episodes for a podcast called For One Minute Only, in which he sardonically and ironically lays waste to the rumour that he would not be releasing a series of weekly podcasts. In addition to this tongue-in-cheek and short-lived podcast, Shelton has made guest appearances on several other podcasts, including The Hamish & Andy Show, Little Dum Dum Club, Josh Speaking, and The Binge Podcast, and co-hosts "The Imperfect podcast" on The Resilience project with Hugh van Cuylenburg.
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The New York Times has labeled Breggin as the nation's best-known Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) critic. As early as 1991 he sardonically coined the acronym DADD, stating, "... most so-called ADHD children are not receiving sufficient attention from their fathers who are separated from the family, too preoccupied with work and other things, or otherwise impaired in their ability to parent. In many cases the appropriate diagnosis is Dad Attention Deficit Disorder (DADD)". Breggin has written two books specifically on the topic entitled, Talking Back to Ritalin and The Ritalin Factbook.
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After sitting vacant for several years, its building on 7th Ave. was restored and is now part of the Centro Ybor shopping/entertainment complex, and its branch clubhouse in West Tampa was partially restored to house the Hillsborough Education Foundation."New Life for an Old Building" - Tampa Bay Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1990 The original home of the Marti-Maceo Club was demolished in 1965 by Urban Renewal (sardonically referred to as "Urban Removal" by its members) and the club is now housed in a former firehouse on 7th Avenue.
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Cinderella finds some comfort in remembering happier times ("Once I Was Loved"). Whilst putting flowers by her parents' grave, she inadvertently stumbles upon the prince, and his friend and bodyguard John, who are visiting the Royal crypt. The Prince sardonically talks about his dead ancestors, with whom he will one day be buried ("What a Comforting Thing to Know"). Back at the castle, the King of Euphrania is advised that a marriage between Edward and a Princess from one of Euphrania's neighboring countries (and thus potential enemies) would help prevent war.
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President Islam Karimov Uzbek artist Vyacheslav Okhunov told Der Spiegel in 2015 that the late Islam Karimov, then Uzbekistan's president, was "a dictator" who exhibits Mafioso tendencies. Karimov has been accused of ruling Uzbekistan with an iron fist for a quarter-century, shaping a culture that "has a greater resemblance to North Korea than China." Critics have sardonically noted that there is almost no televised news broadcast that does not feature Karimov "cutting a ribbon for some new facility somewhere". According to the Heritage Foundation, Karimov's absolute power extended to judicial appointments.
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The 1949 film The Third Man makes extensive use of Dutch angle shots, to emphasize the main character's alienation in a foreign environment. Director Carol Reed has said that William Wyler gave him a spirit level after seeing the film, to sardonically encourage him to use more traditional shooting angles.Charles Thomas Samuels, Encountering Directors, 1972 - interview with Carol Reed, excerpt at wellesnet.com Dutch angles were used extensively in the satirical 1960s Batman TV series (and its 1966 film spin-off) in which each villain had his or her own angle, as they were "crooked".
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Huts and unemployed men in New York City, 1935 One visible effect of the depression was the advent of Hoovervilles, which were ramshackle assemblages on vacant lots of cardboard boxes, tents, and small rickety wooden sheds built by homeless people. Residents lived in the shacks and begged for food or went to soup kitchens. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee, to refer sardonically to President Herbert Hoover whose policies Michelson blamed for the depression.Hans Kaltenborn, It Seems Like Yesterday (1956) p.
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13:DANIEL B. SCHNEIDER ,F.Y.I., NY Times, January 3, 1999 In the article, Schaap sardonically pointed out that it was not. The transit strike was the first of many labor struggles. In 1968 the teachers' union (the United Federation of Teachers, or the UFT) went on strike over the firings of several teachers in a school in Ocean Hill and Brownsville.Damon Stetson A Most Unusual Strike; Bread-and-Butter Issues Transcended By Educational and Racial Concerns, NY Times, September 14, 1968 That same year, 1968, also saw a nine-day sanitation strike.
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While Ben Croshaw acknowledged the term's reference to and origins from Nazi Germany, he countered that those who use the term without knowing of the association can be viewed positively as a sign that those ideals and their historic Nazi associations had faded from the public mind. He also made a reference to attempts to incite the term's abandonment as being part of a sort of "thought police", criticizing Tyler Wilde's article. Croshaw later sardonically admitted his distaste for the term, jokingly suggesting the term "PC Gaming Dick-Slurp All Stars" instead.
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On stage, Jackson would often bring out a newspaper prior to performing the song, which he would read the headlines and stories in a sarcastic manner. He would also mockingly talk about the papers in general, sardonically calling the British papers "a sophisticated standard of journalism" in one performance. As Jackson performed the song, he would gradually rip the paper he showed the audience to pieces. When a British newspaper, News of the World, became involved in a phone scandal, Jackson was asked whether the lyrics to "Sunday Papers" were prophetic.
