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irony as in: situational irony
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She didn't see the irony in acting like the mother she detested.
irony = when what happens is very different than what might be expected
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- Ironically, her strongest supporters undermined her popularity through their extremism.
- In each of these novels, the dislocation between our expectations and the reality constitutes a dual awareness, a kind of double-hearing that is the hallmark of irony. (source)
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"What happened?" Momma asks.
"Keep your damn voice down!" Ironically, she's not keeping hers down. (source)
- The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated. (source)
- Hans was sent first, quite ironically, to Stuttgart, and later, to Essen. (source)
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My father, Don Bell, came to California during the Dust Bowl from the Midwest and, ironically, worked for the same company farm where my mother was born.
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Ironically, at this point in the Games, my little sister would be of far more use to Peeta than I am.
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- I spoke of the irony of the Taliban wanting female teachers and doctors for women yet not letting girls go to school to qualify for these jobs. (source)
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--ironically, I'd never worn either when I'd actually lived in Afghanistan.
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McCandless's apparent salvation, in other words, seemed to be only a three-hour walk upriver. This sad irony was widely noted in the aftermath of his death.
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irony = knowledge that what happened was very different that what might have been expected
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Ironically, Garrett's mother was a guidance counselor at Trace Middle. Roy figured she used up her guiding skills every day at school and was too worn out to deal with Garrett when she got home.
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- In an ironic turn, I was now one of the ones in charge of them. (source)
- Almost all of the cases involved condemned people marked by the tragic irony that they were now nothing like the confused children who had committed a violent crime; they had all changed in some significant way. (source)
- It seemed a cruel irony that Teabing—a modern British knight—was a hostage in the search for his own countryman, Sir Isaac Newton. (source)
- Ironically, the feeling that things would be okay made him slightly uneasy. (source)
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[his legs] he could still feel pain, even though he could not move them, another one of ALS's cruel little ironies.
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ironies = things that wouldn't be expected together
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It was, she knew, the simplest kind of love, the purest form, untainted by Mind, which twisted everything, as Mrs. Shigemura, ironically, had preached.
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It was sort of ironic that while I was trying to decide this Lilly's brother came into the room.
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ironic = an entertaining coincidence when what happens is not what might be expected
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How ironic. This was the first time she'd ever been flirty with a boy in Rosewood—especially Noel—and she didn't even care.
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He wondered, briefly, if she was a doctor. He thought about the irony of that: First, do no harm. She didn't look like a person who'd created a monster,
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I attempt to look back up at him, lifting my hand over my eyes to shield the sun that's glowing over his head like a halo. How ironic.
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The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn't safe at home, not with all those guns around.
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here was one of life's giant ironies,
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Looking back, I find it ironic that she chose to read the letter at the exact moment that question popped into my head.
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I think it's pretty ironic that a big accounting firm can't even pay its own bills on time.
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- The bitter irony wasn't lost on Kate: The moment she finally admitted to herself she needed help, there was no help to be found. (source)
- Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence. (source)
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His name was Wolfe. Wolfe! And the irony of it was that he was as gentle as a lamb.
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And yet a mid-level painting like this, in poor condition—even an anonymous work —is worth more than a masterpiece, that's the irony of it, worth more to me, anyway.
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Mother thought it was extremely good because it describes a number of adolescent problems. I thought to myself, a bit ironically, "Why don't you take more interest in your own adolescents first!"
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ironically = in a manner indicating that what happened was very different than what might have been expected
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That's the irony of it. She's looking at me like I'm the crazy one, the dangerous one. Meanwhile, the guy downstairs who nearly fractured my skull and bled my brains all over the pavement is the savior.
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- You killed Desi so you had a new story, so you could come back and be beloved Amy and not ever have to take the blame for what you did. Don't you get it, Amy, the irony? (source)
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"Wasted in the waste," he said. "... You got to admit, it's pure world-class irony."
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irony = an amusing coincidence
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Those in violation of the decree, anyone whose statue was not in pristine condition, found themselves hauled off to Blaxik, where--in a bit of irony Redd found pleasing--they were forced to make the statues until death descended upon them.
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He tried to sound composed, ironic, like a man amused at some childish prank,
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ironic = as though amused that what happened is very different than what might have been expected
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'Are you getting the place ready for our concert on Saturday yet?' I asked.
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Belonging to the party was an obligation unless, of course, like Lio you wanted trouble for yourself and your family. ...the audience clapped politely. Except Minerva. Dede prodded her with an elbow and whispered, "Think of it as life insurance." The irony of it—she had been practicing for her future profession! [selling life insurance]
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Ironically, it's a condition that affects mostly white people.
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It's really ironic. I look great on the outside, but the tumors are on the inside.
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I note the irony of my being introduced to so rarefied an artistic community by a homeless man,
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Now it struck me as ironic that our family's seven-month trial began with an injury that occurred in the last game of our last tournament of the 2002 season.
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He thought it wonderfully ironic that hundreds of years later when Ian Fleming created James Bond, he gave Bond the same code name.
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Those lively feathers don't really match her personality, but ... she seems unaware that her outfit is ironic.
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The ironic part was that he warned himself each time he climbed onto the roof to keep an eye out for nests;
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- Only Hades kept his word, a fact that I find ironic. (source)
- When he was twenty-seven he took his master's degree with the dissertation 'On the Concept of Irony.' (source)
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"It's ironic," she told me.
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"It would perhaps have been better all around if you had said nothing." And he smiled to see that I understood with him the irony of this.
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When it became clear that the colonel could not be extracted from the Soviet Union, he himself urged CARDINAL to betray him. It was the final ironic joke of a brave man that his own death would advance the career of an agent whom he had recruited.
