In "Going Once," for example, the spiel of an auctioneer selling an attractive and evidently willing woman turns into harshly sardonic commentary on sexual politics.

And sis, a high school freshman who looks older than her brother, delivers sardonic commentary and tries occasional self-analysis as she seeks her identity.

Recent reports that a Government study found the average Government servant worked only 27 minutes a day brought sardonic commentary in the newspapers here.

The 24-hour news culture has generated an attendant 24-hour crawl of sardonic commentary - nonstop naysaying footnotes to headlines for those who know where to look.

"Happy Days" is Beckett's sardonic commentary on the "tender mercies" of marital domesticity.

Between calls, these young people, working customer and managed accounts, would offer to the entire room a hip, sardonic commentary.

Instead, he provides a central figure (and location) for other more exciting characters and events - on which he provides a sardonic commentary.

He is known for his fast-moving and readable plots, sardonic commentaries on the upper classes and terse dialogue.

Through it all, Mr. Moore provides sardonic commentary, to which the soundtrack adds nudges and winks.

Goya's own sardonic commentary is "Those who reach 80 suck children; those under 18 suck grown-ups.