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- noun Plural form of
ironist .
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Examples
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These were his 'ironists' - and included Nietzsche whose moustachioed shade was surely affronted by this denialof his chap-status.
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These were his 'ironists' - and included Nietzsche whose moustachioed shade was surely affronted by this denialof his chap-status.
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He believed that bright people are "ironists" who understand that we know nothing except our own "vocabularies."
Frank Schaeffer: Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality? 2009
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So he wrote that "ironists" like himself should keep their views secret or at least separate their "public and private vocabularies."
Frank Schaeffer: Do Atheists Borrow Religion's Morality? 2009
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He believed that bright people are "ironists" who understand that we know nothing except our own
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So he wrote that "ironists" like himself should keep their views secret or at least separate their "public and private vocabularies."
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Even Coca-Cola never set up a sideline in those Enjoy Co-Caine T-shirts once beloved of self-styled hipster ironists, while the Vatican gift shop never carried the aforementioned Pope posters.
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As David Foster Wallace wrote in 1993, the "anti-rebels" of new sincerity referring in this case to literature are "willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists..."
Claire Gordon: A Digital Valentine Claire Gordon 2011
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Certainly, eHarmony has proven rich material for the gifted ironists of YouTube.
Claire Gordon: A Digital Valentine Claire Gordon 2011
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Even Coca-Cola never set up a sideline in those Enjoy Co-Caine T-shirts once beloved of self-styled hipster ironists, while the Vatican gift shop never carried the aforementioned Pope posters.
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