He's the ironist of the psyche, the one with the sense of humour who can laugh at the mind's absurdities. |
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. |
Which led to the following conversation with Brendan the staffroom ironist. |
In his irony there is a disdain which plays about even the ironist himself. |
Unlike Rorty's ironist, however, Agee's irony becomes a rhetorical tactic for sparking social consciousness. |
He was the most closely allied with Prosper Mrime, a dilettante and an ironist like himself. |