Other critics detect irony at play in the final speech.

Keyboardist Christian Lorenz expressed surprise at the advisory board's "parochial sense of art" and regretted their apparent inability to detect irony.

I looked suspiciously at him, trying to detect irony in a face, which now regarded me blandly.

He actually gave me a copy of his extensive lexicon, so I could admire it, which I did, fulsomely- he was incapable of detecting irony if it was clad in acclamation.

Fm sure I've detected irony.

Bashir had never been good at detecting irony; he had no clue as to whether he was encountering it now.

But the redhead was still too busy with his coiffure to detect irony.

It's very difficult to detect irony on the internet.