Helene says this without a trace of irony, and I wince at the sheer idiocy of the idea. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I think we might make it,” he said, with that complete simplicity I had so long taken for irony. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for her to catch the irony of this, that she’ll send money to colored people overseas, but not across town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There they were, spoken at last, and the irony crushed her. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I remember, in any case, that I would sometimes hear with irony warnings about sins of the flesh. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the cumbrous irony of his tone made her feel unreal herself—made her unable to put her own words simply. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was unmistakable irony in his voice now, and I didn't know what to say. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s dangerous in the hands of the multitudes, he said, with what may or may not have been irony, is safe enough for those whose motives are . The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The irony was that everyone— including the FBI—knew who the bombers were. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is the irony: Even though I wake up in a different body every morning, I’ve always felt in some way that I am in control. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

New York’s founding fathers, like most New Yorkers, had a keen sense of irony. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

With no trace of irony, the Court demanded that Armstrong produce in advance the very thing he sought in discovery: information regarding white defendants who should have been charged in federal court. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Then-” “Are you going to rail about ironies? Hypocrisies?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The irony of the situation forced me to smile, featuring my newly cracked tooth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“If they really are Pandavas, then the irony that you are the one who has been chosen to help them delights me.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think she put him up to it, and is laughing at me; as I laugh, from time to time and with irony, at myself. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt Max would’ve liked it, the irony in particular, but Max had become a pure idea, which was its own irony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Speak for yourself,” Kevin says, indicating he may have missed the discussion on irony in Language Arts class. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the irony of it was that they couldn’t even glean him for it! Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I balk at the irony of the name. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The truth was summarized in the sense of irony I’d feel at hearing myself called a minority student: The reason I was no longer a minority was because I had become a student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Corporal Whitcomb scrutinized the chaplain’s face closely for some sign of rebellion and then breezed ahead confidently with concealed irony. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Like the irony wasn’t lost on him, because our world has no more irony in it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“The irony of this is so grotesque it is rather charming,” he wrote in his personal journal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could see it in their faces, and the irony stung more than I expected it to. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was an irony to it; all his life, he’d been taught the ways of being a warrior and thought those were also the ways to be a man. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He watched with a tired irony, leaving the wort to them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the life of a class at the top of the bottom can be, and more often than not is, subject to irony, paradox, and the crisis of compromise. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What shall it be this time?” he said, still with the same faint suggestion of irony. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There is a delicious irony in this because Hobbes believed factual knowledge was a truly inferior kind of knowledge, science consisting solely of deductive knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I laughed like a loon at the nutty irony. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In a separate correspondence about the same time with John Taylor, another prominent Virginia planter and political thinker who had also questioned Adams’s views on aristocracy, Adams called attention to the irony of the situation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we’d go: “Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

That month the Nazi Party staged its seventh annual rally at Nuremberg, themed, with staggering irony, the Rally for Freedom. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It hurt worse than being slapped, being shown the irony of his life. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a shade too sincere, but the subtleties of irony are often wasted in 13. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This is irony, but he doesn’t acknowledge it. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We smiled at the pathetic irony of it, shook hands all around, wished each other luck, and parted. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her niece Minou has noted more than once the irony of Dedd’s “new” profession, actually embarked upon a decade ago, after her divorce. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a hint of irony in his voice, Ben answered, “Great talking to you!” and then closed the door. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The irony, though, is that that very desire for confidence is precisely what ends up undermining the accuracy of their decision. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The irony of a jailer bringing his prisoner such a gift was not lost on either of us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope found this a thought-provoking remark; it would have served as the very definition of irony if not for the fact that it was so sad—but Lady Constance, rather uncharacteristically, said no more. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The irony was, now that delusions and paranoia were starting to get the best of him, it was true—he wasn’t safe at home, not with all those guns around. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Curie, with deadpan irony, “how proud your sponsoring scythe must be to have the first perfect pupil in human history.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Her mouth twisted at the irony of it and she turned to the three girls at the water pump. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether even a heroic level of leadership stood any chance was uncertain because—and here was the cruelest irony—the effort to make the Revolution truly complete seemed diametrically opposed to remaining a united nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The irony is that I was brought here to get an education, yet at the same time, I feel like I am being deprived of an education in the future. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hope you inherited some talents, since irony evidently eluded you.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The irony of it—she had been practicing for her future profession! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They got me a long time ago,” said O’Brien with a mild, almost regretful irony. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I grin at the house of cards idea, getting the irony that they don’t. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He stood up and yelled, “Go get ’em, Tiger!” with 1950s irony while my mom clapped and whooped next to him. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Out to the left side of the road was Bloomsdale, a ramshackle, all-black enclave that its residents, employing an advanced sense of irony, had long called “Hollywood.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There is a certain engaging irony therefore that when he won the Nobel Prize in 1908, it was in chemistry, not physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As luck would have it, the moment Mrs. van D. turned around I was shaking my head in a combination of compassion and irony. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And the irony is, I’m gnawing my hands waiting for Hilly to speak up when I’m the only one in this town who doesn’t care what she has to say anymore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The lighthearted ironies she might have deployed among her friends deserted her in his presence, and she heard her own voice become thin when she attempted some docile contradiction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He summoned as much irony as he could into his voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then congratulations, you are already halfway to being a man,” he said with no trace of humor, no irony, the compliment of the casually arrogant. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whether we call them coincidences, synchronicities, or ironies, however, these occurrences are much more common than most people realize. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The irony of it isn’t lost on me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But now he knew, for irony had left: him, that he was searching something, hidden in the darkness, that must be found. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s totally stupid. We haven’t played this kind of game since fifth grade, but whatever. We’re playing with a sense of irony, right?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A few days later, with no trace of irony, he suggested that the history of the chocolate chip might make for an exciting musical. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Noting the irony, he said, “The shoes were picked up in minutes by some of the nicest people in town.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tightening the irony into a knot was the knowledge that my parents were always behind me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take in the angles of the room, the slant of light flooding through panes of glass, the planes that separate us, the irony of drapes to create darkness. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Even though he was severely hurt, the irony of the situation caused the young fox a silent snigger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There was another irony he failed to appreciate: His struggle to mold me in his image had been successful after all. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The irony was not lost on me when I climbed out of a bunker one morning and found a dud Russian 122-mm rocket buried nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So there are ironies piled on ironies. The remedy here is imprisonment, and prisons are the ultimate incubators of antisocial attitudes.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, ballet commentators back in Russia were irked by Western reviews of the Stravinsky- Nijinsky ballets, which used adjectives such as 'barbaric’, ‘primitive’, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ in almost every paragraph. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The irony is I have a fear of heights, which prevented me from flying to Washington, D.C., and New York with the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker gave me a sympathetic look, and I felt the slap of irony hit—some secret weapon I turned out to be. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the irony of it was that he was as gentle as a lamb. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the irony is that humans, like the animals in Animal Farm, do not work equally. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was engagingly well-written, with a sense of irony and a nearly wicked wit, and it was strikingly self-aware for a nineteen year old. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not my intention to hurt or humiliate her; the irony of it was that the plan I conceived had as its purpose the salving of Granny’s frustrated feelings toward me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The situation was perverse but not without irony: a few months before, Audrey had said that Shawn should be supervised around children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled out Things Fall Apart and laughed to himself at the new irony that the title represented. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“C’mon, what is bad for the heart is good for art. The terrible irony of our lives as artists.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There is a certain irony in Butterfield’s adoption of the retrospective term ‘Scientific Revolution’, and an even greater one in his choice of The Origins of Modern Science for his title. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The irony of my moment was that I wanted to get back on the trail and didn’t know how. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Number forty-seven I have to read twice, for its irony. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He says the language is dying. He thinks words are being debased. So he tries to speak entirely in weird words and irony, so no one can simplify anything he says.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he left us she bid him goodbye using his surname, with neither irony nor derision. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and civilization is sterilization,” Bernard went on, concluding on a tone of irony the second hypnopsdic lesson in elementary hygiene. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The irony being that the seniors thought they were actually saving the girls from being too exploited. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was aware of no irony in this. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I watched as he arrested Yusuf, who burst out laughing at the irony of it all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reread what I had written, and as I did so my scorn gave way to a sense of irony. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Too true,” the fat man said, deaf to the irony. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Sure it is. Comes from the Latin. Has to do with irony and the pastoral. Yeah. That’s it. Painting or sculpture or something, maybe.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Students rushed to assume, without irony, the role of society’s victims. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the awful irony of it all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even so, it might not have led to anything—and this is a big irony, I suppose—if Miss Geraldine hadn’t been taking the class that day. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last I gave him a smile and said with no irony: “Look, Tommy, it was an accident and it’s now one hundred percent forgotten. I don’t hold it against you one tiny bit.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a monumental irony: The man famous as the indefatigable orator of independence in the Continental Congress was obliged to remain silent in the legislative councils of the new government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My family has impeccable liberal credentials, we’ve ticked all the right boxes,” Paula said, lips turned down in irony, twirling the stem of her empty wineglass. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I’m not the only one that’s been caught. There’s irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn’t there?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“The irony is that everyone acted more concerned with us mocking their precious rite of passage than with drunk driving or girls getting roofied.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He’s currently jet-lagged to all hell from trying to keep the press from ruining the presidency, and the irony isn’t lost on him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And there was an even more serious problem, one filled with a bitter irony that exposed the class divide in black America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The irony involved caught my fancy, 1 must admit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I pick up languages real fast,” he replied, missing the irony in her voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a certain irony in this, since Boyle became an absentee landlord, one of the hated symbols of the English oppression of Ireland. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The irony was that this was the nicest campsite I experienced anywhere along the AT, and it was the one place I camped without Katz. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This sad irony was widely noted in the aftermath of his death. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smile and wave at her, hoping she can detect my irony. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In fact, Jesse would look straight here, almost like a Mormon, an irony I was eager to torture him with. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wonderful word for a wonderful idea, irony refers to a sly form of expression in which you say one thing and mean another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The irony of the question struck him—he didn’t even know who he was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But the most impressive thing about your story is that it has irony. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We know each other,” I said in a soft voice tinged with irony. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it will be a low-budget number, the script itself is chock-full of disturbing truths and has the most fascinating tonalities and ironies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a good thing that only I know about Farooq, because that only leaves one person, me, to ponder the irony of the situation. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then he understood, and almost wept at the irony. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I hope you can appreciate the irony in that.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This time the irony was so heavy that even Gawaine took it as it was. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bit young to be living so rough,” the bum said, and I wanted to laugh at the irony of being told off by a man who clearly hadn’t showered since Clinton was president. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was a humorless irony in the ludicrous panic of the man screaming for help to the police while policemen were all around him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The irony of this all-out chemical assault on roadsides and utility rights-of-way is twofold. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A married man, if he spoke publicly about love, usually did so with playfid, mischievous irony. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hint of irony in the smile grew darker, and he looked now not at the coastguard but at the coastguard’s horse. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the constitutional question, he regarded federal jurisdiction over the western territories as a clear precedent that had been established, irony of ironies, by Jefferson’s executive action in the Louisiana Purchase. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Most of the crowd here is young. It’s about the irony.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A few said, “Ohhhh, sorry,” but in voices wiry with irony. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Brinker’s expansive, dazed tone suggested that here was one of life’s giant ironies, “There you are!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell me, if you can, a sadder irony than that St. Augustine, Florida—a city named for the black African saint who saved Catholicism from heresy—was recently the scene of bloody race riots. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

J. T., the college-educated leader of his franchise, reported to a central leadership of about twenty men that was called, without irony, the board of directors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I laughed maniacally for ten minutes at this irony: that having sacrificed my family to my education, I might lose that, also. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was very hard to detect any expressive tones in his voice, whether of irony or anger, because it was so deep and so flat. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re skinny. It’s called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let’s go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

People in general prattle ceaselessly about ironies here and ironies there. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the number of squares on a chessboard—an irony that nevertheless cannot be pressed too far—he was sixty-four. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then he really cranked it up, concluding as follows: At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“The irony is, I did play football,” he said in a 2008 interview. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She remembered Urvashi’s laugh....If they really are Pandavas, then the irony that you are the one who has been chosen to help them delights me. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was a tense moment and, at the time, neither of us saw any irony in a prisoner asking not to be released and his jailer attempting to release him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a hint of irony or self-consciousness, Levitt marketed his sprawling development as a utopia: “the most perfectly planned community in America.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I started with my high-school diploma, applying one precious match with a feeling of remote irony, even smiling as I saw the swift but feeble light push back the gloom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One reviewer there fretted, without any evident sense of irony, that Holmes presented his arguments so clearly and compellingly that students might actually come to believe them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In chorus one morning the irony of celebrating the birth of the Prince of Peace suddenly seemed too much. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the “cruel irony” that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: “The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The irony was that Mommy knew how to drive before she was eighteen. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing to cross Jus’s mind as he steps off the bus is the irony of looking for solace in the place he was anxious to get away from. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It surprised him, that she could use the word “virtue” without the slightest irony, as was done in the badly written articles in the women’s section of the weekend newspapers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But for those who have actually tried to prove race discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court’s remark amounted to cruel irony. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The great irony was that he got bail because he told the judge that if he was in jail, he couldn’t earn money to support his kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I find myself smiling at the irony of it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The irony is that Osiander’s view is quite in keeping with the modern scientific world view. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

More even than of strength, he gave an impression of confidence and of an understanding tinged by irony. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I was haunted by the tragic irony that they felt I was their best hope for help. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Gawaine’s mind did not move easily along the paths of irony, so he accepted the sneer as statement of fact. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They raise a white child and then twenty years later the child becomes the employer. It’s that irony, that we love them and they love us, yet...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But it’s an irony of human communication that the more beautiful or lively or effective the figure of speech, the more likely it will be loved, remembered, repeated, worn out, and finally worked to death. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared that on the same night I had learned about one of writ­ing’s objectives, irony, I would also be introduced to one of its pit­falls: the Plot Hole. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling at my irony, I would say that I had been invited to join ‘minority leaders’ on trips to distant Third World countries. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But in truth,” said Bull, “we are going nowhere. That, my friend, is the irony of our constant movement.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was a joke between me and Barack, one I repeated often and with irony following that night—July 27, 2004. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And the terrible irony—there was no picture after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie savored the word, his voice deep with irony and spite. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The irony of this is not lost on me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

All day long, she realized, she had been feeling strange, and seeing strangely, as though everything was already long in the past, made more vivid by posthumous ironies she could not quite grasp. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Maples wasn’t stupid—he told the court this about himself without a trace of irony—and so he learned all he could from Miyamoto, including the importance of bowing. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, it was not the Union army that laid waste to the city. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The great irony of anthracite is that, tough as it is to light, once you get it lit it’s nearly impossible to put out. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Glad you got something out of it,” he says with irony. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed at the irony: having run from a career in the ministry, he was now completely devoted to what was, at heart, a technique for spiritual redemption and renewal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there was utmost irony and outrage in lying under someone, in a position of surrender, feeling her own abiding strength and limitless power. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

That his foolproof life plan had in the end transported him here, to this nightmarish station, was an irony that brought me no pleasure and escaped his notice altogether. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shyly I’d smile, never betraying my sense of the irony: I was not proud of my mother and father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He certainly has his father’s gift for irony and occasional sarcasm. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I say it rather with irony sharpened by self-pity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is one of the great ironies of my life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

China was a large country, the inspector told them without a trace of irony. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to slot the group into the aesthetic of the so-called New Sincerity, a post-9/11 ideology that rejected the previous micro-generation’s embrace of hip cynicism and postmodern irony. Arcade Fire’s Enduring Anxiety 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

But it also introduces layers of irony into what the image represents and what the painter is trying to do. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Everyone was trying to do irony and incorrectness, but without his brilliance it just looked smug. Pulp Fiction review – Tarantino's mesmeric thriller still breathtaking 20 years on 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I find myself screaming at my computer, only too late realizing the irony of my predicament. The Charlie Sheen and Snoop Dogg rap 2011-05-10T19:39:00Z

The irony of one of the world's most powerful and famously exacting celebrities still nursing childhood grievances about her impecunious upbringing while living in unrivaled splendor provides a good portion of this play's rocket fuel. 'Buyer & Cellar' is a pleasant, fond sendup of Streisand 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

In the height of ironies, Machiavelli’s ethical vision is sturdier than what we’re presently living under. Review | Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ is looking pretty good in the Trump era 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The play is so eager to show us the irony in Dee’s story — not even the strongest woman in the world can fight back against domestic violence — that it overplays its hand at times. In 'The Wholehearted,' a female boxer looks for redemption out of the ring 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

When “Company” premiered in 1970, it looked like nothing else on Broadway: Formally daring, and laced with irony, it is often described as a “concept musical” and has little plot to speak of. With ‘Company,’ Antonio Banderas Brings Sondheim to Spain 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z

This would be the greatest of ironies: the WWE showman teaches us to grow up. Donald Trump’s celebrity-free Inauguration could make the White House great again 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

I can’t get over the irony of Uma Thurman feeling like she has to fight for a place in the spotlight. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

The irony here is that Band Aid has now been accused of facilitating the rebels. Worst aid 2010-04-24T23:06:00Z

He’s a reprobate with no confidence in grace, reduced to keeping his spirit afloat with a mixture of self-deprecating irony and the affectations of civility. Review | In ‘Jack,’ Marilynne Robinson’s fourth Gilead novel, a lost soul embarks on an impossible love affair 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

Unlike an MCU film, it's strikingly honest about its intentions and its ironies. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

And it's adapted with a heightened, soap opera-y sense of dramatic irony conveyed through longing glances, annoyed walking, and maidenly sighing. 5 ways to fix "Bridgerton" next season to transform this guilty pleasure into guilt-free escapism 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

At the Met on Monday, the pop singer Sia, showing off a brazenly blond variation on Ms. Wintour’s signature bob, took in the scene with a mingled irony and awe. Going Hollywood: In New York, the Ballet and Opera Are Stuffy No More 2012-09-28T23:37:02Z

Others clucked over the irony of Condé Nast both hiring and firing a young Black woman in its flailing attempts to align with a renewed push for diversity. Inside the Teen Vogue mess — which is really a Condé Nast mess 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z

At one time, irony served to reveal hypocrisies, but now it simply acknowledges one’s cultural compliance and familiarity with pop trends. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

With unforeseen irony, the film, which will be largely be shown in limited-capacity theaters, begins in a packed auditorium. ‘Tenet’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Time-Bending Take on James Bond 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

Humor, of course, is often the refuge of the disenfranchised and disaffected, but there’s a difference in both tenor and objective between hypocrisy-dicing irony and its weak cousin: detached, fatalistic, teenage-style sarcasm. The Culture of Nastiness 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

But here’s another irony: Gellhorn’s growing dilemma over her husband’s behavior is the novel’s most interesting strand, partly because it throws her need to write into stark relief. Paula McLain Returns to ‘The Paris Wife’ Territory 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

“The irony is, all I was doing was acting — all day, every day,” Mr. Osment said. Haley Joel Osment Plays Pool at His Favorite N.Y.U. Hangout 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The anger she had repressed in her youth came out forcefully but smoothly, in anecdotes and epigrams, and was carefully modulated into irony or nostalgia. A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92 2010-05-10T19:10:00Z

But today he is too tired to adopt his usual interview technique of batting questions away with irony. Jack Black: 'I was getting tired of the frat-guy comedies' 2013-04-18T16:00:01Z

As soon as I saw the Dakota, I became aware of where we would end up, and the strange irony I was rolling toward. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

With sharper framing, this line might suggest irony, given the unusual nature of this cross-species relationship. ‘The Walrus and the Whistleblower’ Review: The Fight to Free a Friend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

The irony is that he doesn't know the first thing about himself. Lit Life: A Q&A with David Guterson 2011-10-24T01:45:04Z

"Welcome to suburbia," said the hard-core rhymer, his proud tone tinged with just a hint of irony. Wu-Tang Clan's Method Man gets serious about a career in Hollywood 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

David Foster Wallace thought that returning to simple sincerity would undo the effects of irony on our culture.  Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z

And yet the piece, with unintentional irony, embodies a glorification of the “good old days,” a world viewed with fond nostalgia, even though its characters are desperately trying to escape it. Review | Weill’s Broadway opera ‘Street Scene’ shows the endurance of American stereotypes 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The irony machine grinds through the movie so loudly that you might end up with a migraine. Review: Clooney's Overpolished 'Suburbicon' Misses the Mark 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

I'm a believer in irony, because it gives you two positions; it gives you more latitude to think different thoughts. Laura Kipnis talks about power, anxiety and 'Men' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

That his verse never reads like a parody of a certain kind of life — courtly old men in creaking shirts, flashing their monocles — is a testament to his fluid sense of irony. This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

German journalists, commentators, and Kallstadters themselves have been quick to point out the irony of the situation. The Ancestral German Home of the Trumps 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Unlike many contemporary screen romances, “Love & Basketball” unapologetically wears its full heart on its sleeve, avoiding easy laughs and the safe distance of irony. The Director Gina Prince-Bythewood Has Always Had Game 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Humor, irony, sarcasm and even genuine kindness get lost in the cloud. Joint Custody, From a Distance 2012-11-23T21:27:45Z

He’s not trying to be rude or insulting, Wilson is simply an unfiltered guy, painfully honest, easily bored, seemingly without ego or irony or any real sense of his celebrity. Inside Brian Wilson’s room: The famed Beach Boy opens up about mental illness, medication, manipulation and the movie about his life 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The song is a jubilant sugar rush, but some skeptics wondered if Sophie and Cook were becoming too bogged down by ideas and irony, and in the process alienating potential listeners. Hear Sophie’s 12 Essential Songs 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z

The irony is that, even while biology becomes yoked to moral arguments, it shows our development as a series of contingent steps, none obviously more “fundamental” than the others. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

There is more than one irony to Hogarth's association with this spot. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z

And in a ghoulish irony, a book bound with Burke’s skin is still displayed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum. Perspective | What’s the best way to tour a city? A book critic stumbles onto the answer. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

The irony is that the more diverse London becomes, the more the images of “old England” seem to appeal to designers. Special Report: Diversity and Irony 2010-02-23T18:30:00Z

The irony is that these edifices have endured, but the pictures of them have faded to black. In the galleries: Wells & Barnes offer many seats, but no place to sit down 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

His favorite weapons are irony and charm — although he doesn’t shy from needling readers, especially critics, for their narrowness of taste and fondness for facile interpretation. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

“I was always super precocious and my star rose with my early clients very fast — I can’t say I struggled,” said Mr. Marino with his signature irony.. Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z

The vocal lines are given life by parody – but are elsewhere lacklustre, and the production's continuous resort to comic-strip irony undercuts the intrinsic drama of the tale. Piccard in Space ? review 2011-04-03T21:15:01Z

Looking back, Hutchinson now notes the irony that, in making a film about an island of monsters, everybody in the movie turned into a monster: “Everybody behaved monstrously to each other.” ‘Marlon Brando was my idol but he turned into a monster. He sabotaged my film’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

But this show needed a lot more irony — not to mention comprehensible garments — to make it work. Special Report: In Color and Shape: Who Dares Wins 2010-09-26T17:39:00Z

The irony is that these women are beloved for their “natural Iranian beauty.” | Pharrell’s Phragrance, Karl’s Custom Emojis and Obama’s Shopping Trip 2014-03-14T20:27:33Z

Throughout its almost 40, unceasingly fertile years of existence, this genre-bending troupe has taken theatergoers through twisting labyrinths of productions, in which reality and its representations are splintered by technology and irony. ‘Early Shaker Spirituals,’ Plain-Spoken Tribute 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Q: The documentary addresses the irony of the two sides of you: the carefree life vs. the serious political activist. Hugh Hefner: Rebel with a cause 2010-07-30T12:47:00Z

Also, you may be struck by the irony of cheering on the proletariat while sipping cocktails in a seat you paid $100 and up for. Teatro ZinZanni's new show mixes food, fun and a little commentary 2012-03-09T20:47:06Z

The music's vast spaces and minimalist construction also emphasized ironies, conflicts and crises in the band's sloganeering lyrics. Gang of Four turn back the clock with vital, aggressive show 2011-02-12T11:21:00Z

That is to say, we all have a healthy sense of irony. Perspective | The ugly underside of Brad Pitt’s cool car in ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

On his own Twitter account, Mr. Aronsohn responded to the criticism, writing: “Women, please look up ‘irony.’” ArtsBeat: 'Two and a Half Men' Co-Creator Is Rebuked For Remarks About Women 2012-04-02T18:29:47Z

As the story unfolded, I couldn’t help noticing the irony of tuning in to the fate of a non-Native man, killed by non-Native people on an Indian reservation. An Oil Boom, a Missing Body and a Native Woman’s Quest to Find It 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The irony is, in my workplace, we all helped raise this dog. The joys and pains of raising a canine companion 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

One bonus of the diary form is dramatic irony: the reader, unlike the diarist, knows what will happen next. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

There’s dramatic irony in the fact that he does not know Man was his Torquemada. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Writing about the Soviet period now exposes a particular irony. In the line of fire: theatre and Afghanistan 2010-07-21T22:00:00Z

What makes his clothes different, more than anything else, is that his designs are free of postmodern irony. Fashion Review: Marni, Jil Sander, Armani, Versace, Versus, Bottega Veneta, Aquilano.Rimondi: Milan Fashion Review 2011-09-26T23:35:43Z

“The irony of this, Seth, is that the Affordable Care Act, the structure of it, was actually the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation, which is a conservative think tank.” Tom Perez trounces GOP health care bill after CBO score: “unmitigated disaster” 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

"For you, this was virgin territory," Bruno said when she was finished, without even the hint of irony. "Dancing with the Stars": The new season kicks off 2010-09-21T12:30:00Z

Rereading big chunks of it recently, I felt more keenly Batuman’s judgment, her attention, her discrimination, her understatement and irony. In Elif Batuman’s ‘Either/Or,’ a Witty and Perceptive Young Woman Returns 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

If one of the masters of satire thought satirical irony was dead, then, surely, we were doomed to live in an era of boorish, literal communication. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

I’m trying to battle the trend of irony and sarcasm and not meaning what you’re really trying to say.” Up Close: Millennials in Church - Up Close 2011-11-02T21:30:43Z

There is, in all of this, a certain irony, given our history since. Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge' spans Nixon-Reagan transition 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Here’s the irony of this: I got new material,” Tatulli observed. A Pandemic Gives the Funny Pages a Jolt of Reality 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

As agonizing as this emergency decision would be, the setup plays like a false trichotomy, compounded by ancillary ironies contrived for dramatic purposes. ‘The God Committee’ Review: At a Hospital, Judgment Day 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

An Arts District devoid of artists “would be a horrible irony and a cruel travesty for that community and for the City of Los Angeles.” Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Younger, the inevitability of financial folly — and real bankers’ odd veneration of ostensibly evil characters like Gekko, an irony he highlighted in “Boiler Room” — has turned him sour. Arts & Leisure: ?Margin Call,? From J. C. Chandor, Looks at Wall Street 2011-10-12T11:01:11Z

A letter of protest signed just days after the Feb. 24 invasions underlines the irony that the Russian pavilion was built with money from a Ukrainian art collector, Bohdan Khanenko. Ukrainian artist makes cultural stand at Venice Biennale 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

There are jokes in her work, but little irony. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Still, I found myself longing for a theory that harmonized the ideas of informality, irony, variety, and emotion. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

He is acutely aware of the irony that he does not actually do drugs. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

On a Zoom call the other day, Mr. Waters savored the ironies in his ebullient, amused, fast-talking way: “I’ve always said you have to know good taste to have good bad taste.” John Waters, Droll Bard of Baltimore, Promises Art to Hometown Museum 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

And the problem is that both sides think they know what irony is, and one says “yay,” and the other one says “boo.” What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

McArthur's touching belief in the "irony" of the BFI surviving the Film Council is probably just as naive as my belief a decade ago that the Film Council was a good idea. Letters: Our commitment to the arts is rock solid 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z

The Onion’s satire points out that irony and formality have become the same thing. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Clothed in our layers of protective irony, therapy-speak, political acumen and environmental consciousness, we genuinely believed in the newness of our present. The Olympics closing ceremony proves we're still stuck in the 90s 2012-08-14T11:46:24Z

A central irony of modern life, Crawford writes, is that even within our cocoons the “cultural imperative of being autonomous” is as strong as ever. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a truly sincere anthem for this seemingly unending age of irony. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

And the irony is that Betty was a smart, cultured woman! 'Mad Men' Costume Designer on the Style Secret Modern Women Don't Know 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

As a writer it is easy to find yourself wandering into sarcasm, which means there will be more irony than you might otherwise want. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

And I think you can see this, speaking of your interest in irony and the contempt against irony in contemporary culture. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

They see it as a terrible irony that she, who never harmed anyone, is dying, yet he, who nearly destroyed them all, recovered miraculously from stage four cirrhosis. Review: In ‘God Said This,’ a Hot Mess of a Daughter Heads Home 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

But there is a supreme irony about exploring racial segregation, property ownership and class in an environment that remains inaccessible to the vast majority of people most affected by those issues. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z

“The story of me and the Woodlands Ten has got enough irony in it to rust,” Hill told Rachel Maddow, in a television segment in 2006. The Improbable Life of Ray Hill 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

Often, though, the violence of irony is turned outward. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

The photo is titled “Truth is beauty,” with an irony alien to Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” the poem from which that phrase is adapted. In the galleries: A meeting of lines in art and architecture

"Most of the songs are almost love songs that don't have any dissonance or irony, or second-guessing," said Sparhawk. Alan Sparkhawk talks about his trio, Low 2011-09-15T19:24:03Z

But the suit didn’t merely call attention to the vicious irony of a publication rising in prominence for covering cultural shifts in the 1960s but failing to honor the civil rights of its female employees. Not quite the new “Mad Men”: Amazon’s “Good Girls Revolt” lets us know how far we haven’t come 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

