(1) 12.02pm: Sky's Norn Ironish correspondent Lawrie Sanchez looks glum and thinks his country's chances of finishing in the top two of their group with Italy, Serbia, Estonia, Slovenia and the Faroe Islands are slim.
Ironist
Definition:
(n.) One who uses irony.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a post-modern twist that John le Carré, the great cold war ironist, might have relished.
(2) For ironists, here is Vladimir Putin in the New York Times in November 1999: “Because we value our relations with the United States and care about Americans’ perception of us, I want to explain our actions in clear terms…” And here is Putin in the Washington Post in February 2012: “True democracy was not created overnight.” Let political leaders speak too much, not too little or at too few.
(3) So those are your big bucks post-Brexit beacons, ranging from a boomerang-maker who would very much like you to commute your expectations, to some hipster chancer who has sold fewer than 300 empty jars to Chinese ironists.
(4) To remind ourselves that as well as being world-class cynics, ironists and moaners, we aren't too bad at generosity, warmth and excitement if we put our minds to it.
(5) He was heralded as a great ironist: what could be more postmodern than taking a traditional, hidebound form and calling it modern art?
(6) Was it buried at sea like Osama bin Laden, in order that its final resting place not become a place of pilgrimage for political ironists?