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

The interaction in this story between a mode of cunning and irony ( the tricks, deceits, unexpected actions and sarcasms of the hero ) on the one hand, and a mode of pathos ( terror and brutality against defenceless people and against the hero after he has been revealed ) on the other, was aspired to and sometimes attained by the imitations that soon flooded the cinemas.

Don Pedro is considered a character that is the middleman in the story and seems to understand the events more than the other character, however Don Pedro also experiences some dramatic irony.

Her half-century story of suffering for love focuses on irony instead of sentiment.

In 1915 he published El abuelo del rey ( The King's grandfather ), a novel that tells the story of three generations of a tiny Levantine town, for the sake of presenting, and not without a little irony, the struggle between tradition and progress, the pressures of one ’ s environment, and above all, a meditation about time.

According to Aviel Roshwald, despite the " widespread " belief that these famous last words are apocryphal, " the irony is that the authenticity of the official story about Trumpeldor's final utterance is actually well-attested and not disputed by historians.

The way to remember the name is that dramatic irony adds to the drama of the story.

Manoel de Faria y Sousa, historian and arch-commentator of Camoens, by a strange irony of fate chose Spanish as his vehicle, as did Mello for his classic account of the Catalonian War, while Jacintho Freire de Andrade told in grandiloquent language the story of justice-loving viceroy, D. João de Castro.

His biographer Hamilton was far superior to the comte de Gramont, but he relates the story of his hero without comment, and no condemnation of the prevalent code of morals is allowed to appear, unless by an occasional touch of irony.

In the first story, the irony was that the men were in orbit around Vesta with no source of motive power but a year's supply of water.

An irony to the XR-400 story is that Budd tried to sell the idea to Ford first.

The irony of his approach is that, for all the hundreds of thousands of words he has dictated into his recorder about his theory of what the novel should be and do, he is still looking for a subject — a story — that is important enough in historical terms to stand up under all his theorizing.

The story has been described as " post-classical " due to elements such as the descriptor of Loki as " cunning " without apparent irony, featuring Freyja and Loki as court retainers, and the open representation of Freyja's sexuality that it features.

Joel Selvin of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film " very boring "; a " story without irony, perspective or any leavening that would make it something other than an ordinary military-action caper.

Flashes of irony and some humor enliven this otherwise ordinary adventure story.

The logical inconsistency of a Cretan asserting all Cretans are always liars may not have occurred to Epimenides, nor to Callimachus, who both used the phrase to emphasize their point, without irony.

In an irony, the last battle of the campaign, at Falling Waters, occurred between the remnants of Heth's and Buford's divisions.

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.

Conversely, not all humour, even on such topics as politics, religion or art is necessarily " satirical ", even when it uses the satirical tools of irony, parody, and burlesque.

A point reflected upon with some irony by Shia Bahraini writer, Tawfik Al-Rayyash, who in reference to the government / civil society ’ s reaction to Sharaitmadari's remarks said: " I ask myself why this outcry was led by people who, when they enter their homes or meet their families, change their language from Arabic to Persian.

A sense of irony was present when some of the names were chosen as Hengist and Horsa were the mythical Germanic leaders in the invasions of the British Isles in the 5th century.

The lack of respect for traditional, " bourgeois ," " repressive " forms of authority and ritual, countered by irony and humour, was typified by Fritz Teufel's reply when told to stand for the judge at a trial: " If it helps the search for the truth " ( Wenn's der Wahrheitsfindung dient ).

Much like in 1927, the Bisons failed to win a game in their final season until their final game, when in a case of cosmic irony they upset the Chicago Bears 19-7 ; thus, the very team that had spoiled their lossless season in 1921 had spoiled their winless season in 1929.

It is thus an irony of proper scientific method that one must doubt even when correct, in the hopes that this practice will lead to greater convergence on the truth in general.

The book cites an irony when it states that the ' Garibi Hatao ' policies followed by Mrs. Indira Gandhi were actually working counter-productive and throwing millions of Indian further into poverty rather than alleviating their plight.

When one competing food industry executive was critical of Nichol, noting the irony of heavily advertising No Name when generics typically went unadvertised to hold down costs, Nichol pointed out that Loblaw had not increased its promotional budget but simply redirected its advertising dollars towards the new line.

The selection of Lautenberg came with some irony, as there had been notoriously bad blood between Lautenberg and Torricelli when the two had served together in the Senate.

The shoot was based upon Pitt's idea of the irony of the perfect American family ; set in 1963, the photographs mirror the era when 1960s disillusionment was boiling under the facade of pristine 1950s suburbia.

Such a reading takes into account Tennyson's statements about writing the poem —" the need of going forward "— and considers that he would not undermine Ulysses ' determination with irony when he needed a similar stalwartness to face life after Hallam's death.

Even Ulysses ' resolute final utterance —" To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield "— is undercut by irony, when Baum and later critics compare this line to Satan's " courage never to submit or yield " in John Milton's Paradise Lost ( 1667 ).

The name " hunger circuses ", now so universally used as to have almost suppressed the memory of the official communist-era term, derived from the circus-like domed architecture and the irony of constructing these massive food-related buildings during a period when food was scarce throughout Romania ( due to Ceauşescu's policy of exporting most of Romania's agricultural produce in order to pay off the foreign debt ).

The affair attracted national press attention when Mrs Mayo's husband, the barrister Rupert Mayo, wrote to a local newspaper, the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, " The irony is that I will not reap the benefits of Mr Cameron's excellent family-based policy proposals because one of his own MPs has ripped my own family apart.

He soon became involved in a virulent dispute with historian Nicolae Iorga, when the latter issued harsh criticism regarding Carol's January 1939 initiative to dress large sections of the society, including Romanian Academy members, in various uniforms ( a measure backed by Călinescu ); Iorga remarked with irony: " I'm prepared to wear the FRN uniform, but allow me to wear a speared helmet on my head, on which to place is, to Impalement | impale the Minister of the Interior ".

The irony, that Doc Daneeka was standing next to the Sergeant Knight who affirmed this tragedy, is further enforced when Doc Daneeka continues to argue that he did not die.

Given their perceived piety, The Times noted the irony when a major investigation by their reporters uncovered a link between Islamic Jihadis and child pornography ; a discovery that, according to the London paper, " is expected to improve understanding of the mindsets of both types of criminals and has been hailed as a potentially vital intelligence tool to undermine future terrorist plots .".

It is a fateful twist of irony that Will, a peaceful and law-abiding man, learns that his father was the pirate Bootstrap Bill Turner, who served aboard the Black Pearl when it was commanded by Captain Jack Sparrow.

The decadence became still more apparent when Offenbach was no longer at hand to assist the two authors with his quaint musical irony, and when they had to deal with interpreters almost destitute of singing powers.

No irony was intended when Lafargue and his wife Laura, Marx's daughter, stated their wishes not to be a burden, as part of their reason for committing suicide in their farewell note.

Barney Calhoun wryly notes this irony at the beginning of Half-Life 2, when Freeman performs similar " technical " assistance by flipping a switch and returning a plug to its socket.

Many noted the irony of the temporary move, noting that when Westchester was closed, many Westchester students were sent to Stratford, and now the situation had reversed itself.

There was some irony involved, since Brown and Tylo had once been close friends then had a severe falling out after Brown and her husband sided with Tylo's husband Michael when the two Tylos were considering divorce.