Word: ironist
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...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...
...extraordinarily vivid little procession of human existence, beautifully written by an ironist who is above bitterness...
...years of age and not unattractive. She pictured herself as "an author of brilliant subtlety,"until she found that her embryo novel was no more than a bundle of disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved Roy, but his environment proved too strong for her love. Finally there...