L’excès dans la fiction de Wilkie Collins by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Both men are ill, marginal, stand for eccentricity and excess, and occasionally act as Collins’s mouthpieces, too.The writer’s ironic and subversive use of these characters to promote « happy endings » may therefore be regarded as another kind of excess.…”
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White Magic, Black Humour: Ella D’Arcy’s Narrative Strategies by Heather Marcovitch

“…We see D’Arcy adopting this ironic pose as she tries to keep The Yellow Book on schedule in the aftermath of Oscar Wilde’s arrest, and as she copes with Harland’s regular tantrums and Lane’s indifference. …”
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Pekić's paradoxology and Serbian identity by Stanojević Dobrivoje Ž.

“…Pekić's search for Serbian identity, with a special reference to immanent paradoxology in this novel, was achieved through a series of related ironic-parodical procedures that lead to a deeper insight into the changes and the constants of Serbian identity. …”
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The roles of a peer-led collaborative learning approach in Ethiopian secondary schools by Feyisa Mulisa, Simeret Kassahun Mekonnen

“…The findings show that hypothetically the roles of PLCL for secondary school students are considered to be academic, psychosocial and economic. Ironically the approach by far rewards group leaders to do all activities that would be done by each of the group members increases the dependency of middle and low achiever students and becomes a milieu of sexual harassment mainly for female students. …”
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Comparison of Distraction Techniques using Salivary Biomarkers during Local Anaesthesia Administration in Children Aged 3–5 Years: A Clinical Study by Yanina Singh, Poornima Parameshwarappa, Mebin George Mathew, SB Meghana, Mallikarjuna Kenchappa, N. B. Nagaveni

“…Aim: In paediatric dentistry, pain is adversely influenced by a child's level of anxiety. Ironically, the most common form of pain control used in dentistry, local anaesthesia, can itself produce anxiety. …”
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The roles of a peer-led collaborative learning approach in Ethiopian secondary schools by Feyisa Mulisa, Simeret Kassahun Mekonnen

“…The findings show that hypothetically the roles of PLCL for secondary school students are considered to be academic, psychosocial and economic. Ironically the approach by far rewards group leaders to do all activities that would be done by each of the group members increases the dependency of middle and low achiever students and becomes a milieu of sexual harassment mainly for female students. …”
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Mockery as a special type of laugher in the prose of Leonid Andreev by Alisa V. Mytareva

“…Propp, who argued that the object of ridicule can be everything except the area of suffering, Leonid Andreev constructs a model of the anti-world, where it is the area of suffering that is ridiculed. The ironic state of the world in relation to the hero ( Suitcases ) is perceived as unstable, and therefore unsafe. …”
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Proverbs Attributed to Humans and Nonhumans in the Beja Language (Sudan) by Mohamed-Tahir Hamid Ahmed

“…Moreover, non-human enunciators are introduced for specific contextual purposes: disapproval of a defect or a behaviour, ironical reactions, expressions of agreement or disagreement, and evaluations of events. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Du Bois, Walter White, and Wallace Thurman—Gaines erects Miss Jane as a she/male icon who prophesies the integrated, interracial, harmonious United States nation that emerges ironically out of black folk’s capacity to endure and transcend an entrenched history of state-endorsed racial violence and abjection. …”
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La vie des Gommes : pour une approche biographique des pneus de Carol Rama by Carolina Spovieri

“…Similarly, the ageing process of the tyre, which features prominently in the series, could ironically point to the short life of the objects of the bourgeois society from which Rama came, and simultaneously indicate the obsolescence of the medium itself, as the object replaces paint. …”
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Kissing the Church Bell or Ringing the Church Bell? (About a verse of the ode of “Tarsaeiyeh”) by Majid Mansouri

