"irony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In comparison to his contemporaries, his lyrics stand out by their humour and even irony.
- Germans are indeed ironic - they will also almost always say: "What do you mean by German irony?
- They squeezed the real meaning out of the word and made it vulnerable to infection by irony.
- It depends, in part, on what you mean by irony, which has become a critical term of nearly infinite elasticity.
- To me, it sounded more in the spirit of raillery, only touched, not permeated, by irony.
- The poems are pure, untainted by irony, naked and delighted with being.
- The first set of numbers expressed patriotism tinged by both hope and irony.
- For those raised on television, even the large screen is emotionally small, easily encompassed by irony.
- Guilhem's poetry is in general light, easy-going, and characterised by irony.
- Not all the stories in the collection are somber; several show the author's ability to make her points about a controlled life by irony and humor.
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