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- ...hat are merely unlucky or incongruous. It would be correct to use the term irony to describe [[Marc Anthony]]'s funeral oration in [[William Shakespeare|Sha733 bytes (107 words) - 18:13, 27 April 2010
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- | title = Irony | title = The Big Book of Irony341 bytes (39 words) - 22:13, 6 April 2008
- {{r|Irony's Edge}} {{r|On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates}}258 bytes (35 words) - 08:34, 31 August 2010
- ...tp://www.robertfulford.com/Irony.html |title=Robert Fulford's column about irony |accessdate=2008-04-07 |last=Fulford |first=Robert |date=September 18, 1999 *{{cite web |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/irony.html |title=Irony |accessdate=2008-04-07 |last=Lynch |first=Jack |work=Literary Terms |publis897 bytes (130 words) - 10:24, 7 April 2008
- '''''On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates''''' (Danish: '''''Om Begrebet Ironi m ...kegaard felt that Aristophanes best understood the intricacies of socratic irony.4 KB (559 words) - 09:16, 31 August 2010
- 1841 doctoral dissertation on [[Socrates|Socratic]] [[irony]] by [[Søren Kierkegaard]].125 bytes (13 words) - 09:11, 31 August 2010
- {{r|Irony}}191 bytes (24 words) - 09:16, 31 August 2010
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- {{r|Irony's Edge}} {{r|On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates}}258 bytes (35 words) - 08:34, 31 August 2010
- ...hat are merely unlucky or incongruous. It would be correct to use the term irony to describe [[Marc Anthony]]'s funeral oration in [[William Shakespeare|Sha733 bytes (107 words) - 18:13, 27 April 2010
- ...tp://www.robertfulford.com/Irony.html |title=Robert Fulford's column about irony |accessdate=2008-04-07 |last=Fulford |first=Robert |date=September 18, 1999 *{{cite web |url=http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/irony.html |title=Irony |accessdate=2008-04-07 |last=Lynch |first=Jack |work=Literary Terms |publis897 bytes (130 words) - 10:24, 7 April 2008
- | title = Irony | title = The Big Book of Irony341 bytes (39 words) - 22:13, 6 April 2008
- 1841 doctoral dissertation on [[Socrates|Socratic]] [[irony]] by [[Søren Kierkegaard]].125 bytes (13 words) - 09:11, 31 August 2010
- '''''On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates''''' (Danish: '''''Om Begrebet Ironi m ...kegaard felt that Aristophanes best understood the intricacies of socratic irony.4 KB (559 words) - 09:16, 31 August 2010
- ...pturing the [[zeitgeist]] of those reaching adulthood in the 1980s through irony and pop cultural allusion.328 bytes (44 words) - 07:44, 26 August 2008
- {{r|On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates}}260 bytes (33 words) - 09:17, 31 August 2010
- {{r|Irony}}191 bytes (24 words) - 09:16, 31 August 2010
- {{r|On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates}}444 bytes (59 words) - 09:12, 31 August 2010
- {{r|Irony}}496 bytes (66 words) - 15:44, 11 January 2010
- ...ry illustrates the Norman invasion and conquest of England and there is an irony in that Bayeux was the first large French town to be liberated by the Allie669 bytes (101 words) - 05:26, 8 February 2024
- ...his mother. Accordingly, they took steps to abandon their baby boy, but [[irony|ironically]], their actions enabled the prophecy to come true. Oedipus, as771 bytes (118 words) - 19:32, 29 April 2012
- * (1841) ''[[The Concept of Irony]]'' (''Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates'')1 KB (136 words) - 10:10, 13 February 2009
- ...ail a government takeover of the health-care system. It will be a perverse irony if their high-visibility protests end up persuading Democrats to damn the t3 KB (411 words) - 16:46, 25 March 2024
- ...h, he learns to his dismay, causes him to [[poke]] out his [[eye]]s. The [[irony]] is that the [[blind]] man can now ''see'' the truth.1 KB (167 words) - 17:50, 16 April 2010
- One irony is that [[modem]]s and [[facsimile]] may work over an old-fashioned analog1 KB (188 words) - 12:40, 30 August 2009
- Sheinberg, Esti. ''Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich'' (Aldershot2 KB (216 words) - 17:23, 29 February 2012
- ...ress]] problems and his dialogue expresses considerable [[cynicism]] and [[irony]]. Much of this stems from the death of his son.2 KB (242 words) - 19:49, 18 November 2009
