He copes with his unusual lifestyle by adopting a sardonic sense of humor and a thinly veiled contempt for most of his schoolmates.
en.wikipedia.org Instead, he provides a central figure (and location) for other more exciting characters and events - on which he provides a sardonic commentary.
en.wikipedia.org The manner of its telling the dispassionate, exact, almost starched prose, with its occasional glints of sardonic humor is an impressive achievement in itself.
en.wikipedia.org The film was a huge success and made him a major bankable star, cementing his screen image as an intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy.
en.wikipedia.org They are sardonic, angered, defensively difficult, or desperate; they want to entertain as thoroughly as, but not to resemble, television.
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