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Cleese is brilliant at using invective to highlight wit, satire, sardony and irony - which I think is its real virtue.
ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical ccfinlay 2007
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They also confuse the pretended posture of the writer with the writer's actual opinions, which are often concealed by irony, sardony and self-satire.
ccfinlay: Yes, The First Question Is Rhetorical ccfinlay 2007
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Your sardony bears the stain of the Old Republican mind: unfettered liberalism breeding questioning and hesitation when decisiveness is key.
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For this world of colossal heights and fathomless gulfs, of blinding snows, of primeval silence, of infinite revelation, of splendid lights upon manifold summits of opal, topaz, and sardony, all seemed to him the witness and visible manifestation of his most secret and dreadful thoughts.
Dreams and Dream Stories Anna Bonus Kingsford 1867
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Stately, simple, with a touch of light humor and sardony.
alexz commented on the word sardony
"Sardony has some resemblance to parsley; it contains a poison which is said to contract the mouth in so peculiar a manner, that the individual affected seems to laugh in expiring. This horrible laugh has been named, Risis Sardonicus, or Sardonic Laughter. It is that which we see playing on the lips of Satire, as those of cold Irony.
There was a devil lurking in his Sneer - Byron"
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page 257 has a floral poetry dictionary.
see clever comments at sardonic
February 28, 2017
qms commented on the word sardony
Sweet flora is apt to astonish us,
As nature is pleased to admonish us,
For sardony's breath
Makes mock of our death:
Her last laugh is risus sardonicus.
February 28, 2017