People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.
Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help, said Chiron.
Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.
Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling pious and self- righteous while you starve small children!
Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?
The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.
Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.
The films I grew up loving, and the art that I love, is not generally the kind of postmodern ironic winking stuff. What lasts is the stuff in which the artists are totally in league with the subject.
Art shows and the institutions end up being the couriers for culture for the next generation and are an important component as well. It may seem ironic from one perspective, but I think if you look at my overall strategy, it's actually not out of ste...
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
Cole was meticulous to a fault; office scuttlebut had it that he never went out in public without first having his shoelaces ironed.
Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.
If you lie there much longer, I’ll be tempted to tie you to the table legs and try buttering your ass instead of the toast.
It's ironic, since they're supposed to be immortal, but vampires are kind of like small businesses: half of them go down within their first year
In the midst of the battle between rebellion and surrender Bantry was suddenly uncertain what Flynn was starved for. The sensuality of a man’s kiss? Or the rich, iron taste of blood?
The smog curled between the streetlamps and the spokes of the wrought iron framework. It seemed through your body and into your bones.
I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.
As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated—but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water.
The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.
The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire reading base will disappear.
