How to Use ironist in a Sentence

ironist

noun

• Less to the fore in Mr. Prochnik’s treatment is Heine the ironist, who made fun of everybody’s ideals and passions, including his own.
  — Adam Kirsch, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• Paul Wasserman, the bearded ironist who is the head press agent for the tour, managed to sneak a handful of visitors into the Garden.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Ambiguous irony lets the ironist and his audience laugh twice: first at the joke, then at whoever doesn’t get it.
  — Dan Brooks, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• And Mair—mostly offstage—sounds like an ironist, more protected than Heloise against the danger of the stories their mother weaves around them.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
• The writer who could create both Sir John and Hamlet, that quintessential ironist torn between thought and action, could be treated only with awe.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• The perennial significance of the Joker has made him an omnipresent reference online, both for sincere fans and for ironists.
  — Dan Brooks, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2019
• An ironist might be suspicious of its concerns: parting, loss, family, war.
  — Charles Finch, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017
• Machado was a gentle romantic who blossomed into a wicked ironist.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2018
• This fight—between, ironists will note, a billionaire and a man who wants to ban billionaires, and neither of them really even a Democrat—would produce a dramatic, public split.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020
• Mac, who comes off as a sincere ironist in conversation, rejects the grant-speak claims about most interactive performance.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Marchand and Meffre are ironists with a particular interest in the early-20th-century belief in progress.
  — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
• The film’s abject failure, on the other hand, has attracted queers, downtown ironists, camp enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a Hollywood product that is not about the dour moral posturing of superheroes.
  — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
• Bertie is an innocent portrayed ironically; Hank is an ironist portrayed sincerely.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2020
• If Diski represents one model for the female ironist, Diane Johnson epitomizes another.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• But Bono has always been helplessly earnest, even as an ironist, and whatever his intentions, on Zooropa his celebration of the victories of capitalism and technological innovation sounded sincere.
  — Jonathan Bradley, Billboard, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024