How To Use Ironist In A Sentence
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And as befits an ironist like Austen, this book is less a “guide to good manners” than a literary companion disguised as Regency self-help manual.
2009 July 19 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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What an irony that our supreme ironist has been so badly misunderstood and misrepresented.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lucas definitely falls into the category of ironist, but this time the ironist edges toward seeking, indicating, perhaps, Stone's desire to reconcile the two modes.
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And, after what feels like a somewhat dutiful slog through Juvenal, Swift, and Pope, you would expect Denby at least to be aware of the limitations imposed by the shriveled range of cultural reference within which the contemporary media "ironist" must operate.
Undefined
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This is the manifesto of an ironist, balanced between two poles but committing to neither, and Justice is perhaps best described as an ironist of nostalgia.
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Mr. Pitt couples a star presence—there's a singular there there whenever the A's general manager is in camera range—to a beautifully measured ensemble performance that makes Billy a minimalist ironist, tossing off funny remarks with an abandon that almost conceals his deep anger, pain or self-doubt.
'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch
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Such ironists have doubts about the truth of any final vocabulary, and realize that others have different ones; they don't see their vocabulary as closer to reality than other people's.
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Otherwise, this is a surprisingly inconsistent disc from one of the genre's most dependable innovators and most stylish ironists.
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Is Boetticher a humanist with a rude existential ethic forged on the American frontier, a macho psychotic whose films always end with bodies piled up like kindling, a sophisticated ironist?
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Oh you secretive ironist, was that perhaps your—irony?
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The life of an ironist was never easy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ironic result is that Haynes, the master ironist, is half-taken in by the image that Hollywood and official society projected of America in the 1950s.
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The irony about the ironist is that, rhetorically, the metaphysician has the better game; so who’s the pragmatist, really?
Matthew Yglesias » Richard Rorty
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The problem is that Appelfeld is not an ironist.
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How music like this comes from Sweden is a mystery, but this is the dividing line between revival ironists with calculated haircuts and those who still own vans with teardrop windows.
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It presents them as winking ironists, not the true black-music believers that they were.
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Usoltsev portrays him as an ambivalent ironist—modern in outlook, aware of the corrosion within the Soviet system, a little pedantically legalistic, even, at times, democratic in outlook, but careful to hide any incorrect attitudes in public and skilled at ingratiating himself with his superiors.
The Return
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He's the ironist of the psyche, the one with the sense of humour who can laugh at the mind's absurdities.
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Above all, Hicks reminds us that Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest ironists.
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For almost all of these writers, the master ironist, the joker, is life itself.
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Note, however, the irony that Keillor - a famous ironist - explicitly accuses Coleman of being ‘unpatriotic.’
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If you want Swift to be a dark ironist rather than a facile pamphleteer, you might examine the premises that make his fable so easy to digest.
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Most secretive of ironists, had this been your deepest irony?
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Which led to the following conversation with Brendan the staffroom ironist.
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Is she, they ask, a realist or an ironist, a romanticist or a feminist?
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This suggests that Dada artists are exempt from the general rule that ironists are the biggest victims of their own irony.
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He's a history-remaker, an eclectic, an ironist, with bags of self-reflexive knowledge and knowhow.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the broad and piebald field of eliptonic bibliophany, I will admit to being a sucker for Beauty, either as a physical artifact -- Manly Palmer Hall's Secret Teachings of All Ages being the epitome here -- or in prose style, which is far less common, though Charles Fort's rhetorical swoop and staccato larrup is a Mauve Decade ironist's delight.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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At the age of 48, and a celebrated actor as well as a dazzling filmmaker—I heard him described as the Chinese Marlon Brando—Mr. Jiang has the buoyancy of an absurdist, the edge of an ironist, the camouflaged instincts of a moralist and the limitless zest of an entertainer who, from the evidence on the screen, might feel as much of a kinship with Abbott and Costello as with Beckett or Buñuel.
Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand
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He is a tongue-in-cheek ironist, a cartoonist, and a smart one; his images hit upon our neuroses yet even the most vituperative of them seem tame and acceptable.
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In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take.
We Shall Not See His Like Again
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It knows that a modern audience, filled with pessimistic ironists who think the world is not dark enough won't cotton to a true James Brown experience awash in love and understanding.
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The idea that English football deserves the World Cup can only be the work of an ironist.
Shed no tears for Liverpool: our football needs deflating
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Unlike Rorty's ironist, however, Agee's irony becomes a rhetorical tactic for sparking social consciousness.
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For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist - or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist - possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher - or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist - cuts a far more equivocal figure.
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He's a history-remaker, an eclectic, an ironist, with bags of self-reflexive knowledge and knowhow.
Times, Sunday Times
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As journalists, of course, we long have been accustomed to being smeared and assailed in a whorish manner for, as the ironist Pierce Thorne has noted:
Meg Chair Pete Wilson Trashed ‘Whores’ in Congress bbb
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Such are aural resources that a Tennysonian syllabic ironist like Dickens can elsewhere mobilize, and in the context of epochal dissonance rather than the restorative harmony of Little Dorrit, when, in describing the roar of a locomotive in Dombey and
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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History, as has often been noted, is the greatest of all ironists.