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After a moment, Michonne kills her, dumps the body, and drives back to Alexandria. At Alexandria, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) tries to bond with Rick's son Carl (Chandler Riggs) while Rick and Aaron (Ross Marquand) retrieve supplies from an abandoned houseboat floating in the middle of a walker-infested river, as part of their offering to the Saviors. Among the supplies are numerous guns, but no ammo, along with a vulgar note left by the previous owner sardonically congratulating them on their prize. They return to Alexandria, unaware they were watched by a man with mismatched boots.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in chapter 8 of The Sign of Four (1890) refers to Holmes and Watson crossing the Thames from the house of Mordecai Smith and landing by the Millbank Penitentiary. In chapter 8 of Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1912), Professor Challenger says that he dislikes walking along the Thames as it is always sad to see one's final destination. Challenger means that he expects to be buried at Westminster Abbey, but his rival Professor Summerlee responds sardonically that he understands that Millbank Prison has been demolished. The prison is a key location within Sarah Waters' novel Affinity (1999).
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Indeed, the day after the resolution vote, McGovern spoke concerning his fears that the vote would lead to greater involvement in the war; Wayne Morse, one of only two senators to oppose the resolution, sardonically noted that this fell into the category of "very interesting, but very belated." This would become the vote that McGovern most bitterly regretted. In January 1965 McGovern made his first major address on Vietnam, saying that "We are not winning in South Vietnam ... I am very much opposed to the policy, now gaining support in Washington, of extending the war to the north."Anson, McGovern, pp. 154–157.
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As Gwenpool lands on the roof of her place of employment, the rooftop access door opens and she quickly transforms the symbiote into a black suit, pink shirt, black skirt, and glasses. As she converses with her coworker, who remarks on her resemblance to Gwenpool, the symbiote sardonically mocks her insistence on maintaining a secret identity, particularly her choice to wear glasses. Gwen's boss, a lawyer named Mr. Melville, berates her for being late as she enters carrying his paperwork and a pot of coffee. However, she is dumbstruck when she sees Matt Murdock seated at the table.
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From the time of the chain's opening until the bankruptcy, Bugaboo Creek was known for its novelty animatronics. Among the real mounts of bucks, deer and bears, several recreated mounts would be fitted with robotics to talk and move. Depending on the location, moose or bull mounts would be near the dining tables or at the bar, whereas a constant Bill the Buffalo would watch over the customers coming into the dining room. The characters would break the fourth wall, sardonically referencing their status as perpetually trapped robots, hanging above the guests, who were happily enjoying their meals.
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Leonard Bernstein later reported that he adored the piece, which was "hard as nails," and also used it at parties to "empty the room, guaranteed, in two minutes." It was to him a "synonym for modern music—so prophetic, harsh and wonderful, and so full of modern feeling and thinking" . Despite the wide spectrum of opinion, the Piano Variations were immediately recognized for their originality and made a lasting impression. The New York Herald Tribune reported that, in the piece, Copland "sardonically thumbed his nose at all those esthetic attributes which have hitherto been considered essential to the creation of music" .
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This was the first election since 1959 to feature three new leaders for the main political parties. The three main parties all advocated cutting income tax. Labour and the Conservatives did not specify the exact thresholds of income tax they would implement but the Liberals did, claiming they would have income tax starting at 20% with a top rate of 50%. Without explicitly mentioning Thatcher's sex, Callaghan was (as Christian Caryl later wrote) "a master at sardonically implying that whatever the leader of the opposition said was made even sillier by the fact that it was said by a woman".
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For the 1989 film The Phantom of the Opera, an aria of Don Juan Triumphant was composed by Misha Segal. In Susan Kay's 1990 novel Phantom, it is mentioned that it was a piece solely based on passion and anger, as Erik's (the Phantom) childhood gypsy captor sardonically nicknamed him "Don Juan". When Christine hears Erik playing it, he remarks, "I raped her with my music." In Nicholas Meyer's 1993 novel The Canary Trainer, Sherlock Holmes attempts to recover the Phantom's copy of Don Juan Triumphant from beneath the Paris Opera, but is unable to locate it.
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Lynch reflects that unlike stories where Buffy Summers or Angel take the leading role, Spike is no longer there to stand at the sidelines and remark sardonically on the action. As leading man, the supporting characters of the series all work towards servicing him and his storyline. Spike's approach is also markedly different from Buffy's or Angel's; true to his character, he is more passionate and less tactical, making for tonally quite different stories to episodes of the aforementioned characters' shows. For Spike's personal development, Lynch expresses that as leader of the group, Spike has more responsibilities than ever before.
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The inappropriate casting of a far-from-splendid 31-year-old portraying a Neapolitan teenager was not appreciated by the Parisian critics. A review in the Revue et gazette musicale sardonically regretted the Opéra's 'dearth of tenors', and noted that the composer was 'forced to do without a timbre of voice so essential to an opera.' Hector Berlioz wrote that 'the orchestration is too grandiose, too pompous, too loud and even too slow for this kind of story.' At the premiere, Stoltz particularly annoyed her rival Julie Dorus- Gras by conspicuously eating macaroni onstage during the latter's aria.
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He then scored 159 not out as Australia amassed 6/453 declared before taking 1/21 in a win by an innings and 194 runs against Yorkshire. This time the innings was patient, taking 330 minutes, after being dropped in the slips when he was 20. The spectators were unfamiliar with this style of batting from Miller and sardonically slow-handclapped him. He was part of a middle-order fightback for Australia, putting on stands of 143 and 152 with Jim de Courcy (53) and Richie Benaud (97) for the fifth and sixth wickets respectively, after Hassett's men had fallen to 4/149.
