| 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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| 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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| Unlike Rorty's ironist, however, Agee's irony becomes a rhetorical tactic for sparking social consciousness. |
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| Which led to the following conversation with Brendan the staffroom ironist. |
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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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| 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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| Is she, they ask, a realist or an ironist, a romanticist or a feminist? |
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| For the postmodern ironist, there is no way out of the cave of appearance, preference, and manipulation. |
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| While he lived Crane was described by critical readers as a realist, an impressionist, a visionist, symbolist, expressionist, and ironist. |
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| Cornford 1961, 120, further claims that the imposter is exposed by an ironist, who 'masks his cleverness under a show of clownish dullness. |
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| He portrays himself as the hidden ironist whose appointed maieutic task is to deliver the reader of the latent existential truths suppressed within their hidden interiority. |
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| And being an ironist means, in this context, never having a native tongue. |
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