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Example sentences for: irony

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Finally, Diaspora Chic suffers from this irony: Though it is partly a protest against white dominance, it surrenders American identity to the white folks.
Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)
And since only irony of statement is deliberate, the effects of cross-talk range from accidental to purposeful.
This is what Fiss means by the "irony" in his title: that true freedom of speech for all requires suppressing the speech of some.
Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) are outnumbered by the detractors ("hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey," Richard Schickel, Time ), who say 1) it's not remotely scary; 2) the sarcasm and self-conscious irony grow tiresome; 3) it's permeated with anti-Arab racism; and 4) the mummy isn't a real mummy, he's "a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect" (David Edelstein,