Citations:irony

supporting a traditional definition of irony

 * 2009, Ben Witherington, III, The indelible image: the theological and ethical thought world of the New Testament, volume 1, page 556:
 * It is ironic that creatures would reject their own creator, ironic that Jesus offers more but the audience looks for something less, ironic that the high priest says more than he knows when he argues, "It is necessary that one man die and the nation be spared." Sometimes this amounts to saying more than what appears to be said, and sometimes it involves saying other than what the words immediately appear to say. But undergirding it all is that the Word would be rejected by the keepers of the Word This sad irony is plain already in John 1:5b,
 * 2011, David S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination, page 124:
 * In The Quaker City it is ironic that Byrnewood Arlington taunts Gus Lorrimer into seducing a woman who turns out to be Byrnewood's sister; it is doubly ironic that, despite her reputed innocence, the sister actually invites the seduction; it is triply ironic that Byrnewood righteously pursues his sister's seducer even though he himself is a rake with a checkered past; and soon through the whole book. But Lippard seems to miss the final point: that is, the very process of writing in the dark-reform style is itself the greatest irony; the very endorsement of morality through an immoral mode is a rich topic for the American novelist.