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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. -- Seamus Heaney
When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. -- Alice Morse Earle
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. -- David Riesman
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up. -- Douglas Adams
We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour. -- Hilda Doolittle
You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity. -- Ernest Hemingway
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. -- Stephen Crane
Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth -- Robert Hayden
The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese." -- David Riesman
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature. -- Soren Kierkegaard
There was a time when one looked over one's shoulder with an ironical smile at the photographer and when photography as a profession seemed almost invariably a target for ridicule. That time is now over. -- Albert Renger-Patzsch

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