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With the creation of the Gaullist RPF and the reconstruction of the conservative right in the National Center of Independents and Peasants (Centre national des indépendants et paysans, CNIP), the MRP faced challengers to represent the right-wing electorate. At the 1951 legislative election, it lost half of its 1946 voters (12.6%). Furthermore, due to its propensity for integrating conservative politicians sometimes compromised by their association with Vichy, it was sardonically nicknamed the "Machine à Ramasser les Pétainistes" ("Machine for collecting Pétainists"). The MRP also dominated French foreign and colonial policies during most of the later 1940s and 1950s.
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" Michael O'Sullivan, a reviewer from The Washington Post called the film, "stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross." Los Angeles Times reviewer Kenneth Turan felt that it was difficult to make sense of the film, saying that it relied too heavily on the series' mythology. Lisa Alspector wrote that "Only two scenes in this spin-off are worth the time of followers of the TV series." Variety reviewer Todd McCarthy remarked, "As it is, the pic serves up set-pieces and a measure of scope that are beyond TV size but remain rather underwhelming by feature standards.
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EarthBound (1994), the second installment in Nintendo's Mother series of Japanese role-playing games, was released in North America in June 1995. Although Nintendo spent a sizable 2 million on marketing, it sold poorly—around 140,000 copies, as compared to twice as many in Japan. Journalists generally blame EarthBound failure to connect with American audiences on its atypical marketing campaign, which sardonically proclaimed "this game stinks" in reference to foul-smelling scratch and sniff advertisements. The game's poor sales have also been attributed to its simple, cartoonish graphics, the unpopularity of role-playing games at the time, and its high market price.
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Confused, Mainwaring proceeds to ask what he is talking about. He learns that Wilson has been made manager of the Eastgate branch, and the letter informing him of this has been destroyed in an air raid. Vexed, Mainwaring hangs up the phone only to receive another call from Colonel Pritchard from GHQ, informing him that Wilson's commission had come through and he had been made a second lieutenant in the Eastgate platoon. His anger growing, Mainwaring receives a call from the Vicar and sardonically asks him if he is about to tell him if Wilson has been made Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Needham was taken from the pillory alive, but died on 3 May 1731, the day before she was due to stand in the pillory (this time at New Palace Yard) for the second time. With her last words she apparently expressed great fear at having to stand in the pillory again after the severe punishment she had received the first time.Paulson (2003) p.98 The Grub Street Journal, the satirical journal allied with Alexander Pope and others of Hogarth's friends, sardonically reported that the populace "acted very ungratefully, considering how much she had done to oblige them".
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He listed specific, dramatic examples of exceptions to the president's notions: He subsequently addressed Reagan directly, sardonically calling him "Mr. President", and encapsulating his own message of vast inequality in America in a metaphorical allusion to Charles Dickens's novel, A Tale of Two Cities: Cuomo followed by suggesting that Reagan was unfamiliar with the realities of most Americans' lives and listing places—locations where people had not benefited from economic recovery—he could go to view such realities. This undermined the president's credibility and conjured up a series of emotional images. He utilized anaphora for emphasis: Cuomo paused as the audience applauded.
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The Pyramid in 1996 On 14 October 1988, the structure opened as the Enver Hoxha Museum, originally serving as a museum about the legacy of Enver Hoxha, the long-time leader of Communist Albania, who had died three years earlier. The structure was co-designed by Hoxha's daughter Pranvera Hoxha, an architect, and her husband Klement Kolaneci, along with Pirro Vaso and Vladimir Bregu. When built, the Pyramid was said to be the most expensive individual structure ever constructed in Albania. The Pyramid has sometimes been sardonically called the "Enver Hoxha Mausoleum", although this was never its intended use or official appellation.
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During the scene, Michael reads a suggestion from someone named Tom, who asks for better help for people with depression. After inquiring who this mysterious Tom is, Phyllis tells Michael that he worked in accounting until a year ago and committed suicide. Wilmore claimed during the DVD commentary for the episode that the writers would be bringing him back in the show's third season, in which his backstory would be explained, although this never panned out. However, during the Writer's Block Q&A; session at The Office Convention in 2007, the writers, perhaps sardonically, suggested that Tom's death was the reason that Ryan was brought in as a temporary worker.
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" In the 1997 Christopher Guest film Waiting for Guffman, dentist Allan Pearl discusses his family history with show business: "I think I got a, a, an entertaining bug... from my grandfather... uh, Chaim Pearlgut, who was very very big in the, um, Yiddish, uh, theater, back in New York. He was in the, the very... the sardonically irreverent..."Dybbuk Shmybbuk, I Said 'More Ham... and that revue I believe was 1914, and that revue was what made him famous. Incidentally, the song 'Bubbe Made a Kishke' came from that revue." The was featured as the main antagonist in the horror films The Unborn (2009), The Possession (2012) and Ezra.
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His career is examined in the Reputations strand on TheatreVoice.Assessments (2008) by Michael Billington, Richard Boon, Richard Eyre, Charles Spencer and Dominic Cavendish; He is particularly well known for incisive commentary on the problems of public institutions. Raymond Williams once said, sardonically, that the public services are largely managed by the nation's "upper servants". Hare addresses this group, providing an analysis of the workings of the institutions: he is, he has said, interested in the struggle to make procedures work better - right now - not in waiting until some revolution, somehow, sometime, comes about to raze the current system altogether, to replace it with perfection.