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- How ironic it is that as the humans advance, as their faith in science grows and controls their world, the more free we are from discovery. (source)
- Ironically, had she been attacked on a lonely street with just one witness, she might have lived. (source)
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Vanger smiled ironically. "Mikael, you don't know how right you are."
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ironically = enjoying that things are very different than might have been expected
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And there would be a pleasant irony in sleeping with a man Mrs. Willard had introduced me to, as if she were, in a roundabout way, to blame for it.
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- "When you're mm-m-m ironic, that ah-h-h suggests you're hm-m-m-m thinking deep thoughts," the Count said. (source)
- I thought how ironic it was that Jake's telescope could see stars a million light-years away, but not the town it was in. (source)
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I could see it in their faces, and the irony stung more than I expected it to. They'd taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.
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The third and related irony is that it's the most complex and neurotic and difficult women that I am invariably drawn to.
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...he just happened to install cable TV ... So it was, perhaps, ironic that I discovered... Dad Hadn't Paid His Cable Bill
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ironic = an entertaining coincidence when what happens is not what might be expected
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Ironically, Dracula had been one of my favorite books since I read it when I was thirteen.
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ironically = an interesting coincidence
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You cried in my arms, the guy who killed him. Ironic, huh?
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That's the irony. If we'd just held on a little bit longer …
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All along Dewey had argued that the mattress box had been placed on the floor for the comfort of Mr. Clutter, and taking heed of similar hints, other fragmentary indications of ironic, erratic compassion, the detective had conjectured that at least one of the killers was not altogether uncharitable.
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When I got home later that night I realized, irony of ironies, that I was locked out.
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"Hands off!!" it warned at the end, which was pretty ironic given what had happened a minute or so earlier [when R.V. lost his hands]
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I have always found it ironic that the people in this world who have the most to be thankful for are often the least thankful, and somehow the people who have virtually nothing, many times live lives full of gratitude.
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- Father would make my letter to Char come true. He would marry me off to an ancient man who would soon die and leave me enormously wealthy. The irony! I couldn't catch my breath. Tears ran down my face, and I didn't know whether I was laughing or crying. (source)
- I do wonder now if that was why I suddenly found the focus and the ability to go on, and to help Luke thwart the Uprising. It would be ironic if that was the case, considering why Valentine did it in the first place. But what he didn't know was... (source)
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It was ironic that the shot which finally got him in trouble was as big an accident as the shot that had made his fame.
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Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.
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ironies = things that are very different than what might be expected; or things that seem incongruous together
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You are strapped to a table, shaped, ironically, like a cross,
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In a flash of insight Franz saw how laughable they all were, but instead of cutting him off from them or flooding him with irony, the thought made him feel the kind of infinite love we feel for the condemned.
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The irony is so great. A whole city gets burned down, and thousands and thousands of people are killed. And then this one American foot soldier is arrested in the ruins for taking a teapot.
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[in a discussion of freedom] He said angrily (unaware of the irony that he, a prince, had a right to anger, and the old man, a peasant, did not).
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Ironic, I suppose, that just when his organization's endeavors had ceased to be global in theory and had become global in fact, a child had entered his life.
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- And thus, ironically, to keep them 'safe,' Mr. Morrow had been obliged to warn the Enemy of our movements. (source)
- I had brought Mahtob to Iran in one last desperate attempt to assure her freedom, and the irony was all too apparent now. (source)
- The great irony is that we told him the truth. And now we'll be punished for it. (source)
- The beautiful irony of Larry's family was that when something minor was amiss, it was as if the Titanic were going down, but when a real disaster struck, they were the people you wanted in your life raft. (source)
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Another soldier crosses himself, completely unaware of the irony of such a gesture from a soldier fighting angels.
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- First, I was struck by the irony of that statement. I mean, he used sexy and Duffy — implying I was fat and ugly — in the same sentence. The contrast was almost laughable. Almost. (source)
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I have a highly developed sense of irony.
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irony = ability to notice when what happens is very different than what might be expected (with amusement)
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This was Easy Company—a stinging irony, given its fate.
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...and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.
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The Horde referred to them as albinos because their flesh wasn't scaly and gray like a Scab's skin. Ironic, because they were all darker than the Horde.
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Then came President Bush, a scion of the East Coast establishment, ironically using a folksy Texas version of talkin' country as part of his political persona and winning in states far beyond the South.
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Within a few days we learned that Mr. Rice had volunteered for the army and would be leaving for the war soon after Christmas. In chorus one morning the irony of celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace suddenly seemed too much.
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- And there was utmost irony and outrage in lying under someone, in a position of surrender, feeling her own abiding strength and limitless power. (source)
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Incidents of my past, both recognized and ignored, sprang together in my mind in an ironic leap of consciousness that was like looking around a corner.
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There was a certain irony in the coincidence, an omen if one could believe in such things.
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It is ironic that this should be the case, particularly in view of what happened to the Andromeda Strain. But the Wildfire team staunchly ignored both the evidence of their own experience—that bacteria mutate rapidly and...
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- Don't you think it ironic that they're being used to sell products that none of them can afford? (source)
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Archie also knew that Janza would be willing to practically murder him in his sleep to get his hot hands on the picture. And the terrible irony--there was no picture after all.
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Ironically, one client turned out to be the Border Patrol. Juan's family was in the United States illegally, but he was nonetheless dispatched to Nogales to install access ramps at Border Patrol facilities.
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That's the irony of Josh and me, and it shames me every time I think about it. He has no family. No one to love him. I'm surrounded by love and I don't want any of it.
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I told myself it was bitter and ironic that my father needed to have a heart attack in order for some contact to be established once again between myself and Danny.
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- Ironically, these were all the things that my father forever wanted me to consider, and to what as a teenager I had disingenuously cried, "What about love?" (source)
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MARTHA (Ironically): But then George came along . . . along come George.
