This irony may arise for many possible reasons.
There's no smug postmodern self-undermining (otherwise known as irony) here: the mythic arises seamlessly from the quotidian; telepathy or saintly intercessions are simply accepted - as they often are in Ethiopian life.
One of the ironies is that sex trafficking often arises in particularly sexually repressed countries, such as India, Pakistan and the Arab world.
Gilbert scholar Andrew Crowther posits that this disagreement arises from Gilbert's "techniques of inversion – with irony and topsyturvydom", which lead to "the surface meaning of his writings" being "the opposite of their underlying meaning".
Loktev luxuriates, visually and dramatically, in the intimacies shared and the experiences garnered in the course of an adventuresome journey; she catches the bitter irony of the primal emotions that arise in the unsheltered wild.
The irony is that this situation has arisen from the team trying to be scrupulously fair to both drivers.
Years later he himself arose as Sir Max, cherishing the irony that his satires on the honours system, the nobility and royalty had culminated in that nevertheless desirable tap on his shoulder.
For a film centered on the madness arising from reason, it's singularly devoid of irony; for one built on absurd contrasts, it's humorless; for one based on rapid calculations based on changing circumstances, it's ludicrously impractical.
César's art contains a fundamental irony, parallel to that of fellow New Realist Yves Klein, which may have arisen from the same impulse.
There seems little of irony here, and more of nostalgia: for the political and aesthetic contexts in which these sculptures arose, but also for what was, perhaps, a truly revolutionary moment.
