Sentence examples for Complex irony from inspiring English sources
The beauty of this focused, crisp and understated writing lies in a complex irony that allows the reader insights denied to Edward.
The point of this journalism isn't to express any closely held beliefs about women or anything else – instead it's an exercise in courting controversy, being inventive with your taboos, and ultimately being able to call anyone who finds it offensive "stupid" for not appreciating the complex irony involved.
A widespread insistence upon prophetic and ecstatic power in literature seems at present to be undermining the complex, irony-minded formalism that has dominated modern discourse.
Such a complex irony-laced vision suggests that Ms. Walker may be forced by her own creative urges to take up a paintbrush before all is said and done.
Full of complex ironies and Proustian memory, Follies is as much about the death of the American dream as any Arthur Miller play.
For the bizarre relationship of Humbert and Lolita lies at the very heart of the complex and pervasive irony of the book.
The show's complex interplay of irony and agony is as formidable as that garment's interweaving of yarn and leather.
Almost at once, the Roundhead faction within the music press began to cry "pretentious", holding that bookish irony, complex orchestration, shameless conceptualising and obscure subject matter simply did not belong in pop music - songwriters were allowed to be clever, but not Cavalier.
Freisler is not complex, or leavened with irony; he is a bore.
The pages of the "Anthology" make cases for nominations for Clowes, Green, Adrian Tomine and Kim Deitch, to start: Clowes for irony so complex that it seems the very bio-system of his comic-book world; Green for his nightmare humor — nuns administer shock treatments through cross-topped metal helmets!
New Criticism, the prevailing literary theory during much of that era, placed special value on the kind of poetry Merrill wrote, in particular his formal dexterity, his use of irony, his complex surfaces and the demands his work made on the reader.
