Synonym: caustic remark, sarcasm, satire. Similar words: ironically, environmental, environmental protection, a pair of, agony, colony, harmony, ceremony. Meaning: ['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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121. Ge Feis "sage narration" and his description of the intellectuals, in a context of haphazard, absurdness, and irony, gave a vivid picture to the intellectuals as well as their desires.
122. Concerning the classification of enantiosis in rhetoric, the theoretical definitions of " litotes " and "irony" are somewhat different from the people's perception.
123. After the suave political irony of Before the Revolution,(www.Sentencedict.com) Bertolucci's triumphant return to his hometown of Parma brings us subtle and snide satire on human nature and the bourgeois family.
124. The irony is that in the obit Zhengjiang University showed, Doctor Tu was died of sickness and fell down the building.
125. Sophistication and slickness, sons of irony, they can worm their way strategically among capital and political systems.
126. This paper applies some pragmatic theories to explore the pragmatic features of irony, including its echoic and adaptive traits.
127. Irony still seems to fall flat in a culture where one-dimensional discourse is promoted from the earliest days of school on up into the professional world.
128. RW: But the irony is that books like yours and [Richard Dawkins's] God Delusion balkanise the world a good deal more, because they polarise views.
129. In another nod to irony, I'll take this opportunity to show you a longer implementation of the two-line method I used in TinyUrl.groovy (see Listing 3).
130. It involves many techniques of expression such as innuendo, pun, irony, euphony, allegory, hyperbole, and oblique references[sentencedict.com], etc.
131. Rhett Butler, the dramatis personae of the novel"Gone With the Wind", is a representative character of art of irony, which is one of most consummate designs of literature productions.
132. Dramatic irony also plays an important role in exposing flat characters' absurdity and round characters' defects.
133. An attempt is made to analyze the cases of irony occurring in a Chinese literary work-Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary within the framework of the echoic interpretation theory.
134. We would admire both his earnestness and his self-aware irony.
135. It's in recognition of what we can think of as this time-honored historical irony that Milton writes such a memorable line, a wonderful line, in his sonnet on the new Presbyterian regime.
136. Given that he has travelled many thousands of miles in search of lasting love, the irony has not escaped him that Claire works in 9) Belgravia , just a few miles from Soho.
137. The irony is that supermarkets are generally cheaper than other local retailers -- a box of Cheerios can be 40 percent more expensive at the bodega or the dokkan than at the megastore.
138. This has caused critics to grumble that despite their professed free-thinking, Apple aficionados are actually suffused with groupthink. It's an interesting irony.
139. This paper attempts to investigate the echoic mention theory of verbal irony, a relevance-theoretical approach to verbal irony.
140. Socratic irony had its particular meaning in the context of ancient Greece. It was just an "act" put on by Socrates which demonstrated his nature, when he spoke to people.
141. SYDNEY (AFP) —A cartoon on the front page of Australia's national newspaper Thursday neatly illustrates an irony admitted by the government: communist China could save capitalism.
142. Irony can be generally divided into four types: verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony. This thesis takes verbal irony as the focus of research.
143. These times make it especially necessary to be in touch with the asurdity, the ridiculous, the funniness, and the irony of the everyday.
144. This artistic skill of dramatic irony plays an important role in developing the dramatic plot, and deepening the theme.
145. Since this involved restricting the rights of surplus nations, his plans were circumscribed by Washington, a nice irony now that America is a debtor nation.
146. The complex meaning of irony is only graspable in context.
147. The concept of irony should have three interpretive dimensions: semeiology dimension, pragmatics dimension and philosophy dimension.
148. Similarly unamused is Yosef Garfinkel, who says of Finkelstein's recent receipt of a four-million-dollar research grant, "He doesn't even use science—that's the irony.
149. Ex:It's an irony which uke got stockholm syndrome, fell in love dawn the kidnaper or aborfirstd the seme at end.
150. The irony in this is that, unknown to most of the public, President Mahinda Rajapaksa and I have been friends for more than a quarter-century.
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