But this is Galliano: the kinky boots, with purposeful irony, could well have been mistaken for a fisherman's wading boots — a detail that parodied the note of sensuality with panache. Paris couture week reaches creative climax in Margiela, Saab 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The idea is that it will also learn to understand tricksy human traits such as irony, jokes and puns. Meet Watson, the computer set to beat Jeopardy's champions 2011-02-06T00:05:33Z

PG Suddenly, the irony of “Fatal Attraction” hits: You became a superstar in a role about mental illness. Glenn Close and Patrick Kennedy on the Weight of Mental Illness 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

“It’s ironic but it’s a very productive irony,” Mr. Nolan said with a chuckle. ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z

The irony of being back in the country of his birth — and being treated as if he did not belong — was not lost on him. Jeffrey Gibson: American. Native American. Gay. An artist's life outside labels 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

The irony in the anti-capitalist revolutionary being used as an advertisement for apartments and office space is quite remarkable, but it’s not the first time the image has been used for commerical end. Poor Che Guevara is now selling luxe apartments and office space 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

This is the “Bridget Jones” alchemy: two parts overexposure and insubordination, and several parts self-obliterating irony. Bridget Jones and the Millennial Workplace 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The irony of purposely ironic buildings that joked with history is that they are themselves verging on history, and history more than beauty is proving their strongest defense. Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Which is to say with irony, with decency and, perhaps above all, with art. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad – in fact, all of the early Vegas aesthetic is Baghdad, which is also the irony. Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z

The local group delivers a dance party without kitsch or irony on its new album, “Animal Nature,” with lyrics that nod to the jazz titan Anita O’Day. Pop & Rock Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And, of course, reality television as a concept is irony incarnate. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Even as she fearlessly confronted its intricacies, complexities and ironies, she was never one to idealize it. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

The German organizers of the show, “The Art of the Enlightenment,” savored the irony. Art: 'The Age of Enlightenment' Sweeps Into China 2011-04-18T13:57:28Z

All were slogging around a tiny scene that had become dementedly insular: "We're influenced by everything from Genesis to Marillion," explained one musician, entirely without irony. Go back to go forward: the resurgence of prog rock 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z

There is also an obsession with “original” for the mere sake of it, as though original is automatically good, and original often involves some level of irony and gimmick. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z

It’s a fantastic irony that people actually wanted to be me: a 47-year-old single, fat Liverpudlian who’d been ridiculed online by an anonymous troll. Experience: I am Dancing Man 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

For Guillermo Barrios, an expert in museum studies, the irony is twofold. Lost Matisse painting inspires topless protest in Caracas 2012-08-17T15:18:23Z

One great example was his Rally on the National Mall with Colbert in 2013. Another is the boom in what I call citizen-satire that has allowed average citizens to use irony to spark political debate. Jon Stewart conquered Fox News: Essential highlights from “The Daily Show’s” 16-years of truth-telling 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The stolen keys were a different bunch to those used in the ceremony, but the irony is not lost. Beefeaters not to blame over Tower of London theft 2012-11-12T21:47:24Z

“One of the funniest ironies about the Gilded Age is that you have a society desperately trying to emulate the courts of Europe and British aristocracy.” ‘The Gilded Age’: What Is Fact and What Is Fiction? 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

“The irony is that the homeless were here first,” Rice says. Suburbanites are becoming the new face of homelessness in America 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

It’s Jane Austen’s mix of irony and satire and true generosity to her characters that makes Emma Woodhouse so charming, and what makes the book so pleasurable to read. Perspective | Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel? 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

“Wilkins’s invention was not only the first of many proposed irony marks, but also the first of them to fail,” Mr. Houston writes. Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

When he returns to some form of consciousness and a doctor tells him, “You were very lucky,” the irony is so strong you could bottle it and sell it as a vitamin supplement. Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Electric Coffin’s stacked signs, hand-painted in bubble-gum colors, echo this irony with their glossy, iterated messages: “Stay Wild,” “Lost Utopias,” “Middle of Nowhere.” Artists at Winston Wächter gallery construct enticing ‘Summer Dreams’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

And because we are such a fan of irony, it should be noted that the explicit single is up for two Teen Choice Awards, including Choice Party Song. Korn remixed Rihanna track and it's amazing 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

The first thing to die in “Dexter: New Blood” is irony. ‘Dexter’ and the Shows That Wouldn’t Die 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

That’s largely because they consume far too much of our collective attention, and yes, the irony of that sentiment was not lost on me as I typed it. Film: Best Movie Query? You Win 2011-02-23T17:20:40Z

A heavy irony hangs over Michael Richards’s work: The artist known for images of pilots, airplanes, wings and targets died, age 38, in the Sept. 11 attacks. A Meteoric Career Cut Short, Still Burns Bright 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

The irony of the association’s disavowing Ms. Wolf is that her routine, whether you agree with it or not, was ultimately about defending the mission of the White House press: sticking up for the truth. Michelle Wolf Did Her Job. It’s the Correspondents’ Dinner That Is the Problem. 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

The cruelest irony of my life is that it took me losing my best friend, my wife of 26 years and the mother of my three children, to truly appreciate each and every day. My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Such a history wraps multiple layers of irony around Linus’ claim that Christmas had become “too commercial.” The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z

A sad irony in the retaliatory dispute: Save the Corcoran is correct. Claims of retaliation for faculty dissent at Corcoran Gallery of Art 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

And then there is the discordant irony of his musings being so frequently illustrated. Peter Mendelsund releases two books, including one that’s worth your time

Capitol, the grand irony is that so many people involved in the insurrection were doing their jobs for them. Capitol rioters’ footage powers NYT’s ‘Day of Rage’ project 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

It was a situation for which the word “irony” is actually too soft. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Wayward” explores the ironies and frailties of modern life, the human tendency to constantly gaze inward to become better, to move further. Review | Dana Spiotta’s ‘Wayward’ is much more than a midlife crisis novel 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Nor is the irony that Bowie, known to be afraid of flying, was more seaman than starman. Ziggyology by Simon Goddard – review 2013-05-03T18:32:01Z

It shows very brief flashes of Butler’s humor and irony, which are in his tool kit, but it’s almost entirely, tragically guileless. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

The genre has both irony and sincere heroism built into it. David Foster Wallace Isn’t Just Like Us! 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

The remaining three works lean less toward current or local politics than cleverness and irony. Art Review: ‘Common Ground’ Art Exhibition at City Hall Park 2012-06-07T23:04:32Z

With the greatest possible irony, he died on Friday 13 July 1951. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z

Envisioned as the largest residence in America, the house is modeled, with little irony and less restraint, on the French chateau referred to in the film’s title. Review: ‘The Queen of Versailles’ by Lauren Greenfield 2012-07-19T16:06:31Z

He plays the role with conviction, and only the barest hint of irony. Macaulay Culkin: 'Aladdin is a passion project' 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Like Wallace, he's fastidious about not trapping his responses behind the glass of irony. Pulphead: Dispatches from the Other Side of America by John Jeremiah Sullivan - review 2012-07-26T07:00:06Z

With intersecting plots about the construction of an enormous church in medieval Alsace, Hopkins has constructed a clever commentary on the ironies of history. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

She could have reasonably used the "irony" defence. Have you heard the one about rape? It's funny now 2012-08-17T18:15:01Z

The irony is that there was a script, which in this instance the actors were reciting word for word. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

There’s a satisfying irony to the fact that film and television, the two forms of media most dependent upon wealthy benefactors, have most frequently taken aim at the uppermost crust. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rushdie, for all his full-throatedness, “never wanted to be a symbol,” Mr. Kunzru said, citing “the horrible irony of this inventive, playful writer” being defined for many by “this dreadful, somber threat.” The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

The dash of novelistic irony in the poem is that the parlour scene the sailor witnesses is taking place in his own childhood home. Poem of the week: Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 2012-12-24T09:00:14Z

They sat on our shelf more decor than library for decades — an irony itself given that the books’ spines, of course, were worn to a dull mud color. England’s Greatest Novelist and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

The speaker captures the tension between irony and hope, resignation and a desire for release. A new collection from the poet laureate and other best-poetry books 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

There is a Shakespearean irony to all this: Capote’s fall was swift and unsparing. We’re still talking about Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball 50 years later. Here’s why. 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a story almost Twilight Zone-like in its dark irony: this path, the one that Brody is on too, ends only one place, no matter how you run or fight to avoid it. Homeland Watch: The Expendables 2012-10-15T12:00:23Z

Her zeal for traditional homemaking may be reactionary, but irony of ironies, it’s the Stop E.R.A. movement that gave her a sense of purpose outside the kitchen. ‘Mrs. America’ Review: The Voice of an E.R.A. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

“The irony of it all is that the Oscars could do themselves a favor in 2021 by looking back to 1929. Who would have thought?” The First Oscar Ceremony Lasted 15 Minutes. What Happened? 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

By contrast, in his two most recent films, the avid wide-screen image corresponds to a lofty, somewhat Olympian detachment in the storytelling, which befits the films’ vertiginous ironies. The Existential Genius of Late Woody Allen 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's so tiring: it has been like this for 30-odd years, with people regularly and wrongly declaring the end of irony. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z

Irony of ironies, some of those words were "stop asking me to explain". Jonah Lehrer and the trouble with facts 2012-08-03T21:55:14Z

From the outside, the whole set-up appeared to be drenched in irony, but el and its artists were not so much ironic as romantic and witty. Hidden treasures: Anthony Adverse – The Red Shoes 2013-01-17T12:53:54Z

But something else is lost, too: the irony or wry, gothic humor, the self-subverting postmodern wink. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Did the audience not get the irony of her proclamation? This is why Stacey Dash’s Oscars appearance was so cringeworthy 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

I guess the sad irony is that they were right – but trying to get attention is one of the classic symptoms of a mass shooting. Mass shooters often chase fame and suicide: “These are not people who want to … live with the crimes they commit” 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Schumann’s work is full of irony and satire; Chopin’s is not. The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Friedman infused that work with an emotional ardor that goes way beyond irony. Michael Friedman, a Man of Many Voices and a Gift for Prophecy 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

She dispensed intelligence and irony as if each were fresh herbs in a reticule she kept tied to the belt of her dress. Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

That’s the irony of the actor’s life: The costume frees us from the insecurities that the need for a costume creates. Back in the Girdle Again: Getting Fitted After a Year Untouched 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

I choose that metaphor with some irony because in many ways I’ve never been more connected in my life. In Transit Blog: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Rider 2011-08-11T16:39:02Z

“The irony is that the Prado opened in a period of clearly regressive thinking in Spain,” he added. The Prado Museum, Spain’s Cultural Jewel, Turns 200 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

A beret might occasionally be spotted, worn without irony. Cine-files: Curzon Soho, London 2012-06-26T14:56:00Z

Her precocious reading, as a copyist and performer of these graphically illustrated works, creates a different sort of irony, giving her a sexual expertise which we understand, even as it mystifies her instructor. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

However, the film doesn’t cover this era or the ironies involved in it. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

An irony of the playwright’s own success is that someone in Margaret’s income bracket “could never afford” Broadway tickets to “Good People.” Playwright’s working-class roots inspired Seattle Rep’s ‘Good People’ 2013-03-07T20:19:42Z

One irony of the cigar box guitar phenomenon is that the first instruments were a byproduct of technological advancements during the industrial revolution. Cigar box guitar on a smoking hot roll 2011-04-02T01:32:41Z

Mr Chesterton's drawings are capital, and indicate a precise appreciation of his friend's ironies. A novel by Hilaire Belloc with twenty-two drawings by G.K. Chesterton 2012-06-05T06:30:00Z

But irony and sincerity are themselves not enemy parties. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The smiles, showmanship, disco-era revivalism and finely calibrated ironies are the essence of Scissor Sisters, a New York City band that keeps people dancing to its in-jokes. Music Review: Sweating the Details for the Fun of Others 2010-08-25T22:45:00Z

But among Shot@Life's goals lies an irresistible irony: it seeks to rally the American public to support global vaccination while an increasingly large subset of that public doesn't support fully vaccinating their children. Motherlode Blog: Seeking, and Resisting, Vaccines 2012-06-28T12:00:06Z

That makes for a delightful irony, it's true. The transformation of 'Planet of the Apes,' from book to movie legend 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

In his juxtaposition of art and life, Renoir contrives an ending, bitter yet affirmative, that combines irony, pathos and self-reflection in one transcendent image. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

“Simple” and “easy” are appropriate adjectives for the line, which effortlessly balances rumpled informality and tailored sophistication — without a hint of prepster irony. Basics Instinct 2010-08-26T19:06:00Z

The irony of the city's annihilation is that the volcanic rich soil provided its residents a rich livelihood, said Kristin Romey, the exhibition's local archaeological curatorial consultant. Pompeii exhibit in NYC shines light on buried city 2011-03-04T15:42:09Z

The irony of the title fades as Win Win wins you over. Win Win Review: Paul Giamatti Can't Lose 2011-03-18T21:15:00Z

Holmes mined vast deposits of romantic irony, aggressively displaying detached self-skepticism while secretly expecting the attuned reader to grasp his aspiration to be not merely a judge, but a thinker of the first rank. The Many Contradictions of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

The irony is that by the time Deng Xiaoping initiated the economic reforms that would usher in sexual openness, licentiousness had been rebranded as Western “spiritual pollution.” China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z

Mr. Salinger also perfected the great trick of literary irony — of validating what you mean by saying less than, or even the opposite of, what you intend. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z

And, like any worthy X-er, she tended to fall back on irony to weather the storm, as exemplified by the Prozac locket she flashed in her ’90s heyday. Elizabeth Wurtzel Finally Grew Up, Like the Rest of Gen X 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

In desperation we tried satirical irony by portraying her as a pleasant person. Margaret Thatcher and Spitting Image: we had no idea we would be joined at the hip 2013-04-17T19:00:01Z

His humour is a mix of irony, satire and farce: sometimes it's hard to tell which is which. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

In an irony familiar to the Internet age, it’s the same technology that allowed a porny standard to proliferate that is now allowing women to challenge that norm. The “labia pride” movement 2013-02-17T01:00:00Z

“Do they see the irony in this situation? Do they not understand that we see the irony?” A bird trapped in ICE detention: What it’s like inside the largest immigrant prison in the US 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Those who produce it today must wrestle with the temptations of irony and revisionism. 'Oklahoma!' sweeps audience back to prairie in lush show 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

“So in a way this feels like old times. The irony is that they’re putting in a bar area now, and my uncle was a pretty good boozer.” A Catskills Art Scene Makes a Splash With Free Curry 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

In Johnson’s work, the staples of modern literature — irony, ambiguity, complexity — are noticeable only in their absence, like the holes in a chunk of Swiss cheese. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

On one level, its music suggests a handwritten love letter to the folk traditions of Appalachia, offered without irony or concessions to modernity. Music Review: The 3 Women of Mountain Man, in Perfect Harmony 2011-08-01T21:27:08Z

As Hickey described his character's irony, "I'm building a destroyer of lives in order to save lives." 'Manhattan' traces a culture of secrecy, nuclear anxiety 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

The great irony in Ireland was that the reason it lasted so long and the reason it collapsed so quickly, I think, are the same reason: It had no immune system. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The art of irony has turned into ironic art. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

“Ultimately, the story invites you to feel gratitude for this vehicle that fixes itself. One of the cruel ironies of course is that Eva had a disease that didn’t fix itself.” Michel Faber Plans to Stop Writing Novels 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Many conductors hear the work as a veiled personal protest and plumb the score for bitter irony. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z

Younger women, who once adopted the dress as a cheeky send up of mid-20th century feminine stereotypes, are now dispensing with such ironies and acknowledging the frankly sensual appeal of the dress. Keeping Cool, Fashionably 2011-07-20T21:59:08Z

It has repeatedly cross-fertilized with representational painting; absorbed found materials and aspects of popular culture; adopted the strategies of postmodern irony and appropriation. Abstraction at Manhattan Galleries 2010-08-05T22:14:00Z

The irony is that Hollywood never lets a middle-aged woman — even one playing the secretary of state, as Leoni does on CBS’s “Madam Secretary” — lay that burden down. Essay: Women’s reward for being awesome: wrinkle cream. Seriously? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

“There is a certain irony that instead of this being the territory of Weinstein, this year it was the territory of women speaking out and having their voices heard,” says Grossman. Seeing Allred: the life of the outspoken equal rights lawyer 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

There’s a slinking, mischievous irony to Burr’s advice. Review: ‘Hamilton’ in German? It’s a Thrill. 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

The irony is that, by playing this wreck, Pacino looks as vital and exciting as he did in his pomp. Manglehorn review – Renaissance man Al Pacino delivers a masterclass as a lion in winter 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

The fact that Leonie and her son share this spectral affliction without knowing it or being able to comfort each other is just one of the novel’s many painful ironies. A powerful new entry in the literature of race in America 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

Then he added, with absolutely no sense of irony, “We won’t be taking questions today.” Keep your guns out of my school! 2012-12-21T19:54:00Z

In "Mondays in the Sun," your character tried to survive hard circumstances with irony. Javier Bardem on "The Good Boss" humor: Humans love "seeing people suffer when we see they are safe" 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

It's a nice irony that this helps to put Assange's achievement into a better perspective. We still need books to make sense of Wikileaks 2011-02-02T14:38:09Z

This is a real irony that has to be exploded, immediately. Depth on the Dance Floor: The Music of DJ Sprinkles 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

The ugly irony of this is that someone at the Times felt duty bound to show how responsibly they take accuracy in reporting. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

Steve, whom I instantly liked, because he had a sense of irony. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: My filthy car hit a tow truck. Did the punishment fit the grime? 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Still, a playful irony undercuts all the anguish. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

The poem brims with irony and is studded with staccato, commanding exclamations—“Freedom!” “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

The irony is inescapable: How likely is it that anyone white and over the age of 3 has ever said those kind of nice things to weary, hardworking Aibileen? 'The Help': Black Maids and White Mistresses in the 1960s 2011-08-10T09:00:00Z

How do we relate to irony and cynicism in this new age of the alt-right? ‘Fake Accounts’ Examines the Alluring Trap of Our Online Personas 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Isn't it ironic that the proof of irony's power is the never-ending parade of pundits suggesting it is dead? Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

That uncomfortable connection is just one of the ironies that echo through the Tulsa history. Telling the Story of the Tulsa Massacre 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Are you O.K.?” she asked breathily, without a hint of irony. Modern Love: Appreciating a Difficult Mother 2010-03-12T18:40:00Z

The irony is that, much as it hit on the Russia investigation and Mr. Trump’s penchant for spitballing his own statistics, Mr. Baldwin’s skit was kind to him at least in one way. A Man You Can Bait with a Skit 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

And some of the most engaging moments were the humorous ones, cutting the group’s self-seriousness with a bit of irony and wit. K-Pop Superstars BTS Lit Up Citi Field’s Stage. Their Fans Did the Rest. 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Despite the obvious irony, the site quickly built a following. Letters of Note's Shaun Usher discusses the power of the written word 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

These days, a shot of the Statue of Liberty is as likely to be met with irony as pride. Statue of Liberty: Still America’s national icon? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

For all its comedy, Mbue’s social commentary never develops that toxic level of irony. ‘Behold the Dreamers’: The one novel Donald Trump should read now 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Oh, the irony of Bush's featured line: "We will show the world we will pass the test." Broadway's 9/11 musical "Come From Away" lands on TV, offering kindness & laughter in dark times 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

The irony is that Trump himself makes false statements — more than 16,000 since taking office, according to a Washington Post Fact Checker tally — that he almost never corrects. A history of the Trump War on Media — the obsession not even coronavirus could stop 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

"He's an old-fashioned character, and there's no irony in him. That's deliberate. You can't represent his values with irony — you have to believe them to represent them." In today's TV shows, we like a little flaw with our heroes 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Journey and Foreigner songs in 2012 really scramble the sincerity/irony axis. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

I didn’t want the curse of premature irony to ruin his fun. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

My guess is that you'd rather like this movie: it's a funny, offbeat exercise in irony that doesn't require any great emotional investment. The critic's choice: Woody Allen's new film 2011-01-03T08:00:14Z

Loss and retrospection, irony and passion were themes on Thursday when the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presented a wide-ranging program of contemporary and 20th-century works for strings and piano at the Kaplan Penthouse. Review: Chamber Music Society, From Mirth to Mortality 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

His subject is the working out of divine providence, however problematic divine providence might become when introduced to an art form that generally relies for its effects on realism and irony. DJ Taylor on the Catholic novel 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

The irony that a man with a taste for beautiful cars was killed by a sports car wasn't lost on Trimble. Maple Valley woman was victim in Las Vegas cab crash that followed shootout 2013-02-23T18:17:57Z

As London recovered from the riots, Trash could hardly believe the irony of receiving an email last Monday proclaiming the forthcoming release of comic horror Attack the Block on DVD. Trailer trash 2011-08-13T23:06:21Z

Another dark irony in “The Iceberg” is that Mr. Lubbock’s brain tumor grows in the area of speech and language. Review: A Widow Documents Her Loss in ‘The Iceberg’ 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Tony Soprano is in charge of the Family but—here comes the irony—not of his family! TV Weekend: Ray Donovan 2013-06-27T09:45:23Z

While none of the variants is nearly as gloomy as the original version, disturbing irony emanates from most. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z

The two are aware of the irony of serving unlimited alcohol, but business is business. When you’re an addict but serving alcohol is in your job description 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Producer Jimmy Jam said her death was a “bittersweet irony” given that Davis heralded Houston as a great talent to watch when he had her perform at his party in her youth. Whitney Houston Remembered at Clive Davis Gala 2012-02-12T15:07:26Z

In the Trump era, American politics are not amenable to irony of the “Colbert Report” school. Jordan Klepper, Wyatt Cenac, and the Citizen Journalism of Class Clowns Made Good 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Where’s the biting wit of “England, England” or the knowing irony of “Love, Etc.” Review | If Flaubert reimagined ‘Cougar Town,’ this is the novel we might get 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The irony," Adams notes, "is that the moment he published this book, he turned his back on tonal harmony. John Adams to conduct own 'Harmonielehre,' Beethoven's 'Emperor' with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z

There’s some irony in the idea of a man who today would be branded a terrorist being commemorated in such grand fashion. Head for the Black Hills: tales of Crazy Horse and Custer in South Dakota 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

The lacerating ironies of the very posh have never seemed so life affirming. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z

You wouldn't catch a British band using a Reagan clip without lashings of irony, but, like everything else about Owl City, the intention was absolutely sincere. Owl City 2010-05-10T20:35:00Z

These are rich dramas realised with integrity and devoted to English character, irony and tragedy. David Thomson on Stephen Frears 2010-09-02T21:05:00Z

Playing nice is ingrained. Like their Gen X predecessors, they tend to rely more on irony than ire. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

The real cougar in the bathroom is barely mentioned, though the irony of a political system where the line between fiction and nonfiction has been effaced to the point of meaninglessness is felt throughout. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's a cruel irony that these skinny thoroughbreds got so filthy rich by stuffing us plebs full of sweets and biscuits. Made in Chelsea; The Prisoners – TV review 2013-04-09T06:00:00Z

Part of the issue is that irony and technology are seductive. How to fight back against irony: a guide 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Palmieri, an ebullient bantam of a man who turns 76 on Saturday, said he welcomed the distinctions coming his way, but also found a certain irony in them. Eddie Palmieri Ties Together Musical Genres 2012-12-13T22:49:44Z

But Gray's great strength lies in his sense of irony. Quartermaine's Terms – review 2013-01-30T01:07:38Z

He blended woe with wit; his ironies were fierce and finely tuned. Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

The irony is not lost on me that in order to get there, the squash just needed a little nurturing. I dismissed yellow summer squash as boring until it broke me out of burn out 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

A final piece of irony: the Reds' revamped lineup leads the National League in on-base-plus-slugging percentage, that measure of power and on-base acumen so near and dear to every sabremetrician's heart. Baseball's Best General Manager 2010-06-15T15:40:00Z

Photographic portraits suggest a man of shining intelligence with a touch of gentle irony. Auctions: Charles Ryskamp: The Collector Who Liked to Be Amused 2011-01-28T12:30:07Z

If you really want to undermine an over-inflated production or performance, then wit and light irony are often the best weapons. How rude should theatre critics be? 2011-07-29T14:03:46Z

“Retired rockers” was the theme of this collection of classic coats and jackets, given a twist of irony with altered proportions and malleable fabrics. 2010-01-16T06:40:00Z

Despite Trump’s talk of a “woman’s card,” the irony in 2016 is that the potential history-making moment of Clinton clinching the Democratic nomination and possibly ascending to the presidency is barely noticed anymore. Madam president? Ellen Johnson Sirleaf knows the job. Now she’d like some company. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Mifune is the ambitious samurai at the centre of a stark world laced with violence, beauty and irony. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z

And her work is persistently and daringly sincere, at a time when irony is the dominant mode of expression. Perspective | Some of the most substantial and rewarding art of the last half-century 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Man, there are times I think America had become so saturated in irony—starting in the late seventies—that we lost touch with the fundamentals: birth, love, death. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

“For someone who was such a pioneering legal scholar to make Ailes an exception to the trenchant line she has drawn is a depressing irony.” The Curious Case of Susan Estrich 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Wallace, of course, understood these tensions; irony is the vernacular of his early books. Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

There is no hipster irony in panelak living, no retro cool. The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

How’s this for a strange blend of irony, defiance, and cognitive dissonance? Angry Video Game Nerds, calm down about “Ghostbusters”: It’s still a comedy about ghosts and those who bust them 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“But the irony was that it wasn’t,” he adds. Mick Fleetwood only just discovered the secret reason he wound up in Fleetwood Mac 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

In crisp, rhyming couplets and a rapt watchfulness salted with irony, Sullivan’s debut collection introduces a worldly poet whose frame of reference is effortlessly wide. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

But I would say both sides of the debate, as it’s occurring in the newspapers, tend to be missing out on this very valuable understanding of what irony is or could be. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

In a maddening bit of irony, in the same policy document, Vantage notes that if passengers substitute one product for another, they are “considered reservation cancellations and are subject to cancellation fees.” Help! I’m 93, My Postponed Cruise Has Been Postponed Again, and I’d Like My Money Back. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z

As they reminisced, Mr. Komar and Mr. Melamid riffed on whether Warhol was ironic or idiotic, and they lamented the lack of irony today. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

“The irony of the situation is that these people say there’s no connection between America’s gun laws and terrorism,” he continued. “Everybody knows, ISIS without guns is just basically a blog”: Trevor Noah’s impassioned plea for stricter gun laws 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

The irony is that it's the very women Kendall claims to be helping who are calling him out. Succession's Kendall Roy is the perfect #Girlboss caricature 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Sanders, Hollywood’s suavest cad of the 1940s, typically delivered his lines with a silken, self-satisfied purr and was much appreciated by Sirk for his sense of supercilious irony. ‘Lured’ and ‘A Scandal in Paris’: Douglas Sirk’s Costume Capers 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a meta-museum of sorts, but one presented without a lick of irony. Station to station: What to do and see along L.A.’s Expo Line 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

With wit and irony, Ms. Ham pilloried this tradition by stealing hundreds of mundane objects from museums around the world, including forks, saucers, knives, vases, salt and pepper shakers. An Artist Unites North and South Korea, Stitch by Stitch 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

It was an appropriate setting for someone influenced by both the plainspoken ironies of Frank O’Hara and the exotic folklorism of Federico García Lorca. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

It would be a bitter irony if getting rid of the patriarchy was down to those who shouted loudest or threw their weight around the most. I live as a feminist, but I’m tired of being so furious all the time | Dear Mariella 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

In one of those unfortunate ironies of being a leftist artist trying to work in a gentrified city, he ended up landing in an Airbnb in Bed-Stuy. Algiers is a political band in a political time. But don’t try to box them in. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

But beneath all the irony and understatement, you sense that she wouldn't mind being taken seriously, too, even if only just for a minute. 'A complicated hoot' 2011-08-26T21:55:05Z

Taking the stage, Simmons — a first-time Oscar nominee at age 60 — cracked, "The irony is not lost on me that this award was just handed to me by a child." Damien Chazelle's wild, crazy ride to the Oscars with 'Whiplash' 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Guleng believes the inscription is written with irony and reflects both pain at being attacked and fear of being regarded as mentally ill. Art Mystery Solved: Who Wrote on Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’? 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

The irony about modern fitness is - fitness for what? Young Fitness Fogies Ditch $40 Classes for Hoops, Laps and Jogs 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Not a shred of irony is to be found in the extensive Julian Schnabel show at Blum & Poe. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Subtlety got you a bit further, at least if there was irony involved. On the Met Gala Red Carpet, Playing It Unsafe 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Those seem to me the kind of contemporary conditions that seem to facilitate that kind of cynicism, falsely understood as irony. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

Ella's emotional wound is no less than that sort of blunderbuss irony might cause. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z

In a famously delicious irony, they include Moore County, Tennessee, the home of the Jack Daniel's distillery, although visitors are allowed to buy a "commemorative" bottle. How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies 2012-08-25T23:05:52Z

There’s a laid-back, mumblecore vibe to the film that might have worked had there been more irony or humor in the script, or more personality in the lead performances. ‘Arkansas’ Review: A Mumblecore Mob Drama 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

As protest marches ramp up across America, one can’t miss seeing the irony in Douglas Brinkley’s June 14 review of Doug J. Swanson’s “Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers.” Ahab’s White Whale and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The irony is she was opening for us that night, which remains a source of embarrassment for me because it shows you how ludicrous the music industry is. Patti Smith: how she rocks our world 2012-05-26T23:15:26Z

The literary critic DJ Taylor described his lyrics on the 1998 album This is Hardcore as 'one of those rare occasions when a pop artist transforms himself without irony into an artist proper'. From Pulp to Prokofiev: Jarvis Cocker narrates Peter and the Wolf 2010-12-29T17:57:43Z