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Among the weapons she has used were a .50 caliber Barrett M82, SPAS-12 shotgun disguised as an umbrella (reinforced with Kevlar), machine gun, and semi-automatic grenade launcher hidden in a suitcase, Trench knife, and twin IMBEL Model 1911 pistols (see Colt M1911 pistols). Her strength, speed, endurance, and instincts were honed to almost superhuman levels, so much so that Rock at one point refers to her sardonically as "a killer robot from the future" (a reference to James Cameron's Terminator movies). At one point in the manga she was also described as the only person worthy of inheriting the title "Jackal" from Carlos.
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Siegfried Kühl, Der archaische Erz-Engel vom Heiligense, 1989, sculpture in homage to Hannah Höch in Berlin-Reinickendorf Höch was a pioneer of the art form that became known as photomontage and of the Dada movement. Many of her pieces sardonically critiqued the mass culture beauty industry of the time, then gaining significant momentum in mass media through the rise of fashion and advertising photography. Many of her political works from the Dada period equated women's liberation with social and political revolution.Maud Lavin, "Androgyny, Spectatorship, and the Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch", New German Critique, No. 51, Special Issue on Weimar Mass Culture (Autumn, 1990), pp.
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Action of 22 September 1914 On 16 July 1914, the crew of U-9 reloaded her torpedo tubes while submerged, the first time any submarine had succeeded in doing so. On 1 August 1914, Kapitänleutnant Otto Weddigen took command. On 22 September, while patrolling the Broad Fourteens, a region of the southern North Sea, U-9 found a squadron of three obsolescent British Cressy-class armoured cruisers (, , and , sardonically nicknamed the "Live Bait Squadron"), which had been assigned to prevent German surface vessels from entering the eastern end of the English Channel. She fired four of her torpedoes, reloading while submerged, and sank all three in less than an hour.
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A petition called "Artists against the Eiffel Tower" was sent to the Minister of Works and Commissioner for the Exposition, Adolphe Alphand, and it was published by Le Temps on 14 February 1887: A calligram by Guillaume Apollinaire Gustave Eiffel responded to these criticisms by comparing his tower to the Egyptian pyramids: "My tower will be the tallest edifice ever erected by man. Will it not also be grandiose in its way? And why would something admirable in Egypt become hideous and ridiculous in Paris?" These criticisms were also dealt with by Édouard Lockroy in a letter of support written to Alphand, sardonically saying,Harvie, p. 99.
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Her friend Dr Sweet had been appointed to an associate professorship in 1919, the first female to hold such a position at the University, though only after being passed over in the search for a full professor to succeed Baldwin Spencer, despite extensive support and recommendation from within the local and international academic community. Discrimination against women in academia was not uncommon at the time. In a speech to the University's Historical Society in 1928, reported in Farrago, Webb spoke sardonically of the systematic exclusion of women from the archaeological profession. Webb's friend Ella Latham could no longer continue in her own teaching career after her marriage.
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In 2013, he played himself in a scene on the NBC series "Smash", having also previously figured in a plot line involving his gossip writing. In May 2013, Musto was laid off from The Village Voice, but in 2016, he was back as an entertainment correspondent, writing three cover stories that year. Musto was a regular commentator on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann, where he sardonically skewered the antics of Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other scandalous celebrities du jour. Starting in 2015, Musto became a recurring panelist on Logo TV's "Cocktails and Classics," which involved showing well known films and offering campy commentary on them.
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Albert Speer and his Armament Ministry, meanwhile, had taken over almost all the expertise relating to armament issues. Of note, during the autumn of 1943 (Paulus surrendered at Stalingrad in January 1943), Hitler asked for a projection over the progress the Germans might expect to make in the near term. Chief of the Operations Staff for the OKW, Colonel- General Alfred Jodl submitted the report to Hitler as commanded, but Hitler became irate when the estimates were given to him, reflecting back sardonically on earlier calculations made by General Thomas who "rated the Soviet war potential as high."Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, pg. 303.
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Furthermore, Lanata revealed that a vault holding cash and sensitive documents was emptied and refitted as a wine cellar. One of the workers who took part in the conversion of the vault into a wine cellar took photos to protect himself, fearing he was involved in an illegal activity. Lanata sardonically congratulated Báez, who only a few years earlier had been a low-level bank employee, for amassing a fortune quicker than Henry Ford or Bill Gates. Lanata also devoted some attention on his program to the Argentine judges and prosecutors who were reluctant to take the case, since it had been transferred to Río Gallegos courts, which were known to have Kirchner ties.
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Oakeshott, who rarely responded to critics, used an article in the journal Political Theory to reply sardonically to some of the contributions made at a symposium on the book.M. Oakeshott, "On Misunderstanding Human Conduct: A Reply to My Critics," Political Theory, 4 (1976), pp. 353–67. In his posthumously published The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism Oakeshott describes enterprise associations and civil associations in different terms. An enterprise association is based on a fundamental faith in human ability to ascertain and grasp some universal "good" (leading to the Politics of Faith), and civil association is based on a fundamental scepticism about human ability to either ascertain or achieve this good (leading to the Politics of Scepticism).
