A "clean wound," as the doctor in the emergency room would later say, his expression betraying no awareness of the irony inherent in such a description.
On television, she had guest roles on "Naked City" and "Combat!" In an interview with The New York Times in 1949, before "Battleground" opened, Ms. Darcel demonstrated a keen awareness of the irony that attended her passage to the screen.
Mrs. Polaski's request reflected both sides' awareness of the irony of accusing a part of the labor federation, which represents most organized workers in the country, of unfair labor practices.
"It reached a point where I said 'no more,' " he told me one recent afternoon, breaking his silence briefly to talk -- uncomfortably, and with an awareness of the irony -- about why he had imposed that silence in the first place.
Gray eschews all "isms", except realism, and he admits, with some shame and an awareness of the dreadful irony of life, that "a surviving element of utopianism in me" presently leads him to hope against hope that realism – and the establishment of a reasonable modus vivendi – might possibly be the coming thing.
Part of the problem here is that the anti-ZDT camp indicates in their statements that they have little awareness of the principles of irony, catharsis, and sublimation that dramatizations use to separate depiction of heinous activities from endorsement of them.
Holmberg approaches the internet with an artist's sensitivity and hyper-awareness of the ironies, absurdities, and paradoxes it often fosters.
"For the head of a one-party state, he has a healthy sense of humor, a self-awareness, and a sense of irony," Obama told me.
All this without any trace of irony or awareness that he just traded amnesia of grave injustices and dehumanization for a hair maintenance product.
Atticus Lish subtracts from this very spare American form of expression any trace of irony, any awareness of absurdity.
