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Many of her pieces sardonically critique the mass culture beauty industry at the time gaining significant momentum in mass media through the rise of fashion and advertising photography.
Having established a problem, he then defines both dwelling and room in austere terms, sardonically referring to contemporary villas as buildings in which one stores furniture and living is incidental.
In crime writing and works about police misconduct, it has become something of a clich to sardonically refer to contempt of cop as the worst possible crime.
As with rubber-hose cryptanalysis, this is technically not a form of cryptanalysis; the term is used sardonically.
It was heavily marketed upon release via a promotional campaign which sardonically proclaimed this game stinks.
We are performing animals, he used to say somewhat sardonically.
Some post offices have even been known to sardonically play the song on in-house audio systems for the long lines of last-minute tax filers.
This bloc has been dubbed by some the shadow coalition or, sardonically, the coalition of the unwilling to be named.
