Styles and themes of Jane Austen plain meaning of a statement with the comic, undermining the meaning of the original to create ironic disjunctions. In her juvenile works, she relies upon satire, parody and irony based on incongruity. Her mature novels employ irony to foreground social hypocrisy. In particular Austen uses irony to critique the marriage market. Perhaps the most famous example of irony in Austen is the opening line of "Pride and Prejudice": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." At first glance, the sentence is straightforward and plausible,
God Must Be a Cowboy God Must Be a Cowboy "God Must Be a Cowboy" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dan Seals. It was released in January 1984 as the fourth and final single from his album "Rebel Heart". It was also his first top 10 hit, reaching #10. It is also the album's most successful single. The music video, directed by Neil Abramson, is one of three videos Seals filmed specially for his 1991 video compilation, "A Portrait". The video shows Seals singing the song in the middle of a highway in a desert and also shows footage