Yet although he did not rely on wit, or humour, or sarcasm in addressing a jury, he could use them to effect in cross-examination.
But with all his bitterness and sarcasm Lord Thurlow had a genuine sense of humour, as the following story of his Cambridge days illustrates--days when he was credited with more disorderly pranks and impudent escapades than attention to study.
It did seem to me there was a hint of sarcasm in her tone.
It was not a pleasant laugh, there was more sarcasm than mirth in it, or so it seemed, but why he should laugh at all I could not understand.
Antoine, forgetting his sarcasm in his anxiety to share his friend's good fortune.
It is very thoughtful of you to be so willing to sacrifice yourself," said the housekeeper, with all the sarcasm in her voice that she could manage and be understood at the same time; "but do leave that jug alone!
For Elizabeth Niton, her wig much awry, her old eyes and cheeks blazing, took up the cause of Diana with alternate sarcasm and eloquence.
Akenside felt this sarcasmso much, that he for a long time afterward refused to hold any intercourse with Baker.
You turn your sarcasm prettily,' he said mildly; 'but the sympathetic rejoicing was just what I wanted to avoid.
He could not tell whether it was sarcasm or earnest.
Lastly he directs his invective especially against his own city, Florence, and in words of bitter sarcasm upbraids her with the perpetual revolutions which hinder all good government.
Another playfulsarcasm on his thirst for information makes Dante address the shade and inquire as to his state.
With a slight tinge of sarcasm he asked: "Is there any man in our public life who is unapproachable from some direction or other?
There was a tinge of sarcasm in his voice that did not escape Kate.
The sarcasm of this reply did not escape even the dull-edged wits of the Irish drudge.
There is a stroke of sarcasm in the last sentence.
He had an honest belief that all public evils in State and Church must be endured until they dissolve away quietly under the influence of sarcasm and common sense, or until they are removed by the action of the responsible authorities.
His sarcasmwas not confined to his Praise of Folly or to his Colloquies.
But his vigour of style was deformed by a power of sarcasm which often invested the most sacred subjects with caricature and vulgarity; a boundless malignity against supposed errors.
Verily the good have their reward here below in a coat of self-complacency which is as impervious to the buffets of life as to the sarcasm of the worldly.
Such sarcasm were too shallow to be worth sounding even in disparagement.
You perhaps know," Seymour Michael went on, in a tone of which the sarcasm was lost upon its victim, "that Russia is living in hopes of some day possessing India?
But there was obviously no look of sarcasm in his eyes, nor the hint of a sneer in the even placidity of his voice.
Then he sinks again into a whisper full of menace which carries some cruel sarcasm to some quivering heart.
The innuendo at the King's foreign birth betrays the sarcasm underlying Pitt's effusive loyalty.
Yet even there he gave not way to momentary petulance or gushing passion; all seemed with him systematic sarcasm or habitual sternness.
That does not look like starvation," smiled Mr. Gryce, with the first hint of sarcasm he had allowed himself to make use of in this interview.
There was a gentle sort of sarcasm in the tone; only that, or so it seemed to me at the time.
Peggy witheringly; but her sarcasm furthers her cause as little as do her more serious reasonings.
Lute was an immune, so far as sarcasm was concerned.
There wassarcasm in this remark, sarcasm of which I should have been ashamed.
Sarcasm and scorn made his voice that of a stranger.
This passionate sarcasm of Venters brought no response, and the stony calm was as oil on the fire within him.
Guided by a sound discretion, sarcasmand satire are the most powerful weapons wielded by man.
It would have taken more than the laurels of Saratoga to heal the deep gashes my mind would have received from this keen sarcasm of the injured but patriotic and magnanimous Schuyler.
To effect this all the varied forms of eloquence were necessary--the rushing torrent of logic that overwhelms--the keen sarcasm that withers and the mild and winning persuasion that loads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarcasm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
