(1) Unlike Rorty's ironist , however, Agee's irony becomes a rhetorical tactic for sparking social consciousness.(2) 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.(3) The problem is that Appelfeld is not an ironist .(4) Note, however, the irony that Keillor - a famous ironist - explicitly accuses Coleman of being ‘unpatriotic.’(5) Which led to the following conversation with Brendan the staffroom ironist .(6) Is she, they ask, a realist or an ironist , a romanticist or a feminist?(7) He's the ironist of the psyche, the one with the sense of humour who can laugh at the mind's absurdities.(8) 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.(9) 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.(10) 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.(11) 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 ?(12) 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.(13) 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.(14) Most secretive of ironists , had this been your deepest irony?(15) Above all, Hicks reminds us that Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's greatest ironists .(16) History, as has often been noted, is the greatest of all ironists .
