If the prints — on silk coats and skirts — lacked irony, it's probably because the trip is a familiar one.
Yet Henry James, in a long obituary tribute, complained that Trollope's work lacked irony, and, for all his mastery of daily life, was not realistic enough.
Daniel Bell told him that it lacked "irony and self-distancing" (cardinal virtues in New York intellectual life back then), and recommended adding three or four pages at the end in which he took it back.
His Twitter is endlessly fascinating and endlessly mockable, wholly lacking in irony, whether he's boasting or confessing.
Rivière, who could not enjoy a book that was lacking in irony, accused his friend of being "over-sensitive" and "sentimental".
Perhaps he remains so controversial and misunderstood because the scale of his hope for humanity is too vast, too lacking in irony to be comfortable.
One suspects that the supporters of the San Diego cross and Larry Alan Burns, a federal judge, are seriously lacking in irony and maybe logic.
This was Christmas of the early "Mad Men" era: straight up and lacking in irony, with music as stiff and beautiful as a dress Betty Draper might wear to the club.
Where Claes Oldenberg's soft sculptures of objects were clunky and rumbustious, Suh's apartment is delicate, impassive, entirely lacking in irony, except that to have expert Korean seamstresses replicate a rackety New York flat is already somehow absurd.
He might well have seen justice in this finale, though he would have been disappointed to find it coming from a fellow American and be so totally lacking in irony.
