Emily knew he had been to college, that he was thirty-six years old—which to Emily seemed a venerable age—and well-off; that he had a malformed shoulder and limped slightly; that he cared for nothing save books nor ever had; that he lived with an older brother and travelled a great deal; and that the whole Priest clan stood somewhat in awe of his ironic tongue.
The ironic, the sarcastic, the disdainful, the passionately exultant, I had hundreds of times seen him express by what he called a smile, but any illuminated sign of milder or warmer feelings struck me as wholly new in his visage.
Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical; Mr.
I think there would have been something ironic in the picture of the successful old man, rich and honoured, living in another the life which he, though knowing it was the better part, had not had the strength to pursue.
His eyes had an ironic smile in them.
The ironic philosopher reflects with a smile that Sir Walter Raleigh is more safely inshrined in the memory of mankind because he set his cloak for the Virgin Queen to walk on than because he carried the English name to undiscovered countries.
" I couldn't help but think how ironic it was that my life almost ended in a convenience store and now on the date "7-11" we were about to bring a new life into this world.
We Always Get Each Other Ironic Gifts, My Little Sister Killed It This Year: Batteries Not Included.
" Man is happy and says, "Ironic, I work for the hotel "4 Seasons.
Well, it seems ironic that you try to make yourself happy by spending money, but afterwards you feel unhappy for the spent money.
How was she able to combine such feelings of unbearable sadness, ironic humor and total honesty?
He dismissed the notion that he was somehow following his biological father's pattern of getting his girlfriend pregnant when he was twenty-three, but he did admit that the ironic resonance gave him pause.
An injunction on punch cards of the period--"Do not fold, spindle or mutilate"--became an ironic phrase of the antiwar Left.
Compass, which won France's Priz Goncourt, is poetic, ironic, irresistible.
" I couldn't help but think how ironic it was that my life almost ended in a convenience store and now on the date "7-11" we were about to bring a new life into this world.
The ironic thing about traveling solo is that you're rarely ever actually alone.
" Such a stand is ironic, given how many Indian citizens obtain legal permanent residency in the US and UK without having to give up their original citizenship.
"It is ironic to think that companies who depend on nature for their business willingly release dangerous chemicals into the environment," said Mirjam Kopp, toxics campaigner for Greenpeace.
The pattern here is ironic: PageFair, AdBlock Plus and Ghostery, which all depend to some extent on consumers' interest in blocking ads, are also all pushing innovative efforts to create better ads.
Can I,as an individual,do anything to make future history a little less tragic and less ironic than history past and present?