“…The main complexity of the verse in question is the reference that "kissing the church bell" has the ironic meaning of becoming an infidel and leaving the religion of Islam.The main problem in Khaqani's verse is that "kissing the church bell" does not occur in any of the old texts, and unlike kissing the crucifix, "kissing the church bell" was never widespread in Christianity; In addition to the various statements of the commentators of Khaqani's collection of poems, two detailed articles have exclusively dealt with this topic; the first article is about the proposal to correct "Kissing the church bell" to "Drinking the church bell" and the second defends the authenticity of the recording of "kissing the church bell" and rejects the first article. …”
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An Insight of Vitamin E as Neuroprotective Agents by Hui-Min Yap, Kwan-Liang Lye

“…It is rich in both unsaturated fats and irons, making it predominantly susceptible to oxidative stress and damage. …”
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Security Challenges: Appraisal of Threats to Nigeria’s Sovereignty in the Fourth Republic (1999-2019) by Olanrewaju Rafiu Memud, Solomon A. Ojo

“…In the recent past, insecurity has been the greatest challenge to Nigeria‟s corporate existence as a sovereign state.Ironically, these challenges are not externally propelled rather, they areinternally impelled byinter-ethnic conflict, religious insurrection, electoral violence, banditry, kidnapping, ritualism, pipeline vandalism, separatists‟ agitation, and farmers[1]herders crises among many others.These generate insecurity in the polity to the boiling point of fractured and failed state.The objective of the study, therefore, is to investigate the nexus between internally induced insecurity and failed stateposture experienced in the Nigeria‟s Fourth Republic. …”
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Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

“…Their disillusionment and increasing insight about the nature of their marriages is ironically juxtaposed to their sightseeing of a classical civilisation which teaches them how their predecessors in the city lived, through their own eyes and those of various guides. …”
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Transmedial presence of verbal texts in architecture and public space. Between informativity and emotivity by Elżbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska

“…They range from informational and explanatory, to devotional, to political–critical, to – in the end – poetic, experimental, creative, funny, and ironical. Aesthetically, they often enrich but sometimes violate architecture and public space. …”
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Obscene beasts: the stage behind the scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mathilde La Cassagnère

“…Thus, through the mechanicals’ theatrical misadventure, Shakespeare ironically includes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream a “how-not-to” guide for mimesis, a reversed mise en abyme of his own challenging conception of a play teeming with an unstageable and infinite variety of creatures great and small, wild and tame, familiar and fantastical, its presence all the more haunting as it is never staged strictly speaking. …”
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Implicit Forms of Ethnic Insult for Europeans (as Found in Rhyming Slang) by E. Y. Gorshunova, Y. V. Gorshunov

“…Since Rh.sl. is subject to a strong influence of the word play and its items are perceived as humorous and ironic nominations, they are not always discerned as offensive by the English speakers. …”
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The Old Woman’s Farcical Rejuvenation in The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore (1897) by Somi Ahn

“…Initially, the middle-class protagonist and her sister appear as old-fashioned Old Women at the beginning, but once the former unexpectedly turns into an infant, she indeed gets pushed out of a social safety net, as babyfarmers illegally adopt and abuse her. Eccles creates an ironic situation where the Old Women rejuvenate metaphorically into radical New Woman activists, who raise their own voice to fight against the given system of the world, in which unmarried women and their unwanted children are constantly marginalized. …”
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A Man “Resembling Sancho Panza”: Viktor Petrov's Self-Presentation in Letters to Sofiia Zerova by Valentyna Borbuniuk

“…In his letters, Petrov is caring and persistent, romantic and self-ironic at the same time. For the addresser and addressee, who had not seen each other for months, letters were the only communication channel. …”
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Communicative strategies and tactics in the speech of Liera Farkash, the heroine of the first season of the TV series Early Swallows by Mariia Bobro, Kateryna Demianiva

“…These tactics are implemented in Lera’s speech through the use of coarse vocabulary, ironic and sarcastic use of diminutive-affectionate forms, provocative rhetorical questions etc. …”
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