When a child is unwittingly ironic, a parent will not soon forget it ("Too Young for School, but Ready for Irony," Oct. 12).
Despite his passionate condemnation of racism and imperial arrogance, it is Achebe's gentle irony, ready laughter and his delight in anecdotes about our children's antics that I most vividly remember.
A professor gives himself over to some lofty and exacting pursuit, and yet his life, like everyone else's, is marked by squabbles, misdemeanors, accidents, and sexual torment, and that discrepancy is ready-made for irony and pratfalls.
The author, an omniscient, scientifically minded narrator — always ready to comment, with irony, amusement, frustration, and even pity — then leads us through the lives of Faro's grandmother, mother, and Faro herself in an attempt to answer the question of whether there is any way to escape the double inheritance of genes and habit.
Ready for the delicious irony?
They are ready-made targets for irony, allusion and commentary, ripe for riffing and manipulation.
If the American public ever puts out a call for irony, these guys are ready.
But the larger irony of Brown's Readies is that they tend to be, well, unreadable.
Cole laughed at the irony of the "I'm Ready" album title.
Throughout "Not Going Anywhere," Keren Ann makes ready-mades new by delivering them without irony and paying special attention to setting.