And here’s the irony that tells you everything about “Dancing”: The scandal wasn’t that a former White House official was selling himself out for a cheesy reality show. ‘Dancing With the Stars’ perfected a formula for kitschy, escapist joy. Can it survive today’s politics? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z

Then, with typical irony, Mr. Eco added: “I myself like easy books that put me to sleep immediately.” Umberto Eco, Italian Semiotician and Best-Selling Author, Dies at 84 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

What if “London Boy” is not only about London but is an effort really to be a Londoner, by entering into the city’s habits of irony and self-deprecation? With “London Boy,” the English Delight in Some Fine Mockery of Taylor Swift 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

His early work, writes Drake, represented a “combustion of raw energy, defiance, irony and joy.” Essential Arts & Culture: 'Zoot Suit' anew, art and the travel ban, Jimmie Durham's timely sculptures 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Those labels are, with unintended irony, called tombstones. How museums are adapting to 'selfie culture' 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

“The irony is now you’ve seen what these people were trying to see,” he said. At Attractions About the Titanic, Pondering the Fate of the Titan 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

The earliest strips were comic snapshots full of irony and even satire. Stan Mack’s Occupy-the-Fourth-of-July funnies 2012-07-10T00:00:00Z

So often, I think we, or I have, led with scorn or irony or opinions or whatever. "Life feels like an uncomfortable comedy": Zach Woods embraces the awkward and new movie "Downhill" 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

He simply needed to wander the wilderness of neglect for more than 30 years to sharpen his consummate sense of irony. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Then I was walking down the stairs, and it was kind of the ultimate irony, I guess. Q&A: Seattle dancer-choreographer Catherine Cabeen 2011-04-25T23:32:57Z

One of the other great adolescent poses of Facebook is irony at all times. Cultural Studies: Crafting Fictional Personas With the Language of Facebook 2010-08-13T20:15:00Z

The irony of Gov. Matt Bevin’s claim this week that “There is nothing more American than the freedom of choice,” it burns. Drynuary in hell: Garbage, garbage everywhere, and not a drop to drink 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Claudia Rankine's laugh comes out of the body as an explosion of complex contradictions: mirth, disappointment, irony, dismay. Poet Claudia Rankine ruminates on the body politic in 'Citizen' 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The irony is that she sees the recent slowdown in business as a hidden blessing. Natalina Zarzour: Sugar and spice and everything ... in between 2010-12-21T06:00:00Z

One of his central artistic projects remains a vital question for artists today: How does art progress from irony and cynicism to something sincere and redeeming? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

At the veterinarian’s office, the staff calls me Mom with absolutely no trace of irony. Don’t call me mama — not today, not ever 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

This is a film that —and I realize the irony, given some of the bitter divisions around it— is in some senses been as unifying as films get. 'American Sniper' box office: Why it probably will never happen again 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

It advanced the representation of black families and culture on TV and–however ugly the irony now–showed a generation of kids an African American dad as a wise, successful father figure. The Cosby Show, The Dukes of Hazzard and the Ethics of Reruns 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

His spokeswoman wrote, without irony, “His policy is not to do media.” When Trump went low, Steve Bannon found a new direction: Lower. 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

That this goes without saying — he is, after all, a white man masquerading as African American — is one of the ironies, but Row doesn't push it hard enough. 'Your Face in Mine' a bold take on race, identity by Jess Row 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Now, of course, these thoughts have a new layer of sadness, as well as a jarring irony. Kobe Bryant's Dear Basketball: a love letter to a sport that is now a poignant epitaph 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

As he put it, it’s a real misunderstanding of what irony is to think it’s the opposite of earnestness toward commitment. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

The critic Sarah Churchwell joins us in the studio and argues that Austen's irony still exerts a powerful influence on the way we tell stories. Guardian Books podcast: Women writers - Austen, Plath, Olds and Segal 2013-01-18T14:33:22Z

In her intelligence, vulnerability, volatility, desperation, narcissism and self-destructiveness, Su Lan — despite her voicelessness — is a compellingly complex protagonist, portrayed with exquisite irony. For a Successful Chinese Woman, Can Motherhood Be Her Undoing? 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Dig Out Those Pocket Combs IN the last couple of years, the tops of men’s heads have provided one of those ironies that make fashion so endearingly silly. Dig Out Those Pocket Combs 2010-11-24T20:40:00Z

That unusual and rather awkward adverb "bigly" suggests the deliberate avoidance of irony and its easy laugh at imperial ambition. Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z

Ali Catterall A cruel irony: some of the people who want children most are those who find conception most difficult. TV highlights 07/01/2013 2013-01-06T19:59:03Z

She does not deny this irony – but nor does she force it. The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness - review 2012-11-23T22:55:01Z

Between Kelley’s knack for melding irony and suffering and Vallée’s dreamy attention to the illusions that prop up the characters’ coastal California bliss, “Big Little Lies” becomes a sinfully pleasurable and even thought-provoking experience. Review | How HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies’ transcends the usual rich-mommies drama 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Well, the irony is, the boys did go after it.” Thomas Steinbeck, Novelist and Son of John Steinbeck, Dies at 72 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Bellocchio’s career, between then and now, can be seen partly as a chronicle of disillusionment, as revolutionary ardor gives way to irony, compromise and defeat. ‘Marx Can Wait’ Review: A Director Digs Into His Brother’s Death 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

Woven into this meticulously designed and shot tale are stabs at social and political irony reflective of the film's 1811 Berlin setting. 'Amour Fou,' about a suicide pact, moves at glacial pace 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The irony of the new museum’s location is not lost on Jampol. The Cold War as a museum: At the Wende, one man's 100,000-piece collection finds a new home 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the irony of all this is that, in appealing to young men through grievance, the right is only making men's problems worse. GOP dudes are big mad at Taylor Swift for reminding them that the ladies don't like them 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

Today’s cabarets require viewers to suspend not just modern theatrical expectations but irony, too. Paris Cabarets: Can We Ask for More Than the Cancan? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

This is because — both with irony and technological presence — rejection is no longer a possibility. How to fight back against irony: a guide 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

The ultimate irony at the end is that what these characters achieve is literal Magical Negro status — a final embrace of stereotypes from a show that aspires to upend them. The Unintended Racial Horror of ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

It is not assault, but his fatherhood assumes a retrospective moral irony, a soapily tragic tainting. 40 years of Stars Wars – why the blockbuster saga is a galactic soap opera 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

Inside, more than one speaker spoke of the irony of the moment. Remembering Bill Cunningham 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

“As history would have it,” Samaha writes, with a finely tuned sense of irony, “the descendants of revolutionaries and sultans fell in love inside a school with a U.S. flag flying out front.” A Powerful Story of Coming to America, Finding Promise and Paradox 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

Despite his passionate condemnation of racism and imperial arrogance, it is Achebe's gentle irony, ready laughter and his delight in anecdotes about our children's antics that I most vividly remember. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z

And thus is struck the clanging note of irony that will be sustained, with little variation in tone, for the rest of the show. Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case 2010-03-11T05:17:00Z

I quickly found myself sharing the naïveness of my character, and forgot about the parody or the irony, and did all the posts about people and subjects I found sincerely interesting. | 'The Painted Word' 2012-11-07T20:00:17Z

It’s a cruel irony since in the last decade streaming has rejuvenated the art of the pop song, freeing it from the need to fit on an album. The Pop Musical: Go Big (and Loud) or Go Home 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

It is a fitting irony that none of “Leopoldstadt” actually takes place in Leopoldstadt, since many of its characters try — and fail — to escape the perceived stigma of being Jewish by reinventing themselves as Austrians. A Homecoming, of Sorts, for Viennese Plays 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

This year marks the Posies' 23rd as a band, a small irony for a group that once titled an album "Dear 23." Posies back on tour ? and back in style 2010-12-09T23:41:00Z

And yet Mavis can look at him and complain, without irony, about how much she has suffered in her life. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z

Given the entertainment industry prefers simple messages, forcefully packaged, there’s an inconvenient irony to the latest Michael Jackson documentary landing just as Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody continues its grimly disingenuous awards run. R Kelly, Michael Jackson and Bryan Singer. Who knew? Everyone 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

By an eerie irony, that is very close to the number of "visible hippy dropouts" identified by an American sociologist, Professor Lewis Yablonsky, in the summer of 1967. Hair 2010-04-14T16:56:00Z

None of the irony of that is lost on anyone on our set. Téa Leoni and Madeleine Albright Discuss ‘Madam Secretary,’ Fact and Fiction 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Here, with sad irony, the overall theme is the afterlife. Michael Dirda’s picks for Halloween chillers: Get ready to be grossed out 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

But the movie has enough of a sense of irony to cut through some of that cheesiness. Big Miracle: A Slice of 80s Nostalgia, With a Side of Whale 2012-02-02T17:37:40Z

And irony is about calling someone tacky and classless by way of a tacky and classless gossip campaign. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What’s so rude about gift cards? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Huang is attuned to the ironies of their story in his incisive and riveting account. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

But Letterman’s career straddled the time before and after we needed our outrage served with a smirk and at least a small side order of irony, the combination that’s become the hallmark of late night. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

It would be a cruel irony if, just as the national theatres blossomed so exceptionally, their roots were being starved again. Arts funding: cultural capital 2013-04-10T20:58:46Z

She positions the work against the irony and sarcasm of today’s art world. D.C. is a city of grand monuments and federal buildings. These photos capture the often unseen poetic details. 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z

But despite myself, I soon recognized the irony, the tension, the glittering possibilities of personal conflict and heartache for a father whose son is murdered by a fellow officer. My Journey to Writing an Opera About Police Violence 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

I'm not sure if it was nostalgia or irony, but I was definitely laughing and enjoying myself. Edinburgh fringe favourites on the dark side of comedy 2012-08-03T23:05:00Z

Not everyone who reads Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal realises that he is not, in fact, arguing that the Irish should rear their children as a cash crop – some people are deaf to irony. When a writer's words have unintended consequences 2011-08-06T15:00:01Z

Many have also pointed out the irony that Ivanka attended a show that was so thoroughly a repudiation of her father’s ugly anti-morality. The Meanings of Ivanka and Justin Side by Side on Broadway 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Jaylah speaks with a blunt intensity that’s sharpened with a constant tone of coolly theatrical irony, just as Dickinson does in Hawks’s film. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“Orderly or Disorderly” inaugurated the audacious irony and reverberant symbolism that would become Kiarostami’s mode of creation for the rest of his career. The Paradox at the Heart of Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

And it’s the ultimate irony, but also tragedy, that this era when we’re more connected than ever before is associated with more nationalism than ever before. International Rescue Committee CEO: ‘The way refugees are seen is a running commentary on our own values’ 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Therefore if you’re showing bad behavior, it’s your intention, it’s not that it might have an irony. Film: Joel Schumacher on ?Twelve,? Starring 50 Cent 2010-07-23T21:51:00Z

The irony of Ayalon’s inflammatory language — an echo of Hannah Arendt’s line about Nazi functionaries — is as pointed as it is jarring. ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

That’s because satire depends on using irony and comedy to encourage critical thinking. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

This and several other early, politically pointed responses to the war drew heavily, and possibly with irony, on Western-style Socialist Realism. Art Review: ‘Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde’ at MoMA 2012-11-15T22:48:46Z

Only her killer knew the irony of her last words. Betrayal by Gregg Olsen – review 2013-03-31T11:00:00Z

And so I think for Wallace, institutionalized irony isn’t a form of irony, it’s a form of not being irony. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

The irony is that ending novels is the hardest writerly work I put myself in for, and I don’t imagine I’m alone in feeling that. Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

So you might expect me to point to some ironies I heard running as caustic undercurrents, tugging the whole thing down. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

“So I had a stamp made that said irony irony irony to put on a postcard and mail it back.” Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 89 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Already, the phrase was taking on shades of irony — here used to describe the rigid orthodoxy of a fascist government. How ‘politically correct’ went from compliment to insult 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed is notable for its middle-eastern fantasy setting, but the work's real strengths are its deep sense of irony and dark humour. The best young sci-fi novelists 2013-04-15T11:51:22Z

There is an irony in Ms. Prada’s playing the fame game, since she is both a fashion icon and someone who eschews the limelight. Special Report: Fashion: Stars in Your Eyes 2010-10-07T16:06:00Z

“I used it as a reference when we were planning our anti-bulling strategy,” she told me, utterly without irony. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z

But really this isn’t irony, just the state of our culture. ‘Girls5Eva,’ ‘Rutherford Falls’ and the Nostalgia Trap 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

There is zero irony here; they wholeheartedly goof on each other. Phoning home again: `E.T.' 30 years later 2012-10-06T16:48:58Z

Are the novel’s many ironies beyond the grasp of high-schoolers, who may misinterpret its complex view of race relations? Book-It’s engaging Huck and Jim navigate the n-word | Theater review 2013-04-23T01:30:59Z

The resulting ad worked, by elevating the topic and by offering the irony of the unexpected. The art of advertising things people find gross 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

It comes as some irony that Chase is making his way from TV to film while the currents he propelled are flowing the opposite direction. After 'The Sopranos,' a bigger screen for Chase 2012-12-17T19:26:08Z

“I realize there’s a perceived irony about this,” Mr. Dow told The Chicago Tribune in 1993, acknowledging that his name and face were associated with one of the sunniest series in broadcast history. Tony Dow, the Big Brother on ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ Dies at 77 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z

What follows is a gradual fraying of more than one uneasy relationship, and neither the irony of censoring this particular classroom staple nor the two-sides-to-every-argument aspects are lost on Wilner. A provocative 'Kingdom City' at La Jolla Playhouse 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

It is a rather cruel irony that the emblematic architect and the emblematic capital of the twentieth century never crossed paths. Collected Poems 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Handler is doing something treacherous here with his signature irony: simultaneously enacting and mocking the latent racism in enlightened white society. From the ‘Lemony ’ author, an adult novel of upper-middle-class despair 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

Robert McHalffey turned right and, betraying no trace of irony, parked at the Little Fish Theatre. Buddies and budding actor, writer hustle to land their big breaks 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

She wrote in her unpublished diary: "Fry's writing, poetic and lovely as it is, has missed, in my opinion, the sharp irony inherent in Jean Anouilh's dialogue." Lucienne Hill obituary 2013-01-17T18:30:51Z

“Then there would be the terrible irony of doing a book on paper in digital form,” he said, “and that just didn’t seem right to me.” Antiques: Paper Mills, Toscanini and Panoramic Art and Photographs 2013-01-24T22:46:54Z

Giardina is alert to the ironies in the attitudes and positions of both liberal and conservative hard-liners, but Anna’s credibility as a character charts a steady decline. When a 'City of Conversation' becomes a union divided: Political factions propel drama at the Wallis 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

But the pure optimism of the whole thing — its distinctly ’80s aesthetic and total lack of irony — transports you into a fictional little universe where eating more cheese is the key to happiness. In Vintage TV Ads, a Curious Fountain of Hope (and Cheese) 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

And I will say with no ounce of irony or hyperbole, ‘I’ve worked and waited my entire life for this moment, and I couldn’t be happier.’ Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

In the chasm between those two poetic ifs—one celebrating heroism and manhood, the other unmasking the men who manipulate such useful ideals—lies the tragic irony of Rudyard Kipling and the war. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The irony is that the more the couple mocked Hollywood in essays, the higher their script fees rose. Five Joan Didion Movies You Can Stream Right Now 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

Like “Family Circus,” the “Marmaduke” cartoon is the product of the Eisenhower era and is written with little irony or attitude. ?Marmaduke? Producer Is a Friend to Comic Animals 2010-05-28T22:31:00Z

The final irony, then, is that in many ways, the media friend never dies. John Lennon still lives among us 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

In one of the book's many compelling ironies, in its current iteration Belle Vie is managed by a black woman, Caren Gray. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke – review 2012-09-28T07:00:01Z

In what local pundits are calling the irony of ironies, Obama — who cut his teeth as a South Side community organizer — is now in the bull’s eye of the area’s community organizers. Barack Obama is building a library — and grappling again with Chicago politics 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

He was aware of the savage irony that the most vocal public opponent of the drama was Ian Brady, who had complained that it "would cause distress to the relatives". Inside the mind of serial killer Fred West 2011-07-31T19:30:01Z

The irony is that Plummer has always been reluctant to allow his stage performances to be captured on film, other than archival footage. Christopher Plummer, on screen and on stage at 82 2012-06-13T20:21:18Z

It is a mix of tragedy and irony that he died at the wheel, not the reins. End of the line at Golden Gardens, ca. 1908 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The irony is that all of this is actually subtextually in the movie, and is part of its grand ambition. The 'GoodFellas' flap: How it gets a movie and both genders wrong 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

“The irony here is that Wilson really is the architect of a lot of modern liberalism,” said Julian E. Zlizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton. Woodrow Wilson’s Legacy Gets Complicated 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

We do like irony, we like punctuating the melodrama. Sofie Gråbøl: ‘Lars von Trier is a very caring person… he's not like his films’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

There’s a wicked irony in trying to ban this feminist dystopia while Republicans are conniving to make it come true. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

Luxenberg’s history contains so many surprises, absurdities and ironies that it would be a shame to spoil the final chapters by revealing which justice ended up on which side. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

However, it wasn’t irony but anxiety that started to fill me as I realized just how late we were going to be. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

There is, therefore, a bitter irony to the story. Review | ‘Live, friends. Just live,’ a writer urges us in a memoir published after her death 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

According to a Washington Post story on the findings, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said “without apparent irony” that the report could only “further poison the atmosphere of our relations.” Remember this: The ex-KGB spy poisoned by tea laced with a radioactive isotope 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Pym has been called heir to Jane Austen, her observations possessing a similar undercurrent of wicked irony. Best audiobooks of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

We live in an age of multiplied ironies and dead echoes. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z

“There is a certain irony to being judged on one’s physical appearance by a group of men who, if you squint, look on a good day like a bowl of dried fruit,” he said. Watch Jon Stewart Roast the Congressmen Who Called Gillibrand 'Porky' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a terrible irony in wanting more from a lessening. Body of work: Women writers on disordered eating, writing the body and the book launch diet 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

But then another irony is that public transport via bus, streetcar and the MAX light rail line is an efficient and affordable way to get around. Portland city guide: what to see plus the best hotels, bars and restaurants 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

What sublime irony it is — don’t you think? — to know that each of these cohorts made “Friends” one of the most effective sales platforms on TV, into the streaming industry’s hottest commodity. Why millennials and Gen Z love "Friends" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

The issue for any director is to decide whether to play it straight or adopt a tone of gentle irony in the face of a cascade of showbiz clichés. Review: A New ‘42nd Street’ Opens in Paris 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The irony here was not lost on me. My constant fear: Am I a lousy father? 2014-01-17T14:00:00Z

The irony of a woman becoming the greatest worldwide representation of liberty was certainly lost on her earliest fans, if not the suffragists who protested her unveiling. Is the Statue of Liberty the world's largest drag queen? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

“It’s a combination of stunning calculation and deep irony,” said Frank Sesno, director of the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, speaking of Bannon’s appearance on “60 Minutes.” Perspective | The hypocrisy of Steve Bannon’s decision to do that ‘60 Minutes’ interview 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Deep, imperious and thundering with an angry irony, the voice precedes the man. Review: Peter Dinklage Tackles ‘Cyrano’ Without the Nose 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

With the irony, of course, that we fixed what we blew up. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

The irony is that a lot of blacks say the president doesn't bring up race enough. Cain compares himself to Clarence Thomas 2011-11-05T02:16:00Z

He closed with the surreal "Lake Marie," which alternates between spoken verses and a sung chorus — "standing by peaceful waters" — that gathered irony as the tale unfolded. Americana master John Prine at Ste. Michelle 2011-09-10T17:32:04Z

In this excellent biography, Stiles observes the irony and restores Custer as a three-dimensional figure. Notable nonfiction of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

The toilet paper she took for her own mother was promptly displayed on the empty shelves of my grandmother’s home without a hint of irony. Mariane Pearl: Revisiting the Cuba of My Youth 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Fine-drawn and fleet of foot, he negotiates the ferociously hard choreography with insouciant ease and a precisely calibrated edge of irony. Royal Ballet triple bill ? review 2011-03-20T00:05:21Z

One of the ironies of this case is that the media is full of senior middle-aged women making decisions about who or what we watch. Miriam O'Reilly tribunal: How the BBC's cult of youth bars older women 2011-01-11T20:01:50Z

I like her irony and I totally get how she’s the kind of woman who just doesn’t care, in the best possible way. Emmy Nominations 2016: Maura Tierney on ‘The Affair’ and Helen’s Swearing 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

The irony is clear — but also too on the nose to be effective, as if the house, the setting, were less domicile than metaphor. Small things add up in Matthew Thomas' 'We Are Not Ourselves' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Sadly, the man who designed the Terranauts’ home remembered to pack everything in this little space except irony, which turns out to be even more essential to our survival than oxygen is to theirs. Reading ‘The Terranauts,’ by T.C. Boyle, is like being trapped in Tupperware 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The irony of this work, considering the way his father died, is not lost on the reader. 'February': Life in the wake of a Newfoundland tragedy 2010-04-14T21:28:00Z

“With the name, it was just too good — the irony,” said Nur Khan, who runs the club. Downtown Night Life Recovers by Saturday 2012-11-05T17:19:44Z

The irony is that writers are generally meaner to other writers than critics are. How writers review their critics 2010-09-22T09:47:00Z

You’d think I wouldn’t, since I, like most hip consumers of pop culture, am surrounded by a banquet of irony these days. Bring back camp! Why “The People v. O.J.” and “The Get Down” point to its possible — and much-needed — rebirth 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Lines like “we’re actually adults now” acquire an inevitably thudding irony. Weaving Politics and Passion in ‘Love in Idleness’ and ‘Limehouse’ 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

There would have been a certain irony to that, especially if it had happened at Thanksgiving. TV review: My Life as a Turkey 2011-08-01T21:04:00Z

That joke might be funny, but it’s not the sort of hard-hitting satire that uses irony to encourage critical thinking.  Trevor Noah gives Fox News a free pass: The new “Daily Show” could be great for Ailes and Hannity, bad for America 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

The writer was no stranger to such irony. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z

Among other things, I could consult with a canny photographer—first James Hamilton, then Robin Holland—to double the thrust, or the irony, of each column. The Closing of the Village Voice, Downtown’s Magic Mirror 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

The irony of “The Encounter” is that it relies on state-of-the-art technology to deliver a lament against it. My Headphones, My Self 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

"People will expect an epic, but what we've made is full of irony and dry humor." Solo actor tackles 'An Iliad' at Seattle Rep 2010-04-08T20:15:00Z

Sir Victor would have appreciated the irony: The landmarks of Shanghai’s semicolonial past, vestiges of a once-reviled foreign occupation, have lately become some of its most coveted addresses. The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

With great descriptions, vivid characters, tremendous laughs, great passion and irony, and stimulating meditations on identity, memory, art, love, snobbery and sex. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Boat shoes are a possible alternative, although he's not sure they work in an urban environment unless you wear them with a sense of irony — and confidence. Designer Ingelmo reviews the shoes 2011-05-23T16:38:18Z

There is a biting irony to the history lesson of “Partners in Design”: how contemporary and covetable it all looks. These Obsessive Men of MoMA Furnished Your Modernist Home 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

It was later published with a title of understated irony, “The Military Half.” Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

The resulting distance – the horribly familiar inability to stop questioning yourself, even in the middle of joy – used to be misread as irony. My favourite album: Introspective by Pet Shop Boys 2011-08-17T14:51:44Z

There was an irony, of course, in bombing through one of America’s most beautiful parks to go and meet a wild man. The real Grizzly Man: No one knows brown bears like Vietnam vet, monkey-wrencher, wild man Doug Peacock 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

The irony is that Beinart’s central arguments are quite fundamental to Israel’s left wing. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z

But then his productions are famous for their gentle irony, their ridiculing of theatrical and operatic conventions, and their unheroic protagonists. My fair fräulein: an Eliza Doolittle for the 21st century 2012-08-14T19:00:04Z

The irony being that they are just as bored as I am, only they think they're not because they are continuously doing something. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z

And Woodhead's story is woven through with the ironies of "liberation" from communism; at a deeper level this is a book about all rock'n'roll – protest and pop, indeed – not just the Beatles in Russia. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z

Museums all over the country appreciated that irony, but in light of Krafft’s statements, those that hold his work are facing questions that speak to the very purpose of art. Seattle artist finds personal opinion, art an uncomfortable mix 2013-03-23T22:33:44Z

A sometimes ghastly mix of covert self-congratulation, awkward confession and wry philosophizing undercut by heavy-handed irony, Red Book prose can be an exercise in confessional self-concealment. After Harvard, Dispatches of Adulthood 2012-04-13T22:21:53Z

The irony is that Beinart's central arguments are quite fundamental to Israel's left wing. AP Interview: Author rattles US Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T19:44:11Z

In a 1990 interview, Nixon recalled Presley’s flamboyance and shyness and took issue with those who criticized his use of drugs, adding without apparent irony that they were prescription and not illegal. ‘Elvis & Nixon’ Is Based on a Strange, Real-Life Meeting 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

In tackling the Middle East, she observes a number of devastating ironies. The Oil and Gas Sector Is Changing — and So Is Geopolitics 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

At some point, AshLee says “Hashtag Embarrassing” without irony and Graham doesn’t roll his eyes, so maybe they are meant for each other. 'Bachelor in Paradise' Watch: Over the Rainbow and Like a Hurricane 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

“I’m profoundly American. I’m independence, grit and freedom of speech, personified. Staying here is crucial for the life I want, to be a voice for those without one. The irony is acutely painful.” The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

In fact, it seems that irony, mixed with technologically induced inattention, are larger problems than just at that party. Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z

“Andover is a place where very big dreams are formed, nurtured and encouraged without the slightest bit of irony,” Cohan writes. The Lives of Four Andover Grads Cut Short 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

Letterman moved to L.A. to start comedy work the same year SNL launched in New York, and irony vanquished outrage from coast to coast. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The irony is that Wiedenhöfer had not intended to return to the subject of Israel and Palestine again after his books Perfect Peace and Wall. Kai Wiedenh?fer's The Book of Destruction 2011-01-23T00:05:35Z

But the irony collapses because the antagonism is too strong, the self-awareness too weak. Review | In ‘White,’ Bret Easton Ellis baits his critics with morsels specially tooled to elicit outrage 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

In his second film, “Barcelona,” Stillman dramatized that idea with high comedy and exquisite irony, setting the burden of power and the pleasure of romance into conflict. “Metropolitan” and the Enduring Plight of the U.H.B. 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. LaBruce’s irony only ceases when he shows his characters languishing in the fluidity of their erotic desires. Review: ‘The Misandrists’ Makes a Mockery of Matriarchies and Patriarchies Alike 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The irony of a network that deliberately misleads its senior audience mocking young people for being ignorant seems completely lost on them. Fox News declares war on its own children: Inside its bizarre new crusade 2014-05-08T11:00:00Z

Another week, another movie about the Tragedy of Modern Life that kicks off with a “what an incredible irony” cultural juxtaposition. Review: In ‘How Heavy This Hammer,’ Life Takes a Toll on Dad 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the ultimate irony of the book is what it has in common with its protagonist: Like June herself, “Yellowface” seems desperate to not be misunderstood. Her Novel Became a Best Seller. The Trouble: The Manuscript Was Stolen. 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Good People” is a faintly ironic title — if only in that it sounds so firm — but the play itself avoids easy ironies. On Broadway, Old Friends Walking on Air 2011-05-12T14:27:20Z

It is a great historical irony that three such culturally and economically evolved cities would inspire movements that would seek to crush them. ‘A History of Future Cities’: urban gateways between East and West 2013-02-20T19:58:37Z

In fact, we might take as the greatest sign of irony's social force the ironic reality that there will always be pundits out there signaling its demise. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

You keep waiting for the irony, the distance, the mockery. Theater Review: In ‘Family Play (1979 to Present),’ Intimate Moments Unfold 2014-05-04T21:42:46Z

The irony and dark humor of Yamashita’s interrogations, of her nimble prose and sentences, illuminate the tragedies. Susan Straight on the powerful connection between memory, photos and the stories we tell 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

For Pullman and Dexter the planned closures around Oxford have a particular irony. Save Our Libraries day 2011-02-06T00:05:00Z

“A wonderful reversal story,” she called it, “full of humor, full of irony, full of thoughtfulness.” The Carpetbagger: It?s Back to the Studio, as Oscar Season Ends 2011-03-02T23:27:13Z

Several bathers noted an irony of a leisure spot located amid some of the most violent neighborhoods of a city notorious for turf wars among drug traffickers, gangs and police. Blue-collar bathers revel at alternative to Rio beach scene 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

The irony is an ASO is just the sort of thing that could help traditional Medicare succeed against private plans. Could Private Insurers Make Traditional Medicare More Efficient? 2012-08-21T04:07:16Z

With his moppy gray hair, deliberate gait, and phlegmatic manner, Winfried engages with the world at a level of puckish, bitter irony that masks his sensitivity and lucidity. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

It seems Cooper Miller, our bearded friend from the Brooklyn rally, is not the only Sanders fan with a sense of irony. Online agitator. Leftist know-it-all. Is the Bernie Bro back? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Given Gutai’s Utopian philosophy, the current market buzz about its work is not without irony. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Infinite insight , a subtle irony , done with flair and wit , whilst constantly remaining accessible to the general reader . World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

The irony is that his grandparents, these "proud Americans," will be most remembered for capturing on film a few minutes of one day they spent as tourists in a small town in Poland. 'Three Minutes in Poland' offers glimpse of world lost to Holocaust 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb set the table for irony, opening with serene classical music under images of nuclear fighter pilots. Why Netflix's 'skip intro' feature is bad news for classic films 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Indeed, “I Wish” possesses the tender intimacy, mixed with the slightest tinge of grown-up irony, of some of the very best tales of childhood adventure, from Stephen King to E. Nesbit to Truffaut’s “Small Change.” Pick of the week: A class-war thriller from Putin?s Russia 2012-05-18T00:00:00Z