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...hugging her, by Someone's ironic grace, as though to never let her go. [when Ralph ran into his sister in America]
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irony as in: verbal irony
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She was being ironic when she said she couldn't wait to see you again.
ironic = saying one thing, while meaning the opposite
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- Her voice was dripping with irony as she said, "You look beautiful."
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Madge shoots him a look, trying to see if it's a genuine compliment or if he's just being ironic.
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"Then congratulations, you are already halfway to being a man," he said with no trace of humor, no irony, the compliment of the casually arrogant.
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NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.
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"You're too kind to us ... If you keep coddling us like this we'll think you like us."
Some of the others laughed into their microphones. Ender recognized the irony, of course, and answered with a long silence. When he finally spoke, he ignored Alai's complaint. "Again," he said, "and this time without self-pity." (source)irony = saying one thing while meaning the opposite
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"Hope, do you remember me?"
"How could I forget you?"
The irony is, I did forget him. Completely. (source)
- "There isn't any war." It was one of the few ironic remarks Phineas ever made, and with it he quietly brought to a close all his special inventions which had carried us through the winter. (source)
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She doesn't think the Clan Leaders, Meg 'n' Emily 'n' Siobhan, understand irony. They like rules too much.
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"So, you got a girlfriend?" ... "I mean, there's quite an array of babes to choose from." He meant this to be ironic. He couldn't picture ... Crake with one of them....
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The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator ... "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."
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- He was larger and more robust than Platt, with unBarbour like hair of a darker, cardboard-colored blond and a very unBarbour like smile on him as well—eager and bright with no irony about it. (source)
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He sought out the longest streets for his walks, and bowed to the Germans with indescribably ironic grace, happy when one of the soldiers, misled by his beaming face, gave him a civil greeting in return and smiled as if he were a good friend.
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Minou scowls at her aunt. "Are you making fun again?"
Dede shakes her head. ...
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- Wilde is the master of comic irony in both verbal and dramatic forms, and he succeeds because he pays attention to expectations. (source)
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"Screams, maybe. Animal howls. Oh, and laughter." She smiled. "And believe me, you don't want to find out what's laughing," she said, and added, without a trace of irony, "Sleep tight."
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Are you being ironic now?
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I thought you liked it when I was witty and ironic.
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Paul saw that the man was enjoying the stink of this air, that there was no irony in his tone.
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- I detected the slightest irony on the word "Coach," but I couldn't figure out any hidden meaning. (source)
- ...in Alphaville, you're not allowed to have deep feelings. So there's nothing like love. No contradictions, no irony. They do everything according to numerical formulas. (source)
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"Feather beds ain't his style."
He had meant it as blatant irony, since of course feather beds were exactly Jake's style, but the discussion was so solemn that his flourish went unnoticed. (source)irony = saying one thing while meaning the opposite -- as humor
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"I went to a special school," he said, wondering if she noticed the irony of his words. And then he found himself telling her about this special school that was not really a school at all,
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To clear the air Tomas came out with as sprightly a "Fine, just fine!" as he could muster, but he immediately felt that no matter how hard he tried (in fact, because he tried so hard), his "fine" sounded bitterly ironic.
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Farmer said, with sympathy, not irony, "That's all right."
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...and Marilyn Manson T-shirt, which I believe he is wearing to be ironic.
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No, I didn't think any of this was the least bit funny; nor was I interested in jailhouse irony anymore.
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Esther spun around, holding against herself a pink fifties-style dress with a full, stiff crinoline. How much will you bet me to wear this without any sense of irony?
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Helene says this without a trace of irony, and I wince at the sheer idiocy of the idea.
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"I expect to hear from the others . . ."
"Of course you will, and from all seven. They're all loyal Americans." There was unmistakable irony in his voice now, (source)
- For him, there was no irony when he said, "We, the People of the United States." (source)
- In an age of irony, an earnest statement is a target. (source)
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"Yes, ma'am."
"Polite as always. How was your summer?"
"You're the third person who's asked."
"Nonanswer. Try again."
"Hot."
"Still loquacious." She smiles.
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When he left us she bid him goodbye using his surname, with neither irony nor derision.
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Then GUIL claps solo with slow measured irony.
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He had a spacious yet discriminative style, flecked with sparks of irony.
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"The President is coming this afternoon. Wouldn't you like to see him?" ... I was careful to take all irony out of [my voice]. I said, "I would like to, citizen. But I have to go."
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DYSART: Mrs Strang, what on earth has got into you? Can't you see the boy is highly distressed?
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"I must say I didn't expect to see you here."
"I know," I fibbed, "but here I am, to thank you for your sisterly kindness and care." I let a slight note of irony sound within the sentence... (source)irony = saying one thing while meaning something else
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"Of course, Pat feels that teachers are afraid of me. I told him that no one should be afraid of me." Nor did he sense the irony in his words as he addressed the assembled crowd.
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irony = saying something in a context that demonstrates it to be false
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"The Corporation has been assured that the colonists are volunteers." It seemed to Rod that the announcer's tone was ironical. "This is understandable when one considers the phenomenal population pressure..."
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he remarked in a slightly ironic tone that obviously this was a "delicate topic" and he could enter into the young lady's feelings, but--and here his voice grew sterner--his duty obliged him to waive considerations of delicacy.
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"...I grant it, mon vieux ," said M. Bouc with a gesture of irony.
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So he said, "Yeah," with heavy irony, and incredulity was obvious upon his face.
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He spoke with incisive irony. "Tell a secret over the radio, publish it in a tabloid, but never tell it to a man who drinks more than three or four a day."
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Gawaine's mind did not move easily along the paths of irony, so he accepted the sneer as statement of fact.
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...asking at last, interrupting maybe, courteous and affable—nothing of irony, nothing of sarcasm—
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"Excellent, a hyena," said the Indian with an angry irony and a gesture at the night.