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They are all after gold and will stop at nothing until they get it. Richard T. Jameson writes “Leone narrates the search for a cache of gold by three grotesquely unprincipled men sardonically classified by the movie’s title (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach, respectively)”. The film deconstructs Old West Romanticism by portraying the characters as antiheroes. Even the character considered by the film as ‘The Good’ can still be considered as not living up to that title in a moral sense. Critic Drew Marton describes it as a “baroque manipulation” that criticizes the American Ideology of the Western, 22 October 2010 by replacing the heroic cowboy popularized by John Wayne with morally complex antiheroes.
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Despite their relatively minor commercial success (their third album was sardonically titled They Could Have Been Bigger than the Beatles), the Television Personalities are highly regarded by critics and have been widely influential, especially on the C86 generation, on many of the bands signed to Creation Records in the 1990s, and on American artists such as PavementBuckley (2003), 106 and MGMT. Treacy's unconventional but dryly witty and culture infused lyrics, have led to his reputation as a seminal and iconic figure within the independent music scene. In 2006 music critic Cam Lindsay described Treacy as having "recorded some of the most bizarre, unlistenable and brilliant pop songs in the last three decades".Lindsay, Cam.
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Graham survives, but is left with disfiguring facial scars and implicit irrecoverable psychological damage. Soon afterward, he receives a note from Lecter sardonically wishing him "a speedy convalescence" and hoping Graham "won’t be very ugly", which Crawford destroys. Will Graham is briefly referred to in The Silence of the Lambs, the sequel to Red Dragon, when FBI Academy student Clarice Starling notes that "Will Graham, the keenest hound ever to run in Crawford's pack, was a legend at the Academy; he was also a drunk in Florida now with a face that's hard to look at..." Crawford tells her that "[Graham's] face looks like damned Picasso drew it." When Starling first meets Lecter, he asks her how Graham's face looks.
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Themed around an idiosyncratic portrayal of Americana and Western culture, EarthBound subverted popular role-playing game traditions by featuring a real world setting while parodying numerous staples of the genre. Itoi wanted the game to reach non-gamers with its intentionally goofy tone; for example, the player uses items such as the Pencil Eraser to remove pencil statues, experiences in-game hallucinations, and battles piles of vomit, taxi cabs, and walking nooses. For its American release, the game was marketed with a $2 million promotional campaign that sardonically proclaimed "this game stinks". Additionally, the game's puns and humor were reworked by localizer Marcus Lindblom, and the title was changed from Mother 2 to avoid confusion about what it was a sequel to.
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April Ludgate's parents, Larry (John Ellison Conlee) and Rita (Terri Hoyos) are, in contrast to April's sarcastic and apathetic personality, extremely enthusiastic and positive people, who affectionally call their daughter Zuzu. Rita is from Puerto Rico, which April sardonically claims is what makes herself so "lively and colorful", while Larry bares more than a passing resemblance to Ron Swanson; otherwise, however, Larry and Rita represent the archetypical Midwesterner couple. Their other daughter and April's younger sister, Natalie (Minni Jo Mazzola), is much more like April in personality: she is sullen, dismissive of others and seemingly uninterested in everything around her. The Ludgate family is first introduced in "94 Meetings", when Ron met them after coming to the Ludgate home to speak with April.
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Advance Publication Newsletter; Volume Seventeen, Number 3 Penguin Group (USA) Cecil Adams is affectionately known to readers and fans (and sometimes refers to himself) as Uncle Cece. The column was syndicated in 31 newspapers in the United States and Canada and has been continued as a website. The aim of the column, and now the website, is to spread general knowledge and everyday rational thinking, using a very strong and characteristically quirky sense of humor - some of it self-deprecating. Billed as the "World's Smartest Human", Adams responded to often unusual inquiries with a high degree of humor (often directed against the questioner, sometimes sardonically), and at times carried out exhaustive research into obscure and arcane issues, urban legends, and the like.
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A reporter for the Locomotive Magazine sardonically described the convention scene on February l, 1851: Along with its intended role as a meeting and ceremonial space for the city's Freemasons, the hall's main auditorium became the first large-scale venue in the city for speakers, entertainers, debates and presentations. Despite Freemasonry's strict rules forbidding the discussion of politics in their meetings, such restrictions did not extend to the use of their auditorium. In 1853, the Masonic Hall hosted fiery demonstrations and presentations by the city's black leaders and white anti- slavery speakers in opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act. The events were touched off by charges leveled against John Freeman, an Indianapolis house painter wrongfully accused of being a runaway slave.
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The party revolt turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Smith, Berlyn comments, as it allowed him to "shed the dead wood of the right wing", giving him more freedom in negotiations with the nationalists. The need for a settlement was becoming urgent—the war was escalating sharply, white emigration was climbing and the economy was starting to struggle as the UN sanctions finally began to have a serious effect. alt=A portrait photograph of Abel Muzorewa In March 1978, Smith and non-militant nationalist groups headed by Muzorewa, Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau agreed what became the "Internal Settlement", under which the country would be reconstituted as Zimbabwe Rhodesia in June 1979 after multiracial elections. ZANU and ZAPU were invited to participate, but refused; Nkomo sardonically dubbed Smith's black colleagues "the blacksmiths".
