"The work transported me to this place with a gorgeous landscape and yet with intense ironies, conflicts between the poor and affluent, and extreme racial divides," Ms. Lyons said.
Rukeyser brings to his subject a unique combination of intense interest, scathing irony, unabashed amusement, and professional competence.
Where many contemporary writers would reflexively turn to irony, Knausgaard is intense and utterly honest, unafraid to voice universal anxieties, unafraid to appear naïve or awkward.
The researchers conclude, "It may seem a cruel irony that temptations become more intense just when one's guard is down.
Julian Assange has sparked intense personal animosity, especially in media circles – a revealing irony, given that he has helped to bring about more transparency and generated more newsworthy scoops than all media outlets combined over the last several years.
But the historical ironies surrounding Valery Gergiev are becoming uncomfortably intense.
Millet's story about how to attract more children to the Girls Education Movement adds a welcome note of irony and light relief to an otherwise pretty intense session.
The irony of both the Harry and Henry narratives is that despite the intense spotlight on a single character, our heroes clearly need a cadre of friends and even erstwhile adversaries to triumph.
My intense love of chain restaurants comes from a pure place, wholly devoid of irony.