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She pronounced the "we" with a faint emphasis that gave it an ironic sound.
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"There's certainly no reason why you shouldn't," said Mrs. Morel, and she returned to her book. He winced from his mother's irony,
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The Father. ...I did it so that he should grow up healthy and strong...
The Step-Daughter [pointing to him ironically]. As one can see. (source)ironically = saying one thing, while meaning the opposite
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With a blank face Philip offered his congratulations, and Flanagan was so busy congratulating himself that he did not catch the note of irony which Philip could not prevent from coming into his voice.
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...he would cloak his words in a tone of irony, as though he did not altogether associate himself with what he was saying.
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- ...he spoke on a serious subject in a frivolous manner, pretending to be in earnest, but with an under-current of irony. (source)
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He went forward and opened the door for her, saying with tender raillery— "Why, maidy" (he frequently, with unconscious irony, gave her this pet name), "the prettiest milker I've got in my dairy; you mustn't get so fagged as this at the first breath of summer weather, or we shall be finely put to for want of 'ee by dog-days, shan't we, Mr Clare?"
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- "Please don't raise any objections. I am doing this for my own sake," she said ironically, letting it be felt that she was doing it all for his sake and only said this to leave him no right to refuse. (source)
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...he almost never addressed his daughter save in the ironical form.
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But good society, floated on gossamer wings of light irony, is of very expensive production; requiring nothing less than a wide and arduous national life condensed in unfragrant deafening factories, cramping itself in mines, sweating at furnaces, grinding, hammering, weaving under more or less oppression of carbonic acid, or else, spread over sheepwalks, and scattered in lonely houses and huts on the clayey or chalky corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary.
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"Whose fault is that?" said Lheureux, bowing ironically.
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... and with an accent of irony and insolence impossible to be described, he replied to d'Artagnan, "I was not speaking to you, sir."
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Ruskin praised the "tender and poignant" irony of Homer's calling the earth "life-giving" in this context.
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Verbal irony forms the basis for what we mean when we say irony.
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- "Yes," he said sincerely—vigorous nod, no irony, wiping his nose with the side of his hand. (source)
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"Together with you," she said, letting just the edge of the irony of it touch her voice.
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No embarrassment or playing it down, though; no irony now.
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- "Women like me have few skills they can sell." There's a hint of malicious irony in her voice. Does she know what he was thinking as she lay unconscious on his unmade bed? (source)
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She rolls her eyes and turns her attention back to me. "It's a shame when a body like that doesn't come with any brains," she whispers.
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It's he who is ironic, not me.
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Once in a while he'd come out with some hoary maxim, served up with a wry irony that did nothing to reduce the boredom quotient;
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"You've got the answers?" said Jimmy. He'd come to enjoy needling them, because who were they to judge? The artists, who were not sensitized to irony, said that correct analysis was one thing but correct solutions were another, and the lack of the latter did not invalidate the former.
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By the time we get to Wilde, we can have verbal irony that needs no alazon but that uses an assumed innocence as the basis against which it plays.
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Stop snivelling, son, says his father's voice. Pull yourself together. You're the man around here.
"Right!" Snowman yells. "What exactly would you suggest? You were such a great example!"
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But she shouldered her jute bag and, smiling weakly, said without a trace of irony, "You're a marvel, I think."
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Married women go to their doctors. Unmarried women do this.
The man in the drugstore tells me the results are positive. "Congratulations," he says, with disapproving irony. (source)irony = saying one thing while meaning the opposite
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I intend no irony or special mode.
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"Don't come any closer."
It was a strange thing to say. Tomas was not sure whether to interpret it as a sincere, friendly warning ( Watch out, we're being filmed; if you talk to us, you may be hauled in for another interrogation ) or as irony ( If you weren't brave enough to sign the petition, be consistent and don't try the old-pals act on us ). (source)
- "Nice veins!" he said with very genuine admiration. "No track marks!" Given his total lack of irony, I thanked him. (source)
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"That was great," I say to him.
"Glad you got something out of it," he says with irony.
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They sit and smoke their cigarettes and talk casually and with amused, semi-contemptuous irony about their friends, who have names like Mickie and Bobbie and Poochie and Robin.
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He assesses them with his shrewd, twinkly, ironic little eyes and calls them "sir," as if they're his graduate students.
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Cordelia's father sits at the head of the table, with his craggy eyebrows, his wolfish look, and bends upon me the full force of his ponderous, ironic, terrifying charm.
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I am a little mortified to discover that almost none of the above was apparently written with the faintest trace of irony...
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"Too bad," he said, again in tones of leaden irony, "too bad, my friends, that our celebration cannot continue in the vein of exalted homage I had intended for this evening."
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irony = saying something in a context that demonstrates it to be false
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"The President is coming this afternoon. Wouldn't you like to see him?" She was a local woman. Was there irony in her voice?
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He didn't understand irony.
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- When she gave him back the tickets he said, "Thank you, citoyenne." He spoke without irony; the woman's frown was replaced by a smile. And that seemed to have been the main point of the exercise—the woman wanted to be shown respect and to be called citoyenne. (source)
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Metty was there that day; but Ferdinand, when he told me I wasn't to show him anything, wasn't speaking ironically.
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Nobody in the world could put a gentle nuance of irony into a couple of words better than Poirot.
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Alex permitted himself the last luxury of irony.
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- "Yeah," Alex echoed, without irony, and added, "Up in Mason City." (source)
- The feeling was embodied in a slogan shouted in the streets and chalked up on walls: "Bread or fresh air!" This half-ironical battle-cry was the signal for some demonstrations that... (source)
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"Fact!" said General Forbes. "Heard it from old Bassington-ffrench. And he heard it from old Badger Cotterill who'd got it from Snooks Parker.'"
Miss Henderson nodded brightly. "That does seem to settle it!' she said."
