20 June 2015

• Sardonic:Characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering.
• But often the language itself had personality, and a clear voice came through: sardonic, witty, self-deprecating, with a tarp of sad earnestness over it, all of which I liked, so I found it easy to read the pages they gave me and to encourage them.  (Deb Olin Unferth)