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Example sentences for: irony

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Critics also say Lichtenstein succeeded as both technical painter and social commentator, and that he was ahead of his time: "[H]e was a saboteur, offering 1990s irony in the 1960s" (Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times ).
The irony of his current situation no doubt pleases many.
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.)
The thrust of Krugman's piece is the irony that stocks have kept rising, just as Glassman predicted, so that "the guy who had no idea what he was talking about gave what turned out to be good advice."
The bad hyphenations, apparently performed by a (feeble-minded, misprogrammed) computer and not reviewed by a (knowledgeable) proofreader, are inexcusable in a book of this kind: “buc-ket” (at - ful ); prop-osed (at irony ); “sing-ular” ( at kind of ); “trad-itionally” (at or); “ostentati-ous” (at ostensible ), etc.