‘Schlegel's Romantic irony was a reaction to the systematic thought of Kant.’.‘The novel's tragic irony serves to pique the conscience of the reader, as well as to spotlight Steinbeck's political concerns for the equality and happiness of all members of the human family’.‘The irony is that the farming methods causing the drainage will result in their own demise, as they use up the topsoil and render the ground infertile.’.‘In a case of savage irony, Yost ended up supervising the termination of many of the engineers he helped to hire.’.‘The irony was that Airdrie emerged from the match with one of their best results after one of their poorest performances.’.‘The irony of that situation was that Stalin judged Hitler to be more rational than in fact he was.’.‘In a strange twist of irony, this very narrowing down of themes may result in a wider audience.’.‘The irony of the growing shortage is that in responding to it, China could soon find itself with too much capacity.’.‘To add irony to injury, his reselection was itself a result of an injury to the captain Jason Robinson.’.‘The greatest irony of this case was that his wife was also a patient, presenting with insomnia due to shift work as a nurse.’.‘But perhaps the most bitter and disturbing irony is that the best surf tends to arrive during the winter.’.‘He was the great appreciator of the country's breadth and energy, its strengths, ironies and contradictions.’.‘For the rest of us, it is a morality tale - a complicated one filled with ironies and contradictions, but a morality tale nonetheless.’.‘Havana is all of these simultaneously, a place of contradictions and ironies, never settling down to visitor's expectations.’.‘The irony is almost too perfect: Malls are now being designed to resemble the downtown commercial districts they replaced.’.‘In perfect irony, one of them was seen pasting posters on the pedestal of the Kamaraj statue to publicise an agitation in the city on Tuesday.’.‘It would be the perfect irony if today's opponents provided the spark that Scotland need to beat them in their own magnificent Millennium Stadium.’.‘The paradoxes and ironies of this situation are endless.’.‘There are dilemmas, ironies and paradoxes within this context.’.‘There's plenty of irony in seeing one monopoly accuse another monopoly of restricting users' choices.’.‘It's at this point I begin to wonder whether Wayne's post is actually satirical, replete with deliberate ironies I completely missed.’.‘It would be the final irony of this extraordinary affair if the fight were to be cancelled on the grounds that it could be a threat to public order.’.‘However, it soon dawned on me that these people were actually real activists, and their chants were not a form of deliberate irony.’.‘I enjoyed your piece, Tom, I like contradictions, irony, humour and absurdities.’.‘The results are irony and sarcasm, and those are two things I try to avoid.’.‘The filmmakers used the city's motto ‘Let Glasgow Flourish’ as the film's title with deliberate irony.’.‘With deliberate irony, they also echo corporate efforts at conveying information efficiently.’.‘His behaviour is a perfect expression of courtesy and good feeling with a spice of irony in it.’.‘By this point in the movie, Banek can only laugh with caustic irony at this diatribe.’.‘A tale of two cities, heavy with irony and laden with symbolism, was played out over the summer.’.‘Those who don't know him better could be forgiven for missing the irony in that expression.’.‘Irony, and metaphor as a form of irony, is a way to understand how the English language is used.’.‘Expressing yourself through irony is the way to go these days.’.‘Heavy irony underlines her declaration that she had always wanted to be in the movies and longed to be discovered, like Marilyn Monroe.’.‘But the jokes, slang and heavy irony that make up the established banter of the building trade could be heading for extinction.’. ‘You can not express irony or metaphor effectively in ticker-tape speech.’.‘The final dialogue, Imperceptible, is a darkly humorous piece of irony.’.‘The second, appended to the first half with humorous irony, was apparently intended to mean what it sounded like.’.‘It involved the use of that very English form of expression known as irony.’.‘But did he know he would use irony to such clever effect even a moment before he began doing so?’.‘They do it very quickly, using irony, saying the opposite of what they mean, and using extreme language.’.‘I suppose that there are people who could fail to notice when I'm deploying irony, exaggerating for humorous effect or just burbling.’.
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