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One reviewer has commented: "To call Kullervo dark and brutal does not do full justice to the opera", citing the love of Kullervo's mother, friendship with Kimmo, even humour from the hunter. However, another, describing the premiere, wrote that "not every new opera packs so immediate a punch, or leaves one feeling - as with the works of Janáček - at once depressed at so bleak a view of the world [...] yet inspired and even elated by the dispassionate passion with which that view has been expressed". The music has "a strong tonal basis" and "colourful effects enhanced by some imaginative instrumentation". Another critic noted that there "is not a superfluous quaver in Kullervo" and admired the "sinuously coiled melodies [...] quirky ostinato figures, long-held pedal- points, sardonically percussive setting of arioso dialogue".
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Many Allied personnel in Italy had reason to be bitter, as the bulk of material support for the Allied armies went to Northwest Europe after the invasion of Normandy. They also noted sardonically that they had participated in several "D-days" of their own before the landings in Normandy became popularly known as "D-Day". The expression was used to refer to the day that any military operation began (with "H-hour" being the specific start time of an operation beginning on D-day), but the popular press turned it into an expression synonymous with the Normandy landings only. Italian campaign veterans noted that they had been in action for eleven months before the Normandy landings, and some of those had served in North Africa even before that.
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" Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave Get Out a 3.5 out of 4, and called it a "jolt-a-minute horrorshow laced with racial tension and stinging satirical wit." Scott Mendelson of Forbes said the film captured the zeitgeist and called it a "modern American horror classic". Critic Armond White, who is African American, gave a negative review in National Review, referring to the film as a "Get-Whitey movie" and stating that it "[reduces] racial politics to trite horror-comedy ... it's an Obama movie for Tarantino fans." The New York Observer critic Rex Reed included the film on his list of 10 Worst Films of 2017, and later sardonically stated in a CBS Sunday Morning interview, "I didn't care if all the black men are turned into robots.
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Donnelly named the band Nun Attax, and they began playing covers of punk rock songs such as "Teenage Kicks", "Pretty Vacant" and tracks by the Damned in Keith O'Connell's bedroom. According to Philip O'Connell, "The punk thing was about doing your own thing and not following what went before, not doing the 12-bar blues that everybody else seemed to be doing... Loads of people around us were into Status Quo, but we thought they were a bunch of muppets." Finbarr Donnelly in the late 1980s While other emerging Cork bands centred on University College Cork, the members of Nun Attax mostly came from the working-class north side, having attended what they sardonically termed "University College Churchfield". They developed a following among Cork's students and residents of the middle-class south-side suburbs.
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"Bernie Farber is not gay" by Corvin Russell, Canadian Dimension, 12 July 2009 Zerbisias commented on Farber's decision to march as itself being a political act by sardonically writing in the comments thread of her blog, "Imagine my surprise when I saw Bernie Farber identifying himself as queer by joining a pro-Israel gay rights group in the parade." The Canadian Jewish Congress responded by filing a complaint with the Toronto Star against Zerbisias for allegedly "outing" Farber."I’d like to reply to that Editor’s Note", Mark Steyn, Maclean's Magazine, 6 May 2010 The Star's public editor, Kathy English, ruled that Zerbisias' comments "fell short of the Star's standards of fairness, accuracy and civility," and promised to rein in journalists who "put the Star in a negative light." Readers lamented the Toronto Star's sudden lack of humour and appreciation for one of its own columnists.
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Recorded in the aftermath of Ochs's presence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago (where Ochs claimed to have witnessed the symbolic "death of America") it is often considered to be the darkest of Ochs's albums, exemplified not just by the lyrical matter but also by its cover: a tombstone sardonically proclaiming that Ochs had died in Chicago. Rehearsals for Retirement saw Ochs exploring folk rock, incorporating orchestral accompaniments and electric guitar into his music. According to English studies scholar David Pichaske, songs such as "Pretty Smart on My Part" and "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns" functioned as "art-protest songs". The former was written from the perspective of a John Birch Society member who is paranoid of switchblade-toting thieves, foreign operatives, dissident hitchhikers, and dominant, large-breasted women, and acts on this paranoia by killing them and others with a rifle and his friends from the NRA.
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Writing for The Washington Post, writer Manuel Roig-Franzia sardonically suggested that the phrase did not exist and had never before been used until President Barack Obama used it during an interview with Meet the Press on 6 December 2008.President Obama on Meet the Press to describe projects for his stimulus plan during a Meet the Press interview - Obama Brings "Shovel-Ready" Talk Into Mainstream by Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post (8 January 2009) Obama used the phrase to describe infrastructure projects that were ready to immediately receive stimulus funding of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009."The Obama Buzzword That Hit Pay Dirt", Washington Post Later, other commentators suggested the phrase denoted projects which were able to begin construction within a specific time- frame of three or four months"Shovel ready" projects aim to get money working fast by Robert Gavin, Boston Globe (20 January 2009) on a use it or lose it basis.