The island’s brand, Ms. Koch suggested, is “summer vacation with irony.” Governors Island as Playground for the Arts 2010-08-13T00:29:00Z

His text is rich in philosophical insight and irony. A Grand History of Small Operas 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Consider that a quintessential Generation X take: a dollop of irony, a dash of fatalism and a sprinkle of self-loathing. Cultural Studies: Paul Ryan, a Wake-Up Call for Gen Xers - Cultural Studies 2012-08-24T17:49:42Z

The irony of having a credit card problem after having won more than a million dollars was not lost on Ms. Schneider, but there was little time to dwell on the matter. ‘Jeopardy!’ Hasn’t Had a Player Like Amy Schneider 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

“Everybody gets that — except Donald Trump. He has no irony about the flattery he needs to succor his ego. He eats it up as if it were absolutely genuine.” Sucking up has always been part of Washington culture. In the Trump era, it’s a sport. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

As far as he could tell, the next wave of great artists would dare to cut against the prevailing tone of cynicism and irony, risking “sentimentality,” “ovecredulity” and “softness.” David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

The irony of David Adjaye's proposal for a "Fashion Village" of luxury boutiques, funded by riot regeneration money in an area of council housing blocks, was not lost on many. David Chipperfield's heritage pub brawl ends in a victory for no one 2013-05-03T16:27:00Z

The irony is not lost on them that they earn twice now what they did in “Jubilee” as the living embodiment of a memory. The sad demise and curious afterlife of the Vegas showgirl 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

The title itself hits a deafening irony klaxon. God Bless America – review 2012-07-05T20:40:01Z

Barbara Tober, a board chair of the New York Museum of Art and Design, chimes in, without a hint of irony or humor, “If you are in ‘New York Social Diary,’ you exist. ‘Last Night in New York’ Review: A Social Chronicler Explains Himself 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Widakuswara’s reassignment — which appears to be punishment for seeking information from a prominent newsmaker — carries several layers of irony, given the themes of Pompeo’s talk and the issues surrounding his appearance. Voice of America reassigns White House reporter after she sought to question Mike Pompeo 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

The baseline situational irony that has governed the entire Trump administration can only be countered by the sort of critical irony found in comedic satire. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

There's wry irony in premiering such a film at Cannes, the decadent French Riviera resort town of high-end boutiques and luxury hotels. Coppola's 'Bling Ring' at home at decadent Cannes 2013-05-16T18:47:08Z

The piece’s cohesion — amid disarray and rollicking irony — doesn’t ever seem like a guarantee. A Pianist Has Cracked a Composer’s Code 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

In a lovely, full circle irony, while Wiseau couldn’t play Dean, he’s himself now being played by the actor who did. Tommy Wiseau in ‘The Disaster Artist’ wants to be taken seriously. James Franco can relate. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Where those older buildings were proper and hyper-rational, the new ones were comfortable with irony or took chances with ornament and color. Postmodern architecture at risk, Part 2: The saga shifts to Chicago 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Only a culture still just as susceptible to salesmanship would embrace him anew -- and without irony. New and unimproved: the spectacle of Julian Schnabel 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

That Milligan winds up ushered to an accounting job at corporate — which frowns on the bolo ties and the ’fro — is a little too neat an irony. ‘Fargo’ Season 2 Finale: No More Schnitzel 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

“Do I self-identify? With irony, for sure,” Miller says as the wilderness of Brooklyn suddenly seems to close in on us. Online agitator. Leftist know-it-all. Is the Bernie Bro back? 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Even here, Patrick has the saving grace of gay irony, announcing, “My life is now officially an After School Special.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower: A Teen Angel's Dreamy Angst 2012-09-13T17:38:52Z

They sing or speak about the trials and ironies of being a black woman, forming a motley chorus of voices from a variety of time periods and perspectives. In L.A. galleries now: A celebration of black women, a cheeky take on living with disability 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Standing in front of a phalanx of deputies from his political party, he delivered a typically Macronian speech, flecked with irony, rhetorical flourish, and a certain steely self-regard. Will Scandal Sink Emmanuel Macron? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

This sequence of events, laden with irony as well as sorrow, opens the gorgeous, sweeping new novel from Cuba’s Leonardo Padura. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

McManus’s first novel merges Old World elegance and modern irony in a brilliant social satire of life among the 1 percent of the 1 percent. Notable fiction books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Here Ravel’s “Bolero” serves a function similar to that of the Satie and Rachmaninoff in the earlier pieces, supplying both irony and structure. Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer Retrospective at Dia:Beacon 2012-02-27T23:17:52Z

The irony is a disruption in your sleep schedule can cause night terrors, and night terrors can cause a disruption in your sleep schedule. While you were sleeping, someone was baking 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

More troubling than apparently unintended irony is that Akpan’s stratagem doesn’t imbue him with enough confidence to give free rein to that historical war story in any of the fictionalized iterations with which he toys. Review | In ‘New York, My Village,’ the long shadow of Nigeria’s civil war is impossible to escape 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

The very obvious irony of Don’s character has always been that he can understand what other people want — but can’t figure out what he wants. 'Mad Men' Recap: Don Draper's Gettysburg Address 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

This sentence carries a large freight of irony because Ms. Winterson, in this book, seems nearly incapable of happiness, and suspicious of it as well. Books of The Times: Jeanette Winterson?s ?Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?? 2012-03-08T17:22:58Z

You can't process irony and not get that things can mean more than one thing. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

That closing joke made it clearer than ever that around the same time, we sublimated outrage with irony, and we’ve never recovered. Letterman’s presidential montage fell flat: “Mad Men,” “SNL” and why our long national nightmare isn’t actually over 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

It’s not how I want to go out, on the news, as the irony of the day. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This is how a neurotic makes a decision 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s the cruel irony of so many breakups and the film revels in this. The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Tragic irony and comedy, Mr. Kosugi reminds us, are above all a function of process. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Its cruel effects on Coppola’s life are a bitter irony: the movie is an intensely personal film about the agonizingly high personal price of grand-scale Hollywood filmmaking. Movie of the Week: “One from the Heart” 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

I have always thought that if the old boy can wake a Tennessee bumpkin to literature and history, to irony and rhetoric, he can do anything. Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

“Instagram,” she said, and then laughed hard and genuinely at the irony as well as, perhaps, what it suggested about the interwoven nature of young fame and multiplatform consumption. Who Is Sophie Turner Without Sansa Stark? We’re About to Find Out 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

But now that young Bieber has sported a mustache, no doubt in an attempt to co-opt some hipsterish cool for his increasingly fragile personal brand, the irony is almost entirely washed out. Justin Bieber Killed the Mustache 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Serious-minded yet silly, dense with wordplay and anything-goes theatricality, the play is so heavily swaddled in its down vest of irony, snark and satire that you can hardly locate its heart. Review: Hipsters Double-Check Their Privilege in ‘Cute Activist’ 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Perhaps our hunter-gatherer ancestors, without yet having developed the concept of irony, wondered what was on their dogs’ minds. A Dog’s Purpose? To Speak on Film, So to Speak 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

In the twentieth century, New Critics enshrined Shakespeare’s plays as complex poetic art, unified through patterns of metaphor, irony, and paradox, and generations of students were compelled to write exegeses of his linguistic richness. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The writing is honest, but with little self-reflection and no hint of irony. 'Absolute Transmetropolitan' and 'Melody': A Squalid City and a Stripper Memoir 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

America has a special irony in this respect. Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America's war on drugs 2013-03-31T00:02:00Z

Of course there's an added irony to it because they're destroying nature in the process of doing this. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Cruise’s smirk conveys a sort of irony — that he, a holdover from a bygone, purer notion of the action star — is a perfectly symbolic presence in a movie as self-aware as “Edge of Tomorrow.” A blockbuster for the “meta-blockbuster” age: What “Edge of Tomorrow” reveals about the sad state of action movies 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

The audience only knew what we knew: there was no dramatic irony. Passing of the Bill: a veteran's view 2010-03-26T23:03:00Z

In a marvellous piece of irony, Sharpe dedicated the book to "the South African police force whose lives are dedicated to the preservation of western civilisation in southern Africa". Tom Sharpe, Wilt novelist, dies aged 85 2013-06-06T09:45:25Z

Second, because irony of ironies, I ended up living with a strong Bond enthusiast, so at least twice a week I wander into the sitting room and he will be there watching a Bond movie. I've never seen … any James Bond film | Hadley Freeman 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

The irony of releasing the film as the US government fights to keep its travel ban in place, including an indefinite clampdown on Syrian refugees, is not lost on the film-maker. Mr Gay Syria: ‘A beauty contest in this crisis? It’s a way of surviving’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The irony, of course, is that this happened in an art museum strewn with paintings of naked bodies, cavorting infants and, yes, breast-feeding women. What can art teach us about breast-feeding? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The two events were unrelated, but the irony isn't lost on Coppola. Sofia Coppola tackles Bling burglars 2013-07-05T05:55:16Z

As a man riddled with sympathy, riven with a nagging appreciation for all sides, he’s doomed to bewilderment, to irony, to a maddening sense of his own irreconcilable doubleness. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

But the irony is, you just get better and better with age. Glenn Close: ‘You lose power if you get angry’ 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

The irony of feeling furtive with my adolescent kids about my romantic life was not lost on me. How much do your kids really need to know about your sex life? 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Veteran narrator Grover Gardner, with his fine exuberant voice, comic pacing and sense of mordant irony, gives us the very best rendition. Review | Audiobooks for your summer travels 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

For younger viewers just discovering irony and metafiction and possibly not acquainted with the screen originals, which have done them to death, this may seem fresh and fun. MTV's 'Scream' feels like a retro take on the film franchise 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The irony of Trump’s self-declared war with the media is that the media has already been a beneficiary of a fight it never picked. Trump’s ‘war’ with the media (and the facts) forces journalists to question their role 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

I’ve counted myself lucky to have grown up before XXXTentacion’s vicious ironies, knowing that as a teen-ager I may well have been enthralled by his lazy groans on tracks like “Moonlight.” The Violent Life and Shocking Death of XXXTentacion 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The irony of me saying that is that I've already fallen. "The moment blew my mind": Son of Sam serial killer may not have acted alone, says new Netflix show 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

One cannot fully appreciate the irony of that joke without seeing it. How "The Boys" measures up with regard to TV's full frontal assault 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

The irony is that Joan isn’t a remotely political person -- or at least she wasn’t until she found herself in this position. 'Mad Men' recap: Goodbye to Shangri-La 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

A tragic irony of the American experience is that faith has been deployed to suppress as well as to liberate; to exclude as well as to include; to control as well as to free. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

This, too, is a powerful irony: religious intolerance by a group that owes its presence in the Netherlands to Dutch religious tolerance. From a Cuban novelist, the story of mankind’s quest for safe haven 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Troy Patterson explains “the beauty of GLOW”: “Embracing silliness without apology and cliché without self-consciousness,” he writes, it “invites viewers to disable their senses of irony.” The 2018 Emmy Nominees in The New Yorker 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

Her poetry was known for its use of fables, anecdotes and extended metaphors, often peppered with irony and bitter humor. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z

As for the line about South Africa, I actually read it differently - as in, commentary on the irony on the beauty of the land associated with such a terrible history. Seeing Africa by Road 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

The irony is that he’d survived the rigors of traveling in Africa, including a nerve-racking three-day trip into the jungle in Congo for a rare interview with Hutu militiamen who fled after the genocide. The Uncondemned: the heartbreaking story behind the first conviction of rape as a war crime 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

In a way, his hip-hop is a lot like his comedy: flavored with irony — because an Indonesian teenager rapping about gang warfare is ironic — but ultimately driven by a passion born of talent. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

It is an irony not lost on Lee that the look and success of his own film first made Fort Greene attractive to property developers. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

The lack of irony in his work can itself seem ironic. The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

When he sings the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer standard “I Wonder What Became of Me,” there is not a trace of irony. Charles Busch Claws at His Divas, but He Understands Them 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

This is a great question, because it exposes the irony and the fundamental insult of zoos: animals have had their basic freedoms stolen and are viewed as commodities, to feed human pockets. Are zoo animals happy? There’s a simple empathy test we can apply 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

We were very close to just letting this go because the irony was too good. Silversun Pickups object to Romney's use of song 2012-08-16T00:59:08Z

CI: And the irony is the Tony nominators and maybe voters clearly didn’t much love the show. Live-Blogging the Tony Awards 2010-06-13T23:58:00Z

"The launching point of our show is sincerity and irony rubbing up against each other in really sort of uncomfortable and exciting ways," says Timbers. Remembering Michael Friedman: Interview from the earliest days of 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

The irony is that while Trump administration officials may think they are thwarting the “fake news” media by withholding daily briefings, they might actually be impeding their own ability to do their job. The last White House press briefing was months ago. Does anyone really miss it? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

There is a certain bittersweet irony in Guerrilla being similarly beset with rows, such as the questions over “erasure of black women”. Guerrilla's John Ridley: 'As Three Kings went through the system, George Clooney was unblackified' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

The irony that Amazon evades the very taxes which could support core services like libraries would appear to presage an age when culture and learning are a privatised pursuit of the few. Newcastle library closure plans outrage writers 2012-11-21T12:48:44Z

Alas, it is always the cruellest irony that caring about the royal family in this particular fashion is literally the most vulgar activity there is. For hire: the former royal hangers-on who are hounding Meghan 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

This is war’s irony as understood by Tennyson, Shakespeare and Homer: It is something both terrible and splendid. The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

That he was killed by a Slav who shared similar views on ethnic autonomy is one of history’s endless, tragic ironies. In the heart of Europe, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

"I shouldn't be in here!" he exclaims, but the irony is lost on no one, not even himself. Mad Men recap – season six, episode 13: In Care Of 2013-06-26T22:00:00Z

So consider it an irony that it’s the one likely to endanger every other imaginable experiment. Three failing experiments? 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Or the bitterest irony of all – that he rejects Alcoholics Anonymous as a "bootleg cult" and is convinced that he has cleansed himself of his addiction. Two and a Half Men axed after rant leaves Sheen looking a proper Charlie 2011-02-25T19:58:06Z

This is one of those delicious moments that life offers up for people with a sense of irony. Ask Amy: Hotel maid gets an earful 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

He was bringing irony and absurdity to a venue where there was not a lot of either. You Won’t Have Andy Richter to Sidekick Around Anymore 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

One irony is that, in my yearbook photo, I’m wearing a fawn-colored corduroy jacket with a black turtleneck — and I’m still wearing a black turtleneck now. Joseph Abboud: ‘Trying to Get Boys to Dress Like Men’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

The irony, of course, is that this is precisely what “Dear Mr. M” seeks to do. Someone is stalking a famous novelist in Herman Koch’s ‘Dear Mr. M’ 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

The irony is, we can’t even be part of the production. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call mental practice. Experience: I learned to play the piano without a piano 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Sampson also guides us through what she has discovered and points out, with caustic humor, the irony of certain situations. Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

The “continuing irony,” O’Mara writes, lay in the fact that “some of those most enriched by the new-style military-industrial complex were also some of the tech industry’s most outspoken critics of big government.” How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

As well as critiquing modernism, they embraced some of its taboos, including nihilism, nostalgia, kitsch, ornamentation and irony. Design: Postmodern, but Not Especially Proud of It 2011-09-11T13:06:04Z

The irony of “Sourdough” is that there really are no bad carbs here — just a full, satisfying meal. Jeff Vandermeer on the delicious satire of 'Sourdough' by Robin Sloan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Although the narrative proceeds in roughly chronological order, there is a very neat switchback, when it jumps ahead and then fills in the details, giving both irony and melancholy to the events. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z

The great irony, or the sublime absurdity, is that like a priest who practices his faith after the death of God, Daoud esteems Camus even as he exposes the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s blind spots. An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

There’s a hint of irony in interviewing the two actors together for a movie in which they never share the screen—rather than acting together, Hawke says, “we pass the baton in this movie.” Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti on Baseball and Parenthood 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

With irony and finesse, his works portray objects and spaces with a deadpan realism that is undermined by sheer impossibilities.• Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z

The twisted irony behind the disdain with which she asks Saul, “You realize how guilty this makes you look?” after he runs from the C.I.A. and fakes his defection to Israel. ‘Homeland’ Season 5, Episode 9 Recap: It’s Going to Be O.K. 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

It should be funny that she is wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with blood-and-gore rock band Kiss, but you sense the irony would be lost on her. Let the Right One In – review 2013-06-09T17:49:02Z

The irony, however, was that the kind of well-researched books Dolamore and others once published no longer tended to sell so well, because health publishing was now dominated by social media celebrities. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

There’s a certain irony to the complaint, for those who have felt misgivings about the country of Dogon’s birth will finish this book with many of their prejudices confirmed. A Memoir of Post-Genocide Refugee Life Rendered With Delicacy and Insight 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Rather than dispel the horrors of war, however, the picture merely demonstrates the limits of irony. Review | In the galleries: Contemporary images cast a striking new light on the Arab world 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

There was a certain irony to this as my neurosurgical practice largely involved removing brain tumors from my own patients while they were awake, under local anesthetic. What Happens When You Go Under 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

“We couldn’t but be aware of the crushing irony of the situation,” said my friend. The con behind every wedding 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

He writes with a refreshing lack of irony about the little disappointments and consolations that no one is above caring about. Brian Morton's 'Florence Gordon,' and More 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

There was a certain irony to the statue. Jeff Goldblum’s a movie star, jazz pianist and an inescapable meme. What’s behind his enduring appeal? 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

The irony is that he wasn't killed inside the building that you see in the film, where people are playing catch with hand grenades. On the front line: a documentary tribute to Tim Hetherington 2013-01-29T11:25:02Z

These films fight tyranny with irony, frivolity and unshakable charm. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Is a Complex Caper 2014-03-06T15:00:02Z

“She came highly recommended,” Ms. Radziwill said with only a trace of irony from her living room chair. One Dog. Three ‘Co-Parents.’ What Could Go Wrong? 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

City Councilman Jose Huizar, who represents the neighborhood, says an Arts District devoid of artists “would be a horrible irony and a cruel travesty for that community and for the City of Los Angeles.” Rent hikes and evictions — is this the last stand for artists in the Arts District? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

I believe there are some ironies about this particular film being a target, but I’m frankly much more interested in listening than saying anything much. Race, Hollywood and ‘Doctor Strange’: Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton, Annotated 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

The irony, of course, is that these waiters are anything but invisible, and these rich, successful, famous people who eat off their trays are just as neurotic and frustrated and disempowered as they are. "Party Down": The best comedy you haven't heard of 2010-04-17T22:59:00Z

There’s irony in a protest that seeks to defend poetry by disrupting poetry readings. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

Casey understood the inherent irony of telling himself to inhale when he was about to sing Maroon 5's "Harder to Breathe" in front of millions of people on "American Idol." What really happened when Casey Abrams kissed Jennifer Lopez? 2011-04-21T18:38:00Z

And he sang "Shameless" seemingly without irony — a stretch for a performer who milks moments as if they were his infant children's last chance at sustenance. Brooks has friends: many, many thousands of them

It is a bitter irony, and a disappointment, but it does seem that Wilberforce was faced with a choice between two evils, and chose the less. Wilberforce was complicit in slavery 2010-08-03T11:59:00Z

And in that quicksand, without any irony to rescue him, he got stuck. Anti-Algorithm Fashion 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Ms. Reiman, the author, calls the move “indicative of skepticism, bewilderment, irony, mocking.” On the Screen, an Arched Eyebrow Speaks Volumes 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Maybe you could address one effect in particular that trauma seems to have on language, in the book and in life: that is, the prompting of irony. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

It’s an irony that Orwell, ever alert to the stubborn discrepancy between reality and high-flown fantasies, might have appreciated. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

The wink gives a sort of autonomy, I think, to everybody and says we know what’s going on, and there is a sincere connection in that irony. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

He shook off the implication that there was irony in an anticapitalist theme park proving a big tourism boon. Banksy's Dismaland Deconstructs Capitalism, and Rains Profit on a Sleepy Seaside Resort 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

On one level, McDiarmid gives us a neat display of manipulative irony and handles the potential military insurrection with an amused guile. The Prince of Homburg 2010-07-27T23:24:00Z

That wired fervour, so distant from indie rock's standard options of irony, whimsy or mannered cool, makes it easy to overstate Arcade Fire's righteous intensity. Arcade Fire: 'It's a lot easier to get smaller' 2011-02-10T21:36:01Z

Single and with her biological clock ticking away, Marianne notes the irony of her romantic predicament. Review | Michel Bussi’s thriller ‘The Double Mother’ twists, then twists again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

This is the irony of Bethany's competition for a husband: She insists that Don follow her rules and compete for her attention, but to what end? "Mad Men" recap: Honor before reason 2010-08-23T13:30:00Z

Is that an intentional irony on your part? This Week in Fiction: Petina Gappah on the Insular World of Boarding School 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

A master of irony, a man renowned for his outrageous, scandalous wit, most conversations with the film-maker, artist and raconteur turn up stories of dark bars in Baltimore, cult criminals and obscure dangerous movie stars. Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z

The snippets from musical comedy recordings between scenes impose quotation marks on Mr. Bradshaw’s script that push it into obvious irony. | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z

The movie’s lack of irony is all the more ironic since its subject is the recklessness of mankind in daring to synthesize humans androidally in order to extend our own control over the universe. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

It could have been a cheap irony or even a betrayal of Duncan, who considered ballet her enemy, to cast a famed ballerina like Ms. Mearns in her work. The Best Dance of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

In a bit of irony though, the film was shot mostly in Europe. History's 'Sons of Liberty' foment the American Revolution 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

“The irony is he choreographed great material for men,” Mr. Martins said. City Ballet Creates A Troupe For Touring 2011-01-06T22:45:21Z

The irony here is that plants make some of the most versatile and convincing materials for imitating other plants. A Lifelike Version of Nature, but Not to Scale 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

“It’s a huge irony,” says Ted Merwin, an associate professor of religion and Judaic studies at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania who studies Jewish food and culture. The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak

Hudson is less than an hour from our home and, in a twist of irony, less than 10 miles away from the Statue of Liberty. We visited an ICE jail after playing an incarcerated person and guard on "Orange Is the New Black" 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

It confronts the ironies and compromises facing a black actress who has won her first lead in a Broadway play — an anti-lynching drama. The lineup for the 2013 Intiman Theatre Festival 2013-07-03T21:02:14Z

Was the composer writing a triumphant work to get Stalin off his back or loading the score's populist style and blatantly victorious finale with caustic irony? Pianist Yundi adds some flair, but his Beethoven still lacks drama at Bowl 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

If I want the pleasure and remove and aesthetic pleasure of shrewd, clever irony, I can always hang with Heti. My girl problems 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major,” he sighed, chuckling at the irony of how being the best bluegrass fiddler brought him back to the classical violin he’d quit. An Unlikely Fiddler’s Dream 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

This represented yet another irony: that many of the fears that originated in the industrialization of the food supply were ultimately dissipated by the kind of packaging and marketing that were integral parts of it. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

The speaker skillfully walks along the tension between irony and hope, resignation and a desire for release. Best poetry collections of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Certainly the clothes created by Raf Simons in his couture debut at Dior, on Monday, portend a new feeling for beauty free of irony and postmodern tricks. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z

Deadpan irony creeps into the most solemn scenes at nearly all times, conveying the profound sense of relativity that underlies Iranian attitudes. Art Review: Iran's Mirror of the World 2011-02-25T12:00:05Z

But it is, in broad terms, a shift from irony to sincerity. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Marvel became the biggest player in the game by carefully threading the needle between earnestness and irony. Shattered Glass: why we need to stop deconstructing our superheroes 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

The irony, as David Hounshell points out, was that the American System was invented in France. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

That's the irony of Beach House: their music may strive for depth, but it's so easy to let it wash over you. Beach House – review 2012-05-27T15:55:01Z

The irony is that while western consumers aspire to craftsmanship, the majority of the world's population lives in countries that have local craftsmen but aspire to industrialised products. The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker 2011-08-01T15:08:33Z

The irony in Sanders’ case is that a Gallup poll from last year found 58 percent of Americans would vote for an atheist running for president, while only 47 percent would vote for a socialist. One nation, under no god: Atheists, more than any religion, have been excluded from the election 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

In a sad irony, Jolicoeur’s verses on “Me, Myself and I” were specifically about not being judged by his unconventional fashion choices. Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

The supreme irony is that the other big news of the evening was the spectacular contraction in volume and quality of the art consigned for sale. Auctions: Disruptions at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Sale 2011-02-16T12:30:06Z

The first of many dark ironies to emerge in the quietly devastating exhibition "Uprooted" at the Japanese American National Museum surfaces right near the entrance. What to see in L.A. galleries: World War II farm labor camp photography and more 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

But in one of the novel’s central ironies, what eventually complicates Wolf’s life isn’t his lupine sexual drive, but his desire to protect the innocent — the pure. With ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen tackles the Web, mothers, the truth 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

There is another irony about his story – while few Britons can remember the names of the world-class jumpers he competed against, he is still a household name. Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

In his previous novels Benedict Wells said that he had tended to wield “irony and sarcasm” to deal with loss. In ‘The End of Loneliness,’ a German-Swiss Novelist Confronts Death and Loss 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Roger belongs to a generation whose major fashion statement is a protective carapace of irony. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z

Director Tom DiCillo is relatively incurious about the bands' mundane professional and romantic lives, perhaps for fear of importing an injurious Spinal Tap irony. Film review: When You're Strange: A Film About the Doors 2010-07-01T22:25:00Z

This may seem like an obvious insight or an easy irony: all those male bodies in intimate proximity, involved in strenuous physical activity and ordered to bond. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

For irony is brilliant in short bursts, thus great on Twitter and Facebook. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z

Listen for the certainty in his tone — and for the mild irony provided by the restaurant’s soundtrack. ArtsBeat: Robert Glasper Experiment: So Is It Jazz? 2012-02-24T20:24:33Z

As a vitamin supplement, he turns to irony and meta-theatrics, having each woman narrate parts of the story as if reading one another’s résumés aloud and annotating them with sass. Review: Edie Falco Shines as an Everywoman in ‘Morning Sun’ 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Since the ubiquitous rain was especially torrential on the night of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra's first concert at Usher Hall, the irony of its aquatic programme was lost on no one. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues ? review 2011-08-20T23:06:12Z

The older Adam does look back with a kind of irony, but not the kind his younger self expects. Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

The cruel irony: This is happening after eight years of a president who won the Nobel Peace Prize largely for his vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. Is Nuclear War Inevitable? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

“Arnold may not be able to pump much iron anymore but he remains a persistent virtuoso of pumping irony into the bizarre state of American politics. He is the has-been who still is.” He'll be back: why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

They were brought up in a world drenched in irony and crankiness, but they’re just too darn fuzzy and warm to sustain a negative outlook. In Aziz Ansari’s ‘Master of None,’ a new definition of Netflix-and-chill 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“There’s more than a little irony in it, since ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is about a trial against an innocent man.” Legal Threats From Broadway’s ‘Mockingbird’ Sink Productions Around the Country 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Black people are always told “get over” race altogether, but the painful irony is that their admonishers are the ones who most benefit from race, at the same time that they are blind to it. “You can’t coddle white brothers and sisters”: The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Throughout the film the narrator pops up here and there without warning or explanation, calling attention to bonus ironies for our amusement. The secret "Barbie" message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

It's no small irony that a character with limited social skills builds a site that will redefine social relationships for half a billion people, and that's the kernel of the film. The Social Network: How to make a sensational film about coding Facebook, by Aaron Sorkin 2010-09-28T10:22:00Z

Alam wants us to note the irony of an artist maintaining such a tenuous relationship to truth. In Rumaan Alam’s New Novel, Motherhood Lit Tackles Race, Adoption, and White Privilege 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

But irony is hardly, after all, what Christmas is about! What Movie Should You See This Christmas? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

When he talks about his work, Mr. Hirst manages a tone that is sincere but always tinged with irony. Damien Hirst Is Back With an Underwater Fantasy. Will Collectors Care? 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Which brings us to yet another delicious irony: “Steve Jobs” is making money. ‘Steve Jobs’ and the secular ritual of going to the movies 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

It is one of the dark ironies of American history that the broadening of the franchise to virtually all white male citizens coincided with the disenfranchisement of African-Americans and women. On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

France Gustave Flaubert A Sentimental Education lcoats   This novel glitters with Flaubert's numinous narrative ease - here the depth, there the irony, nuanced insight one moment, unabashed moral observation the next. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

Viewers who give in to the film's schmaltziness will appreciate "A Man Called Otto," which even includes a joke at the irony of Otto's hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic enlargement of the heart. As "A Man Called Otto," Tom Hanks' gruff yet noble curmudgeon will warm your heart 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

There's little irony in Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert or the writers of the Onion, who are, I want to tell you, the superior satirists of the moment: angry, incredulous, engaged. Has America turned into a spoof of itself? 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

But if the translations gain in linguistic authenticity, they lose more in the irony of making the Puerto Rican characters less intelligible to much of the audience. Revamped 'West Side Story' still powerful 2012-01-12T03:01:05Z

I live on one such summit of cultural irony — a college campus — and though the interview with the philosopher provides some interesting insights into irony, it seems outside the realm of my practical experience. Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z

He's a fantastic dramatic actor with a great sense of irony and the absurd. The Hobbit premiere: New Zealand girds itself for An Unexpected Journey 2012-11-28T10:33:44Z

But this 1814 installment in Beethoven’s symphonic output — his shortest, at only 25 minutes — is a wonder of concision that asks more questions than it answers, and masks its innovations in lightheartedness and seeming irony. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

For the generation that came of age during Vietnam, irony was the response to a growing distrust toward anything and everything. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

