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- and incisive style, and a gift for mordant irony. He thoroughly understood ... and incisive style, and a gift for mordant irony. He thoroughly understood ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English ... between both author’s tones and use of irony. Baker notes the uncanny ...17 KB (2,706 words) - 07:08, 13 June 2023
- in Bloom's discussion of Socratic irony. In fact, irony is the key ... . Thus irony in the Republic refers to the "Just City in Speech ...22 KB (3,158 words) - 18:25, 21 July 2023
- Famous for his wicked sense of irony (Defoe's penchant for satire ... style peppered with his characteristic irony and wit. The novel was still ...14 KB (2,237 words) - 14:40, 5 August 2013
- In 1952, Niebuhr wrote The Irony of American History, in which he ... organized power."Reinhold Niebuhr. The Irony of American History. (Charles ...32 KB (4,798 words) - 03:06, 8 December 2022
- #039;s works attract attention for their irony, their psychological complexity ... vulnerable women. (In a perfect example of irony, Julien had suggested to ...15 KB (2,490 words) - 19:57, 9 February 2023
- the most famous poems are full of openly expressed irony against trends of the 1860s, which inevitably resulted in a good deal of criticism. He was especially ...7 KB (1,141 words) - 05:10, 17 June 2023
- his masterful use of rhyme and meter, and his irony and brevity. His poems, whether ironic or sincere, tend to be intensely personal in subject-matter ...16 KB (2,484 words) - 05:05, 15 December 2022
- Gibbon's work was characterized by irony as he outlined the bankruptcy ... Waugh married twice, first in 1928 to the Hon. Evelyn Gardner (the ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 04:54, 23 March 2024
- Ralph's brush with death is tinged with irony; Ralph had always pushed for a fire to be kept, but the fire that leads to their rescue was originally ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- is not only notable for Smollett's sense of irony and comedy, but also for its extended sequences on life at sea. Smollett, who had first-hand ...10 KB (1,464 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- quot;), or perhaps in greater spirituality, irony, or peril to the relationship. Romantic love is often contrasted to marriages of political or ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 04:58, 16 December 2022
- He became popular as a lecturer, using his sense of irony rather than indignation to provoke his audience to question the power of corporate ...10 KB (1,453 words) - 04:14, 29 October 2022
- is known principally for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of ... His pessimism and detached use of irony was common to the historical ...36 KB (5,457 words) - 18:23, 12 February 2024
- Japan. In hindsight, the award is not without irony, since the treaty is seen by many as encouraging Japan's imperial ambitions and militaristic ...11 KB (1,628 words) - 04:51, 5 November 2022
- 19, 2006 Critics have pointed out that the irony of sweatshops is that the ... Johan Norberg, a proponent of market economics, points out the irony ...22 KB (3,326 words) - 14:18, 28 April 2023
- to explicate. Hafez was a master of irony. In any event, many of his poems were intentionally vague. Much like the Symbolist poetry of nineteenth ...10 KB (1,669 words) - 16:39, 21 January 2024
- The play depends heavily on dramatic irony. The irony works at several different levels. First, unlike Oedipus, the audience is already aware ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- compared to Robert Frost for his use of irony and natural imagery, Housman remains a major force in turn-of-the-century English poetry. ...10 KB (1,687 words) - 06:50, 13 June 2023
- " Martin replied, perhaps with a note of irony, "for I did not know that the precept of obedience took precedence over that of charity.” ...10 KB (1,693 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
