| Adams' sarcasm did not solely derive from his jealousy of Franklin's easy popularity, though that always rankled with him. |
| His merciless scorn, his blistering sarcasm, his rapier-like thrusts of irony must have made many an opponent squirm. |
| The music's lyricism, irony, sarcasm, and bittersweet triumph find the composer writing at white heat. |
| Hutton was thinking about such things as Mrs Cadwallader's sarcasms in Chapter 6 about the ill-assorted marriage. |
| It is easy in a slapdash manner to lavish sarcasms on a King who presented many tempting opportunities for satire. |
| What these words mean is difficult to determine, but clearly they are insulting, and clearly Shakespeare is the object of the sarcasms. |
