All 20 Uses of
irony
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The Idiot
- His nose was broad and flat, and he had high cheek bones; his thin lips were constantly compressed into an impudent, ironical—it might almost be called a malicious—smile; but his forehead was high and well formed, and atoned for a good deal of the ugliness of the lower part of his face.†
Chpt 1.1
- Not only was there no trace of her former irony, of her old hatred and enmity, and of that dreadful laughter, the very recollection of which sent a cold chill down Totski's back to this very day; but she seemed charmed and really glad to have the opportunity of talking seriously with him for once in a way.†
Chpt 1.4
- Gania looked at him with ironical contempt the while.†
Chpt 1.7
- This was a gentleman of about thirty, tall, broadshouldered, and red-haired; his face was red, too, and he possessed a pair of thick lips, a wide nose, small eyes, rather bloodshot, and with an ironical expression in them; as though he were perpetually winking at someone.†
Chpt 1.8
- Gania waited a moment and then said, without taking the trouble to conceal the irony of his tone: "There you are, mother, you are always like that.†
Chpt 1.8
- Nastasia Philipovna gazed at him with a haughty, ironical expression of face; but when she glanced at Nina Alexandrovna and Varia, and from them to Gania, she changed her tone, all of a sudden.†
Chpt 1.10
- Her usually thoughtful, pale face, which all this while had been so little in harmony with the jests and laughter which she had seemed to put on for the occasion, was now evidently agitated by new feelings, though she tried to conceal the fact and to look as though she were as ready as ever for jesting and irony.†
Chpt 1.10
- "So I am really a princess," she whispered to herself, ironically, and glancing accidentally at Daria Alexeyevna's face, she burst out laughing.†
Chpt 1.16
- So she ended by hiding it in her table drawer, with a very strange, ironical smile upon her lips.†
Chpt 2.1
- With sad surprise the prince observed that the look of distrust, the bitter, ironical smile, had still not altogether left his newly-adopted brother's face.†
Chpt 2.4
- An ironical smile played on Evgenie's lips all the while the recitation was proceeding, which showed that he, too, was probably in the secret of the 'poor knight' joke.†
Chpt 2.7
- When recalling all this afterwards the prince could not for the life of him understand how to reconcile the beautiful, sincere, pure nature of the girl with the irony of this jest.†
Chpt 2.7
- Yet Aglaya had brought out these letters N. P. B. not only without the slightest appearance of irony, or even any particular accentuation, but with so even and unbroken an appearance of seriousness that assuredly anyone might have supposed that these initials were the original ones written in the ballad.†
Chpt 2.7
- ...he spoke on a serious subject in a frivolous manner, pretending to be in earnest, but with an under-current of irony.
Chpt 3.1 *irony = saying one thing while meaning something else
- In the very expression of his face this naivete was unmistakably evident, this disbelief in the insincerity of others, and unsuspecting disregard of irony or humour in their words.†
Chpt 3.1
- Noticing his anxiety to catch them up, she smiled ironically, and then looked back no more.†
Chpt 3.3
- "So you counted the minutes while I slept, did you, Evgenie Pavlovitch?" he said, ironically.†
Chpt 3.5
- " 'Oh, it was evident at the first glance,' I said ironically, but not intentionally so.†
Chpt 3.6
- I added with irony.†
Chpt 3.6 *
- "Yes, I have," replied the prince, quite unsuspicious of any irony in the remark.†
Chpt 3.8