Sentence examples for Profoundly ironic from inspiring English sources
In the play, these words are profoundly ironic.
It would be profoundly ironic if it bans oil-fired central heating in people's homes while approving new coal plants tens of thousands of times bigger.
Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that the Shifters had found a (profoundly ironic) new market: "Not for months had Wall Street played a game that so tickled its fancy.
Adapted from Thomas Berger's novel, this wildly comic, profoundly ironic and epic film recounts the memoirs of the 121-year old Jack Crabb Dustin Hoffmann) who survived the massace of his family and was brought up by a Cheyenne tribe.
It would also be profoundly ironic: he would in effect be impersonating someone else in order to get around a law ostensibly designed to root out impersonation at the polls.
It's deeply ironic that a population so profoundly knowledgeable about the theory of human rights is that least likely to be able to exercise them.
His verse drama Faust (Part I, 1808; Part II, 1832) makes of the Faust myth a profoundly serious but highly ironic commentary on the contradictory possibilities of Western man's cultural heritage.
Never more so than in Sail Away, an ironic yet profoundly moving song told by a "recruiter for the slave trade", selling the idea of American life to his cargo: "You don't have to run through the jungle and scuff up your feet".
All this is ironic given how profoundly American the adaptation of the classic comic book is – though the comic's creator, Garth Ennis, is British too.
That darkly ironic sense is profoundly Chaucerian and suits the poet's major work, the unfinished yet aesthetically complete "Canterbury Tales," upon which he continued to work until his death at around 57.
