Word: ironist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ingenious, but I fear impracticable, in view of the interpretation put upon the 18th Amendment by the Supreme Court of the U. S., which interpretation clearly includes wines and malt liquors in the phrase 'intoxicating liquors.'" Winner Hoyt had anticipated such criticism. Like any reformer-or ironist-he had written in his plan, referring to the Supreme Court, that he was sure that body would not "take it upon itself to nullify the will of the representatives of the People...
...laying bare the artist's mechanical simulation of emotion, the author has given a penetrating study of an inadequate subject. Gifted ironist, Anne Parrish (of The Perennial Bachelor) has allowed her irony to become too clever to be convincing...
...theory of romantic irony, one of the most extravagant theories of that extravagant movement, was first worked out by Friederich Schlegel. "Formerly," says Heine, himself a romantic ironist, "when a man had said a stupid thing he had said it; now he can explain it away as irony...
Romantic irony is in a word a combination of a sort of introspection with the idea of the infinite or striving for endlessness, to use the jargon of the German romanticists. That is to say, an ironist in the romantic sense not only looks down upon his ordinary ego from the height of his "transcendental ego", and stands aloof from it, but there is in him something which may even stand aloof from this aloofness and so ad infinitum...
Someone should present Preacher Straton with Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life, call to his attention that author's reference to God as Divine Ironist. D. C. HEATH...