New York Dada lacked the disillusionment of European Dada and was instead driven by a sense of irony and humor.

Writing in the New York Times in 1990, Richard Bernstein noted " The term ' politically correct ,' with its suggestion of Stalinist orthodoxy, is spoken more with irony and disapproval than with reverence.

Throughout the twentieth century, Stonehenge began to be revived as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopagan and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids: the historian Ronald Hutton would later remark that " it was a great, and potentially uncomfortable, irony that modern Druids had arrived at Stonehenge just as archaeologists were evicting the ancient Druids from it.

Once the new replacement bridge had been built, without the least feeling of irony, he proceeded to compose an ode to the new construction: " An Address to the New Tay Bridge " " Strong enough all windy storms to defy ".

" Darling reviewed the show, describing it as " a witty, multiracial Western that tempered its fisticuffs with fantasy, its innocence with irony, and its romantic vision of the Old West with an abiding New World faith in the future's infinite possibilities.

In de Man's argument, formalist and New Critical valorization of the " organic " nature of poetry is ultimately self-defeating: the notion of the verbal icon is undermined by the irony and ambiguity inherit within it.

In addition to the theme, the New Critics also looked for paradox, ambiguity, irony, and tension to help establish the single best and most unified interpretation of the text.

* The New Zealand Herald, the main Northern North Island ( encompassing Northland, Greater Auckland, and Waikato ) daily newspaper, now sometimes uses " Jafa " as a nickname for Aucklanders without any hint of irony.

* Jafas live longer and earn more ( Example of the use of " Jafa " without irony ) – The New Zealand Herald, Friday 8 October 2004, page unknown

Roth's show was cancelled four months later and CBS Radio announced that Opie and Anthony of XM Radio would replace Roth on the stations that carried him, despite the irony that the two were fired after the sex act controversy inside of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.

The irony was that, a little more than three years after the sinking of the Titanic, the Hubbards had boarded the in New York City.

Nevertheless, the New York Times managed to emphasize in its reporting how greatly Armour “ cares for his labor ” without any sense of irony.

David Lehman, in his book on the New York poets, wrote, " They favored wit, humor and the advanced irony of the blague ( that is, the insolent prank or jest ) in ways more suggestive of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg than of the New York School abstract expressionist painters after whom they were named.

It was partly a reaction to New Criticism, a then highly popular form of literary criticism, which the Chicago critics accused of being too subjective and placing too much importance on irony and figurative language.

In The New Yorker, Dana Goodyear wrote that, " As a war poet, Turner sidesteps the classic distinction between romance and irony, opting instead for the surreal.

A pioneering predecessor of regionalist authors Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin, as well as a precursor of American modernism, Stoddard's writing is remarkable for its almost total lack of sentimentality, pervasive use of irony, psychological depth of richly drawn characters, intense atmospheric descriptions of New England, concise language, and innovative use of narrative voice and structure.

The irony of this is that he, like the others of his " race ", cannot kill Helios personally, although he lacks the restrictions on killing that Helios has placed in later creations and can therefore kill anyone else, whether of the Old Race or New Race, without complications.

The album was critically acclaimed with The New York Times saying " Each of Mitchell's songs on For the Roses is a gem glistening with her elegant way with language, her pointed splashes of irony and her perfect shaping of images.

Carla Sinclair, Editor in Chief of Craft attempts to describe the DIY community: " This DIY renaissance embraces crafts while pushing them beyond traditional boundaries, either through technology, irony, irreverence, and creative recycling, or by using innovating materials and processes ... the new craft movement encourages people to make things themselves rather than buy what thousands of others already own.

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.

It is false to be certain of having discovered in the language of Beowulf such effects as intentional irony.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

This essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of the English language.

" f one regards the Modest Proposal simply as a criticism of condition, about all one can say is that conditions were bad and that Swift's irony brilliantly underscored this fact ".

Featuring vividly outlandish characters, bizarre situations, and equal parts suspense, slapstick, irony, satire, black humor and biting social commentary, Li ' l Abner is considered a classic of the genre.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

The character of God in the story is progressively revealed through the use of irony.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

Elijah speaks with sharp irony: in the religious ambivalence of Israel, she is engaging in a wild and futile religious " dance ".

The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.

Russ's writing is characterized by anger interspersed with humor and irony.

It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of genres.

" In 1985, David Jasper praised the poem as " one of his greatest meditations on the nature of poetry and poetic creation " and argued " it is through irony, also, as it unsettles and undercuts, that the fragment becomes a Romantic literary form of such importance, nowhere more so than in ' Kubla Khan '.

A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —" in satire, irony is militant "— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing.

The first sentence, with its platitudinous irony, announces an emblematic intent: `` The way to the churchyard ran along beside the highroad, ran beside it all the way to the end ; ;

In agreement with Johnson, Donald C. Baker points out the similarity between both authors ' tones and use of irony.

Melville devotes the following chapter to a discussion of ambergris, with special attention to the irony that " fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale.

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

Poetically, he becomes a participant in the battle, and with subtle irony, barks battle commands to the defenders.

MGM noticed the video was performing well since " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters.

She argued that Barna had formulated his report with undue irony and skepticism, and that he had failed to take into account the reasons for the data which enkindled his " arrière pensée.

The irony of commemorating Holt with a swimming pool has been a wry source of amusement to many Australians.

Such repetition can add a sombre tone to a poem, or can be laced with irony as the context of the words changes.

This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal invective, with less emphasis on humor.

By contrast, teasing never touches on the core issue, never makes a serious criticism judging the target with irony ; it never harms the target's conduct, ideology and position of power ; it never undermines the perception of his morality and cultural dimension.

However in the following years the mode of cunning and irony became more prominent, not least under influence of Leone's next two Westerns, with their emphasis on unstable partnerships.