A fleeting smile showed for a minute on the face of a small man sitting near them. Miss Henderson noticed the smile. She was observant. It had shown appreciation of the irony underlying her last remark... (source)irony = saying something that could be taken to mean the opposite of what was intended
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"Yeah, Tom, somebody was telling me you played a football game tonight."
But her irony was not the sort of thing Tom Stark would hear or understand, for he stood there in the midst of his own gleaming golden private fog of just being Tom Stark, who had played in a football game. (source)irony = saying one thing while meaning something else
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she remarked to Miss Bart with a faint touch of irony: "I suppose I ought to say good morning."
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There was no irony in her tone: she was merely stating a fact.
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- He, being in a hard, ironical mood ... in imitation of various people he was mocking. (source)
- "But I have the deepest respect for heroes," the Princess assented, though with a faint trace of irony. (source)
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"Oh, of course, there's no reason whatever," he said, frowning.
"That's just what I say," she said, willfully refusing to see the irony of his tone, and quietly turning back her long, perfumed glove. (source)irony = saying one thing while meaning the opposite
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...and suddenly Porfiry Petrovitch looked with obvious irony at him, screwing up his eyes and, as it were, winking at him.
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irony as in: dramatic irony
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The scene is filled with dramatic irony since the audience, unlike Romeo, knows that Juliet is not really dead.
dramatic irony = when the audience understands something not known to a character
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- The dramatic irony builds as we wait for her to realize he has betrayed her.
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There is a type of situation, which occurs all too often and which is occurring at this point in the story of the Baudelaire orphans, called "dramatic irony."
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dramatic irony = when the meaning of a situation is understood by one person, but not by another
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First, the entire play exists in what the late literary theorist Northrop Frye calls the "ironic mode."
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We are only hapless victims of that irony.
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- Well, I'm in the library parsing a Jane Austen novel looking for dramatic irony, while many of my old friends are dead or in jail. (source)
- You sit there among the elder gods, disturbed by no sound except the slight rale of the one who has asthma, and wait for them to lean from the Olympian and sunlit detachment and comment, with their unenvious and foreknowing irony, on the goings-on of the folks who are still snared in the toils of mortal compulsions. (source)
- Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting, and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story, (source)
- But we do; irony works because the audience understands something that eludes one or more of the characters. (source)
- ...but Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have such unfortunate lives that it was only a matter of time before dramatic irony would rear its ugly head. (source)
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Whereas normally in literary works we watch characters who are our equals or even superiors, in an ironic work we watch characters struggle futilely with forces we might be able to overcome.
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Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning.
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dramatic irony = when the meaning of a situation is understood by one person, but not by another
- For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony. (source)
- As you and I listen to Uncle Monty tell the three Baudelaire orphans that no harm will ever come to them in the Reptile Room, we should be experiencing the strange feeling that accompanies the arrival of dramatic irony.† (source)
- However, you and I remember that Uncle Monty's promise was laden with dramatic irony, and now, here in the early-morning gloom of the Reptile Room, that irony was going to come to fruition, a phrase which here means "the Baudelaires were finally to learn of it."† (source)
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- It was God, looking down with his blank, ironic searchlight of an eye.† (source)
- He said this without a hint of irony in his voice.† (source)
- I'm sure he was wearing it ironically.† (source)
- It was therefore a great irony that I found myself in a foreign city trying to make my way home way past my bedtime.† (source)
- It was slightly ironic that it was the Iranians who had saved the day by first admitting to some part of the CyberStorm, bringing the world back from the brink of destruction.† (source)
- Then he suddenly laughed in a heartfelt manner, without bitterness or irony, and reached across the table to squeeze his old friend's forearm.† (source)
- At a bar, she looked up at a mutual friend of ours and said, without a hint of irony, "You have a very small head."† (source)
- You're looking good," Lale says with the merest hint of irony.† (source)
- Perhaps the cruelest irony of losing Cassie the way we did is the fact that she never would have been at Columbine that day in the first place, had we not tried to rescue her by pulling her out of another high school, the one where she had begun the ninth grade, just two-and-a-half years before.† (source)
- The irony of the situation forced me to smile, featuring my newly cracked tooth.† (source)
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- It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.† (source)
- That I was involved in the cases of teens who'd committed violent crimes was itself ironic.† (source)
- The same café, ironically, that had cost me my job.† (source)
- There they were, spoken at last, and the irony crushed her.† (source)
- Ironically, Langdon had made this same point in a class lecture earlier this semester.† (source)
- The irony of the question struck him—he didn't even know who he was.† (source)
- There's a certain irony in that.† (source)
- Joe Odom remarked with an ironic smile that the way things seemed to be going lately, he and Jim might be trading places before long.† (source)
- Snape gave her an ironic bow and turned to leave.† (source)
- Sergeant Maples wasn't stupid—he told the court this about himself without a trace of irony—and so he learned all he could from Miyamoto, including the importance of bowing.† (source)
- It struck Dell as ironic that there were kids who didn't go to school, and they would be punished for not attending with the threat of being kicked out altogether.† (source)
