Even seemingly highminded action must be probed by this sarcastic mistrust, until true motives are revealed.
Low scores were characterized by apathetic, indifferent, irritable, sarcastic, or denigrating behavior toward the child.
Sarcastic expressions are also considered in this chapter, and rightly so because they can be viewed as ambiguous.
Clearly she had not understood the sarcastic nature of the cooks' compliments.
That is why colonial society is such an appropriate field for sarcastic demystification.
An all too common feature of his discussion is a use of nearly malicious language for the description of particularly terrible facts, which is presumably intended to be sarcastic detachment.
Patchen's slightly humorous, sarcastic tone helps to avoid any sense of melodrama.
As we will see in section 3, the past tense is used here for reasons of discourse tentativeness, although it may also be meant to be sarcastic.