But irony can become—as one of Hemingway’s characters said—linked with pity. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

The irony, of course, is that this is now the stuff that you do see on social media. The Rise of the “Getting Real” Post on Instagram 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

His scalding irony and verbal wit aren't much in evidence here, and Dwan doesn't capitalize on the fleeting possibilities that arise. If you're going to see Beckett's late short plays, Lisa Dwan is the actress you want to perform them 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

It's drenched in a certain vile irony for which only soft boy misogyny can be the explanation, the kind of misogyny that aids and abets literal violence against Black women. Drake, it's time to give up the soft boy gimmick: Why the rapper's lover boy persona is a sham 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z

“Life goes on. And the Earth still exists. It's a wonderful irony and something beautiful, hopeful about it.” 'Juliet and Romeo'? Royal Swedish Ballet gives Shakespeare a twist at Segerstrom 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

The ultimate irony of a story like this for me is the lament for the past espoused in the very vehicle hellbent on destroying our "old" American institutions: the liberal media. The Last Act for the Ringling Circus 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

In one of those great American acts of irony, Amazon founder Jeffrey P. Bezos bought The Post from the Graham family. Perspective | The Style section at 50: Still sharp, snarky and soulful — and always a work in progress 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

It is a gentle, happy augury, though the irony of their being brought together by global tides of fear and hate threatens to engulf moments of tenderness like these. Film review: London River 2010-07-08T21:40:00Z

There’s some irony in this, in that one of Alexander’s quirks is his never explained fascination with all things Down Under. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

She closed bars in Clayton County, it was two years before irony, and she doesn’t think it was only in her head. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z

But Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs investment banker whose doc on the financial crisis, Generation Zero, managed to blame liberal policies and not Goldman Sachs, doesn't truck in delicate ironies or political ambiguities. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z

One of the central ironies of “Listening to Prozac’s” reception is that it generated two opposed responses, both of which got deeply imprinted on the culture. Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The first-person narration is so constricted as to choke out any possibility for reflection, irony or insight. New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

And then there is another factor and that is that these shows keep making our brains smart because they require the viewer to understand irony. Did the “The Daily Show” make us smarter voters or not? Two satire experts face off 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

The actual intended goal — sublimely achieved — was to add a delicious layer of irony to the irony that was already there. Can we go on without Jon Stewart? Of course we can. He’s shown us how. 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

In his mind, the battle lines were clearly drawn “in this age of irony and institutionalized subversion.” Hilton Kramer, Critic Who Championed Modernism, Dies at 84 2012-03-27T16:08:52Z

There is irony in that more people see our films abroad than in Turkey, which its very sad. Turkey's art house film-makers hope for further success 2012-11-02T13:23:50Z

The public has glommed on to the cosmic irony of Davis, a Black radical, being descended from a group of people whom elitists view as a top determinant of social legitimacy. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

I fantasised about leaping into the screen and attacking a Big Brother contestant with a hammer; then, without a hint of irony, announced that Nicky Campbell exuded the menace of a serial killer. Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn 2010-10-15T13:54:00Z

Performed by a hard-working troupe of whey-faced clowns or wise fools, this show is always better on irony than on optimism. Utopia – review 2012-06-27T16:53:45Z

The irony of a first lady touting the importance of online civility while the president rages against his political opponents on Twitter did not go unnoticed. Melania Trump will give her biggest speech in four years. Can she convince skeptical women to vote for her husband? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

The work had all the ingredients of a classic Banksy: political jest, irony and deliciously dark humor. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

And could anyone expect anything but the most straightforward irony in the title? Cannes 2012: Paradise: Love ? review 2012-05-18T13:18:31Z

But after Neo realizes that he’s in control of his own fate, the movements became wilder, physically manifesting “The Matrix’s” irony that greater personal freedom comes with greater discomfort and insecurity with the world. Watch Movies in 4DX and You’ll Get an Education in Filmmaking 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The irony is that my.Flow may do more to advertise your secret than keep it. The connected vagina: monitor how full your tampon is – with a new app 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

While her designs are both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Serre is equally comfortable with irony. In the Studio With Paris’s New Fashion Darling 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Lewis was overwhelmed by the sixties—by changing styles and changing subjects, by the irony, politics, sarcasm, camp, and verbal humor of Groucho Marxist ideology—and didn’t direct any movies released between 1970 and 1981. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

To him and others, the irony is inescapable: When it comes to fixing the planet, “dumb” animals all around us instinctively have the answers. Where the buffalo now roam: Local ranchers help put them on the comeback trail 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

It was, wrote the 25-year-old Charles Dickens with heavy irony and no little fury, "a regular place of public entertainment for the poorer classes, a brick and mortar Elysium". 'Oliver Twist' workhouse saved from demolition 2011-03-14T21:15:31Z

Ellison, now 34, grew up among one-percenter Democrats in Marin County, Calif., a milieu where, he says, an oil heiress might protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq without seeing the irony. Buck Ellison’s Great White Society 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

Well, it turns into that, but for the first two thirds of the evening, it’s sunlight, it’s joy, it’s naughtiness, it’s irony. It’s ‘Carmen.’ But Not Like You’ve Ever Seen It. 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Embracing silliness without apology and cliché without self-consciousness, the series invites viewers to disable their senses of irony. The New Season of “GLOW” Is Proudly Defiant in Presenting a Camp Eighties Pageant 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

“There’s also some irony in how we view pests,” he said, “as other species would certainly characterize Homo sapiens as having some of the same traits that mark pests as pests.” Is This Elephant Bothering You? 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

"The irony hasn't been lost on me," Isaac smiles. Oscar Isaac: 'The irony is not lost on me. Being celebrated for playing someone who wasn't' 2013-05-23T18:30:01Z

It’s also hard to ignore the irony that in the Cradle — the state-of-the-art, 200-seat theater designed to produce new works — Arena still keeps playwrights on a short leash. Army of playwrights and D.C. celebs amass for Arena’s ‘Our War’

“It’s a common generalisation in Britain that Americans don’t understand irony,” wrote the standup Stewart Lee in a 1998 Guardian article. Once upon a time from America: how US television took over our screens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Charlie Waterhouse, creative director of This Ain’t Rock ’n’ Roll, a design agency with work in the show, said, “It’s a quite wonderful irony that it’s blown up with an exhibition like this.” A Museum Held a Show of Protest Art. Then the Artists Protested the Museum. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Besides, irony’s opposite, absolute earnestness, can be morally cowardly too, when the true believer abjectly stays the course — often because he fears that not staying the course would be cowardly. Boston Marathon bombing, one year later: Were the Tsarnaevs really cowards? 2014-04-14T23:00:00Z

The irony was that in the end I abandoned the icy research centre setting because I realised that Jessie needed to be living in a much more ordinary world. Paperback Q&A: Jane Rogers on The Testament of Jessie Lamb 2012-08-21T14:38:26Z

All of which ought to confirm that Dean risks a formal beauty and deploys a melancholy palette that in her case easily cohabits with irony, rigour and complexity. Tacita Dean at the Common Guild - review 2011-01-01T00:05:49Z

The whole thing has rotted into a festival of bad faith and victimology, those twin markers of the Trump-Twitter Decade: rather an irony for a show organized under the sign of friendship. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

It may be only an extension of the familiar man-woman theme, but Alexander Wang gave that look a skewered elegance, done with a touch of irony and a lot of energy. Special Report: Fashion: Addicted to Love 2011-02-13T17:19:03Z

By the third century, Macedonia had shifted to a sculptural style full of laughing irony, as a collective family portrait dug up at Kozani reveals. Art: Macedonia's Riches Before Alexander 2011-10-21T12:30:08Z

Trump laughed along with the quip and, in a cruel twist of irony, explained that it was because all things with his name on them became successful. “Daily Show” classics: An incredibly rare moment of civility between Donald Trump and Jon Stewart 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Hemon does not overplay the dreadful irony of the aesthete turned warmonger. The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon – review 2013-04-14T09:00:01Z

The irony is hard to overlook, she notes: “They are this iconic symbol of our nation’s freedom, and they’re the ones that are negatively impacted,” she says. Fireworks are America’s favorite face exploding, dog torturing, bird murdering way to celebrate its birthday 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

Part of him found the irony of it, the personal challenge— and indeed he viewed it as a personal challenge—rather delicious. Make wine and kill the king: The legendary vineyard at the heart of a grand European conspiracy 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

To younger viewers sorting through a waning obsession with all things '90s, here's a sketch troupe that played a role in defining the era by marrying that decade's bastardization of irony with absurdism. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The big irony in this attitude is that even in many mundane situations, fashion is a factor of power.” T Magazine: Speak Softly and Wear Big Shoulder Pads 2011-01-20T14:00:23Z

Herein lies the irony: I couldn’t get a tan. The Mirror: Farewell to My Summer Tan 2011-08-19T23:14:15Z

Ever the school bully, she is an icicle of irony. A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler; St John's Night – review 2012-07-14T23:04:21Z

Villoro, an accomplished novelist, recounts his remarkable engagement with Mexico City with a mix of irony and empathy. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

In a mischievous, clever play called “Game Show,” the greatest irony is the way a theater audience instantly conforms to the dynamics of a familiar television staple: the multi-contestant game show. ‘Game Show’ lets the audience play along 2013-08-01T21:40:42Z

It all failed because the producers didn’t understand the emerging dynamics of modern irony. You already know ‘Fuller House’ is bad. But are you adult enough to resist it? 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

We are supposed to take in the quiet irony of a woman, enslaved, at the feet of a once-proud icon of American history. Weaponized white feminism in "The Handmaid's Tale" and "When They See Us" 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Though Vikander praises Ritchie’s dab hand at injecting “a lot of wit and irony” into the script, a good deal of the humor was improvised by the actors with the director’s encouragement. Guy Ritchie Cracks the Spy Genre with 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

A certain class of pundit wanted irony to die because irony necessarily complicates. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

The irony is, I feel we’re closer personally than when we were out going to nightclubs.” Anne Meara, Comedian and Actress, Dies at 85 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

There may be neither irony nor ambiguity in her demonstration of Prokofiev issuing a red flag warning, but she also reveals an indomitable spirit, a vision of what is at risk. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

Given her subsequent struggle to escape, the irony was cruel. The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison – review 2013-05-12T08:00:04Z

The irony is that the hidden metadata knows the score, even though it’s not telling: “Time Present and Time Past” shows up in searches for each composer. The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

As a fiction, however, Gatsby works through a subtle balance of irony, concealment and point of view. Northern Ballet: The Great Gatsby – review 2013-03-06T12:53:52Z

America’s generals continue to be treated, without the slightest irony, as “the adults in the room.” Killing me softly with militarism 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

The biggest irony about this righteous protest targeting this particular film is the pains the makers went to to avoid it. Race, Hollywood and ‘Doctor Strange’: Margaret Cho and Tilda Swinton, Annotated 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z

In the wake of 9/11, with the smell of roasted flesh wafting above the Statue of Liberty, do you think we wanted irony? If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

Used the word "hip" with an apparent lack of irony? Oscars 2011: 10 ways to improve the ceremony 2011-02-28T18:42:02Z

Or even, in the greatest of ironies, the first? How Obamacare Tackled the Pitfalls of Employer-Sponsored Insurance Reform 2012-05-14T11:35:22Z

She says what’s on her mind, and she calls things the way they are, and it’s done with humor and intellect and a great deal of irony. Tim Gunn’s Happy Place Is ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ Washed Down With Good Gin 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

The “Selma” effect was contagious—probably more so, by a pleasing irony, than if it had earned a higher number of nods. Oscar’s White Night 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

It inflects his music—there’s an undercurrent of irony in his most melodramatic moments—but it is the dominant characteristic of his personality on Twitter and in person. Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

This is an irony we need not fear: indeed, it speeds us on our way to more central questions. The Drowned World by JG Ballard 2012-07-13T07:00:07Z

The irony of Geffen's donation, though, is that the one Lincoln Center company that does look to L.A. as a model is the New York Philharmonic. How David Geffen's gift to Lincoln Center reflects on Music Center 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

He points out that irony, the “the very service that’s going to kill off letter writing,” is responsible for bringing these missives before so many eyes. Explaining the Popularity of Letters of Note 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

"Under the rule of dark forces, Lu Xun rightly fought back with burning satire and freezing irony," Mao explained in 1942, on the edge of his first "rectification" of those demanding freedom of expression. Rereading: Lu Xun's The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

Addressing the piece “Dear White Supremacy,” the Chicago-based musician launched into an emotional screed about race in America, mixing earnest emotion with sharp irony to tear down notions of white superiority. Dear White Supremacy: Nothing about you “cognitively, academically, socially, architecturally, culturally or even financially … signifies a higher position,” says Lupe Fiasco 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

But to go back to Shakespeare: Where would he be without irony? Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

It was the '90s, an age rife with young idiots styling tasteless stupidity into supposed irony. "The Crown" presents Princess Diana of Wales, patron saint of tradition-defying divorcées 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

Scream, Clueless, films like that were just as sly and arch in their message as new films like Juno and Superbad, but without the irony. Stone Roses, Trainspotting and the grunge look: the 90s revival is here 2012-02-11T13:17:39Z

The irony, of course, is that we also dream of enjoying idleness, imagining a hazy vision of our future selves lying on a beach doing sweet nothing. Today; Embracing Idleness: radio review 2013-02-22T07:00:11Z

It is one of the more embarrassing ironies of the age that everyone who utters the phrase “But you can’t say that any more” has, quite literally, just said the thing you can’t say. Kevin Spacey and Louis CK have been out in the wilderness. Please, let’s keep them there 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

One irony of this hawk’s cry becoming the popular call of the wild is that red-tails occupy a range of habitats we don’t normally think of as “nature.” Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z

“The irony is that the wonderful person she actually was is so much more interesting than the image that was created around her.” Nick Broomfield on his damning Whitney Houston film: 'She had very little control over her life' 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

It was pathetic and uncomfortable because of the naked irony it revealed. Perspective | How should we talk about Stephen Miller’s hair? 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

But irony and satire rarely travel well when adapted for the US. Has the satire and humour of Big Little Lies been lost in translation? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

“Normally I think that irony and humor is funny, but this thing with the costumes, is it really that funny?” The Ethics of Wearing an Ebola Costume for Halloween 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

For Enquirer staffers, the irony of the Edwards comparison is thick. Trump campaign, tabloid publisher hatched plan to bury damaging stories, Cohen prosecutors allege 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

With nice irony, Chinese billionaires are now raiding Western auction houses for Chinese art, valuing especially those works that have been authenticated by American scholars. How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’ 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z

“In interesting irony, the estimated peak day for the virus in Alabama happened 10 years to the day the oil spill started,” says Kay Maghan, a spokeswoman for Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism. Perspective | How travel destinations are staying visible (and tidying up) during the pandemic 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

The irony — again, not unfamiliar from real-life politics — is that, for a self-styled victim of the modern system, John Dutton only ever seems to get more powerful. This Land Is His Land 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Of course, kitsch depends on the perspective: An English garden gnome taken seriously is depressing; viewed with irony, it’s droll. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

My go-to classic would have to be Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” his first novel and I think his best, a masterpiece of understatement and genuinely earned irony and deep vulnerability. Andre Dubus III: By the Book 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“The irony is that this faceless thing can lead to great outcomes in the real world,” he said, piling the dishes into the sink. Jon Favreau Serves Up a Smaller Film, ‘Chef’ 2014-04-25T16:51:47Z

Multiple journalists wrote eulogies for irony and there was a sense among some that it was almost unseemly to respond to the attack in cultural terms. A George Carlin Special Too Raw After Sept. 11 Resurfaces Now 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

The performances reinforce stereotypical gender roles, although this may be attempted irony. Art Review: Combining People and Machines in Venice 2011-07-08T16:55:52Z

The irony is that the very same wonks who criticize private insurance and premium support in the context of Medicare have endorsed the use of the same concepts in a law they enthusiastically support: Obamacare. Who's Better at Running Medicare: Government, or the Private Sector? 2012-09-03T02:38:24Z

The criticism is unlikely to bother Ozon, who produces on average at least one film a year and had clearly approached "L'Amant Double" with knowing irony. French director Ozon plays with psycho-sexual thriller genre at Cannes 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

HG Wells's science fiction tale may be dated, but in the hands of scripter Gatiss it largely works beautifully as a piece of TV steampunk – affectionately knowing without too much irony. Tonight's TV highlights: The First Men In The Moon 2010-10-18T23:05:00Z

The irony of personal freedom is that those who fight for it are robbed of their own. ‘Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly’ Review: On the Irony of Personal Freedom 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

And he pointed to the irony of conservatives who complain about “cancel culture” promoting such bills, which he called “the most profound and troubling example of cancel culture” today. Bans on Critical Race Theory Threaten Free Speech, Advocacy Group Says 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

“If I were you, I’d leave that stuff to the white boys, as they approach it with just the right amount of irony and charming ineptitude.” ArtsBeat: Stew in Africa: A Long Time Coming 2011-07-26T19:00:27Z

Does the irony of any of this need underlining? An atheist in the White House? It could happen, thanks to Donald Trump 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

As the screws start to fall, not only is he destroying a miracle machine that we now know works – the dramatic irony! – but he’s endangering four children’s lives as debris rains down on their heads. ‘Feasting on fantasy’: my month of extreme immersion in Disney+ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

But if there’s irony here, it is inscrutable. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The idea was to cross every line in an effort to use irony and satire to question the status quo. What the media can learn from Bill Maher: 1 year after Charlie Hebdo attack, satirists still taking risks news outlets won’t 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Even if the comment is initially meant to be self-aware or ironic, the rest of the book belies any attempt at irony by presenting Owen as an archetypical effete. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

The first moments of that first episode take you straight to the heart of the 1970s, some depth of garishness and smarm unleavened by irony, which possibly hadn’t been invented yet. Donny and Marie Osmond: Cheerfully embracing their teen-idol past

Sometimes cynicism is a hook, sometimes the hook is humor, angst, irony, aggression, sex or sincerity. The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

The irony does not end with Robertson's Canadian origin. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

It is also a lovely irony that it was fifty years ago this year that Moorcock, then twenty-four years old, was offered the editorial helm of the British magazine New Worlds. The Anti-Tolkien 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

One irony highlighted by this show is that whereas Hokusai’s prints were prized in Europe for their “exotic” Japonisme, he himself was unusually receptive to Western influences. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

At the end of the film, Phil wakes up on February 3rd, bursts out into the snowy street, turns to Rita, and says, with impeccable irony, “Let’s live here.” The Tao of “Groundhog Day,” Onstage 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Is it the artifice and what, for want of a better word, we must call irony that they appreciate, or the good teeth and fine hair? Rewind TV: The Fall; The Murder Workers; Skint; Made in Chelsea – review 2013-05-18T17:00:05Z

Buying and selling occupy a large part of “The Price of Everything” — the phrase “the art of the deal” is uttered at one point without evident irony — but creation also receives a share of attention. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s upbeat and chirpy — free of today’s irony and angst-riddled navel-gazing. Review | Bill Cunningham left behind a memoir. It is, to use one of his favorite words, marvelous. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

The bitter irony being that because Alexandria has up until now been so zombie-free, its residents don’t know how to defend against them and that could ultimately lead to their undoing. Why The Walking Dead season six could be the best yet 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

The awful irony of Mam's rapid fall is that she didn't need to lie. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Starting with its title — taken from the opening chant of the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love” — this play rumbles with a sometimes too easy irony. Review: In ‘Love, Love, Love,’ All You Need Is Selfishness. 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

She’s a famous director thanks to “Great Comet,” which closed prematurely last month in a bitter irony. ‘Great Comet’ director follows Tony nomination with D.C. premiere 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian When Frank Kermode's elegant, melancholy, often very funny autobiography, Not Entitled, was published in 1995, many reviewers commented on the irony of its title and its tone. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

These serve to generalize the story of the Yamato into an episode rich with resonance and irony. The Sinking of the Most Powerful Warship in History 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

But like that unorthodox foray into history, this one approaches political issues from an oblique angle, looking for the idiosyncrasies and ironies that humanize the pursuit of ideals and the exercise of power. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

All of his novels demonstrate an extraordinary, lively and witty prose, crammed with ironies and changes of perspective. Profile: Philip Roth 2011-03-30T13:53:28Z

Rather, his art is vigorous and trenchant, flecked with wit and irony, and passionately engaged with the larger history of art, from van Gogh and Matisse to Francis Bacon and Robert Rauschenberg. Review | This Native American artist should have been a household name. But he died at 31. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

"There's a lot of inherent ironies in protesting corporations in a corporate world," Williams Eynon said in early October. 'Vendetta' mask becomes symbol of Occupy protests 2011-11-04T11:15:12Z

Most of his hundreds of songs deal with relationships, misfortune and a romantic nostalgia punctuated with irony. Charles Aznavour, beloved French crooner, dies at 94 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Brolin sees some irony in his "Wall Street" role as a financial baron whose mantra on money is: "More." Life after Bush: 'W.' star Brolin still on a roll 2010-05-16T11:31:00Z

That’s an irony, of course, for a musical whose foundational purpose was to reward the contributions and sacrifices of ensemble dancers by making them the stars. Review: ‘A Chorus Line,’ Still High-Stepping but Showing Its Age 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The face these acts presented to the world was delivered without restraint or irony, and with grand theatricality. The Art of Classic Rock by Paul Grushkin 2010-05-14T23:29:00Z

Ear for irony … Lipsyte perfectly captures the atmosphere of a trendy Brooklyn restaurant. The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte – review 2013-07-24T10:21:39Z

Historians see irony in the fact that Brutus, who had admonished Caesar before the murder for the self-aggrandizing act of putting his face on Roman coinage, wound up doing the same with his own coins. Rare Coin, Minted by Brutus to Mark Caesar’s Death, Is Returned to Greece 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

“And this is where the parents are staying,” Nolan says, gesturing to the room without a trace of irony. ‘Dunkirk’ director Christopher Nolan excels at building suspense. Here’s how he does it. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

The irony of this name doesn’t rescue the stereotype, and Repent remains as cartoonish as countless other portrayals of Native Americans in American pop culture. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The irony is that he then took those sustaining fairy tales and used them to conquer the world. At Milan Men’s Week, the War Lives On 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

“There is no trust anymore,” Clinton’s avatar laments, breaking the irony meter. Review | Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s ‘The President Is Missing’ is an awkward duet 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

This city is not a site of escape or irony; it is simply what a girl is concentrating on, what she needs to hold back her tears. Watching Tokyo Through the Eyes of Outsiders 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

The irony that LuPone’s righteous tirade is preserved by an illicit recording? Turn off your phone. And ignore the prostitute. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

As Jake, Huston brings a coruscating, cruel, self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating irony along with the coiled, angry ferocity of a wounded lion. “The Other Side of the Wind,” Reviewed: A Belated Orson Welles Masterpiece 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

The servers, who favor feathers and fedoras, repeat the affirmation associated with each dish upon setting it down: “You Are Accepting!” they might cheer, with no irony. Power Lunch With a Side of Homilies 2011-07-20T20:15:31Z

That among the show’s most elaborate battle sequences ever—with flying horses and a tragically wounded giant—ended in hand-to-hand combat is one of the episode’s crucial ironies. Review: 'Battle of the Bastards' Is One of Game of Thrones' Best Episodes Ever 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

Once I’d processed my untimely jolt away from the novel, I smiled at the irony. A Sweeping Family Saga of Breaking and Mending 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

“He loved the irony of the fact that Ducatis are synonymous with speed and gondolas are the slowest means of transportation,” Mr. Nye said in a phone interview. Billy Al Bengston, Painter Who Channeled California Cool, Dies at 88 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

And most of these attributes are put to good use – with an extra layer of irony – in the forthcoming Paul Feig comedy Spy. Jason Statham: our last action hero (50 million Facebook fans can't be wrong) 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

At an event marking the opening of that president’s signature architectural initiative, though, it took on more shades of irony than Nikias probably realized. Disneyland meets Hogwarts at $700-million USC Village 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

It's irony wrapped in misanthropy wrapped in schadenfreude, and finally covered in another layer of ironic irony. Jennifer Saunders blasts Viva Forever! critics and Psycho was a comedy 2013-02-12T17:51:54Z

In “White,” he aims for a similar irony, couching critique of liberal ideas in reactionary terms. Review | In ‘White,’ Bret Easton Ellis baits his critics with morsels specially tooled to elicit outrage 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

Its comic tone, expressing wonder and irony, appears, above all, to blend deflection and amusement—a shrug at the ways of the world and an aversion to the pain and wiles of a mighty man. Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

But irony is something that gets lost in translation from the satirists in a democracy to the enforcers in a theocracy. Review: Jon Stewart's Rosewater: Laughing Through the Torture 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Do you remember when 9/11 killed irony? If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Everyone kind of leaves their irony at the door.” BeautyCon Puts on a Colorful Show With Bethany Mota, Gigi Gorgeous and Other YouTubers 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

At the Beach House, he ad-libs “Fat, ugly, dead!” after the Morrison line, lest anyone miss the irony, then lets loose a few bloodcurdling screams directly into the camera. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z

So, it was an irony to see Indians singing cowboy songs. "Levon didn't write songs. I gave him credit": Robbie Robertson on The Band's disputes and new film 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s full of irony,” Mr. Gyllenhaal acknowledged, as he made the rounds on a grassy area near the driveway while guests sipped Champagne. Scene City: ‘End of Watch’ Gets an East Hampton Screening 2012-08-22T16:57:34Z

“There exists this irony where it’s like, ‘Oh, we’re so accepted’ — my family went to fancy schools and my parents are doctors so, yes, that does insulate us in so many ways. Her Book Is About Belonging. She’s Struggling With the Idea. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

I can’t remember much about them, to be honest, though I’m confident that the portrayal of their carnage, ironies and fear was sure. Bernard Haitink, Perhaps the Wisest Conductor of Them All 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The immateriality is in the chatter it provokes, the jokes, the pleasure some will take in seeing the president humiliated, and resulting insiders’ discourse about contemporary art and irony. Perspective | An art critic explains what the Guggenheim was really saying when it offered Trump a golden toilet 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

“The irony is that this is a person who is running for the country, and later it’s the country who is running after him.” Irrfan Khan, Bollywood Hero, American Everyman 2012-02-24T23:22:29Z

Mr. Mo, who says he does not consider himself political, is nonetheless an equal-opportunity dispenser of irony and ridicule. Books of The Times: ‘Pow!’ by Mo Yan 2013-01-01T15:23:25Z

The irony is funny until of course it is not. “Mid90s” exposes the violence of boyhood: Teen trauma is a masculine rite of passage, too 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

Coming as it does at the beginning of the book, the passage hints at some of the tensions, the nuances, that exist below the surface, while also playing up the ironies. Lydia Millet finds mermaids in her new novel 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

You can carefully select and hone the material, loading up the barbs and ironies so as to disarm bigotry and short-circuit the hot buttons of sensitivity. Review: ‘Get Hard,’ With Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

In a story rife with ironies, where “the bizarre shakes hands with the inexplicable,” the mourning of a mass murderer is the capper. ‘Narcos’ Season 2 Finale: The Last Stand 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

These guys aren't big on irony, but it's the way it's used to support a narrow nationalist viewpoint. "It's our foundation myth": PBS' "World on Fire" challenges the World War II narrative we know 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z

It is waiting to be discovered as either an amusing cult object or a bemusing case study in the self-protective ironies of our day. “Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas” Is the Most Eccentric TV Special of the Festive Season 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

Of critics, he said, “If they don’t get the irony of it, sorry.” The Oscar Hunt: For DiCaprio, ‘Wolf’ Is ‘Reflection of the Truth’ 2014-02-13T22:40:31Z

Sunny seems to miss the irony of filming us outside the clinic whilst he vilifies us for filming ourselves outside a clinic. Watch a Pregnant Woman Confront Anti-Abortion Protesters Outside of a Clinic 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Last week, a friend phoned from Benghazi, Libya, to enquire about my health and safety – a poignant irony given that he now lives in a city run by militias. Where now for travel? Lonely Planet closures point to an uncertain future 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Satire is a unique form of comedy, one that relies on creative irony. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

Nineties food seems to have endured in contemporary restaurant menus – without irony – in a way that earlier decades don’t. Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

“It’s challenging, not so much for them but for East Coast audiences, which are much more used to irony.” Many Methods to Collaborative Madness 2011-02-23T00:23:36Z

This may be intended as irony, but it mostly lets audiences congratulate themselves for their superior knowledge. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 3: Rock Star Karaoke 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

The irony is that Knightley recently tied the knot with a person in the music industry - the splendidly named James Righton, from indie rockers Klaxons. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-12T13:42:39Z

A marionette Socrates, aided by his wife and students, uses abstract parables, paradoxes and, of course, the Socratic method and Socratic irony to examine epistemological and moral topics like justice, democracy and liberty. Theater Review: ‘The Republic, or My Dinner With Socrates,’ at La MaMa 2013-12-09T22:33:28Z

The album begins with "Plastic Cup," a haunting, exceptional tune that references the affliction of substance abuse, replete with both irony and mourning. Review: Low continues to soar on 'Invisible Way' 2013-03-18T21:54:12Z

For Robinson, there’s irony in Gaga – an artist known for writing her own material – “launching her acting career in a film that’s essentially a cover version of a cover version”. When pop stars play pop stars… 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

He was a self-created superstar, with a weirdly modern awareness of all that entailed: manipulation of image, distancing humour and irony, persona as artistic statement. Dorian Gray's true picture of Oscar Wilde 2010-04-29T09:01:00Z

A book about colour, irony and what Ghirri called "hieroglyphs", both obvious and elliptical. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z

There’s something for Grandma and the kids both, though very little irony. What Movie Should You See This Christmas? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Well, for a start, irony enough to glut even the greediest palate. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z

And of course if a billion people use this word “irony” in this kind of institutionalized sense, then that turns out to be one of its meanings, and there’s no going against that. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

