The house detective's piggy eyes surveyed her sardonically from his gross jowled face. His gaze moved on to sweep the spacious, well-appointed room, encompassing the Duke who faced them uncertainly, his back to a window.
Will himself had hung the tag " little" on the book; he referred to it sardonically and with secret pride as " the little book, " always giving the word " little" a special twist, as though he were putting a spin on a ball.
He has sharpened them in a thousand solitary walks; he has tested them in argument after argument, sitting in his corner, sardonically observant, over a late supper at the Southampton Inn.
(She was popularly perceived as so flawless that Rolling Stone titled a 2009 interview, possibly sardonically The Very Pink, Very Perfect Life of Taylor Swift.)