And it's a kind of performative, sardonic, not-taking-oneself-too-seriously identity when you do that, because, you know, taking yourself too seriously is a no-no in British culture. Yes.
She missed him, missed his light flippant touch in anecdotes that made her shout with laughter, his sardonic grin that reduced troubles to their proper proportions, missed even his jeers that stung her to angry retort.
Scarlett had an uneasy feeling that this man who was not received was the only one present who knew what lay behind her wild gaiety and that it was affording him sardonic amusement.
And I think he was being sardonic there, but I think about that quote a lot with songwriters, because I do think there is something to the idea that you can burn through a lot of your ideas like pretty quickly.
He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
He's the perfect director to bring into the franchise at this moment, and he's sure to put his own frenetic, sardonic spin on the series with Hobbs and Shaw.