Sentence examples for ironic writer from inspiring English sources

He is an elegant, ironic writer and addresses his readers with an engaging, if at times slightly leisurely, assurance.

For if Guevara must have been a driven, painfully worthy leader, he was also an elegant, ironic writer.

In the hands of a less elegant and ironic writer "Dublinesque" might have devolved into a rote Joyce/Beckett homage or, worse, a tour through the literary grave sites of Ireland.

(Score that one for the charming, salt-of-the-earth barber, and zero for the ironic writer turned politico. Mr. Kurson manages to sheath this weapon, wisely, when discussing issues.

It's also sort of sweet to see a bunch of jaded, ironic writers chanting together in earnest like cadets at a boot camp.

It may be ironic that writers, like Pushkin, who badly wanted Mother Russia to catch up to her Western European neighbors could at the same time celebrate the unabashedly pre-modern ways of the mountains.

How ironic that a writer whose work earned him a death sentence from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini would misunderstand what constitutes courage in the face of power.

And how ironic that a writer who said that he "ran for cover" at the sight of a trick, has now become the newest trick in town.

It is ironic that a writer with an undeserved reputation for being a recluse (Coetzee doesn't like giving interviews) seems to be taking less interest in the storytelling keel of his books and is inviting us instead to listen in to an intimate conversation he is having with himself, in the form of multiple alter egos.

It's always been ironic that a writer as misogynistic and phallocentric as D.H. Lawrence, all brilliance aside, penned a novel called Women in Love.

Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming you for my decision to be an assistant, I just think it's ironic that the writer who inspired me to be proactive in the business is turning to be the one responsible for my departure.