- ...ion, began to record reelection messages for McCain. She wrote, "Savor the irony: After a career spent bashing the right flank of the party, McCain is now c And pay attention to the hidden, more troubling irony: While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain's political machine4 KB (569 words) - 07:32, 18 March 2024
- ...ifth hand - although this may be a literary device of some kind, perhaps [[irony|ironical]]. The actual story starts with [[Socrates]] making his way to the2 KB (363 words) - 15:07, 7 December 2009
- ...but no longer supports it on new iPods, preferring USB 2.0. There is some irony here, because Apple's requirement for patent royalties discouraged other ma2 KB (352 words) - 07:31, 18 March 2024
- ...flected in postmodernism's literary and artistic values, which emphasize [[irony]], [[pastiche]], [[self-reflexivity]], repetition and replication alongside3 KB (391 words) - 03:33, 27 October 2013
- Complexity builds upon complexity, irony builds upon irony, murder follows murder, and tension mounts as the improbable story of the t6 KB (957 words) - 17:37, 9 December 2019
- ...the Mediterranean Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. The ultimate irony was that no search for the aerial photos was ever instituted by either orga3 KB (435 words) - 03:13, 27 March 2024
- | quote = John Hornby, in a lasting irony, had started a novel about life in the Thelon that he was intending to call4 KB (492 words) - 22:00, 28 February 2022
- ...the Mediterranean Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. The ultimate irony was that no search for the aerial photos was ever instituted by either orga4 KB (502 words) - 03:14, 27 March 2024
- Reinitz (1977) stresses Parrington's heavy use of historical irony, which occurs when the consequences of an action emerge contrary to the ori4 KB (550 words) - 02:13, 27 December 2013
- A further irony is that the gradual introduction of “white people’s” food (in the for4 KB (664 words) - 13:20, 8 July 2011
- ...e writings about intelligence work for the rest of his life. The ultimate irony was that the CIA would later rely on the ''Snepp'' legal [[precedent]] in f4 KB (591 words) - 17:29, 17 March 2024
- ...James F. Perry (Talk | contribs) (typo corr4ection + rephrase) (''oh, the irony'')6 KB (853 words) - 13:03, 29 November 2020
- ...established himself as a gentler and more sentimental realist, who had let irony, according to Gibbs, give "way to closer empathy with his subjects"<ref nam9 KB (1,424 words) - 18:07, 4 March 2021
- The irony is that Ailes is not in the game to wield political power per se. He doesn'4 KB (660 words) - 01:55, 27 March 2024
- ...ncyclopédie, where subtle, clever words reveal a great degree of sarcastic irony. (Examples will be provided asap)4 KB (671 words) - 02:44, 24 December 2007
- * Schmotter, James W. "The Irony of Clerical Professionalism: New England's Congregational Ministers and the5 KB (730 words) - 20:11, 30 July 2008
- * Marty, Martin E. ''Modern American Religion, Vol. 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919'' (1986); ''Modern American Religion. Vol. 2: The Nois6 KB (829 words) - 21:18, 4 April 2008
- ...e influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. He was a master of irony and counterpoint.4 KB (658 words) - 23:51, 19 October 2013
- ...nt in Robert Redford's critically acclaimed new movie, no one can miss the irony of that line. The people who conspired to rig the big-money quiz shows in t5 KB (815 words) - 10:26, 4 March 2010
- ...years, the [[New York (disambiguation)|New York]] papers picked up on the irony of Minik's father's bones being on deposit in the museum, and the story cir6 KB (943 words) - 10:50, 15 July 2023
- ...ut preconditions, as soon as possible, he said. And in a move replete with irony, he specifically asked Hillary Clinton--who had articulated the Administrat6 KB (895 words) - 09:58, 25 March 2024
- .... forces, coupled with an overthrow of the RVN.<!--completely ignoring the irony of their position that peace talks could only begin after the complete surr6 KB (1,033 words) - 05:21, 31 March 2024
- ...'[[Toronto Star]]'' transportation columnist [[Tess Kalinowski]] noted the irony that Waterloo's rapid transit director commuted by car, explaining that his11 KB (1,325 words) - 11:19, 30 March 2023
