How to Use ironist in a Sentence

ironist

noun
  • The ironist maintained a light touch on the gravest of subjects—the ones that involved the most graves.
    — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • More evidence that God is an ironist.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Machado was a gentle romantic who blossomed into a wicked ironist.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bertie is an innocent portrayed ironically; Hank is an ironist portrayed sincerely.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 27 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
  • 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
  • Marchand and Meffre are ironists with a particular interest in the early-20th-century belief in progress.
    — Edward Carr, 1843, 29 Aug. 2019
  • If Diski represents one model for the female ironist, Diane Johnson epitomizes another.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Norm Macdonald was a complicated, often inscrutable guy, one who (mostly) adhered to now quaintly old-fashioned codes of privacy and propriety, a rascally self-mythologizer and a levels-deep ironist.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles Ismail Muhammad Kim Tingley Benoit Denizet-Lewis Sam Anderson Jazmine Hughes Irina Aleksander Sasha Weiss Rowan Ricardo Phillips Stella Bugbee Michael Paterniti Maggie Jones Robert Draper Rob Hoerburger Jason Zengerle Reginald Dwayne Betts Jane Hu David Marchese Hanif Abdurraqib Jenna Wortham Anthony Giardina Niela Orr Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 25 Dec. 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

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