Sentence examples for Highly ironic from inspiring English sources

Coming from an employee of the state government, this attack is highly ironic.

Guests are hardly dispassionate on what most of them conceive of as a highly ironic arrangement.

The threatened closure at Keele is highly ironic at many levels.

The conclusion is highly ironic, realistic rather than cruelly cynical, and immersed in a rolling bank of fog.

A spokesman for Abramoff, Abbe Lowell, called it "highly ironic" that Abramoff is being questioned for using "every legal and proper method" to protect his client's interests.

This was highly ironic as Innes is famed for his parodies of The Beatles in The Rutles, and has had to share songwriting royalties with them.

Together the works should reintroduce America to Mr. Bennett's singular voice and highly tuned ironic wit — his special brand of gentleness laced with arsenic.

The most highly visible ironic gesture of the week was Ragnar Kjartansson's neon sign that read "SCANDINAVIAN PAIN" over the Armory Show's free Champagne bar during the V.I.P. opening on Wednesday.

But if American culture can claim any particular virtue right now, surely it's a highly evolved, ironic awareness of many of the cliches Sontag is describing as if for the first time.

Perhaps it was Rorty's own highly developed ironic sense that led him to vociferously oppose the war, arguing against it in a 2003 cover story for the Nation.

Forster's sensibility was very different from Wright's, of course, but he could work his material in the way he did in part because his "racists" were people who imagined themselves to be enlightened, and this allowed him to tell his story in a highly developed ironic voice.