Sentence examples for Sheer irony from inspiring English sources

But it's worth pausing on the Academy's decision for its sheer irony, and for the ramifications it may have.

"This is sheer irony that their political ancestors completely disregarded the freedom struggle," Mukhopadhyay told VICE News.

It's just sheer irony that Kennedy will face Kelvin Gastelum, the very man who took away Cerrone's chance to compete at Madison Square Garden when he failed to make weight in New York City.

He opens the floor to questions by reminding us to ask "only questions about the campaign; we have time for two". Much to Mr. Cann's discontent, and in sheer irony, the first journalist asks the broadest question anyone could think of: "President Kagame, what do you think about the economic growth prospects of Africa?" he asks.

Imagine the sheer irony-boner your "Fuck The World" 2Pac shirt will arouse in any fellow survivors you find shuffling across the wastes should it and you survive the end of mankind.

I laughed so hard at that "Judeo-Christian ideals" sentence I could barely manage to drag myself back to the keyboard, in sheer awe of the irony of it all.

Tom Wolfe's 1979 book,The Right Stuff, makes the importance of the astronaut's physical packaging perfectly clear and tangible for the rest of us, though schoolchildren make it clearer with their lack of irony and sheer awe of the astronaut.

The reader pioneers a rough way through multiple texts, fragments, scraps of narrative, bits of oral history; we are supposed to feel the sheer density, and savage ironies, of diversity.

Software struggles with sarcasm, irony and the sheer range of human annoyance (the most reported post in YouTube's history, says Pickles, was a Justin Bieber video).

Jim Harrison may be the last writer in America who can, without irony, hitchhike or hobo for the sheer experience.

The irony is that Trump, out of sheer political stubbornness, may have inadvertently reignited the spirit that made the nation great in the first place.