"ironic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The song's title and lyrics are deliberately ironic in light of the fact that Mulan is a woman disguised as a man.
- The author's primary purpose in the passage is to a. explain some critics' refusal to consider "Raisin in the Sun" a deliberately ironic play.
- The song was virulently attacked by rock critics at the time, although a few critics thought it to be deliberately ironic.
- The last film shown before closure was the deliberately ironic The Smallest Show on Earth.
- The mythic tale ends on a deliberately ironic note.
- Other works seemed deliberately ironic, as when he translated objects of leisure into expensive materials that also rendered them useless.
- Is this being deliberately ironic?
- This may have been deliberately ironic, since Oswald obviously was neither, but was more likely a play on the name Lee Harvey.
- It is deliberately ironic that the "seer" can "see" better than Oedipus, despite being blind.
- Its appearance at the end of the film, when the central character seems certain to die, is deliberately ironic.
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