With years of experience on television and radio, he knows how to tease irony out of almost any situation.
Children with AS appear to have particular weaknesses in areas of nonliteral language that include humor, irony, teasing, and sarcasm.
He teases out an irony: Humans have built physical shelters to protect themselves from nature, thereby shutting out these anterior soundscapes; but these soundscapes are themselves shelters, structures of serenity and happiness, which we are abandoning.
The aim was to ensure that Brandt remained in office; and though the Stasi plan backfired, it enables Frayn to tease out the irony of a vulnerable figure who found more succour in his enemies than his allies.
It's harsh, streetwise and intimate - and there's a streak of irony or teasing riding on top of it.
In a groundbreaking libel decision, the judge said that "irony" and "teasing" do not amount to defamation.
This is not OMA's way, and running through the building are touches of wit, irony and teasing.
The irony is teasing, but the message is clear: the best aspects of the traditional concert experience will be updated, not discarded.
With a view now honed sharp by all that 18th-century satire, he began to tease out the ironies of recent conflicts: the fact that, for two archducal lives lost in Serbia, 8m young men died; or the fact that the standard-issue New Testament he had carried in his left pocket, purely to ward off bullets, also contained the Ten Commandments, enjoining him not to kill.
In a friendly manner, I teased her on the irony and we hit it off.