- In something on an irony given that Diem had ordered, in 1956, that Chinese residents, proud of thei8 KB (1,237 words) - 16:55, 8 September 2020
- ...o Socrates]]'', a treatise on Socrates and [[Irony#Socratic irony|Socratic irony]] by [[Søren Kierkegaard]].30 KB (4,699 words) - 04:17, 17 October 2013
- ...spoken mainly about the traits of a lover he does not notice the possible irony involved in this switch. When he is finished with the speech, it seems tha11 KB (1,813 words) - 21:31, 29 June 2012
- ...ng couples and by single people. This development was seen as the supreme irony by many natural parents' organisations, whose members claim that they had b11 KB (1,629 words) - 22:10, 7 June 2010
- * Marty, Martin E. ''Modern American Religion, Vol. 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919'' (1986); ''Modern American Religion. Vol. 2: The Nois10 KB (1,349 words) - 16:41, 22 March 2023
- ...idea of the U.N. in the first place. Attempting to draw out this supposed irony in another piece, he blasted "the American intelligentsia, a significant sl10 KB (1,586 words) - 16:23, 30 March 2024
- ...the Mediterranean Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. The ultimate irony was that no search for the aerial photos was ever instituted by either orga11 KB (1,642 words) - 10:29, 8 April 2024
- ...enters, were prohibited targets until very late in the war. With conscious irony, the initial [[Gulf War]] air attack proposal, initially focused on command12 KB (1,776 words) - 06:56, 4 April 2024
- ...ail a government takeover of the health-care system. It will be a perverse irony if their high-visibility protests end up persuading Democrats to damn the t25 KB (3,700 words) - 07:35, 18 March 2024
- ...ations like the Black Sox and Al Capone -- but instead the scandal and the irony of having to get him for tax evasion instead of gangsterism, respectively -12 KB (2,135 words) - 09:23, 2 June 2014
- ...ces were considered original, with Charles described as having a natural [[irony|ironic]] [[witty|wit]] which appealed to [[talent scout]]s.12 KB (1,851 words) - 17:32, 11 March 2024
- ...rison to his contemporaries, his lyrics stand out by their humour and even irony. He also likes to play with sounds and adapts the rhyme to his liking. Veld12 KB (1,903 words) - 18:02, 18 September 2009
- *Chemical element name (CoAgULaTe, FeY = IRONY)11 KB (1,491 words) - 10:28, 8 November 2009
- * Miller Marc. ''The Irony of Victory. World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts'' University of Illinois13 KB (1,948 words) - 21:07, 25 June 2009
- ...though he “could almost hear his breathing.” Kennan was not blind to the irony of the situation, for during his many nights alone in the House, he had oft15 KB (2,153 words) - 14:43, 18 March 2024
- ...a philosophy thesis.<ref name="irony">Kierkegaard, Søren. ''The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates'', Princeton University Press 1989, IS ...first noteworthy work is either his university thesis, ''On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates'', which was presented in 1841, or his44 KB (6,817 words) - 18:59, 9 April 2024
- ...nalogies (most of them based on his imagination rather than research); his irony was now soaked in vitriol that annoyed his more genteel followers. From 1916 KB (2,299 words) - 23:12, 7 March 2024
- ...ecticism]], more general counter-cultural agitation, and easy-going [[self-irony]] were also important themes by the time the religious requirement was resc16 KB (2,563 words) - 14:07, 2 February 2023
- ...king Plato's Socrates to be his mouthpiece, given Socrates' reputation for irony.<ref>Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 121 KB (3,286 words) - 15:50, 24 July 2015
- ...Narodnaya Volya'', or the ''[[People's Will]]''<ref name=Acton1990 />. The irony of these names, of course, lies in their implicit admission that the Nihili22 KB (3,194 words) - 14:06, 2 February 2023
- ...the Laoshan hills on the border, fighting from May to July. In yet another irony, the Chinese headquarters was in [[Kunming]], where the [[Viet Minh]] had m20 KB (3,098 words) - 12:48, 2 April 2024
- An irony of the situation was that Japanese expansion into Indochina did not directl20 KB (3,122 words) - 20:45, 2 April 2024
