There was a note of irony in his voice. She said it without ahint/trace of irony. Extra Examples TopicsLanguagec1 Oxford Collocations Dictionary see alsodramatic irony,tragic irony Word Origin Seeironyin the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySeeironyin the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic ...
word picture- a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" ...
Success is something that most of the people of the present generation seek and if one achieves that then he/she deserves congratulations so you may also use the following text to congratulate your loved ones on their success. It’s an amusement to work with someone who a...
My ideal photo frames an action, a moment of decision being played out on a stage. They capture the element that makes the most ordinary of moments suddenly look unusual, somewhat transcendental, but still pleasant to look at. I am always looking for irony, both dramatic and visual. In ...
It is a warm, chic in its own way and hilariously funny, in its absolutely unique way, rich culturally, colourful, extremely potential, talented, very human, with all our shortcomings seen always through that one and only prism of a suburb irony which is first of all a self-irony, place...
Picture editorClockwise from top rightI WAS picture editing that day and the irony is that it was a typical end of the school holidays day - rather quiet so that we were searching round for pictures.I went to get a drink from the machine and someone told me that a plane had gone into...
Suddenly the parameters have a dramatic impact on the work. Where I was writing the odd poem here or there, sometimes going months without writing a thing, now I write something every week. The added parameter of publishing online means that that something is ‘finished’ too. I can always...
” Those of us familiar with both the clean, green British Petroleum logo and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have good reason to savor the remark. More than irony is needed to get to a better world, however, not least for those of us who spend much time on technologies, such as ...
He clearly enjoys being in a position of power over her — his words show that he appreciates the delicious irony of the situation. He is mocking her and her wealth that buys beautiful clothes and hairstyles while he has worn prisoners’ stripes. He mocks her as the drunken tramp mocked ...
As an aside, it's an irony that when you do ceramics, you eventually 'master' the technical stuff, and then ironically 'reintroduce' imperfections, quirks and asymmetry as this gives 'character' to hand made pieces... this could be a long debate, but if you're interested, check out cer...