Soames, the unconscious ironist, fixed his gaze on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man of Property] Reference

Kubrick brought to Lolita his genius as an ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Year of Flops] Reference

But the great ironist in the sky had other plans for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Sinclair Lewis] Reference

Upward may have been many things, but he was never an ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captive Mind] Reference

And to think he called his book Courage, the cheeky little ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Macavity's Not There...] Reference

Hamoud that pity which an ironist has called "the mask of weakness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

She's a cozy confidante, an ironist in sidelong affectionate put-downs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hello, Possums! Dame Edna Spreads Gladdies Everywhere] Reference

Mr. Hendra's memoir features himself, a lapsed Catholic and professional ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despite Turmoil, Spiritual Memoir Keeps On Selling] Reference

Or is Ann Coulter that most unlikely of conservative subspecies: a hard-right ironist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

The idea that English football deserves the World Cup can only be the work of an ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shed no tears for Liverpool: our football needs deflating] Reference

Shakespeare too was an ironist on the new model, both Friedrich and A.W. Schlegel decided.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRONY] Reference

Marx is certainly the greatest ironist since Swift, and has a good deal in common with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The dance of commodities] Reference

"Not only a poet, but an ironist, too, " Jamie observed, with another glance at the boys on the lawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

I don't want to understate Michael Foucault's importance, either as a historian or as a philosophical ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault)] Reference

Ivan's devil is an up-to-date one, sophisticated, a master ironist and sophist, a virtuoso of every nuance of malice.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky] Reference

The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beard] Reference

His prose style-the artless, nonchalant voice of his reporting, the ironist always at work-was one of his great contributions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Gentleman] Reference

Also in Cahiers du cinema: Burdeau on "terrible ironist of the possible" Alain Resnais's Coeurs (Private Fears in Public Places).    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.] Reference

To go back to the simplest case, the ironist affirms and also undercuts – and the affirmation can be as important as its darker twin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Irony, Really (Truly): Spongy Screed Wrings False] Reference

Read has always been a great ironist: one may relish the fact that his least Catholic novel may turn out to be the most catholic of all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read] Reference

But Kennedy was an ironist and never fell for his own mystique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

I like to tease a little bit but I'm not an ironist, I don't think.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The nephew's reply, the novel's last line, is the sign-off of a master ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Singer / songwriter David Berman is as much of an ironist in life as he is in art.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue] Reference

The ironist, by contrast, is invested in the belief that society can be made better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tyee - Home] Reference

Unlike this president, John Kennedy was an ironist who never fell for his own mystique.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Famed incidental ironist Bristol Palin will participate in a panel about preventing teen pregnancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogrunner] Reference

His nature has been that of a patient psychologist, a minute analyst, and also of a bitter ironist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Impressionists (1860-1900)] Reference