- Ironically, as we discovered and distinguished ourselves, a new collective came into being—a vitality, a presence, a spirit that had not been there before.† (source)
- I felt a distant recognition of how these responses of mine could seem witty, or ironic, but I was dead serious.† (source)
- Satire"employs humor systematically for the purpose of persuasion Irony"counter to expectation Parody"close imitation that exaggerates ridiculous or objectionable features More Tuesday, French Today in G & T, in between showing me how to carry over, Michael Moscovitz complimented me on my handling of what he called the Weinberger Incident.† (source)
- They'd spent the day playing hangman-the irony of which, given her son's fate, wasn't lost on her.† (source)
- And, with the exception of Owen Meany and the Beatles, I remember that there was precious little irony.† (source)
- However, you and I remember that Uncle Monty's promise was laden with dramatic irony, and now, here in the early-morning gloom of the Reptile Room, that irony was going to come to fruition, a phrase which here means "the Baudelaires were finally to learn of it."† (source)
- Number forty-seven I have to read twice, for its irony.† (source)
- Which is ironic since we're officially engaged now.† (source)
- It is ironic, of course, because I know the answer now.† (source)
- Ironic coming from an expert hacker.† (source)
- I tell Heather she should push the fashion envelope just a teeny bit to be an ironic reflection of the 1950s, you know, innocence and apple pie.† (source)
- When Briony had shown her cousins the sales booth and the collection box the evening before, the twins had fought each other for the best front-of-house roles, but Lola had crossed her arms and paid decorous, grown-up compliments through a half smile that was too opaque for the detection of irony.† (source)
- Without a hint of irony in his voice, Ben answered, "Great talking to you!" and then closed the door.† (source)
- Ironically, had Mao died before launching the Cultural Revolution, he would surely be remembered today as a much more positive historical figure.† (source)
- An ironic smile twisted up his lips.† (source)
- Ironically, his struggle is the reverse of an actor's struggle—he strives not to entera part but to escape it.† (source)
- There's a very satisfying irony in that.† (source)
- Where no man has trod these five million years, into the very depths of time itself.... Marvin started his ironical humming again.† (source)
- Ironic for someone in the Mud People Possession Liberation business.† (source)
- Schindler was forced to agree, but ironically, that change was what saved our lives near the end of the war when Schindler argued that his "expert" workers had to be moved to Briinnlitz.† (source)
- ALBUS: The ironic thing is I didn't expect it to work.† (source)
- Her mouth twisted at the irony of it and she turned to the three girls at the water pump.† (source)
- 'Oh, no problem,'" he answered, ironically, in his own voice.† (source)
- I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom.† (source)
- Even so, it might not have led to anything—and this is a big irony, I suppose—if Miss Geraldine hadn't been taking the class that day.† (source)
- Brainy Ironic Girl and Boho Babe (the latest version of Frisbee Granola).† (source)
- It would have a certain irony.† (source)
- He coughed and shook his head and said, "Man, talk about irony.† (source)
- Basta shook his head and looked ironically at her.† (source)
- They made up the school teams, the cheerleading squads and most ironically, they were the school mascots: Joe and Josephine Aztec.† (source)
- knew he was dreaming then, and part of his mind enjoyed the irony of the script, but another part wanted only to waken.† (source)
- I was so happy I barely gave a second thought to the cruel irony that for this pregnancy we had rated one of the luxury suites but had hardly a moment to enjoy it.† (source)
- The businessman shrugged his shoulders and smiled ironically; he was still in good spirits.† (source)
- Her niece Minou has noted more than once the irony of Dedes "new" profession, actually embarked upon a decade ago, after her divorce.† (source)
- It is sort of ironic.† (source)
- Unlike good names, pet names are frequently meaningless, deliberately silly, ironic, even onomatopoetic.† (source)
- She laughed at the irony of it.† (source)
- Consider the possibilities for irony.† (source)
- "What's her problem?" asked Seivarden, apparently innocent of irony.† (source)
- You have your mother's appreciation for irony.† (source)
- The presence of Burnham, Root, and Harrison beside the Temperance stone was more than a bit ironic.† (source)
- Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.† (source)
- Ironically, we didn't actually fight all that much, but there was always a lot of tension.† (source)
- Ironically, in his decision, the judge cited the HeLa cell line as a precedent for what happened with the Mo cell line.† (source)
- There is something perfect and ironic about it, this land which I loved producing refined sugar.† (source)
- Ironically, with his insurrection Valentine made the Accords possible.† (source)
- Is this gift ironic, or serious?† (source)
- Pelt had to admire the response, not a trace of irony.† (source)
- That was ironic, he thought: the small crowd included a few newspaper reporters, and the Chinese officials seemed to be putting an unusual amount of faith in him, asking him to talk with the press.† (source)
- Like human receptionists, the daemon is especially bad at handling irony.† (source)
- Have a little irony, Paul , it's good for your blood.† (source)
- He accepted the ironic smiles of the owner of the house, Blanca's grimaces, and the perennial distraction of Clara, who, even after a year, was still asking him his name.† (source)
- An ironic situation faced me in the fall of 1968, for most of the top colleges in the country had contacted me with offers and enducements.† (source)
- I know, ironic gift, right?† (source)
- He has a kind of wry, ironic charm that is utterly winning.† (source)
- She found him evasive, without appetite at the table or in bed, prone to exasperation and ironic answers, and when he was at home he was no longer the tranquil man he had once been but a caged lion.† (source)
- She had a dry sense of humour, to put it mildly, which could prompt a crooked, ironic smile.† (source)
- Ironically, they beat my parents to New York.† (source)
- The Baron found it difficult to keep irony out of his voice and permit only the expression of hurt, but he managed.† (source)
- She gave Art a goofy grin, as if this were the most ironic thing anyone could have said about her.† (source)
- Immediately I found the title eerily ironic.† (source)
- Sometimes she sees a glimmer of independence—a raised eyebrow, a carefully worded, possibly ironic observation, like, "Well, we can't make a decision on that till the boss gets home."† (source)
- Dan thought of them as the art kids because they chain-smoked, dressed like Broadway extras, and wore ironic grandma glasses even though maybe only one in five of them actually had bad eyesight.† (source)
