After the lesson you have just received," replied the knight, returning irony for irony, "one might expect to find you in a more serious frame of spirit.
There was a touch of irony in the tones; but it was too delicately drawn for the dull perception of Cornet Stubbs; and he interpreted the speeches, in their loyal and literal sense.
Kirke's Lambs they were called, in an irony provoked by the emblem of the Paschal Lamb on the flag of this, the First Tangier Regiment, originally levied to wage war upon the infidel.
After all, he was English, and to some extent reticent, but he felt that his comrade's dramatic utterance was more or less warranted, for the irony and pathos of the situation was clear to him.
His ironygives him perfect freedom to supersede Emma's limited vision whenever he pleases, to abandon her manner of looking at the world, and to pass immediately to his own more enlightened, more commanding height.
Emma's rudimentary idea of them is entirely inadequate; she has not a vestige of the humour and irony that is needed to give them shape.
A hint of irony is always perceptible, and it is enough to prevent us from being lost in her consciousness, immersed in it beyond easy recall.
The end of the story is in the final stroke of ironywhich gives the man this far-reaching glance into the past, and reveals thereby the mental and emotional confusion of his being--since his only response is a sort of stupefied perplexity.
To walk the town in search of work to which she was little suited, when that which no one but herself could accomplish had to remain undone, became, during the next few weeks, the most intolerable part of the irony of circumstance.
The various circumstances which had delayed its execution from year to year have been noted; and it was a curious irony of fate that the only scheme in which Albuquerque failed was the establishment of the Portuguese power in the Red Sea.
He uses himself, along with and as a part of his material, in such a way that his very egotism lends to his writings the greater part of their force and originality, and becomes one of the most potent instruments of his irony and wit.
Hortense, with the angry irony of an offended woman who uses words to stab.
Irony is allowable from the vanquished to the conquerer.
Jolly Butcher Billing spoke; but with none of the irony of confidence.
The irony of Providence sent him by a cook's shop, where the mingled steam of meats and puddings rushed out upon the wayfarer like ambushed bandits, and seized him and dragged him in, or sent him qualmish and humbled on his way.
The phrase "kind gentleman" was adopted by his deliberate irony of the fate which cast him out.
But there is no hopeless despair, no cynical irony in this music.
It infuses a terrible grotesqueness into his rage, and curdles one's blood in the piercing, keen irony of his mocking humility to Antonio, and adds poignancy to the ferocity of his hideous revenge.
The German censor attempts in vain to silence him and to forbid the publication of the lectures of Spitteler and of Annette Kolb; his indignation and cries of vengeful irony spread even to us.
A sort of demoniacal irony broods over this conflict of the nations, from which, whatever its result, only a mutilated Europe can emerge.
Indeed, she could see how he played with them: that there flowed an undercurrent of irony in his replies.
Judge Douglas frequently, with bitter ironyand sarcasm, paraphrases our argument by saying: "The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves, but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes!
Accordingly we find the masterpieces of irony among the ancients, but those of humour among the moderns.
The converse of irony is accordingly seriousness concealed behind a joke, and this is humour.
Irony begins with a serious air and ends with a smile; with humour the order is reversed.
In most men the faculty of judgment is only nominally present; it is a kind of irony that it is reckoned with the normal faculties of the mind, instead of being only attributed to the monstris per excessum.
Obviously tentative, and with limits and ultimate interpretation to be determined elsewhere, it failed to bear fruit till the Renaissance, and then by the irony of fate to the discrediting of Aristotle.
A bitter irony rebuffed those assurances of friendship which the astonished mademoiselle de la Mole ventured to hazard on two or three occasions.
Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humor or imagery, or more dramatic power.
Did I not foresee--have I not already told you, that whatever he was asked he would refuse to answer, and try ironyor any other shuffle, in order that he might avoid answering?
He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant.
A faint degree of irony marked the manner in which these last words were uttered; but Sir Christopher Blunt observed it not—for he was now a prey to oppressive fears and vague apprehensions.
Georgiana, with an irony and bitterness which seemed lent her by despair.
While Law slept, Time was awake and busy, you see," said Prout, with a bitter irony which actually chilled the hearts of his auditors.
One was like her own, only where hers sparkled with irony and discontent, this was softer and more sweet.
Such amazement possessed her at the foolish irony of things, such desire of laughter, that she dared not yield lest her frail body could not bear the storm.
At that moment, it seemed to him, his eye turned inward upon himself, as if there were foolish irony in that friendly comment.
She seemed incapable of measuring the irony she felt.
There was a little touch of grim irony in his tones--irony that he promptly discarded as he went on.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