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At her call to instant revolt against the odious tyrant the whole populace assembles, in wildest turmoil: Luzio, arriving on the scene at this juncture, sardonically adjures the throng to pay no heed to the ravings of a woman who, as she has deceived himself, assuredly will dupe them all; for he still believes in her shameless dishonour. Fresh confusion, climax of Isabella's despair: suddenly from the back is heard Brighella's burlesque cry for help; himself entangled in the coils of jealousy, he has seized the disguised State-holder by mistake, and thus leads to the latter's discovery. Friedrich is unmasked; Marianne, clinging to his side, is recognised. Amazement, indignation, joy: the necessary explanations are soon got through ; Friedrich moodily asks to be led before the judgment-seat of the King on his return, to receive the capital sentence; Claudio, set free from prison by the jubilant mob, instructs him that death is not always the penalty for a love- offence.
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When Bugs orders that his tail be put back, it is replaced with a horse's tail, and when Bugs states a horse's tail belongs on a horse, the animator erases Bugs's body and redraws him as a horse. Bugs, while standing on two hind legs and eating a carrot, points out to the animator that this misinterpretation will not make his employers happy, seeing that his contract clearly says he is to be drawn as a rabbit, allowing the animator to pretend to comply with what Bugs is telling him by erasing Bugs's horse body and redrawing him as a more abstract, simplified rabbit with big cheeks and feet. Bugs warns the animator that this latest bit of teasing can lead to serious consequences for both of them, which leads the animator to draw him back to normal. When Bugs sardonically asks the animator if he wants to paint him into a grasshopper, the animator takes out a brush and Bugs quickly takes it back.
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" Furthermore, Vitaris criticized several plot holes in the episode, including Mulder's easy entrance into the Department of Defense and the character's antics, such as his attack on Ostelhoff. However, despite the overall negative review, Vitaris did mention that, "There's only one truly galvanizing scene, as that's the confrontation between Scully and Skinner after he follows her to the lab where she is performing her DNA test." Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode one star out of five. The two heavily criticized the "Skinner-as-traitor" plot, noting sardonically that "the production team aren't going to do [reveal he is the antagonist], and the shock 'villain in the room' reveal will be Section Chief Blevins–a character so important in the framework of the series that, barring his appearance in the Season Four finale, we haven't seen him in ninety-four episodes.
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William James was a 19th-century philosopher and psychologist. William James, in his 1880 lecture "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment",James, William (1880), "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and the Environment" published in the Atlantic Monthly, forcefully defended Carlyle and refuted Spencer, condemning what James viewed as an "impudent", "vague", and "dogmatic" argument. James' defence of the great man theory can be summarised as follows: The unique physiological nature of the individual is the deciding factor in making the great man, who, in turn, is the deciding factor in changing his environment in a unique way, without which the new environment would not have come to be, wherein the extent and nature of this change is also dependent on the reception of the environment to this new stimulus. To begin his argument, he first sardonically claims that these inherent physiological qualities have as much to do with "social, political, geographical [and] anthropological conditions" as the "conditions of the crater of Vesuvius has to do with the flickering of this gas by which I write".
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Beckett relates the game in full English notation, complete with a comically arch commentary. Moving between Ireland and England, the novel is caustically satirical at the expense of the Irish Free State, which had recently banned Beckett's More Pricks Than Kicks: the astrologer consulted by Murphy is famous 'throughout civilised world and Irish Free State'; 'for an Irish girl' Murphy's admirer Miss Counihan was 'quite exceptionally anthropoid'; and in the General Post Office, site of the 1916 Rising, Neary assaults the buttocks of Oliver Sheppard's statue of mythic Irish hero Cúchulainn (the statue in fact possesses no buttocks). Indeed, the censor is roundly mocked: Celia, a prostitute whose profession is described tactfully in a passage by the author, who writes that "this phrase is chosen with care, lest the filthy censors should lack an occasion to commit their filthy synecdoche." Later, when Miss Counihan is sitting on Wylie's knee, Beckett sardonically explains that this did not occur in Wynn's Hotel, the Dublin establishment where earlier dialogue took place.
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M14 The M14 rifle is an American design, made to replace the M1 Garand, which was used as the basis for the M14. It is a fully automatic weapon, firing 7.62x51mm NATO from 20 round box magazines, and was primarily used during the Vietnam War, but once deployed into combat, there were complaints about the weapon's performance, predominantly that it was too difficult to control in full auto, its profile was too long, and the weapon was generally unreliable - a 1962 Department of Defense report described it as "completely inferior" to the M1 Garand. The M14 was eventually replaced by the M16 assault rifle which was a controversial decision - the M16's own lack of reliability, combined with the fact its was much smaller and lighter, and made almost entirely of plastic, lead some soldiers to sardonically describe the rifle as the Mattel 16. Despite initial shortcomings, however, the M16 remains in American military service to this day, and it is the most produced rifle in its caliber.
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The Dalai Lama had not agreed to this attack and at first he refused to help, making various excuses and pointing out that Rapten did not approve of magic rituals, having earlier curtailed his studies of them under Zur. Perhaps sardonically, he suggested Sonam Rapten should do the Gelugpa rite of Yamantaka, the wrathful form of Manjushri. Losing patience, Sonam Rapten pointed out that the practice of Yamantaka had failed to prevent the disastrous attacks on Lhasa by the Tsangpa forces in 1618. He expressed his contempt for Nyingma practices telling him curtly: “So practise Nyingma, then! The proverb says: ‘If it heals the wound, even dog fat is fine!’” On this, the Dalai Lama comments wryly in his Dukula: “Another proverb says: ‘When one needs stone, it is the Lord of Stone; when not, it is merely a lump of rock!’” In any case he relented, consulted Zur and performed an elaborate rite, which seems to have been successful. The Bonpo King was duly defeated and executed and all his prisoners released.
