With War and Peace, Tolstoy introduced two novelistic innovations, both based on his new principle of length, which was part of his constant principle of irony.
He continues to believe that his success is a happy confluence of his mother, a painter, his father, a Wharton graduate, and his family, a constant reminder of irony and humility.
Tales from the Borderlands is a very funny game but it's also a surprisingly sincere one in which constant cynicism and irony are the verbal tools of the shallow and cruel, and the capacity for emotional honesty is something characters discover on the path to becoming better people.
He took his doctoral exams and wrote his dissertation, Om begrebet ironi med stadigt hensyn til Socrates (On the Concept of Irony, with Constant Reference to Socrates), completing it in June of 1841 and defending it in September.
In his dissertation On the Concept of Irony with constant reference to Socrates Kierkegaard argued that the historical Socrates used his irony in order to facilitate the birth of subjectivity in his interlocutors.
With respect to the former, Kierkegaard had to petition the king to be allowed to write his philosophy dissertation On the Concept of Irony with constant reference to Socrates in Danish.
"High seriousness with an undercurrent of irony is a constant feature of Brazilian art, literature, cinema and even music".
Jaylah speaks with a blunt intensity that's sharpened with a constant tone of coolly theatrical irony, just as Dickinson does in Hawks's film.
There are moments when, if you're listening closely, the constant lyrical shifts from caustic irony to plaintive declarations of love can really knock you for six, not least on the title track.
What we said: "There are moments when, if you're listening closely, the constant lyrical shifts from caustic irony to plaintive declarations of love can really knock you for six, not least on the title track," wrote Alexis Petridis, in his lead review for the Guardian.
