Mr. Stern takes the sardonic view that such efforts tend to be the fads of social engineers.

His own sardonic view of life needed the antidote.

"Harmony" was his professed aim in his work, even if at times he took a very sardonic view of the Parisian public.

At a distance is Arbus's sardonic view of a Westchester couple sunning in twin chaises longues on their ample lawn.

They present an often sardonic view of why certain stocks have hit their 52-week highs.

Jonathan Raban's is an unusually generous and sardonic view of the United States, like a vicarious summer vacation with a smart, pleasant English friend.

But the play, which opened yesterday at the Hudson Guild Theater, takes a sardonic view of its characters' basest motives.

But it's his sardonic views on his self-important neighbors that give this sophisticated series its unexpected and wholly delicious tartness.

It included "Detox Mansion," a sardonic view of a celebrity rehab center.

The Kanins are true to Kurosawa's sardonic view of the contortions men and women go through to protect their reputations or images or self-esteem.