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With smugness (as Natalie explicitly points out to the reader as the narrator), Ludlow presents his evidence through a series of false summations that clearly mock Adrian Monk's famous "Here's What Happened" summations: He explains their motive as, on Sharona's part, a desire to rid herself of her husband, and on Natalie's part, a desire to get Sharona out of the way and keep her job as Monk's assistant. Ludlow's first summation is against Sharona, saying that the one person who could set up an eBay account in Trevor's name and plant the stolen goods in his truck was her. Ludlow arrogantly declares that Sharona had 'unfettered access', and that in her 'most brazen act' she told Lieutenant Dozier how she did it. Next, he sardonically inquires why Sharona never called Adrian Monk in to investigate the homicide, and immediately concludes by saying that it's because Monk is so brilliant a detective, he would have pieced together the clues that Sharona killed Ellen Cole, then, Ludlow focuses on Natalie.
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He is mentioned in the BBC TV series The Office during a motivational speech by David Brent (Ricky Gervais), by The Toy Dolls in a song called Yul Brynner Was A Skinhead, in an episode of Little Britain in which a bald character is likened to the swimmer, in The Mighty Boosh when a peacock crashes into his back in a speech made by Naboo, and also in the Welsh psychedelic rock group, Sen Segur's song "Taith Duncan Goodhew" from their first EP, 'Pen Rhydd'.. He recorded a charity single with Melbourne’s very own Martin Enright which briefly featured in the top 100 record charts. He is also sardonically mentioned in the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Longest Night" by Tom Clark, the head security officer of the fictional Top Buyer Superstores. He is mentioned in the song 'Shaven Haven' by Kunt and The Gang and was also featured in The Macc Lads song "Al O'Peesha". He appears in several episodes of Dave Gorman's Important Astrology Experiment, after Dave was instructed to befriend somebody with his initials, but whose life was very different.
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Eric Berne in his best-selling Games People Play readily acknowledges Potter's Gamemanship as a precursor: 'Due credit should be given to Stephen Potter for his perceptive, humorous discussions of manoeuvres, or "ploys", in everyday social situations'.Eric Berne, Games People Play (Penguin) p. 58 Elsewhere he calls Potter 'the chief representative of the humorous exposition of ulterior transactions'.Eric Berne, The Structure and Dynamics of Organizations and Groups (1973) What has been termed Potter's "blend of flat and serious tone (reminiscent of a gentlemanly sports handbook) united with a sceptical judgement of the values of the English middle-class social scene"Angus Ross, in David Daiches ed., The Penguin Companion to Literature I (Penguin 1971) p. 426 would thus seem to have fed into Berne's own "sardonically humorous Games People Play ... con-games of daily life that Dr Berne describes with desperately penetrating gallows-wit".G. Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke Vol I (Herts 1973) p. 20 Potter's ' Game Leg..."Limpmanship", as it used to be called, or the exact use of minor injury'Stephen Potter, The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (London 1947) p.
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However, while Hogan, Hall, Nash, Steiner, Lex Luger, Konnan, Buff Bagwell, Eric Bischoff and Miss Elizabeth were part of the new "nWo Wolfpac Elite" [note: Sting and Rick Rude, who were members of the Wolfpac and nWo Hollywood, respectively, prior to this nWo reunion, were both on hiatus during the nWo factions reuniting and were never included in the new now-heel stable], the undercard wrestlers in the nWo (The Giant, Curt Hennig, Horace Hogan, Stevie Ray, Brian Adams, Scott Norton, and Vincent) were still in the black and white colors of nWo Hollywood and never were officially assimilated back into the group. The nWo Wolfpac Elite quickly began to "trim the fat" by eliminating a few guys from the newly reunited nWo entirely (first, Konnan and The Giant were both [separately] kicked out on the January 11 episode of Nitro; and then Hennig was kicked out on the January 25 episode of Nitro). The subtractions of The Giant and Hennig from the nWo "black and white" left a short-lived group sardonically labeled the nWo B-Team by fans and commentators. This "B-Team" was a staple of WCW programming throughout 1999, and it officially consisted of Stevie Ray, Brian Adams, Vincent, Horace, and Scott Norton.
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Translator John Nathan, in his memoir Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere writes: > My completed translation was due on January 1, 1965, and I was still > struggling to contrive an English title for the book. Mishima’s title was an > untranslatable pivot on the word “tugging,” as in tugboat. Literally it > meant “tugging in the afternoon,” Gogo no Eiko. The Japanese word for > “glory,” written with different Chinese characters, is a homonym for > “tugging” that every Japanese could be counted on to register upon reading > the title. In the closing line, as the sailor drinks the drugged tea that > will deliver him into the murderous hands of the children who plan to “tug” > him back to the glory he has renounced, the narrator sardonically evokes the > double entendre: “Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.” > All I had to show for months of worrying this was “Drag-out” or, more > cleverly, as I thought, “Glory Is a Drag.” I sent my solutions off to > Strauss, who responded in a comic note dated December 2, 1964: > I think you are on the right track with your proposed title, DRAG OUT, but > not quite in that form. It lends itself to cheap jokes.
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