- An inescapable irony about Christian pilgrimage traditions is that they seem to fly in the face20 KB (3,200 words) - 13:50, 8 March 2024
- ...ail a government takeover of the health-care system. It will be a perverse irony if their high-visibility protests end up persuading Democrats to damn the t49 KB (7,319 words) - 16:49, 24 March 2024
- :"The irony is that it was during the time of publication that my father's relationship ...historical process, assuming that things happened by chance or "by an odd irony."<ref>Quoted (but without citing a source) by Barrett in Bridge, ''Manning51 KB (8,074 words) - 06:08, 3 October 2013
- ...Groussac]], for whom Borges wrote an obituary. Neither coincidence nor the irony escaped Borges and he commented on them in his work: :of God who, with magnificent irony,44 KB (6,841 words) - 23:32, 7 October 2013
- ...been frequent plot devices throughout the show's run, creating the amusing irony of a highly advanced space-time machine which, at the same time, is an obso26 KB (4,205 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...and violence, all recounted by an omniscient narrator with a keen sense of irony and sardonicism, and always overlaid, to a greater or lesser degree, by Con26 KB (4,293 words) - 23:34, 6 October 2013
- * Katz, Michael. ''The Irony of Early School Reform'' Harvard University Press, 1968.30 KB (4,088 words) - 02:15, 7 December 2011
- ...the birth of empirical science if not actually the founder. It is a tragic irony that his observations and opinions were to stifle the very thing he pursued28 KB (4,609 words) - 15:56, 1 April 2024
- ...cut off the heads of non-believers—in this case, it’s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we’re once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we d27 KB (4,242 words) - 05:25, 31 March 2024
- ...1|date=January 3, 2007}}</ref> suggested, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines." Instead,37 KB (5,577 words) - 18:32, 10 October 2013
- ...the Mediterranean Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. The ultimate irony was that no search for the aerial photos was ever instituted by either orga29 KB (4,288 words) - 14:27, 29 March 2024
- ...e writings about intelligence work for the rest of his life. The ultimate irony was that the CIA would later rely on the ''Snepp'' legal [[precedent]] in f41 KB (6,055 words) - 16:57, 29 March 2024
- ...opponent, the aging embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer, remarked with bitter irony that every triumphant theory passes through three stages: first it is dismi39 KB (6,025 words) - 06:45, 10 October 2013
- — Richard Rorty, ''Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity''<ref name=rortycis> -->54 KB (8,348 words) - 17:59, 20 May 2016
- ...the birth of empirical science if not actually the founder. It is a tragic irony that his observations and opinions were to stifle the very thing he pursued46 KB (7,449 words) - 19:49, 26 October 2020
- ...l rights further and faster than Kennedy intended to go. Branch notes the irony of Johnson, who the Kennedy family hoped would appeal to conservative south43 KB (6,533 words) - 04:58, 10 March 2024
- ...inet and obliged to defend it.<ref>Marr 2009, p. 366.</ref> Marr notes the irony of Amery's closing words which were originally directed ''against'' Parliam67 KB (10,380 words) - 00:18, 19 July 2023
- ...colonial structures and Ceylonese cultural practices, was characterized by irony, mimicry, ambivalence, liminality, and hybridity.<ref> Nihal Perera, "Indig51 KB (7,625 words) - 16:45, 10 February 2024
- ...ast months of Gilbert's life, he was developing a new style, a "mixture of irony, of social theme, and of grubby realism,"<ref>Stedman (1996), p. 343.</ref>55 KB (8,738 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...the Laoshan hills on the border, fighting from May to July. In yet another irony, the Chinese headquarters was in [[Kunming]], where the [[Viet Minh]] had m64 KB (9,843 words) - 10:44, 12 April 2024
- * Gardner, Sarah E. ''Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937.'' U. of Nor82 KB (11,425 words) - 14:08, 10 February 2023
- ...estiny he had hoped to become; it merely gave his end a touch of repulsive irony."<ref>Fest, ''The Face of the Third Reich'', 97</ref>64 KB (10,407 words) - 18:09, 28 December 2010