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ironies
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n. (irony English)
Usage examples of ironies.
On a bustling market morning Jehane had little time to ponder ironies, but they tended to surface nonetheless.
At length he smiled, savoring all the ironies that seemed to be emerging like flower petals in the light, and he accepted the burden that came not from killing, but from allowing someone to take comfort with him when no comfort had been expected or thought to be allowed.
This irony is just one of the enormous number of ironies possible in time-travel stories.
The three tempunauts go ahead in time, return, and are trapped, perhaps forever, by ironies and within ironies, the greatest one of which, I think, is their own bewilderment at their own actions.
That was the real world, and the European was as familiar with its ironies as he was.
This was like the old days: the exchange of ironies, the sweet-sour repartee, the knowledge, shared every moment they were together, that the words disguised a depth of feeling that would shame a poet.
And one of the ironies is this: the good deed of a good man may be observed by thousands and will be forgotten in a day, but any appearance of scandalous behavior in a decent citizen will get itself bruited about indefinitely.
So another of the ironies of 1800 was that Jefferson, the apostle of agrarian America who loathed cities, owed his ultimate political triumph to New York.
Tolkien terms eucatastrophe, is a happy example of the many ironies Saberhagen employs in his fiction.
It was easy to see, from the way in which the rituals were performed, that our people had been, although complex and sophisticated folk, simple in basic ways, tied to the basic ironies and ceremonies of generation which they alternately awed and mimicked.
Emotional effects were cunningly heightened by the use of music and it was not unusual to cast the roles in a bizarre or compelling fashion—such as having a male play the part in childbirth during the fertility ritual—in order to illuminate the many ironies which underlay even the simplest of existences.