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Sentence count:164+5Posted:2016-07-21Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: caustic remarksarcasmsatireSimilar words: ironicallyenvironmentalenvironmental protectiona pair ofagonycolonyharmonyceremonyMeaning: ['aɪə(r)nɪ]  n. 1. witty language used to convey insults or scorn 2. incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs 3. a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs. 
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91. But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony.
92. But our instinctive need to fill the vacuum inspires us to the ultimate irony: We turn 12 average citizens into killers.
93. She is smiling plainly and openly(sentencedict.com/irony.html), without a trace of irony.
94. It was above all the smile of dramatic irony, of those who have privileged information.
95. This is a particularly cruel irony because as the 1911 census revealed doctors had the smallest families of all categories of occupations.
96. The irony being, of course, that climbing on the new wall would be considerably safer than soloing on the existing facilities.
97. Oh you secretive ironist, was that perhaps your—irony?
98. Metaphor and irony juxtapose meanings: harmonious, contrasting, or conflicting.
99. He is behind the irony that expect the keynote of the work to be changed direction the mordacity gradually by the relaxed humor.
100. It can be divided into three subtypes, viz. verbal irony, dramatic irony and situational irony.
101. She had no idea this entailed irony of any kind. She had no idea what the word "irony" meant, until I used it in her essay and sent her a link to a dictionary definition.
102. In connection with this term comprehension, I would like to point out – I assure you that there is no irony intended – that it is a problematical term.
103. Chaucer was a great English poet, The Canterbury Tales was his most popular work for their power of observation, piercing irony, sense of humour and warm humanity.
104. The Jack in the Box is a hipster CEO whose ads are filled with carefully crafted irony and an overt stoner vibe .
105. The irony of Chinese citizens legitimately exercising a right in Norway that the government denies them at home will not be lost on journalists and other observers.
106. The study is devoted to two aspects of irony: the pragma-linguistic forms and pragmatic strategies in irony realization (or the pragma-linguistic cues for irony), and the pragmatic functions of irony.
107. American Author Walker Percy's novel, Lost in the Cosmos, calls the reader into a morass of social irony and introspection.
108. Tropes are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
109. Besides, his thinking and writings on humor paid attention to the aesthetic value of humor, which includes farcicality , wittiness, naughtiness, irony and laugh.
110. Circling from farcicality to irony and humor, at last returning to farcicality, comedy ends in absurdism, too.
111. The deeper structure is a linguistic basis in its essence, made up of four basic discourse patterns:metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
112. From" long live youth" to" cloth gift"and "butterfly "in new era, and to later "season" series, his writing experienced pure extolment, painful division and indignant irony.
113. It indicates how the effects of suspense, eeriness and horror is established perfectly through the use of irony.
114. The irony is, if you had used the element in the first place, pressing the Return key would have actually worked.
115. It is a peculiar irony that in today's campaign against Khomeini's political heirs, the opposition movement is appealing to many of the same grievances Khomeini cited in his campaign against the shah.
116. "Poems expressing wills and determinations, " irony and sarcasm, elegancy and the active romanticism of Chu Verses had deeply influenced the creative arts of Mao Zedong's poems.
117. One final irony: In 1950, at age 82, Millikan published his Autobiography, with Chapter 9 entitled simply "The Experimental Proof of the Existence of the Photon--Einstein's Photoelectric Equation."
118. And the Marx's understanding of Socratic irony was of a legendary color in his philosophical pursuit.
119. His works, full of realism, irony, tragedy and grotesquery, represent the complex, colorful and dramatic life of the contemporary Russians.
120. The"irony and esteem"presented two sides of researching the art of Anselm Kiefer .
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