ironist

“The irony about the ironist is that, rhetorically, the metaphysician has the better game; so who’s the pragmatist, really?”

Matthew Yglesias » Richard Rorty

“Mr. Pitt couples a star presence—there's a singular there there whenever the A's general manager is in camera range—to a beautifully measured ensemble performance that makes Billy a minimalist ironist, tossing off funny remarks with an abandon that almost conceals his deep anger, pain or self-doubt.”

The Wall Street Journal: 'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch

“As journalists, of course, we long have been accustomed to being smeared and assailed in a whorish manner for, as the ironist Pierce Thorne has noted:”

The Washington Post: Meg Chair Pete Wilson Trashed ‘Whores’ in Congress bbb

“At the age of 48, and a celebrated actor as well as a dazzling filmmaker—I heard him described as the Chinese Marlon Brando—Mr. Jiang has the buoyancy of an absurdist, the edge of an ironist, the camouflaged instincts of a moralist and the limitless zest of an entertainer who, from the evidence on the screen, might feel as much of a kinship with Abbott and Costello as with Beckett or Buñuel.”

The Wall Street Journal: Bullets, Love and Beijing's Heavy Hand

“In manner he was a dapper ironist, soft-voiced and accepting of the curious turns that fate was inclined to take.”

The Wall Street Journal: We Shall Not See His Like Again

“Usoltsev portrays him as an ambivalent ironist—modern in outlook, aware of the corrosion within the Soviet system, a little pedantically legalistic, even, at times, democratic in outlook, but careful to hide any incorrect attitudes in public and skilled at ingratiating himself with his superiors.”

Simon & Schuster: The Return

“The idea that English football deserves the World Cup can only be the work of an ironist.”

The Guardian: Shed no tears for Liverpool: our football needs deflating

“And as befits an ironist like Austen, this book is less a “guide to good manners” than a literary companion disguised as Regency self-help manual.”

2009 July 19 « One-Minute Book Reviews

“Upward may have been many things, but he was never an ironist.”

The Captive Mind