And you’ve once again invested much of a book’s appeal in its opening chapters, which don’t depend on cheap irony at all. ‘The Happiest People in the World,’ Brock Clarke’s New Novel 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Burnett claims that the problems of irony will be alleviated if attention is placed on consciously reducing ironic behaviors and technological dependencies. How to fight back against irony: a guide 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

A central irony in the case remains unresolved. Getty curator at the center of past looting scandals has been writing a memoir 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

And though the hair styles and casual clothes of the 1950s are worn without irony today, that decade is foreign to ours. Kerouac's On the Road Comes to Cannes: Where's the Beat? 2012-05-23T19:45:33Z

There is a meta irony to bemoaning gentrification from inside this Hudson Yards theater, and to confronting white audiences with what they expect to see there. Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

There was some irony that the collection was held at Paris' grand Environmental Council. Louis V, Miu Miu and Elie Saab give grand finale 2012-10-03T19:14:09Z

It was a great irony playing a British cultural icon as an Irishman. Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

If not you may be struck by the leaden irony that, for all Kim's talk about the masses, we never hear any voice other than his own. Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z

I don't know if it's a quality, but it's part of my DNA to always put some irony in any situation, and a little bit of mystery. In "Mama Weed," Isabelle Huppert is a stylish drug dealer with a twist: "She's a female Robin Hood" 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

It is probably the foremost irony of a life that abounded with ironies. Review | A writer ponders Emily Dickinson’s most pivotal moments 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

While many viewers noted the irony in using the song to advertise products to children, others said it was an effective way to reach their parents’ generation. Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

“He has been able to use wit — or mockery, or impersonation, or irony — to try to govern every disastrous situation he is in.” Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z

He likes us both, the big lug, even if we Americans tend to be fatter, to smile too much, to have little sense of history, to be gullibly religious and flummoxed by irony. Books of The Times: In ‘Across the Pond,’ Terry Eagleton Explains the U.S. 2013-07-11T19:40:24Z

It's an irony that we were originally known here in New York for smoking brisket and meat and stuff like that. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

I have a sense of humour, my life is filled with irony. Nile Rodgers: my greatest mistake 2012-05-18T22:00:51Z

"Nice sharing with you!" a friend said, with irony, after a show as three of us got up from a space meant for two. On the Runway Blog: Less Elbow Room During Paris Fashion Week 2012-09-28T16:46:01Z

For all the talk about the Podestas being Washington insiders — and they absolutely are — the irony is that they grew up as far from elite as possible. The rise and fall of the Podestas, Washington’s powerful political brother act 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

“One of the ironies of segregation is that it created freedom for African-Americans to create magic in their own spaces,” Ms. Winkler said. And the Beat Goes On 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

But there’s also an inherent irony in pictures that seem so easy to read just because we’re all so well practiced at reading them. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Nadia’s unbelief, her indifference to prayer, her self-protective donning of a black robe: They exist not in modish irony but in hushed earnestness. Review | ‘Exit West,’ by Mohsin Hamid, is a tale of love in the time of migration 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

"It is, of course, an irony that the US giant NBC Universal then stepped in and spotted the long-term commercial potential of the project." Sam Mendes: BBC Worldwide rejected 'Hollow Crown' Shakespeare films 2012-07-02T15:13:25Z

The irony of being a white woman writing a movie about marginalized black women isn’t lost on writer Allison Schroeder, who “absolutely, hundred percent” expects to get grief about it. A guide to making Hollywood less white, by the filmmakers who have done it 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

What was originally an extended exercise in irony — the show demonstrates how idealism gets trampled — now sounds gutsy and urgent: a call to arms to improve the world. Bringing Out the Best of Sondheim, Herman and … Schraubstader? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

No shame in that, Ms. Rose said, adding with only a whisper of irony, “Nothing says chic like matching your drink to your dress.” ‘Nothing Says Chic Like Matching Your Drink to Your Dress’ 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

And yes, I do appreciate the irony of worrying about people being too bizarre in a movie about a time-traveling hot tub. An Open Letter to John Cusack About the Hot Tub Time Machine Sequel 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

“I am in excellent physical and emotional health,” the letter says, with agonizing irony. A Primer to One of America’s Most Political Composers 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The irony of Kondo selling household paraphernalia wasn’t lost on social media users. Marie Kondo sparks consternation with online homeware store 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

I liked this book and will definitely try again with it with her, maybe when she is a bit older she will see the irony of it all... Bobo goes to school by Shirley Hughes - review 2012-08-12T11:00:00Z

The photograph also highlighted the ironies of making commercially distributed music with an anti-establishment outlook. What the "Nevermind" celebrations get wrong about Nirvana 2011-09-24T17:01:00Z

The result for Clinton, Goldberg argues, “is an almost tragic irony. She is now struggling to convince voters that she is the person she was once widely assumed to be.” When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

The score played with Americana and pop history, but despite coming out at the dawn of the age of TV irony — “Seinfeld” had premiered a year before — it never winked. The ‘Twin Peaks’ Theme Isn’t Just a Song. It’s a Portal. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z

Several hundred were burned in customs, but this copy has bright blue wrappers and—in an amazing irony—uncut pages. 'Ulysses' and the Moral Right to Pleasure 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Because 3,000 years later, a review of an elaborated version of one of the most misogynistic books in the history of the world repeats the, let’s say, big lies, without irony or comment. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

It is one of countless postelection ironies that, were Mr. Cunningham still with us, he would not be welcome on Bill Cunningham Corner anymore. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Menke remembered Hearing that Sally Menke, Quentin Tarantino's editor, had died last week after hiking in a canyon on a sweltering day in LA, was a bitter irony. Trailer Trash by Jason Solomons 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

Both of these experiments in what counts as patriotic music in 2020 reveal a curious irony: Unity sounds like no such thing. Perspective | A song doesn’t have to scream U!S!A! to be patriotic. Just ask the NFL. 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

But it’s also hard to ignore the irony here: Universities are now terrible places to find political heterogeneity. ‘Unwanted Advances’ Tackles Sexual Politics in Academia 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Troy can also quote lines from "Cool Hand Luke" and rattle off the correct definition of irony – something Lelaina couldn't do when asked by a potential employer – whereas Michael thinks I.Q. stands for "intelligence quotations." Reality bites, so of course Generation X was always going to sell out and vote Republican 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

These are stories that call for passion, irony, narrative clarity and political sophistication. Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita: One Sings, the Other Doesn't 2012-04-10T12:00:32Z

But figures and background are united in an intensity of paint-handling, achieving a kind of blazing artifice and an irony that seems implicitly modern. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

“I do understand the irony in exercising every day for a fast-food item,” he said. Man lost 85 pounds in a bid to get Taco Bell to revive his favorite menu item 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

He kept painting young ladies standing in the nude with their faces turned three-quarters, giving a thin smile full of irony as if amused at the ineptitude of the world around them. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z

But it also represents the moment when the wink-and-nod irony of progressive urban enclaves arrived wholesale among conservative voters across the country. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

On the separation of church and state, and just how extraordinary that idea is — this is a great irony to so many millions of Irish people who left over the years. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The blend of fairy-tale sentiment and knowing irony worked exactly once, in The Princess Bride, and fails here. A Punkster Hansel & Gretel: That Witch Does Not Kill Us 2013-01-25T21:25:50Z

Either way, they all come accessorized with irony and end with the words “Stay strong.” Pinups in the Post-Weinstein World 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

That cruel irony, foreshadowed by the cost-cutting and procedural missteps that may have led to the blowout on the Deepwater Horizon, is the subject of “Spill,” a searing docudrama by Leigh Fondakowski. ‘Spill’: A devastating account of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

But when you look at what he actually says, he talks about the “oppressiveness of institutionalized irony.” What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

The irony is that the older Adam realizes that Amber’s speech was lost on him. Ben Lerner on Adolescence and His Forthcoming Novel 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

And here I think the irony is utterly earnest. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

But here is “House of Darkness” anyway, a talky, allegorical horror film that delivers plenty of LaBute’s typically sharp irony and observations but little raison d’être. ‘House of Darkness’ Review: If You Prick Them, Do Bros Not Bleed? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

He brings a musical awareness of the language and a tonal assurance that can shift on a dime from mordant irony to delicate feeling. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

The little touch of young ladydom at the beginning and the end is a delicious bit of irony. Review: ‘The Lost World,’ by Arthur Conan Doyle 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

What pleasure it provides depends on how amused one is by the irony of giving great value to discarded goods by scaling them down to nonfunctional size. | Damn White 2011-01-07T21:00:41Z

And as I was writing the description, it hit me that there was this really lovely but disturbing irony. Author Scott Cheshire on his debut 'High as the Horses' Bridles' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

The dialogue includes such immortal phrases as “A poisoned wedding cake, heavy with irony” and “Let him enter my chamber, this boy from Jupiter.” Review: Charles Ludlam in the Cosmos Where ‘Queens Collide’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

He designed buildings with symbols and references, imbuing them with irony and even a teasing humor. Arata Isozaki, Prolific Japanese Architect, Dies at 91 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z

If those examples seem a little far away, consider how in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair editor, said: “I think it’s the end of the age of irony.” It’s OK to Find Humor in Some of This 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

It was ridiculous, kind of charming and wholly devoid of irony. An Immersive, Absurdist Show to Remember 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

I’m mindful of the irony in my using classical Greece as a way of understanding this book. Review | ‘The Perfect Nine,’ by perennial Nobel Prize favorite Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is a mythic look at his culture’s origins 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

Depending how you look at it, it’s either the sound of rich irony or of the triumph of being atop the new pecking order. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z

The new songs may indulge in irony, but the performance felt genuine. Review | British rockers Arctic Monkeys find their way to the Wharf 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z

The concept of a honeymoon seemed so retrograde we could barely say the word without irony. Before the bridal thong 2014-04-20T00:00:00Z

He focused on the effects of irony as it transferred from one medium to the other. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

But she's best known for intricate, harmonically lustrous music for orthodox jazz orchestras in which rich chords, lopsided tangos, thumping swing and a good deal of sidelong irony coexist. 50 great moments in jazz: Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill 2011-01-18T13:06:04Z

A 1998 profile in the Guardian called him "a polymath performer with a nice line in self-directed irony". Dancer Charnock dies of cancer 2012-08-02T16:03:04Z

Orwell, whose fiction dealt presciently with the ironies of false statements masquerading as truth and the power of mass media to circulate them, was also a journalist. It's practically Orwellian: The BBC is installing a George Orwell statue 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

Nor has either side grasped history’s cunning well enough to understand the irony that it’s a premiere financier of casinos and an omnivorous self-marketer who is approaching the threshold of the presidency. Our politics are broken and toxic: How both party elites betrayed our trust, birthed Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

SC: It’s ironic on a level, but I hope it’s an irony that the audience is aware of as well. I’m More Like Plutarch than Katniss: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-21T10:45:04Z

It was early June when we moved her into hospice, an old brick estate on lushly landscaped grounds where the ironies of life were dramatically apparent: the world was in bloom – for everyone except us. Motherlode Blog: Loving Your Child's Differences 2011-10-04T16:05:35Z

It’s a funny irony that only through playing undervalued and overlooked women has Lynskey finally proved her worth to the culture at large. The Examined Life of Melanie Lynskey 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Eliot's brilliant descriptions and Austen's anti-sentimentalism are fundamentally different from Fitzgerald's angst and irony or Lee's social commentary and coming-of age novel. Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

When Hollywood’s interest turned from his scripts to his novels when it was supposed to be the other way around, the irony wasn’t lost on him. When noir blew up! 2012-12-12T18:03:00Z

Leaving small town America in order to be fully himself, only to find being fully himself is what brings him back to small town America, is an irony not lost on Van Ness. Jonathan Van Ness on being HIV positive: 'It gave me a reason to really fight' 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

In truth, the patriotism, flags and fanfares of the Last Night are benign, good-humored, and not lacking irony. Last Night of the London Proms: A Sonic Potpourri 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was important to me that none of these expressions be handled as comedy or irony. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Extreme violence, profanity, the use of irony and time-shifting as a plot device are common in his later films. Reservoir Dogs Turns 20: A Look Back at the Films of Quentin Tarantino 2012-01-20T11:58:20Z

But both artists also have tempered aspects of their usual styles to create works that emphasize the dignity of the subject over the irony of the artist. Review | The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

The salient difference would seem to be irony. Keely Garfield Draws on Kate Bush at Danspace Project 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

And in Wood's case, her torment was disguised as a rock n' roll romance, akin to the way Manson's anti-Semitism and racism is disguised as artistic irony employed for shock value. In HBO's enraging "Phoenix Rising," Evan Rachel Wood shows how her abuse was painted as rock romance 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

So it’s a pleasing irony that the playwright Samuel D. Hunter, the reigning bard of American economic dead-endism, has managed such a vibrant career. Review: Rude T-Shirts and Rude Awakenings in ‘A Bright New Boise’ 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

“I think I’m a little more rebellious than a normal teenager,” she says, with no trace of irony. Critic?s Notebook: Criminals, Addicts, Misfits: That?s Entertainment 2011-01-20T00:30:21Z

With distressed damask walls, red leather banquettes and jade-and-gold-checkered floors, the décor channels a 1930s Shanghai speakeasy, but not without irony. | Mister H at the Mondrian SoHo 2011-02-09T14:00:20Z

“The shots of the partyers just happened to be captured by one of the cinematographers, Andrew Ackerman. It was only in retrospect that we saw the irony of it.” ‘Chasing Coral’ on Netflix Goes Underwater to Highlight Climate Change 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The script notes that the ensuing silence between Johnson and his aides is “heavy with irony.” “Selma” Vs. “Selma” 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

"The other irony that I remember now is when we started school, they taught us the Pledge of Allegiance," Takei said. 'Trek' star's own history inspires new musical 2012-09-13T14:27:09Z

And the bitter irony is that Rev. Wright was literally crushed under the iron feet of black people running toward Obama, as well as being thrown under the bus by Obama himself. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

One day he will allow himself a sardonic chuckle at the irony. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

There's a sad irony, in Michael's self-awareness, and in his ability to communicate – and yes express his feelings – so well, about himself and about his autism. TV review: The Undateables 2013-01-08T22:10:01Z

Nominated actress Glenn Close noted the irony of celebrating their industry's achievements against the backdrop of such hardship, but said performers have the unique ability to rally and make a difference in these times. 2010-01-18T03:24:00Z

Depends on how well versed your child is in irony and incongruity. | ?The Aquabats! Super Show!?: ?The Aquabats! Super Show!? on the Hub 2012-03-02T23:51:10Z

Wong's three male actors, in drag, inhabit their characters without any winks or irony. Frye Art Museum hosts Ming Wong's first solo show in U.S.: 'Life of Imitation' 2011-01-27T00:41:05Z

I’m also not facile with language, and I don’t have much irony. Single, and Singular, Women Become Her 2010-09-03T20:40:00Z

"It just seems like such an eloquent irony, that existing art can spin something poetic by accident." 6 geezers laying? Holidays bring on song botches 2013-12-11T14:48:03Z

“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Chicken” was, apparently, written with a total lack of irony. Dark Side of the Spoon: The Moods and Recipes of Nigel Slater 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

“My father is a great moralist who hides it behind irony and humor,” Michael says. Becoming Michael Lewis 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

You understand the irony of singing, on “The Opposite of Me,” “All that she wants is the action, not the words,” right? Robin Thicke Hears the Vultures Tweet 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

The irony of the contretemps surrounding Corbyn’s praise of irony is that, as prominent politicians go, humor is hardly his go-to rhetorical mode. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Kosky said he was trying to bring together “the loneliness and melancholy of those isolated characters in Fassbinder’s films” with the “wonderful, naughty, Lubitsch quickness, irony and lightness.” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

But there is considerable irony that my social calendar has been erased just as my ability to concentrate for anything longer than a haiku is shot. What I'm really watching: The Grateful Dead movie 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

But what if irony leads to a sinkhole of relativism and disavowal? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Just a few months later, Ricki Lake, 51, revealed her own struggle with hair loss — an irony for the actress who found fame as the star of “Hairspray.” Yes, women experience thinning hair, too. Here’s why, and possible treatments. 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

There is a rehearsed eccentricity at work here, and bottomless reserves of irony. Cult films: just bad movies in a good disguise? 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

A second irony about modern saisons: The hardest variety to find nowadays is a farmhouse ale made on an actual farm. The surprise about saisons

The irony is that this is precisely what Yglesias means to be defending: “A bounty of affordable reading,” in his phrase. Why the battle between publishing and Amazon matters 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

In yet another irony to this story, confronting a manufactured scandal offered Minhaj a groundbreaking opportunity to demonstrate, yet again, how effective his satire is at getting at the truth. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

Oct. 2nd: The bluntest political statement of the musical year came, a bit surprisingly, from Laurie Anderson, famous for her deadpan irony. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2015 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

As as a man myself, the irony of his bullying after just watching “The Way Way Back” was not lost. Raves to hydroplanes, rants to bad parkers 2013-07-31T22:20:34Z

She cracks up a bit on that last word, as if she is unable to argue against irony with a completely straight face. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

"Hung velvet overtaken me / Dim chandelier awaken me / To a song dissolved in the dawn," Parks wrote for a song titled, with conscious irony, "Surf's Up". Van Dyke Parks: return of a musical maverick 2012-06-15T21:55:10Z

This environment gave artists few choices: sentimentality, nihilism, or irony. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Why do you think trauma, war-related or otherwise, leads to irony? “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

The texters might explain gently to Al, as to a grandparent from the old country, that “I could care less” is an example of irony; and Al would snap back, “Irony is not coincidence.” Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

"The irony is that I'm taking 8-by-10 film and shrinking it down to the size of someone's phone," he says, shrugging. Actor Adam Goldberg, of 'The Jim Gaffigan Show,' is an analog man living in a digital world 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Firstly, you have to think of a paradigm case of irony and then sort of work out from there. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

It was not just about the trenches but also about irony, poetry and wit. On the Touchy Subject of Class in America 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

That Dahl is writing from experience goes without saying, and yet the point is not lament but irony. Roald Dahl’s Twisted, Overlooked Stories for Adults 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Freeman skilfully blends seriousness and irony, successfully making the libretto's complex set of interlocking relationships comprehensible. L'Olimpiade – review 2012-06-05T17:20:01Z

He's his own corporation, but that irony seems to be lost on this miserable fellow. Feedback: What's Hollywood's problem with female directors? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

Once I had worked out this double stance, moving back and forth between the interiority of psychedelic consciousness and the ironies of ordinary consciousness, scenes I had approached with dread became great fun to write. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

“A humanitarian is always a hypocrite,” said old George, and I smiled smugly for agreeing with him and recognizing the irony. I went on a freaking cruise 2012-12-09T13:00:00Z

And then the irony is on their way home their plane crashes and the very people they saved think that they’re invaders, and just dart them and eat them. Eli Roth's 'Green Inferno' devours the Internet's 'social justice warriors' 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Epithets uttered in irony can be repeated in earnest. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Resorting to tactics of emotional distress to clear himself of charges of emotional distress: is it tragic irony or dark comedy? Real “spring breakers” don’t have happy endings 2013-03-29T16:01:00Z

The speaker's tone is of course laced with irony, but it's far from wholly ironical. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z

“I will admit the irony is glaring,” Bush told The Hollywood Reporter when discussing the fact that Trump became president while his career was ruined as a result of that tape. Wait, did Billy Bush just say the right thing about the Trump tape? 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

Embracing the irony, Norfolk lit the torch with gasoline. Simon Norfolk writes with fire in latest photographs 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z

“Ambivalence and irony are in the book,” she told me later. Annie Leibovitz, the Un-Fashion Photographer 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

In this sense, Corbyn’s charge that some people “don’t understand English irony” participates in a ratcheting up of cruelty in the name of humor. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

I'd put it different: the irony in the romanticism of "lost" media is that often, these things went missing for a reason. When discovery is the only thrill 2011-08-05T20:30:00Z

“I have to carefully pick what I’m going to invest my time in,” he says without any apparent irony. Fangoria, the fabled horror magazine, has risen from the dead 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The irony — or the proof — of this brave new business model is that sci-fi saw it coming. When Science Fiction Comes True 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The irony is, actually it’s not ironic at all, is it actually gets worse. Matthew Rhys and the All-Feeling Male 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

TV is richer when it has access to both of them, and fortunately, even in this earnest moment, irony is not dead. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

This isn't some Dadaist prank, cushioned by irony or demanding appropriate reverence. The avant garde's got talent. As John Cage proved 2011-01-10T16:33:04Z

When the audience applauded, he murmured, “Thank you. The irony of your applause is not lost on me.” The Cannes Palme d'Or: Who Won and Who Was Robbed 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Part of what fascinates Martin about Aboriginal art is what he calls its “lack of irony.” Aboriginal artists find a surprising new champion: Steve Martin 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

Anyone living prior to the 1700s will always eat drumsticks with their fingers, crack jokes that involve lots of hearty laughter and yet display no observable signs of humor or irony. Hollywood's terrible track record with historical dramas labours on 2013-07-08T12:31:18Z

“Juice’s Song” remains my favorite storyline of this final season, and there’s a terrible irony in all the brotherly horse manure between Alvarez and Jax as they use Juice’s life as a bargaining chip. Sons of Anarchy recap: 'Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em' revs up the chaos 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The irony is, I've been doing this, I suppose, for 25 years, and I was never the bad guy for 20 years. 'Robin Hood' star Strong proves good at being bad 2010-05-13T14:16:00Z

And – irony of ironies – it takes something like four litres of water to produce a one-litre plastic bottle of water. Humans – the real threat to life on Earth 2013-06-29T23:05:50Z

It is an irony of history that so many past Zionists, most of whom were secular Jews, often socialist, used religious arguments to buttress their case. The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand – review 2013-04-18T09:01:01Z

But the sense of wonder of the first movement, together with the ironies of the later funeral march, are breathtakingly done, and all that hard to balance counter-point is beautifully clear. Mahler: Symphony No 1 – review 2012-10-11T21:29:00Z

But The Walking Dead’s brand of irony demands that doing the right thing gets you killed. The Walking Dead season six, episode 14: Twice As Far 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

“But he taught me the value of the irony, of the sweetness.” Chris Rock and Questlove Discuss 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

And, Sesno added, the irony is clear: “They’re wading about as deep into the mainstream as they can get” after making media hatred the poisonous centerpiece of the Trump campaign and presidency. Perspective | The hypocrisy of Steve Bannon’s decision to do that ‘60 Minutes’ interview 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Irony is woven into its fabric, but it’s not the easy irony of mock news shows on television. | 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson': Ideal President: A Rock Star Just Like Me 2010-10-14T02:01:00Z

Anyone who has followed soccer in America for more than a few years is aware of multiple layers of irony this week. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

What makes the satire on TikTok so powerful and so edgy is the fact that some miss the irony. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Waters saw the irony in it, so took it to the next level, changing the message to read “for prestige or spite” and “for pride or power”. John Waters: 'I never wanted to be a cult film-maker' 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Real-life Robert watches his filmed self putting a relentlessly positive spin on his choices and shifts a little in his chair; the irony shouldn’t be lost on him. A Late Quartet: Harmonic Divergence Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener 2012-11-01T16:04:18Z

There is irony in the fact that all this anger is being brought down on two young singers who preach friendship and tolerance. Motherlode: Two Teens, Two Videos 2011-03-21T17:18:56Z

The irony of the situation was lost on the crew. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z

The irony of that is that, hopefully my grandma's not watching this. If you're not interested in adventure Ducks Eatery is not for you and neither is chef Will Horowitz 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

The irony is that Edelman is speaking as someone who’s now made a major contribution to the dialogue about race and celebrity in America. Meet the man who has finally explained O.J. Simpson to the world 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

The irony is that Moore’s perfect image advanced the culture even as it hobbled her own joy. ‘Being Mary Tyler Moore’ Review: A Tip of the Hat to the Tossed Hat 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a play on a hackneyed stereotype, but it’s easy irony and the one number that could use a major trim. ‘Stu for Silverton’ sings about small-town tolerance 2013-07-24T01:37:24Z

But we’ll participate in a spirit of anger, spite, irony, or despair. How to Restore Your Faith in Democracy 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

Only in looking back on it can you ponder the ironies. Ailey dancers skip gala after inspiring opening performance 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

"I've no mansion to sell, ma'am," she says, with a hint of irony. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z

But, he added, “what I absolutely can’t get enough of is the sheer brilliance of much of the music, the wonderful play with irony, with melancholy. The Dionysian life force is fantastic.” Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

There’s a certain dark irony in the massive institutions that are largely responsible for the alienated isolation of the average American taking on the task of fixing that alienation with cutesy hashtags. #RaceTogether is a debacle: The real reason why Starbucks, McDonald’s and Coke keep failing on Twitter 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

There’s little irony in it, just straight-up classical lyrical brilliance powerful enough to draw you into an alien mind and time. ArtsBeat: The Mostly Good Old Days: Boris Kachka Talks About ‘Hothouse’ 2013-07-31T16:34:41Z

But the most irresistible irony lies in the revelation that the father of the modern polygraph was himself a prodigious liar. The unconventional family that gave birth to Wonder Woman 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Some have regarded it as a masterpiece of sustained irony. Colin Farrell Joins the League of High-Profile Narrators of ‘A Portrait of the Artist’ 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The irony was we originally prepped it before the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan. "We leave these places in ruins": How the white lens on "Kandahar" reflects the human cost 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the greatest irony of all is that many of the people promoting optimism are unwittingly feeding a view of human nature that is cynical in the very worst sense. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z

Yet the irony is lost on few in fashion that, at precisely the moment when an epochal shift in representation occurred, the modeling business effectively shut down. The Ups and Downs of Fashion in 2020 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

While the article is thoughtfully articulated, it also left me wondering if something of irony’s nature was being missed in the process of its evisceration. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

The irony of Considine living in Burton is that as a teenager, all he wanted was to get out. Paddy Considine: ‘I never wanted to sell my soul for this’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

But the grimness and irony that pervade the production feel imposed on Gounod’s opera, not drawn from it. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z

It’s a moment that is almost too delicious in its irony and resonance. FX’s ‘People v. O.J. Simpson’ is near-perfect and arrives at the perfect time 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

The home of a dictator is, he notes, "a world entirely without irony". Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z

Its orchestration is dissonant but sparse, and its mood is not whimsical nostalgia but irony. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

All came together in his Macbeth, which combined inward reflectiveness, lethal irony, a brutal danger and an overwhelming sadness. Is Judi Dench the best ever? 2010-12-16T13:54:02Z

With sweet feminist irony, it’s this dream boy made flesh who finally liberates them from that feminine yoke, extreme faux niceness. What Does It Mean to Be a “Real” Writer? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

The two absorb the irony of the similarities that keep them apart. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

The ironies multiply in a play that offers many subtle layers of betrayal. Betrayel – review 2012-05-23T17:31:26Z

One of the things I enjoyed about setting the book in 2004 is that you have this dramatic irony. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z

Term-paper authors are eager to read irony into such invocations, but this writer is not so sure. The Luxe Life in ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Bling Ring’ and Other Films 2013-05-16T12:00:01Z

The sad irony is that Elizabeth did make a turn. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys Break Down the ‘Devastating’ Finale of ‘The Americans’ 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Q: There's a certain irony to Argo becoming a real movie. Former spy talks "Argo," and Iran rescue mission 2012-10-12T15:03:31Z

In a sense, he progresses from a kind of compulsory irony to a voluntary authenticity. Edward St. Aubyn, Author of ?At Last,? at Peace 2012-03-14T22:08:58Z

One can recoil just as easily from “Grey Gardens” as appreciate its black humor and metaphorical ironies. ‘Grey Gardens’: Freak show or poignant portrait? 2013-03-22T23:51:30Z

Of course, it isn’t exactly irony, because it’s certainly not a joke — but it neatly conveys a painfully exaggerated anxiety about social cues and gender roles. ‘Queenie’ Shows the Force of Latin Women in Art 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

The irony of him being rubbished by the administration in 2003 was that, 13 years earlier, he had been lionised by Bush the elder. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z

Mantel's long lecture about Kate, and the way we look at her, was full of irony. Hilary Mantel: why novelists are deliberately misunderstood 2013-02-19T17:32:07Z

But, although there is a vein of malevolent irony in the play, I was puzzled by Best's evident hunger for humour. Macbeth – review 2013-07-04T22:00:00Z

But we’re seeing some real edge as well: The protective armor of irony is gone and there are real stakes here. Is Bill Murray’s brilliance back? “Rock the Kasbah” could break him out of his brooding on-screen funk 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

But one recognizes the irony in seeing another pair of Lannister twins so in love with themselves that they can't see beyond each other's gaze. "House of the Dragons" introduces the Lannisters before they had game 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

“The irony was, we were boycotting at a time that they were finally acknowledging us,” he said. The Boycott Before: Rap and Resentment at the 1989 Grammys 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

At some points in time to be completely sincere is to be naive or foolish, and you have a rise of irony on the other side of it. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

I wanted to ask you about dramatic irony, where the audience realizes something that the subject isn’t aware of. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

I have to keep reminding myself that Sorkin was not a contender in the "original" screenplay category – an irony, because this script was the most spectacularly original piece of work, a motormouth masterpiece. Oscars 2011: The Academy and the elderly genuflect to The King's Speech 2011-02-28T09:20:46Z

And in a cruel irony, the chemicals stick around best in fatty substances, such as honeycombs. 'It's only important if you eat food': inside a film on the honeybee crisis 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The irony – what we actors are asked to do in scenes and how we actually film them – is what we laugh at. Jacqueline McKenzie clarifies Russell Crowe's comments: 'It was not a #MeToo moment' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Considering he is, in fact, 95, there is no irony in his response. Perspective | My grandfather has carved the Thanksgiving turkey for 70 years. Here’s what he taught me. 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The irony is that the “social” network actually makes us lonelier, right? She makes a tiny chair, he eats a taco, she braids a lock. Every. Single. Day. 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

