The most sung themes include: student love, love for the city and bohemian life, and the ironic and critical reference to the discipline and conservative nature of the professors and their courses.

Prešeren also dedicated an ironic short poem to Auersperg, called Tri želje Anastazija Zelenca (" Three Wishes of the Green Anastasius "), in which he made fun of the friend's bohemian lifestyle.

Here, Hexter dissected Braudel's vast " geohistory ," La Mediteranée marvelling at the organization of the Annales School but pointing out the ironic tensions between the Annales ' rigorous, collaborative, scientific institutional ethos and its leader's passionate, highly personal, often factually inaccurate or poorly sourced book ( for which much of the intellectual labor was carried out from memory while Braudel was in a prisoner-of-war camp ).

As the original ethos of freeriding was to break away from ( amongst other things ) the restrictive confines of ski competition, it's somewhat ironic that freeride competitions are surging in popularity on the international stage.

We knew that it was, as reassurance, the ironic fruit of a deeply moral nature.

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title " cartoon " was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians.

As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.

Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.

While the former means " handsome ", the latter gives an ironic sense of " clumsy ", akin to the English " That was clever!

The nature of this rivalry is ironic because while the Colts and Patriots were division rivals from 1970 to 2001, it did not become prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated to the AFC South.

Employees of Id Software are quoted in The Official DOOM Player Guide about the reaction to Wolfenstein, claiming it to be ironic that it was morally acceptable to shoot people and rats, but not dogs.

Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.

For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.

Ginsburg recorded " Kathy Cryin ' Heart ", a catchy number laced with the ironic humour, that was backed with " Catching Spies ", a raw sounding garage number.

Although the OED2 notes Granholm was " jocular ", it accepts his ironic etymology from a fictional " Fink and Wiggles " for Funk & Wagnalls lexicographer.

There the MB6890 was dubbed the " Peach ", probably in ironic reference to the popularity of the Apple II.

This observation was ironic as after 1871 France would indeed become Germany's permanent enemy and would indeed eventually ally with Russia against Germany in the 1890s.

Renwick once pointed out in an interview that the name " Victor " was ironic, since he almost always ends up a loser.

The name, " Pretty Good Privacy ", is humorously ironic and was inspired by the name of a grocery store, " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ", featured in radio host Garrison Keillor's fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

She wrote and sang lead vocals on Surfer Rosas " Gigantic ", and the single " Bam Thwok ", credited as Mrs. John Murphy on the former composition — at the time she was married and she used this name as an ironic feminist joke.

In the UK, a major turnabout was achieved with the ironic " It is a Škoda, honest " campaign, which was started in the early 2000s.

" As an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco giving the fascist salute alongside Adolf Hitler.

Robinson's arrest was especially ironic because on the very morning of the day it happened, he had received the Bart Starr Award for his " high moral character.

In these, he generally sets upon the canvas the fleeting aspect of the various stages of merriment, from the subtle, half ironic smile that quivers round the lips of the curiously misnamed Laughing Cavalier to the imbecile grin of the Malle Babbe.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Through such details Dickens indicates at the outset that guilt is a part of the ironic bond between Pip and Magwitch which is so unpredictably to alter both their lives.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.

Note that a hack might be a kludge, but that ' hack ' could be, at least in computing, ironic praise, for a quick fix solution to a frustrating problem.

" The theme is hinted at in the play's ironic title, and " earnestness " is repeatedly alluded to in the dialogue, Algernon says in Act II, " one has to be serious about something if one is to have any amusement in life " but goes on to reproach Jack for ' being serious about everything '".

This proved to be an ironic twist of fate which ultimately spared him at least 14 more years ' imprisonment in a mainland prison afterwards.

In an ironic and controversial twist, that was also his last regular show at the station ; at 5: 00 PM, WCBS-FM announced that the station would replace its oldies format with a " Jack " format, and fired all of the stations on-air jocks.

On 25 February, he made another speech at Shipley and urged a vote for Labour and saying he did not believe the claim that Wilson would renege his commitment to renegotiation, which Powell believed was ironic because of Heath's premiership: " In acrobatics Harold Wilson, for all his nimbleness and skill, is simply no match for the breathtaking, thoroughgoing efficiency of the present Prime Minister ".

McCarthy cited the production and costume design as pluses, and said the soundtrack was good at creating " ironic counterpoint " to the story.

The extent to which he engineered this has been hotly debated ever since, and was even at the time regarded as ironic by many in the Labor movement given Hughes ' violent hostility to earlier Labor " rats " like Joseph Cook.

While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

However, every time he shot an arrow at Hector, Apollo, the protector of the Trojans, would foil the shot-an ironic reference to the fact that Apollo would guide Paris ' arrow into Achilles ' heel.

It is ironic that, at the same time that the form was being codified ( by the likes of Czerny and so forth ), composers of the day were writing works that flagrantly violated some of the principles of the codified form.

Cold weather testing of aircraft is carried out here at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory, housed at Building 440 ( somewhat ironic given Eglin's location in a state known for its generally warm climate ).

However, other commentators argue that there is a powerful ironic undercurrent running through his work, especially the Chronographia, transmitting highly critical and subversive messages about the emperors portrayed, or even about Byzantine Christian beliefs and morality at large.

In 1986, historian Thomas Slaughter argued that the outbreak of the insurrection at this moment was due to " a string of ironic coincidences ", although " the question about motives must always remain ".

A parody in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.