agonizing

Example Sentences

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He had both an absolute commitment to what a line required and a way of gently ironizing that line.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023

But Osunde is also irreverent, casting a critical, ironizing eye on those who are both religious and powerful.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2022

“To me, these girls are ironizing the whole question of power. Do they have it, don’t they have it, what is it to have it, and does it matter?” he says.

From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2019

If Roy Lichtenstein took pulp comics into the gallery, ironizing and domesticating their tropes for an audience of connoisseurs, 7 Miles a Second inverts the process.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2013

The bounder must have known, as he sat smoking his cigar and ironizing on the ruins of empires, that the safe and settled little world to which they both belonged was already in a blaze.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)