Sunday’s episode used dramatic irony to ratchet up suspense and underscore tragedy. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Looking Back 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

While “Damaged Glory” owes a debt to the postmodern irony that permeated experimental literature for a time, it thankfully doesn’t dwell in cynicism. Review | ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg expands his funny, melancholy empire 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

When the rapper Nas proclaimed 16 years ago that hip-hop was dead — namely, by titling an album “Hip-Hop Is Dead” — it was a statement laced with self-aware irony: This was a hip-hop record, after all. ‘Casablanca Beats’ Review: Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

“I thought to myself, with no irony: You never know,” he says, and widens his eyes at his own idiocy. Review: ‘Just for Us’ Reaches Across the Chasm 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

“The irony is that the timelessness of the thesaurus,” he said, lay “in its inability to finish itself.” Latin Dictionary’s Journey: A to Zythum in 125 Years (and Counting) 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Beane, always alert to comic irony, has imagined a world so fearful of offense that a formerly despised identity is now a bulletproof vest. Onstage, the New Gay Agenda Involves Cake and Not Getting Fired 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

The irony is that most people who watched the show never saw the actual “show” but rather cherry-picked the sketches they wanted to see on their computer. Saying Goodbye to “Key & Peele” 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Instead, they encore with Manchester sons the Smiths' There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, and, with no irony whatsoever, those flashbulbs keep on popping. Dum Dum Girls ? review 2011-04-03T21:30:00Z

So where does that leave us Bachelor * cough * fans as we watch Juan Pablo, a single father, date 25 women, simultaneously without even a hint of irony? The Bachelor Watch: Juan Pablo, National Role Model 2014-01-21T15:39:45Z

There’s a tragic irony to Burstein’s narrative, a picture of a warrior weighed down by the armor that kept her alive. In ‘Hillary,’ a Political Warrior Weighed Down by Her Armor 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Butler looks to him for cues about writing about place and writing without irony. ArtsBeat: Video: Nickolas Butler’s Wintry Place on Earth 2014-04-04T22:15:33Z

That Cecil, whose brother marries Daphne, is a thoroughly unworthy subject lends power and irony to the book, sly in its mockery of historical certainty. Books of The Times: ?The Stranger?s Child? by Alan Hollinghurst - Review 2011-12-11T21:24:58Z

Newton attributes the switch to “irony, perversity, projection and a desire to shield the innocent.” From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

The way she delivers the joke—adding, in bratty millennial upspeak, “this is, like, a really vulnerable moment for me”—is classic ContraPoints: sincerity wrapped, for protection, in a sequinned shawl of irony. The Stylish Socialist Who Is Trying to Save YouTube from Alt-Right Domination 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

It was an irony that the host who made “The Daily Show” the most global it had ever been found his moment when the world shrank down to the size of our living rooms. Trevor Noah Made the World of ‘The Daily Show’ Bigger 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the words are practically radioactive with irony. Theater Review: Bryan Cranston as President Johnson in ‘All the Way’ 2014-03-07T03:00:02Z

Among many plot ironies, the victorious Union general Grant is presented as a drunk, while vanquished Lee of the Confederacy is seen nobly refusing to partake of privileges unavailable to his troops. Review: 'A Civil War Christmas' is sweeping tale 2012-12-05T03:46:05Z

"The irony of: 'Hey, it's this life of brotherhood, love and freedom', but at the end of the day, do you have any of that left?" Sons Of Anarchy: 'don't touch the Harleys' 2013-02-02T08:00:00Z

It’s a really stupid example of historical irony, at any rate. “Insane in Moscow”: The unbelievable but partly true story of the zany English publicist, the Azerbaijani pop sensation and the “high-quality” presidential offspring 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

The great and well-known irony of Obamacare is that it is based on a Republican idea. Good, bad and ugly 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

For more than a decade now almost all the best comedies, from the early days of “The Office” to Amy Schumer’s sketches, have had a tone of arch irony. Bring back camp! Why “The People v. O.J.” and “The Get Down” point to its possible — and much-needed — rebirth 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

One crucial difference is that “Sunset Boulevard” and “Mulholland Drive” each draw you in through the complex, destabilizing and productive play between irony and idealism. Movie Review: ‘The Canyons’ Is an Erotic Thriller With Lindsay Lohan 2013-08-01T17:11:39Z

This story is revealing because it reminds us that just as irony is a social constant, irony's critics are, too. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Such searing, often painful subject matter makes for a curious mix of deadpan comedy and irony. Dear Boy by Emily Berry – review 2013-03-22T19:00:01Z

The irony is that Paradise is anything but, especially for the characters whose hard work and impoverished lives sustain tourists’ idylls. 10 books to read in February 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

A further irony is that, since their departure, Meghan and Harry’s relevance rests on their shrinking proximity to the royal family. ‘Harry & Meghan’: A Second Serving of Reviews for the Netflix Series 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The song is full of ironies and contradictions, and quite a lot of humor as well. Joe Jackson, Past, Present, and Fast Forward 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

That the whole story takes place in 1983 provides for musical and cultural references as overworked as the irony of Franklin's name. FX's Exploration of the Crack Epidemic Falters 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Yes, the title was provocative, but only if you miss the irony, and given the endpaper pictures in How To Be A Domestic Goddess, it seems to me hard to do so. Nigella Lawson: my life in food 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z

She sings richly orchestrated boleros, delicate ballads and percussive boogaloo and mambo, without a hint of either irony or naïveté. Review: iLe’s ‘iLevitable’ Finds That Longing Can Turn to Mourning 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

A tipster at the conference alerted me to this and added this bit of irony: “Meanwhile, in the next room is a whole series of talks on Women in Technology.” Microsoft to tech conference attendees: Take a photo with this near-naked woman 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

As Angelica navigates her conflicting emotions—regret, yearning, and some solace in the fact that Hamilton will be close by—we return to the wedding toast, now fraught with irony. The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

In the entire exchange, he smiles about once, at some perceived irony in something wistfully arch that he has just said. Pity Jordan Peterson. Can a giant lobster analogy ever replace a sense of humour? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

There is an irony in so many comedians talking about grief by saying no one talks about grief. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

The sheer irony of conservatives attempting to paint social media platforms as biased against them when the right's most visible and powerful leader regularly tweets offensive, vile and violent remarks is nothing short of astounding. Jack Dorsey makes nice with Donald Trump: Twitter clearly has no interest in curbing abusive content 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

In “Leopoldstadt,” Stoppard takes dramatic irony — the audience’s grasp of what the characters cannot see — to such an extreme that it becomes the subject itself. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z

There is more irony in the world than there is iron. Can Data Make Life Better? And Other Letters to the Editor 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

But his blend of physical comedy and pathos was quickly going out of style in a Hollywood defined by the countercultural irony of “The Graduate” and “MASH.” Jerry Lewis, Mercurial Comedian and Filmmaker, Dies at 91 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

"Mel Gibson, it's your fault they want to take away our relatives," read a banner of one of protesters, who clearly wasn't big on irony. Life intimidating art 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

Earlier this year, at a campaign event in New Hampshire, Mr. Biden employed the term with the same level of irony when talking about Senator Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” platform. The Perfect Phrase for This Relentless Year 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

Their paintings disguise banality with fashionable postmodern aesthetic and irony. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

And therein lies a consoling irony of our situation. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The irony of the title is intentional, however. Prowling panthers, paranormal spies and vengeful ice-skaters: must-see movies of 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

“He deals with the materiality of words and language. He has irony and has a great wit. He is funny. And, always, Lawrence says it best.” At the Kitchen’s Spring Gala, John Cale and Lawrence Weiner Inspire and Provoke 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

It lacked entirely the irony, color and sense of humor — not to mention the scenographic, sometimes flimsy quality — of buildings by those younger figures. A vast Louis Kahn retrospective lands at the San Diego Museum of Art 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

Although certainly my Christmas show has irony in it, I love Christmas without irony. Styles Q & A: John Waters Offers Season’s Greeting With a Wink 2013-12-06T23:52:50Z

It’s a strange dichotomy, but life is nothing if not full of fate’s little ironies. I swallow my fear 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z

When I visited Lee at the winery in mid-February, he reflected on the irony of a small-business owner being questioned for selling his company for a profit. What’s wrong with a family selling its winery to a corporation? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

The irony was not lost on me that I found myself cleaning up my father's mess the year I turned 40. Mercy and grace: Reclaiming the family home lost to my father's addiction 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

The ironies are rich; and the ramifications are just beginning. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 8: Ramble On 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

“I just find it really fascinating the way we struggle to find meaning in the universe,” she said without a trace of irony. Kimbra?s Road From New Zealand Leads to a U.S. Tour 2012-05-21T16:29:26Z

“The tragic irony is that Hollywood is full of good, well-meaning people,” says Gaydos. Will Hollywood ever end its love affair with guns? 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

But in a delicious irony, Christian bookstores refused to carry the book because it contained too many naughty words and illustrations. Perspective | ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re — yawn — bored by obscenity. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

But while irony might have protected me from ridicule, it wouldn’t have been faithful to what I had felt and experienced — which had the power of a revealed truth. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

The rest of it is full of distracting barriers preventing a person from full emotional engagement, one of several ironies within this version of "Brave New World." Peacock's Syfy-quality "Brave New World" dystopia crosses Burning Man and an orgy in an Apple store 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Uchytil may intend the irony to be gentle rather than bitter. Review | In the galleries: Extraordinary images from ordinary settings in ‘Places We Find’ 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

“There is some irony in Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s reputation for reserve, because she is, by far, the current Court’s most accomplished litigator.” Sunday Reading: The Supreme Court 2018-07-15T04:00:00Z

Watching Tucci use "wry" and "irony" exactly as God and Webster's intended to chew up his two-minute scene is almost worth the price of a ticket. Vegas-set 'Wild Card' draws an, oh, so predictable hand 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Suffice it to say that Mr. Osborne finds deep meaning, and deep overlapping ironies, in various concepts of punishment and forgiveness. Books of The Times: ‘The Forgiven,’ by Lawrence Osborne 2012-09-25T21:17:10Z

When the narrative tells us, seemingly without irony, that “Frank liked everything about the army so far,” the reader thinks: Really? Book review: ‘Some Luck,’ by Jane Smiley

The main reason the scene is so potent is its extraordinary irony. Kirk Douglas at 100: a one-man Hollywood Mount Rushmore 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

That has gradually ebbed, but the baritone, intense Gray still feels somewhat out of step in a culture rife with irony and detachment. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z

For that matter, using irony and discomfort to tell a story doesn’t mean being nihilistic; “The Sopranos” was intensely moral even if Tony Soprano was not. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The irony isn’t lost on Collins that the series is premiering at a time when travel is down or impossible because of the pandemic. Lily Collins scratches itch to travel with ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

"It took about a year, and that was over," he said, with irony. George Clooney rules out political bid in US 2011-08-31T19:46:03Z

Because if they didn't read it in the NYT liberal echo chamber, the irony would be lost on them: Baldwin is an effective Trump impersonator because he is Trump. Alec Baldwin Skewers Trump. And Supports Allen and Toback. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

But on an immediate emotional level as well, there is of course irony at work. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

She is consistently but not deformingly alert to irony, to satire, to humor in its high and low forms. Review: In ‘SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome,’ Mary Beard Tackles Myths and More 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

If the scale of his debt outdid Frank in Pusher, there was a mordant irony to the solution – the "despicable sell-out" of making not one but two belated sequels. Pusher returns – again 2012-10-11T19:00:01Z

Her nickname is Sweetheart for reasons, in a show devoid of irony, that remain obscure. Jersey Shore | Cable girl 2010-03-23T06:45:00Z

With grim irony, the name is associated with the production of "Beckwith's Barbican", a particularly lethal grade of barbed wire. Worthless Men by Andrew Cowan – review 2013-02-22T21:45:01Z

It’s a situation shot through with irony: For all their eagerness to toss out the norms of Western marital relations, Nell and Fen are still struggling to play the traditional roles of husband and wife. ‘Euphoria,’ a novel based on Margaret Mead, by Lily King

Think of her as one of the great novelist Jean Rhys’s lost, promiscuous heroines transplanted to the 21st century, but with a devouring sense of humor that goes far beyond irony. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

In any case, Ms. Harry soon found her footing with a dryly funny spoken-word tribute to her hosts, citing their cheekiness, irony and “pluralism of style.” Music Review: Not Exactly Your Top 40 ?Reunited? 2010-10-01T23:00:00Z

“A piazza,” he called it, with more pride than irony about how such a romantic notion would play in the middle of Los Angeles. Chris Burden's architectural intelligence 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

This dark turn, like the later moment when Mr. Shafir points his guitar like a rifle, doesn’t quite convince, and the irony intended in a late reprise of the Abba song is forced and flat. Review: A ‘Ship of Fools,’ Each Stuck in Isolation 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

It is one of Freud's more horrifying ironies that the pursuit of pleasure incites, calls up, the super-ego. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

When Stevenson began looking into the case he was struck by a legion of inconsistencies and ironies. Just Mercy: new film that captures the start of a brilliant civil rights career 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

His initial works traded in a lot of sarcasm and irony, but his works about unemployment are stunningly blunt. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

There will always be some irony in comfortable residents of Georgetown and Burleith casting themselves as populist champions. How a fight over a city athletic field turned into a woke-off of Washington’s well-off 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Whether ghost politicos or CIA spooks, all concur on Marley’s real-life good fortune: The Singer survived — a miracle and, in a book rife with secret murders, a stinging irony. ‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ cuts a swath across Jamaican history

When something so on-the-nose happens to a character on a show like “Homeland,” we either scoff at the implausibility or admire the symmetry in the storytelling — the irony, the tragedy. Review | Packed with 9/11 hindsight, ‘The Looming Tower’ looms a lot 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Ben and I are of the same generation, steeped in and adept at irony,” he said in an email. Ben Lerner Imagines ‘Different Futures’ in His Novel ‘10:04’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

‘There’s an irony to winning a lifetime supply of ice-cream at the age of 74.’ 'I'd get 400 toilet rolls at a time': how it feels to win a lifetime supply 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

That means an emphasis on action, sex and eye candy, with proportionately less investment in nuanced character, ambiguous motivations, interesting language, irony, humor or subtlety of any sort. 'Marco Polo' leads Netflix into uncharted territory 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Putting aside, even, the fact of the B Street Band’s source material, there was an immediate and satisfying irony to this particular booking. A Springsteen Cover Band Is a Fitting Choice for Trump’s Inauguration 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

It’s inevitable to not be struck by the irony of the tweet given the circumstances around her death. New famous last words 2013-02-15T22:40:00Z

Abounding in ironies, in self-awareness and the self-referential, the “Scream” films, displaying Mr. Craven’s penchant for tweaking the conventions of his genre, managed the feat of leaving audiences amused as well as afraid. Wes Craven, master of horror and slasher films, dies at 76 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

There is irony upon irony here, like the tiers of a multistorey cake, and the joy of this work resides in that. One of Xavier's favourite writers was Laurence Sterne, and it shows. A Journey Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre – review 2013-06-04T14:29:03Z

“When I played Madeleine, I was ‘first degree’: There was no distance, there was no irony. Bonding With Léa Seydoux 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Thundercat’s genius lies in his ability to both reinvent that frayed calculus and combine it with a hilarious streak of absurdist postmodern irony and fluorescent intergalactic symphonies. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

It's a "bloodless" world, with no meat, no spices, and no irony either. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z

Her irony is like a dagger that jabs right into the exact spot we need it most. Samantha Bee is Jon Stewart’s real heir: Finally, the 2016 campaign has the satirist we so desperately need 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

In recent years, however, the term has been reintroduced by young feminists themselves, layered with irony, as a badge of self-identification. Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter with Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

The great irony I found while making the podcast was how many of the most talked-about scenes in the film are fake – yet to this day, many viewers believe it’s all real. 'Banned in 46 countries' – is Faces of Death the most shocking film ever? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

And, here, a splendid irony: A gangster is barely a villain on a show where, as Carrigan puts it, “all the characters are kind of awful in their own way.” The actor behind ‘Barry’s’ NoHo Hank, TV’s happiest mobster 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The irony of inviting subjects into the mountains only to wire them up with electrodes and ask them to play iPad games is not lost on Strayer. Put down your laptop, and lace up your hiking boots! 2013-01-06T15:00:00Z

The irony was, of course, that for blacking up to play an actor blacking up to win awards, Downey Jr himself won an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. Who are the most chameleonic actors? 2010-12-08T12:12:00Z

Instead "Mrs. America" smartly fleshes out the aggravating irony of her public image. In "Mrs. America," Cate Blanchett shines as a frigid firebrand who challenges the feminist movement 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

I hadn’t developed a sense of irony yet, and I went in whole-hog. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

In a Flaubertian irony, Manju studies Congreve's The Way of the World, a sleazy tale about "first-class people", without fully comprehending the text. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review 2012-06-29T07:00:03Z

But one also sees a darker American irony at work on social media, where people post comments that are not, word for word, racist, xenophobic or homophobic but are clearly meant that way. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

The symbolism and the irony of an Islamic artist occupying such a place with such a message is not lost on Mr. Nasr. In Transit: Outside of Paris, a Castle Hosts Contemporary Art and More 2011-07-24T10:00:26Z

Given Mr. Church’s frictive relationship with the genre, there was a sublime irony to his releasing this album just before last week’s Country Music Association Awards. On ‘Mr. Misunderstood,’ Eric Church Pays Homage to His Influences 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

The irony — or maybe not — is that those sentiments remain relevant; the names may have changed but the landscape not so much. Karen Finley, Banned Books Week and the responsibilities of art 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Vargas's raw, rasping voice and intimate arrangements stripped down well-known rancheras, boleros, revolutionary ballads and tangos to leave them as haunting laments, punctuated by waves of tenderness and bitter irony. Chavela Vargas 2012-08-12T14:13:26Z

“It’s the greatest irony of the world,” she said with a laugh. The Most Narcissistic Exercise Equipment Ever 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

This of course means another round of greetings with the Gestapo, but when Elsa says “Heil Hitler,” it’s with horrifying dramatic irony that is palpable to the audience. How “Jojo Rabbit” crafted that hilarious yet horrifying “Heil Hitler” scene 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

For an artist who often revels in fantasy, irony and otherworldly artifice, it was an endearingly down-to-earth moment. Best and Worst Moments From the 2022 Grammys 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s a huge irony,” says Ted Merwin, an associate professor of religion and Judaic studies at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania who studies Jewish food and culture. The New York Jewish deli meets the 21st century, and the results are geshmak

It’s almost a twisted irony that McCarroll played a part that almost immediately identifies the song but was later fired from the band by Noel for not having the skills to do the job. REVIEW: Reissue of Definitely Maybe Is (Definitely) a Reminder of Oasis' Greatness 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Along with Potter, the three joined hands like a sports team and - with thick irony - cheered in unison: "Non-coordination!" Colbert preps prez run, transfers PAC to Stewart 2012-01-13T02:43:17Z

The irony, the gamesmanship of referentiality and humor, are part of the work’s basic message. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

The irony is that I’m probably the worst person to come to if any of your devices are not functioning correctly. Oscar Nominee Michael Fassbender on the Problem With Picking Winners in the Arts 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

And, in a pile-up of ironies, one section of goes under the heading "Mistakes Were Made". The lost art of editing 2011-02-11T14:05:33Z

I understand the distinction he was trying to draw between a war movie that draws on actual events and a violent spectacle in the Tarantino mode, drenched with irony and cinematic allusion. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z

And when the Miranda equivalent is asked by her kingly suitor if she is pure and true, she replies with heavy irony "this is a desert island". The Tempest ? review 2011-08-15T17:30:01Z

Are those quotation marks around “dangerous, unapproved” intended to denote a certain irony? Even if nobody else is listening, the president's son is singing the praises of Kanye West's new album 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Each sentence seems to be sprung from coy diffidence and measured irony. Up Close: A-List Parties: More Taste, Less Flash 2010-12-16T05:40:03Z

So it's left to Patric, a little jowlier and far livelier than he was as an action hero in "Speed 2," to carry what little self-deprecating irony there is in "The Losers." "The Losers": Big explosions, little surprises 2010-04-23T00:23:00Z

Mr. Manjoo studied recent cartoons, especially those from Pulitzer Prize winners, and declared: “Even the best ones traffic in blunt, one-dimensional jokes, rarely exhibiting nuance, irony or subtext.” Books of The Times: ‘The Art of Controversy’ by Victor Navasky 2013-05-23T21:40:02Z

Kratovil also noted the irony of a journalist preventing another journalist from covering an event. CNN increasingly sees itself as subject to threats after incidents involving Cuomo, Lemon, Ryan 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The paternalistic irony of holding the world’s resource-strapped women responsible for a systemic problem goes unaddressed. ‘8 Billion Angels’ Review: Giving Earth Top Billing 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

The tone of “Dragged Across Concrete” suggests a faux-Hemingwayesque minimalism without Hemingway’s dandyishness, ambiguity, irony, or sense of vast implication; his movie is all tip and no iceberg. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

But Klee’s final drawings exhibit instead a bewildered detachment, each asserting the need for irony in a world governed by madmen. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

The appetite for excitement can't be sated with snacks of muted incident, however salted with irony. All That Follows by Jim Crace 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

The irony certainly isn’t lost on Seattle’s Lady A. Seattle’s Lady A confronts white privilege in battle with country stars and beyond 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Endless high passion and basic human emotions indulged in without respite are what "Les Misérables" offers in its refusal to afford the distance that enables irony. The Carpetbagger: A Defender of 'Les Miz' 2013-01-30T15:00:19Z

Not if we consider the essence of the genre to be irony – that is, the speaker's unintended self-revelation. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z

And the irony is that Radiohead have just done this big world tour last year and for the most part we had the best time we have ever had. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z

Yet Darnielle's black comedy and clever irony elicited feelings of sympathy, defiance and even victory. Mountain Goats bigger, but unchanged 2011-04-06T14:29:00Z

And Roberta Flack and Michael Jackson sang and danced to a duet, "You Don't Have to Change at All," whose words now bear a melancholic irony. ArtsBeat: The 40th Anniversary of 'Free to Be . . . You and Me' 2012-11-30T16:45:23Z

Perhaps this is an intended irony indicating marginalization — the way some cultural contributions fade while others don’t. Art in Review 2010-02-18T23:04:00Z

While few today would attempt that kind of mimicry, some white poets have been accused of flip appropriations of black experience and black pain under the guise of postmodern irony and experimentation. A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

And then the third point about it, which is crucial in terms of the contemporary discussion is, in that question, although there’s irony there, it can be completely earnest. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

In 1946 he painted a picture called, with subdued irony, Holiday Resort. Jeffrey Smart 2013-06-27T14:02:39Z

The irony of Sabato's life is that while he did much to bring light to the cruelties of the Dirty War, his own writings were dark and brooding portrayals of worlds of secrets and madness. Argentine writer Sabato dies, 99 2011-04-30T17:27:36Z

What began as hipster irony somehow turned a corner a few years later and it, the ugly sweater, became its own commodity. Keep your ugly sweaters – Hanukkah isn't Christmas and doesn't need to be 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

That’s how the period, in text messaging, earned its passive-aggressive reputation, and why so many visual flourishes default to implying irony. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

“When you started getting into the nuances of pop music and counterpoint and irony, and all the different layers of sophistication that happened, that was a switch-up.” And the Emmy goes to . . . music supervisor 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

NIN’s lyrics explore the repressions of religion, family, and society, but only as they pertain to one life, sung in almost too-human melodies and without perceivable irony. Nine Inch Nails: a human scream in Reagan’s postindustrial America 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

In an irony they are the first to acknowledge, the Dutchers themselves never lived with wild wolves. Review | This husband-and-wife team ran with wolves for years. Here’s what they learned. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Edward Gardner's charismatic conducting allows the music its gorgeous desperado scope without subduing any subtleties: no irony escapes. Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review 2013-05-18T23:05:43Z

In one scene, Phoenix banters about the irony of his life being depicted in film, when he is trying to get away from the industry. Venice shows Affleck's film on Joaquin Phoenix 2010-09-06T19:16:00Z

Another protester said that Occupy Wall Street protesters simply couldn't resist the irony of occupying a TV set built to represent their encampment, from which they were evicted last month. Occupy Wall St takes over "Law & Order" TV set 2011-12-09T18:49:43Z

Naturally, a sequel is in development, which Reynolds announced wryly with the hashtag “#irony.” New this week: ‘Law & Order,’ Madea and Tears for Fears 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

The fists and flagpoles of the riot itself presented an unlimited buffet of sad ironies to choose from, but the trashing of democracy’s cradle is what will haunt the history of this moment. Perspective | I thought classical music could stand up to anything. Now it feels more vulnerable than ever. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

I’ve always thought of art as extremely positive — as I said to you, there’s no irony in me. Sean Scully Closes His Windows 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The plot climaxes in horrific bloodshed, a lacerating irony for characters forever idealizing their romantic quest. 'Penelope' an audacious reimagining of Homer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Those retail graphics, free of cynicism and irony and set against azure horizons, give the exhibit a cheery aura, like the ebullience of hitting the road. Retro signs galore: The ultimate American road trip 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Deaver’s singular flair for ghastly irony is on full display in these opening scenes. Solving Crimes the Old-Fashioned Way 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Their fashion is hipsterish, without irony or a sense of being mere appliqué. This String Quartet Has a Line of Craft Beer 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

With its reversals and with its bitter ironies — not least that, minutes before he was shot, Rabin had congratulated the crowd, saying, “The people truly want peace” — it is a tragedy already. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

“The irony of it is pretty funny,” he told Guardian Australia. 'Stoner sloth' anti-drug campaign drives traffic to site promoting cannabis use 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

And still, I was struck, maybe for the first time, by one of the play’s most slippery ironies. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

“People will see irony in it, definitely,” said Waters. John Waters, an Auteur of Trash, Would Like to Thank the Academy 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

A gloomy streak runs through Mr. Matthews’s back catalog, yet willed optimism fills the songs on “Come Tomorrow,” while cynicism and irony are nowhere within earshot. Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

I noted another irony at Mount Gay Visitor Center, in the capital of Bridgetown and home to the brand’s bottling and final distillation process. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z

It would be a tragic irony if awards season killed off the very institutions it was designed to celebrate. And the Oscar goes to ... a movie by a streaming platform? 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

It is a phrase that has great power and also great irony because, for decades, people did not believe. "Start by Believing" author: How "money and medals" enabled serial child molester Larry Nassar 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

“Combine that with an inability for self-examination, an almost comical degree of self-exculpatory rhetoric, flag pins, a little bit of leg, and a complete immunity to irony, you’ve got yourself a full-blown case of Foxabetes.” Jon Stewart calls out Fox News for Charleston hypocrisy: It’s only “politicizing a tragedy” if Fox doesn’t like it 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Was it sheer Hollywood happenstance, calculated irony or comic genius? Cohen up to satirical tricks again in "Dictator" 2012-05-16T11:05:57Z

There are only glints of humor on the surface of Garrel’s bitter ironies, but his keen self-consciousness nonetheless brushes by a knowing parody and self-parody on the way toward the archetypal. Philippe Garrel’s Intensely French “In the Shadow of Women” 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The film's title becomes, while not quite incorrect, layered with a sad irony. "One Lucky Elephant": Man and pachyderm, a love story 2011-06-11T13:11:00Z

In an irony Veronica would surely appreciate, the jocks and the bullies and the mean girls triumphed after all. Michael Lehmann on the legacy of his cult teen film Heathers 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

Here’s this thing, irony, which, everybody knows what it is, some are in favor, some are against, they can debate ’til the cows come home. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

It is an irony of materialist theories that such efforts to sidestep ghostly or supernatural accounts of the mind often veer into surreal, metaphysical territory. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

It’s an approach that allows him to pursue his warmhearted story while acknowledging, with Russian irony, the ocean of suffering taking place all around it. ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ is a charming reminder of what it means to be classy 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

In a lesson for too-clever satirists, he often fails to maintain his cool: the irony falls away to reveal, unselfconsciously, a joy at being alive. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris – review 2013-04-27T10:00:02Z

It’s a light, bouncy, expertly calibrated number that’s fun without being sharp, witty but with no taint of irony. Magazine Preview: Bret McKenzie Meets the Muppets 2011-11-17T18:27:32Z

The irony, however, is that Maupassant's best works are much longer. A brief survey of the short story part 49: Guy de Maupassant 2013-05-24T09:56:31Z

At the time they were shown in schools and available in public libraries — an irony, someone in the doc notes, "because now you can't show a lot of these films publicly." Sex ed films through history 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

Our critic praised its “intelligent contemplation of the ironies of life.” The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

At a time when the mantras of peace and love ruled youth culture, they inverted that message with an irony that anticipated punk by a decade. My streaming gem: why you should watch I Am Divine 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

The Nobel Foundation said in 1998 the prize was given to Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." Nobel-winning Portuguese author Saramago dies at 87 2010-06-19T02:24:00Z

Now, as a mom myself, I understand this irony is a common theme of parenting—you rarely reap the rewards of the seeds you attempt to sow. Doctors lost an organ inside of me (and I feel fine) 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

They were all long past finding any irony in that. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

The programme afforded a morbidly compelling, occasionally moving glimpse into ordinary life in Guatemala, a place of grim ironies. TV review: Toughest Place to Be a ? Paramedic 2011-02-14T08:00:01Z

The feeling is one of terror, not irony, for who wishes to be buried alive? A Composer of Dark Explosions Turns 100 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

The stark fugue thus aches more naturally than in other readings; pizzicatos, without added sweetness, ring with irony. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

There’s some irony here, since “The Noise of Time” must be one of the least musical books about a composer ever written. With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

I am visiting because of a powerful exhibition of their photographs, called, with an irony that does not need labouring, "Home Sweet Home" – an attempt to capture what "home" means for them in this country. Asylum life 2011-08-13T23:05:05Z