- Now, ironically, it was Hall's expedition that was in grave trouble, and other teams were in the position of having to come to our aid.† (source)
- Mr. Hickam, you have just learned a great lesson of life and this is it: Life is quite often ironic.† (source)
- There were those who professed not to see the irony of their inaction.† (source)
- The result was a cacophony of shape and color that the designer, with no detectable sign of irony, called Eclectic Deconstructionism.† (source)
- Irony means taking an objective or inverted view of oneself or of something belonging to oneself and discovering oddness in that.† (source)
- The flavorists with whom I spoke were charming, cosmopolitan, and ironic.† (source)
- There were people on the stoops, people shouting out of windows, and young men peered indifferently into the slow-moving cab, their faces set ironically and their eyes unreadable.† (source)
- Ironically, it was the Clinton administration (and a stingy Republican Congress at the time) that gutted American donations of condoms: from 800 million condoms donated annually during the George H. W. Bush administration to a low of 190 million in 1999.† (source)
- Ironic barely covers it.† (source)
- I backed up a few feet, realizing that, ironically, I was now standing almost exactly where Neferet had stood not long before.† (source)
- She thought it ironic that these would be her last words.† (source)
- "It's really ironic," said Ximena.† (source)
- What irony.† (source)
- "Oh thanks," I say ironically, and stuff it into my bag.† (source)
- When I got home later that night I realized, irony of ironies, that I was locked out.† (source)
- I knew that wherever he was, Red would enjoy the irony.† (source)
- Ironically, in spite of all the fear and remorse and self-loathing, being locked up in prison is where I fully realized I had to change my life for the better, and in one significant way I did.† (source)
- It's exciting to work with a kid who is so devoid of irony, so unguarded.† (source)
- Probably, too, Pea Eye had no Maggie—which was only another irony of his leadership.† (source)
- "Why, to play, I reckon," returned the young fellow ironically.† (source)
- But at Hancock's Beacon Hill mansion all was in order, as General Sullivan also attested, and there was a certain irony in this, since the house had been occupied and maintained by the belligerent General James Grant, who had wanted to lay waste to every town on the New England coast.† (source)
- He could just hear her asking him ironically why he didn't prefer Sabina's bed.† (source)
- The hint of irony in the smile grew darker, and he looked now not at the coastguard but at the coastguard's horse.† (source)
- I wished that I could disappear, but Mr. Grumbloch said in a voice that seemed to be filled with irony, "There is your daughter."† (source)
- J. T., the college-educated leader of his franchise, reported to a central leadership of about twenty men that was called, without irony, the board of directors.† (source)
- There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him.† (source)
- Cut off from the world, I found irony in some of the details that bothered me.† (source)
- "Professor McDaniels?" he said without irony.† (source)
- The irony of this certainly wasn't lost on me.† (source)
- The irony is that Jackie's pregnancy has made John Kennedy more devoted to his wife and family than ever before.† (source)
- Ironically, since the attacks, the sunsets have been glorious.† (source)
- He summoned as much irony as he could into his voice.† (source)
- Ironically, it foreshadowed just the sort of thing he himself would be faced with later on: too many children and not enough money.† (source)
- That's what I find ironic—the entire Archipelago believed your grandfather to be an evil man, when he was actually one of the greatest kings ever to rule here.† (source)
- He'd always thought it would be ironic if the French company Raison-pronounced ray-ZONE, meaning "reason"—might one day pro-duce a virus that would bring the world to its knees.† (source)
- The irony, of course, is that Doc Bradley was indeed a hero on Iwo Jima—many times over.† (source)
- Ironically, I spent my entire life trying to make them both happy—my mother with art, my father with knowledge—yet in the end, they both threw me away.† (source)
- Which is really ironic.† (source)
- They found it ironic that the Islamabad government would fight so hard to pry away this piece of what had once been Kashmir from India, while doing so little for its people.† (source)
- Ironically, the school was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. Annie Blair, one of the mothers, had moved north from Tennessee.† (source)
- I would smile, a slightly ironic little smile.† (source)
- I started with my high-school diploma, applying one precious match with a feeling of remote irony, even smiling as I saw the swift but feeble light push back the gloom.† (source)
- The man with no memory understood the unintentional irony of the captain's words.† (source)
- It had a certain delicious irony to it, considering that Tyrion had almost lost his head once by refusing to mount the dog for his nephew's twisted amusement.† (source)
- But as the Court ponders this wretched irony and injustice, let it consider another question of equal if not greater injustice.† (source)
- Ironically, most structures put up immediately after the fire were little better than the ones that had burned down.† (source)
- Ironically, the same governmentthat was telling us to embrace our culture in the homelands forbade Winnie from wearing a Xhosa gown into court.† (source)
- If Lee heard the irony, she didn't respond to it.† (source)
- He thought of the irony of the concern that these boys might escape and avoid detection.† (source)
- He lunged at her, going ironically, Eve thought, for the throat.† (source)
- —Jess She was composing an alternate, much more ironic note when a voice came from behind her.† (source)
- She said this without a trace of irony, I noticed, even though it had taken her thirty years of cloistered life to decide the place wasn't right.† (source)
- The skin on her face was stretched so tightly, and her white teeth were arrayed in such a way, as to give her a permanent look of irony, or even savagery.† (source)
- Ironically, the very things that embarrassed me and that I later felt much regret over completed my passage to becoming Lady Lu.† (source)
- It's bloody ironic, though, isn't it?† (source)
- Ironically, they followed the same trail along the side of Kelvin's Cairn that Drizzt and Wulfgar had traveled just two weeks earlier.† (source)
- Although pain and irony colored Clarise's brief laughter, there was also relief in it.† (source)
- The first wedge finished, ironically enough, had been the part hit by the American Airlines jumbo jet temporarily flown by madmen.† (source)
- Pete Ichibata was gloomy, ironical, pale.† (source)
- Kay got a job working in the corporate offices of Howard Brothers Discount Stores in Monroe, Louisiana, which, ironically, was owned by Korie's family.† (source)
- The sky was a vivid blue, and the beauty of the surrounding mountains provided an ironic contrast to the razor wire and concrete.† (source)
