irony, histrionism, sum up, summary, summary judgment /execution

Local airlines cancelled flights. Shops and offices closed and radio stations went off the air. Banks shut early, and mobile-phone companies warned of network outages. Nigeria, the country with sub-Saharan Africa’s largest oil reserves, ran out of oil. The irony wasn't lost on Nigerians http://econ.st/1AI7Tjm

At the age of 80, with almost 40 books behind him and nearly as many accumulated honors, Harold Bloom has written, in “The Anatomy of Influence,” a kind of summing-up — or, as he puts it in his distinctive idiom, mixing irony with histrionism, “my virtual swan song,” born of his urge “to say in one place most of what I have learned to think about how influence works in imaginative literature.”

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Pronunciation: /ˈʌɪrəni/ 

noun (plural ironies)

[MASS NOUN]

1The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically forhumorous or emphatic effect:‘Don’t go overboard with the gratitude,’ he rejoinedwith heavy irony

1.1A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberatelycontrary to what one expects and is often wrylyamusing as a result:the irony is that I thought he could help me[COUNT NOUN]: one of life’s little ironies

1.2(also dramatic or tragic irony)A literary technique, originally used in Greektragedy, by which the full significance of a character’s words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.

Origin

Early 16th century (also denoting Socratic irony): viaLatin from Greek eirōneia 'simulated ignorance', fromeirōn 'dissembler'.

sum up
Present the substance of, summarize, as in They always sum up the important news in a couple of minutes, or That expletive sums up my feelings about the matter. [Early 1600s]

summary

[名]（複 -ries）要約, （…の）摘要, 概括, （特に著作の内容をまとめた）結論((of ...))（▼学術論文の概要はabstract；記事・本などの要約版はdigest；論文・文学作品などの摘要はsynopsis）

make a summary of ...
…を要約する

in summary
要約すると.

━━[形]((限定))

1 要約した, 概略の, 簡潔な, 手短な

a summary analysis
手短な分析.

2 ((形式))即座の；〈法的手続などが〉即決の, 略式の

summary judgment /execution
略式裁判

make a summary job of ...


histrionism,
(′his·trē·ə′niz·əm)
(psychology) Dramatic affect, associated with some psychoneuroses and psychoses.

historicism
[名]歴史主義.