By ensuring we reflect the British sensibility – our strong sense of irony, our truth-telling. Portrait of the artist: Abi Morgan, writer 2012-06-05T18:59:01Z

Until they can scan iambic pentameter or explain dramatic irony, my kids will have to keep their language G-rated. Mommy’s got a potty mouth 2013-06-03T00:30:00Z

“It has a lot of ironies and a lot of messages that I think are important,” Gout said. Director brings Mexico to forefront in “The Forever Purge” 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

The irony is that the only person who ever attacked me was my father. My father, the woman 2012-06-15T23:30:00Z

“He had this ironic sensibility, and I love irony,” says Graham. ‘To show them in a kind of glory’: How a high-end designer celebrates working-men chic 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

“Parody, tongue in cheek, elbow and rib, irony are all good for modern entertainment, but at Christmas, they become an irritant.” Love Christmas Variety Shows? Go Ahead, Take Another Helping 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

"I will not," he insisted, "have irony in this newspaper." Hilary Mantel: why novelists are deliberately misunderstood 2013-02-19T17:32:07Z

I just want to circle back for a second on something that you said that I thought was interesting, which was that irony and sincerity aren’t necessarily at opposite ends of the spectrum. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

Cheever might have conjured the haunting details of the Harlem-line crash: the lead-footed irony of “Valhalla,” the survivors wandering through the cemetery to safety. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Fend off patriarchal poetry” is a vague, if admirable, directive, delivered without apparent irony or a sense of complicity. A Poet Takes Aim at the Literary and Political Patriarchy 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

For me, a writer of strong fuddy-duddy credentials, the sad dramatic irony really was too much. The Lost Virtue of Cursive 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Yet he was able to appreciate the irony of being handed his statuette from Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying, “I never thought to get an award in Hollywood from an Austrian.” The Golden Globe Awards: Big Wins for Argo and Les Misérables 2013-01-14T09:59:52Z

He was not one to frolic in ambiguity or irony. Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

As the series progresses and history moves more swiftly by, its points are made more explicitly; the ironies float on the surface. 'Book of Negroes' is a compelling look at a slave's journey 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

But this did not interfere with his associations with much younger, very gifted, sought-after, beautiful women, then known without irony as “glamour girls.” The big “f**k buddy” lie: Campus hookups and the dark story of male sexual desire 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

At this moment, capitalism’s Cold War victory, individual irony, and philosophical antifoundationalism merged into a single discourse. We had to get beyond irony: How David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and a new generation of believers changed fiction 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

The elements of flippancy and irony that are popular currency among today’s referential artists are completely absent from her enterprise. Normani and the Work of the Pop Princess 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Where we’ve seen it since: The Internet loves to point out the irony of Rose’s promise through cynical memes that play on the inherent cruelty of her impossible choice. Analysis | After 20 years, these 8 ‘Titanic’ moments still won’t die. Unlike Jack. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Yet l'Enfant, too, is that rare commodity: an impeccably constructed comic opera in one act with music that mixes tart irony with lush tenderness. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

That Burton has never lost a case means, therefore, that he has helped set criminals free, and it's in this unavoidable irony that film sets course. 'Escape Artist' on PBS proves subtly captivating 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

I mean, the great irony is that had there not been this funny little screw up, no one would have ever seen this press conference. "Four Seasons Total Documentary" captures the Trump campaign's emperor-has-no-clothes moment 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z

At another point, Mr. Harris presents, seemingly without irony, a Sega employee who describes the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as “the biggest international event since the fall of the Berlin Wall.” ‘Console Wars,’ a Gaming Industry Clash by Blake J. Harris 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

“To be celebrated, but in celebration be reduced to a comprehensible identity, stripped of its range, was a profound irony.” ‘Son of Elsewhere,’ a Funny and Frank Story About Life After a Big Move 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

It is deaf to irony, metaphor, satire, allegory, provocation, ambiguity, contrariness. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z

She says introverts will have to deal with the irony that, for many, 2020 was one of the happiest years of their lives — and that happened because so many other people were sick or dying. Meet the introverts who are dreading a return to normal 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

But if you trust the author to do her job, and you do yours as a reader, you'll find a love letter to Bill — and to marriage itself — within all the irony and exaggeration. Have we forgotten how to read critically? 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z

Like any good karaoke bar, Santa’s transcends irony. Karaoke Coast to Coast 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The irony of my dependency on the chair, I mused, was that disability had always been more than a merely intellectual interest of mine. Becoming Disabled 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

The story ends with multiple layers of dreadful, unresolved irony. The human heart of the matter 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

"And he was a gentleman, a man with style and a sense of irony," Rathnow added. German cinematographer Ballhaus, Hollywood veteran, dead at 81 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Hwang said she dug with complete commitment into both the show’s irony and its sincerity, and above all she “forced me to take my character seriously, and face my own trauma.” Jeanine Tesori’s Gift: Conjuring the Storytelling Potency of Music 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

In the most persuasive stuff, such as Matthew Donnelly's Fortune Teller, the magic is heavily and openly underlined with irony. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-08T23:08:45Z

In one bar, she reports, in a tone that’s rapt yet underpinned by deflationary irony: In ‘Three Poems,’ Hannah Sullivan Writes Beautifully and Covers a Lot of Ground 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

It feels sometimes when you put a lot of irony and even subtlety in a satire — Mike Nichols said to me, they mistake content for intent. Film: Joel Schumacher on ?Twelve,? Starring 50 Cent 2010-07-23T21:51:00Z

"There will never be anything like the original. But where thousands of people may have seen that mural, now millions will see it — even though it's gone. It's a beautiful irony." Google Cultural Institute database wants to give street art permanence 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

I took that as my cue to leave; I love that musical, but wasn’t sure how much irony I was prepared to deal with. Want the ‘Real’ Brooklyn? Go Cheap 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Although facts about the object and its age are still in dispute, Mr. Hoving once said, with some irony, “It’s too ugly to be a fake.” F.Y.I.: Answers to Questions About New York 2011-04-22T21:09:10Z

Despite being superficially straightforward, the book contains a good deal of irony and quite a few paradoxes. Mark Haddon on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Guardian book club 2013-04-13T07:00:24Z

The hearings gave us both the tragedy of Jan. 6 and the absurdity, the terror and the irony, the blood and the ketchup. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

The irony of the Russians, near the height of the Cold War when they were denouncing Western culture as decadent and bourgeois, approving of... The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

The dramatic irony is delicious — like watching characters debate the word “bomb” when there’s one ticking under the table. Camus’s Inoculation Against Hate 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

“The irony is,” Dyer said, “the way we’ve been performing ‘Othello’ has in some ways highlighted our racism more than the actual play.” With an ‘Othello’ of His Own, a Director Comes Full Circle 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

The irony is that, as awful as he is, he’s the only one left at the end of the action to grieve the useless poseurs he hated. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

The irony, which he surely would have appreciated, is that a film made after his death might now bring him a wider audience than any film he made in his lifetime. Raul Ruiz and the ghosts on the battlefield 2012-08-20T17:37:40Z

Yet, there is an irony in the fact that these windows might offer a moment of respite from the anxieties and hurry created by our commercially-driven world. Holiday windows: The allure of showing and hiding makes us look 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Of course the irony of all this is the project that I thought most unlikely to ever be filmed – the project that was actually unfilmable – is now going to be this big show on HBO. ArtsBeat: Q. & A. With ?Game of Thrones? Author 2011-04-01T12:30:50Z

The irony is that the President is often criticized for being bland, even in his fashion choices. In Defense of President Obama's Tan Suit 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Dr Heaton said: "They provide a rare glimpse of Jagger that is very different from his public persona: passionate but self-contained, lyrical but with a strong sense of irony." Mick Jagger's letters sent to secret lover sell for £187,250 2012-12-12T21:32:19Z

The only way to speak truth to power in a nation that has elected a megalomaniacal reality-TV president is with irony. Trevor Noah and Stephen Colbert step up: Donald Trump made “The Daily Show” and out-of-character Colbert relevant again 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

There's such an irony to the imagery: It's abhorrent, but they're also gorgeous. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

The irony is that we do this in part to prevent errors — and as a result we probably make more errors. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z

“There’s such an irony for being called out for calling out the calling-out culture,” she said. What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

It is an irony lost on no critic or would-be biographer of Lee’s that the press now treats her as Scout and Jem once treated Boo Radley. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

"Beastly" - Just as superficial and obsessed with looks as the characters and the mindset it rails against, which would seem like a bitter, frustrating irony if it merited the emotional reaction to care that much. Capsule reviews: 'Rango,' 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011-03-03T20:03:25Z

That onesie is a potent object, connecting the larger theme of cultural omnipresence with the smaller ironies of individual images. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

That the Met happens to be featuring an exhibition on “Representations of Evil,” replete with images of Lucifer, makes the irony that much greater. Books of The Times: ‘Breed’ by Chase Novak 2012-08-29T20:56:42Z

So with a tinge of irony, the theme was hiking, as though best-buddy friends were mountain climbing together. Fashion Review: Flowers and Power 2013-06-28T17:58:00Z

"The irony of the track is that it's a love song to a place I'd never visited." Owl City will say 'Hello Seattle' on April 1 2010-03-26T00:24:00Z

But as it burst into flames, someone called the fire department, which shut down the performance, adding a new layer of irony to the show. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Or leave just for her utter failure to see the irony in her rage or to admit her own faults. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A girlfriend’s anti-male outrage is a relationship dealbreaker 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

We have all these different ideas about irony floating around, but maybe you can walk me through what it actually means to be “ironic.” What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

In chapter 11 Plath writes "disenchantment – cruel irony of young illusion of sea" and in the author's note Plath has underlined Conrad's comment about "Thinking it over for something like sixteen years." Sylvia Plath's copy of Lord Jim on sale as part of huge Joseph Conrad auction 2013-05-09T17:14:48Z

David seemed to know about irony and social satire. The Rake's Progress: when Hockney met Hogarth 2010-08-02T20:30:00Z

There is a heady mix of insouciant charm, playful irony and risible pretentiousness throughout the Museum of Modern Art’s new Bjork retrospective, which opens on Sunday. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The irony is that the Arts Council created the crisis in the first place by increasing its grant to the society. In praise of ? impoverished poets 2011-07-27T22:03:34Z

Noah infuses her art with irony but says, “Humor isn’t the point, it’s a byproduct. It’s both a coping mechanism and something that attracts someone into the work. And then they realize it’s about more.” Can art help fight climate change? These 4 Seattle-area artists think so. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Indeed, Mr. Sahl never lost his fervor for pointing out life’s ironies and the hypocrisies of public figures. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

In an irony not lost on her, the woman who left government office to spend more time with her family was now spending much of her time on the road making public appearances. She famously said that women can’t have it all. Now she realizes that no one can. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

I wanted to smile and use phrases like “Have a magical day” without irony. I am not a Disney princess 2013-05-28T00:00:00Z

“I call it the first punk rock — it’s got that irony, that sardonic take on the events of the day. It’s current.” In the key of blood: Concert marks centennial of Everett Massacre 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

One irony about the rising number of mastectomies is that medicine is making advances that are reducing the need for such radical surgery, even with large breast tumours. ‘Cancer I could deal with. Losing my breast I could not’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

So what I think they’re getting at — what irony is, and why it matters … What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

"The irony was entirely deliberate," Converse said of his choice. 'End Days' for WSU Theater Department 2010-04-05T19:30:00Z

Sow points to one of the great ironies of immigration coverage under Trump, for those not personally engaged with the system, documented or undocumented: you’re frequently watching, maybe imagining, rarely engaging on a human-to-human level. 'These people aren't just statistics': behind the year's most personal look at immigration 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The fun irony is that the feckless Commodus has brought the gladiators to Rome as a bread-and-circuses initiative to distract the great unwashed while he seizes total authority over the empire. Did Gladiator really deserve the best picture Oscar? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Accusing us of seeing these things as illusions is the height or irony. Why are believers ignorant about atheists? 2012-06-30T17:00:00Z

“The irony wasn’t lost on me,” Mr. Koolhaas remembered the other day, about the fact that Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim’s architect, hated cities. Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

In The Guardian, Yomi Adegoke suggested that “there is a churning sense of irony in the fact that a campaign created to amplify women’s voices is instead amplifying the voices of men.” Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

In one letter, after he warms up by giving her career advice—irony being the one thing you can’t kill in our family—he starts waxing philosophical: Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

The irony of being greeted by these motivational posters was lost on me at the time. Royal Caribbean’s ‘Smartship’ Avoids a Titanic Situation 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

I realize this is not necessarily the recipe for cuddly-closeness — but in my/our defense, neither is complaining without irony to working parents of small children about the hassle of driving “that far.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Can you age out of the rule against dating a friend’s ex? 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

In defense of his arch approach, he said, “I look at irony as something real, as the most human way to express yourself — not making a mockery, but using playfulness.” ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z

It was with the grotesque irony of the Rondo-Burleske third movement that the performance moved on to a higher plane. LA Philharmonic/Gustavo Dudamel ? review 2011-01-30T17:46:00Z

One of many ironies is that Rembrandt died bankrupt and almost forgotten. 'Stealing Rembrandts': the theft of uncommon paintings by common thieves 2011-08-24T20:37:04Z

That the humanitarians are attended to by the very folks they are there to assist is an irony not lost on viewers. "They play Santa Claus": Humanitarians tested by a stuck Land Rover in savage comedy "Intregalde" 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

Even at this early point in the novel, the pages feel damp with dramatic irony. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t so much strip it down, or fill it with self-conscious ironies and stylistic flourishes, as simply open it out. Art Review: A Textured Palette Without Much Paint 2011-01-27T22:58:12Z

It’s a gentle reminder, too, of an irony of Shanghai’s recent history. Shanghai Dwellings Vanish, and With Them, a Way of Life 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Pearson, meanwhile, eggs on the actors to histrionic line readings and, as a result, an audience has little chance to savor any irony that might be lurking in the script. ‘Nero/Pseudo’ by WSC Avant Bard fiddles away its glam-rock musical potential

The best defense against Ms. Gadsby’s assault on comedy is her own show — an irony she is clearly aware of, and even perhaps nods to in a tangent about the ridiculousness of gendered parenting. Introducing a Major New Voice in Comedy (Who Also Attacks Comedy) 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

The irony is that the film he's promoting, the elegant drama A Late Quartet, is his most un-Walkenised in years. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z

And we just laughed so much because, again, that one's just riddled with irony and humor. Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes on "Medazzaland" turning 25: "I love the sonic architecture" 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

In his statement, Lelling, with no hint of irony, said, "We're not talking about donating a building so a school is more likely to take your son or daughter, we're talking about deception or fraud." The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Nirvana’s sense of playful irony, which you could hear in its music, set the band apart from many of its doom-and-gloom peers in what would become known as the Seattle scene. Nirvana’s “Nevermind” Made, and Unmade, Alternative Culture 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The play’s title is neither an irony nor a plea; it’s an emotion that survives as a lullaby sung over a cellphone or a casual nickname or a serious declaration of commitment. Review: Holding Hands With the Homeless, in ‘Love’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

He also riffs with a survivor’s humor — severe irony mixed with the wonder of being alive. Brando Skyhorse’s memoir of surviving his wacky mother is harrowing and humorous

It’s a little book, a bagatelle, but it’s a little book of irony and wit and heartbreak. Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

An irony not lost on the critics of Suzuki, Watts and others. America’s Donald Trump complex: We’re addicted to consumption — and it’s destroying us 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

What follows is a saga rich in irony, and in colorful characters evoked by an unerring cast. ‘Poets’ at Book-It: an Everyman’s hilarious downward spiral 2013-06-14T04:08:58Z

By the 1990s, television had co-opted irony, and the networks were inundated with commercials using “rebel” in the tagline. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Because — surface irony and dark wit notwithstanding — there is so much love in the Antrimesque. “The Verificationist”: Donald Antrim’s unsung masterpiece 2012-06-17T16:00:00Z

This is not an argument for humorists to hang up their pens or for the end of irony. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

This must be the place to note a scandal which, given the river of stout flowing through “The Ginger Man,” would count as an irony worthy of a Donleavy novel. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z

“I hate trotting, too,” called James, our wrangler, without a trace of irony. Where to go in Wyoming for a postcard-perfect cowboy summer 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

“The irony is that a lot of gay culture of the past is available on YouTube, but young people don’t tap into it,” Mr. Hays said. Queer/Art/Film Series at IFC Center 2012-03-16T15:03:25Z

The irony is that when you are old enough to play these parts, you are actually too old!” Anthony Hopkins Returns to the Stage, if Only for a Movie 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

“The irony is that we both now admit we had strong feelings for each other at the time.” The ‘Right Time’ Came a Decade Later 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

As the years rolled by, her rock star swagger may have faded, but not, it seemed, her sense of irony. Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

The sorriest sight is painting, most of which is really “painting,” approached with irony and pushed toward sculpture, video or performance. Art Review: Emerging Artists at ?Greater New York? at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-05-27T21:27:00Z

It’s been replaced by irony, I guess, and by love.” A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z

But there was a countervailing trend: Louie was presented, with little apparent irony or undercutting, as the hero. Watching the Season 4 Finale of ‘Louie’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Still, I’ve noticed that medics and war correspondents employ irony, at least in conversation, much like soldiers and vets do. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Part of that broadening involves acknowledging the brutal ironies that attached themselves to the work of non-white L.A. architects in the postwar decades. Credit where it's due: Why Gin Wong never quite became one of L.A. architecture's household names 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

This was, of course, the great irony of the situation. Stand by Your Man? On TV, as in Life, There Are Alternatives 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

The irony is that such concerns are unnecessary. Insights Into the Brain, in a Book You’ll Wish You Had in College 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The frustrating irony is that these are the exact sort of difficult and complicated issues artists often interrogate through film. Analysis | The recipe for an Oscars’ best picture nod includes an infusion of Hollywood love 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

I can’t help but think about the irony—that America’s “small government” libertarians are part of the coalition forcing this on you and your staff and patients. “The intent is to make this 5- to 10-minute abortion procedure seem dangerous”: The plaintiff in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt on defending her Texas clinics all the way to the Supreme Court 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

In an “Arab world” museum, the presence here of a hagiographic image of Napoleon, colonialist invader of Islamic North Africa and pilferer of non-Western art, is ripe with political irony. Louvre Abu Dhabi, an Arabic-Galactic Wonder, Revises Art History 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Told in exquisite detail, they are threaded with ironies and reveal lives with enough subtexts, histories and thwarted dreams to inspire novels. Mavis Gallant, Short-Story Writer, Dies at 91 2014-02-18T19:55:45Z

Wandering the Rock Hall on Tuesday morning, I found the ironies nearly too acute to list: banners reading “Music Defies Barriers” were lashed to actual barricades. The Republican Party’s Unrequited Love of Rock Music 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The real irony is that detractors continue to use the word “irony” to describe a voluntary value-for-value trade amongst individuals as being in opposition to Rand’s philosophy. Atlas Begged: Would Ayn Rand Approve Of Producers Asking For Handouts? 2013-09-26T14:01:32Z

Although the film has little of the smarts and the sizzle of the best of Goldman, it does have a splash of the writer's sense of irony. Vegas-set 'Wild Card' draws an, oh, so predictable hand 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Paul senses the irony is being rather trowelled on, but it's now too late. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z

There was a very obvious irony here: anyone listening to one of Maxwell Davies's early works could be forgiven for wondering whether a ring tone had been written into the score. Max: A Musical Portrait of Peter Maxwell Davies - review 2011-07-16T05:00:01Z

It's the ultimate irony, in a way, because what made Susan Boyle was the skilful manipulation of our emotional responses. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

You get north of 50, there’s no more irony left. In ‘Unstable,’ the Sins of the Father Are Comedy Gold 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Kazantsev hammered so mercilessly at the next banal theme that it lost all its shape and irony. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

An irony, she told me, is that “people describe my work as nostalgic, although I have no nostalgia” for growing up in Haifa. Paintings that Demolish the Myths of What a Home Should Be 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

“I think she saw the irony in not sleeping because she was anxious about taking an anti-anxiety medicine in order to sleep.” Mothers and Sleep Medication 2011-11-04T21:17:55Z

"There is," Ostler says, "a sort of irony in that; though we may see a more multilingual future, as English starts to wane, you will see less multilingualism in individuals." Google Translate and the battle for accurate translations by computer 2010-12-19T00:05:52Z

Simón spends much of this novel seeking, and not finding, glimmers of humor and irony in this new world. Books of The Times: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Childhood of Jesus’ Dissects a World 2013-08-28T21:20:05Z

Properly done, the former kind of irony can be a powerful tool. Will McAvoy, you’re so smart! 2012-07-23T18:30:00Z

It lacks not thesis but synthesis, and not irony with a capital I but irony with that crucial lower-case one. Books of The Times: Want a New Life? Wait Here 2011-03-17T14:45:49Z

I'd call all this appropriation ironic, but it would only rub salt in the wound: the Greeks invented irony too. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

Over the road is a park bench that proclaims without a hint of irony: “Baltimore: the greatest city in America.” ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

Although it lacks the maturity of the Nobel laureate’s later works — the confident hand of a master the critic Irving Howe called the “connoisseur of ironies” — it provides a fascinating glimpse into the young writer. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

It seems to recognise the irony that the more you say about Jesus the more you risk getting it wrong. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Above all else, the English valorization of irony participates in the English aversion to anything approaching earnestness. The English Fetishization of Irony 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s still early for Chance, but so far he’s been consistent in blurring the space between joys and thrills, in partnering happy innocence with a wily irony and sense of mischief. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

One of the problems, I think, is that because no one speaks for AA, the irony is that then everybody speaks for AA. How should we treat addiction? 2012-09-03T13:30:00Z

We learned of their close connection to the mining industry and the irony that digital technology is rooted so heavily in analog exploitation. With ‘Neptune Frost,’ How to Make an Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

There was a bit of irony the setting of Timberlake's comeback concert because he is identified with the most infamous Super Bowl performance of them all, 2004's wardrobe malfunction featuring Janet Jackson. Timberlake gives Super Bowl-eve comeback concert 2013-02-03T12:03:09Z

The final notes of irony and repudiation may be laboured and obvious, but this is an intriguingly intuitive and atmospheric movie. Cannes review: The Bling Ring 2013-05-16T11:11:33Z

The irony, of course, is that visual effects are often at their best when unnoticed, and the real triumph of Life of Pi is that it doesn't play as some SFX extravaganza. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-04-27T23:05:33Z

Her voice, like her writing, is level and pointed, with the slightest inflection turning the mood toward irony, scandal or foreboding. Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

The irony mark: For English-speakers, an upside-down exclamation point at the beginning of a sentence has intermittently been used to indicate irony. Happy? (National) Punctuation Day! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Comedy Punks,” now on Amazon Prime Video, shows it to have taken on a patina of irony. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z

Clive Barnes of The New York Times praised it as a “sprightly quartet of revue-style playlets,” written with “compassion, insight and irony.” Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

At one time, irony served to challenge the establishment; now it is the establishment. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

"What I found then, and what I was exploring here is this sense of irony without humor. Where it's like the setup to a joke but it's not funny, if that makes sense," he said. "I was never going to use the N-word": "Fargo" seeks to examine our racist past without new injury 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

The ironies of travel … 'She looked at a bridge, and what she saw wasn’t balustrade and arch but the embodiment of a sonnet.' Literature of journeys: Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser 2013-07-15T11:56:45Z

Glee's tone has been compared to US comedies such as Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives – shows built on extreme irony, ridiculous plotting, crazed innuendo and camp. Glad to be Glee 2011-01-06T20:30:01Z

The irony of ironies was that they distributed a documentary called Bully, and Harvey talked about how bullying was a terrible thing. 'It was like tending to a disgusting baby': life as a Harvey Weinstein employee 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

It was one of many challenging twists, frustrations and ironies the report highlighted. Radio review: Africa at 50 2010-09-27T05:45:00Z

There are other knots of irony and dialectical difficulty, notably with respect to the status of women within the global program of emancipation the two dudes so grandly envision. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

His racist, homophobic and misogynist rants are delivered not with any evident irony, but rather proceed from the sense that he is entitled never to be taken seriously. Movie Review: ‘The Comedy,’ by Rick Alverson, Stars Tim Heidecker 2012-11-16T00:47:39Z

A highly personal kind of existential irony resulted in its creation, as Burnham describes in the lyrics for "All Eyes on Me," which could be the special's unofficial theme. Is Netflix's "Bo Burnham: Inside" our lockdown "Lemonade"? 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

That “Stripped” arrives alongside the GOP’s glorious promises regarding our taxes . . . well, I’ll let you supply your own irony. Review | Bravo’s ‘Stripped’ is like ‘Naked and Afraid’ for indoorsy types 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

"That's the tragedy of it. I think he felt this sort of sense of the tragic failure of his administration and this irony that it was only then that he really rose to it." "This is not a whitewash": PBS filmmakers on working with documented liars for George W. Bush series 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

The irony of writing an auto-tuned pop song about how to keep it classy on a reality show about women throwing wine at each other was apparently lost on Luann. Dissecting the lyrics of "Real Housewives" songs 2011-04-21T20:30:00Z

Later, as London smouldered, the irony of the Clash – a band forever associated with riot and protest – being on the cover of NME again was all too obvious. Punk spoke up for angry kids. Why won't today's bands follow suit 2011-08-14T21:05:00Z

And that neon Schaefer sign behind the bar promotes beer, not irony. ‘The Deuce’ Recalls Sex and Sleaze in 1970s Times Square 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

Selections from Wiman’s first two books, “The Long Home” and “Hard Night,” demonstrate his ability to create moving lyrics and long narratives, whether told with tenderness, bemusement or irony. Best poetry of the month: Philip Levine, Christian Wiman, Paul Muldoon 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

The great irony of Rihanna’s long-awaited, years-in-the-making album Anti, which finally arrived on Tidal on Wednesday evening, is this: for most of the Barbadian pop star’s career, her albums were hardly something people hungered for. Rihanna’s 'Anti' Rewrites the Rules of Her Career 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

The title has a tinge of irony to it, because this is a one-woman movie. ‘A Couple’ Review: Tolstoy Story 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

There’s a cruel irony that “The Office” chose not to film here. Scranton became shorthand for the past. Its reality is far more complicated. 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

“Just don’t forget irony,” he was fond of telling his children. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z

Type A as I may be, even I realized the irony of that. Motherlode Blog: The Redshirting Debate Continues 2011-09-26T17:12:38Z

The sad irony is that what matters to far too many of my fellow Jews is the “purity” of my blood. Faced with Donald Trump and David Friedman, Jews must resist the toxic allure of tribalism 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Kuang seems to be reveling in the irony that a major corporate publisher is releasing such an unsparing takedown of the industry. She Wrote a Blistering Satire About Publishing. The Publishing Industry Loves It. 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t see any irony in any of that,” Reeves said. ‘The Batman’ and Matt Reeves: Emerging From the Shadow of Other Caped Crusaders 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker, who is one of the best directors to come from the Romanian New Wave, spoke to Salon about his new film, the prejudices of people and the irony of altruism. "They play Santa Claus": Humanitarians tested by a stuck Land Rover in savage comedy "Intregalde" 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

A greater irony becomes apparent when the full story of her bankruptcy unfolds. Kerry Katona: 'Sometimes I think I attract drama' 2013-07-06T08:00:00Z

But the marvelous irony is that, yes, Hekla does get her story, her observations of Iceland, Denmark and the people around her, her feelings and her sense of dedication out into the world. Review | ‘Miss Iceland’ is an exquisitely detailed portrait of mid-century life in Iceland 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Michael Moore uses irony to reveal the uncomfortable truth. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

That speaks to the sense of irony we can also have. Ebony Looks to Its Past as It Modernizes 2012-12-08T00:10:24Z

But it’s his trio’s synergy that gives “Agrima” what it needs: possibility, irony, tenderness. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

You could say that irony is actually what’s necessary to unpack these assumptions and clichés. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

That the volume in question is the kind of heavy, shiny, coffee-table tome likely only to grace the tables of the wealthy is an irony of which the film may or may not be aware. Generation Wealth: how the doc fails to capture Trump's America 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

She was clearly not riled by his irony, as she kept the portrait on view throughout her life. Salvador Dalí portrait of Mona Bismarck up for auction at Sotheby's 2013-01-27T18:00:03Z

In her fringe debut, there is much talk about the recent break-up of her five-year relationship, throughout which one waits, and waits, for a punchline – or at least a hint of postmodern irony. Charlyne Yi 2010-08-09T16:29:00Z

That’s another cruel irony: Never before has air travel seemed so democraticized, affordable to so many, yet so stratified, turning economy into steerage with pretzels. We’re in the golden age of travel pillows. Too bad we hate them all. - The Washington Post 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

And someone with Penelope Longstreet’s political views and multicultural concerns would be most unlikely to proclaim herself, without irony, a defender of “Western values.” | 'Carnage': Roman Polanski?s ?Carnage,? With Jodie Foster - Review 2011-12-15T15:59:53Z

The deep irony of Richard’s situation—that his ultimate goal, presumably, is to become a Goliath himself—either has not yet come up in the writer’s room or is being tabled for later. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Wyeth committed at least two unpardonable sins, hewing to a realist style during an age of abstraction and irony, and achieving extraordinary popular success. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in

Neither premise made the show bad, per se, but both felt like a self-conscious attempt to merge old-school sitcom premises with post-Simpsons crassness and irony. After Two and a Half Men, Chuck Lorre Still Runs CBS 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

And then, most of those same writers laughed and admitted the irony. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z

That the song failed to include any actual examples of irony is in itself ironic. The imaginary American town that became a tourist attraction 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

The contemporary manifesto was therefore a creature not only of resistance but also of irony, adopting the pose of authority in order to usurp it. Feminism Means a Lot of Things, and This Book Contains Them All 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z