- Ironic.† (source)
- These little chicks today are starving themselves to death, which is kind of ironic, but it's their choice.† (source)
- Partly, this could be explained by the fact that her crowd liked to affect a tone of ironic amusement no matter what they were discussing.† (source)
- I see irony is lost on you.† (source)
- Mom even got up early to make pancakes shaped like Santa heads (yes, I see the irony).† (source)
- It was a cruel irony—that the shattered wife of Israel's avenging angel should reside among the ghosts of Deir Yassin—but such was life in the twice—Promised Land.† (source)
- And I have to admit that there is indeed an irony that it was such a one who recorded and preserved this instance of the true beauty of the Irish heritage: Kevin's story, after all, appears in the writings of Giraldus Cambrensis, one of the Normans who invaded Ireland in the twelfth century, one whom the Irish-language annalist Geoffrey Keating would call, five hundred years later, "the bull of the herd of those who wrote the false history of Ireland.† (source)
- They can die heroically, comically, ironically, slowly, suddenly, disgustingly, charmingly, or from a great height.† (source)
- Both tradition and irony have their own system of circulation, their own sense of mystery and surprise.† (source)
- Ironically, it was the elaborate system by which his lust for money was satisfied that brought the forces of justice on his trail.† (source)
- There was an ironic smile in the agents eyes.† (source)
- Intrigued by the irony of it, he sat in the kitchen and listened, leaving his necktie dipped in the gasoline as a sort of wick.† (source)
- The irony of it hit me.† (source)
- She addresses the mirror, with some irony.† (source)
- I was beginning to recognize her irony.† (source)
- The current chairman of the council was the philosopher, Charles Yan Sen, an ironic but fundamentally cheerful man who was not yet in his sixties and was therefore still in the prime of life.† (source)
- HORSEMAN [ironic]: 'Imagine?'† (source)
- "Well," said she, returning the irony, "it was the least I could do for you.† (source)
- Why didn't the intellectual leaders of the Jewish people ever go beyond facile Weltschmerz and ironical wisdom?† (source)
- "Be careful, Mr. Sheridan," Belle said ironically.† (source)
- I remember I put it away carefully— EDMUND With a wry ironical sadness.† (source)
- She was gazing slantwise towards the floor in some kind of coldly patient irony, he felt sick to death of himself.† (source)
- Even before he released her, her mind, clear and detached and ironic anyway, was regarding him from a great distance, with amusement but with pity.† (source)
- BOTARD: [ironic] Oh, Mr. Berenger says that out of chivalry— he's a very chivalrous man even if he doesn't look it.† (source)
- The Southern look-Southern mask-of life-is-adream irony, which could turn to pure challenge at the drop of a hat, he could wish well away.† (source)
- Few meetings in American history have ever been so productive or so ironic in their consequences.† (source)
- Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite.† (source)
- Charlie said, with a good-humored but brutal irony, "Thanks for the information."† (source)
- She's my hero," Alaska said without a trace of irony.† (source)
- Langdon always found it ironic that the workers who hoisted each piece of the nineteen-and-a-half-foot bronze statue to her perch were slaves—a Capitol secret that seldom made the syllabi of high school history classes.† (source)
- Ironically, his first instinct was to reach out and wake Brenda, talk to her about it.† (source)
- "They have no sense of irony, the junta," Madaline was saying, "crushing people as they do.† (source)
- It's a shade too sincere, but the subtleties of irony are often wasted in 13.† (source)
- The irony of her comment was not lost on him.† (source)
- "Would you like me to do it now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony.† (source)
- In Rochester, there was one royal family — the Kings, ironically enough.† (source)
- And the irony of the whole thing is that the Illuminati attack backfired.† (source)
- His tone is dry, and possibly even ironic.† (source)
- She laughed ironically, surprised to find his expression serious.† (source)
- He smiles, not without irony, and makes just a hint of a bow, sort of to get her attention.† (source)
- The great irony of all this was that I didn't even sleep well at Patrick's flat.† (source)
- That's why Hester failed as a singer and as a songwriter—a deadly absence of irony.† (source)
- He spoke without a hint of sarcasm or irony.† (source)
- In an ironic sort of way, Annie had done him a favor.† (source)
- Then he succumbed to the temptation of giving vent to his feelings with an ironic barb.† (source)
- Ironically, the year I entered college, College Bowl went off the air.† (source)
- The Innovators had a heavily ironic interest in country club culture.† (source)
- This is irony, but he doesn't acknowledge it.† (source)
- This realization, for Langdon, now became an ultimate irony.† (source)
- "He says you are pretty speaker," said Boris ironically.† (source)
- "He is a spy," Borodin said with palpable irony.† (source)
- How ironic is that—my little sister teaching me, her big sister by ten years, to drive.† (source)
- The irony of my being the one t°discover this is not lost on me.† (source)
- [Ironically] my coming to prison is what helped us to become closer† (source)
- The irony is that for poor people like us, an education at Notre Dame is both cheaper and finer.† (source)
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Was that romantic irony?
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irony = when a writer reminds the reader that the writer is manipulating the fictional universe
- In this work he did battle with Romantic irony and the Romantics' uncommitted play with illusion. (source)
- This form of disillusion is called 'romantic irony.' (source)
- Although that was another example of his rather sickly Romantic irony. (source)
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He posited 'Socratic irony' in contrast.
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irony = when someone pretends to know less than they do
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He would intervene in the story and address ironic comments to the reader
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ironic = when a writer reminds the reader that the writer is manipulating the fictional universe
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Even though Socrates had made use of irony to great effect, it had the purpose of eliciting the fundamental truths about life.
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irony = Socratic irony: where a questioner acts as though they lack understanding of something and question someone else to expose inconsistencies in logic
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We call this Socratic irony.
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irony = when someone pretends to understand less than they understand
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