The British have worked hard for centuries to perfect the subtle, irony-laden put-down.
Yet the genre he inhabits, nu-metal, has little time for intelligence or subtle irony.
The Russian writer Maxim Gorky found in the play "a subtle irony on the cult of the hero".
Her first novel, Twarz mężczyzny (1928; "The Face of the Male"), established her gift as a writer who excelled in penetrating psychological portraits expressed with subtle irony and poetical lyricism.
Ms. Malcolm responds with subtle irony: "My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen.
She commanded the screen not so much for her acting, which at best was passably droll and arch, but rather for the perfect beauty of her face, with its colliding sensuality and innocence, and for the subtle irony and sly intelligence that animated her work with screen partners like Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart and Charles Boyer.
As for Kinglake himself, he was clearly a man of subtle irony, comfortable circumstances, and well-disguised ambition.
While clickbait headlines are clickbait headlines, the more subtle irony in the narrative lay in the fact that the photo in question showed the Zuckerbergs reacting to Facebook Poke, a new Facebook App specifically created for Messages with expiration dates on their content.
Now isn't that some subtle irony?
