Sentence examples for Textbook irony from inspiring English sources
Each plot has a twist that turns the tone from blithe to somber — and in two cases from natural to supernatural — via the application of textbook irony.
Martin, who has the grimmest and bloodiest story to tell, is more of a textbook study in dramatic irony, with the audience clued in on what he doesn't understand himself.
The recent incarnation of Hurston' s lyric drama as a black feminist textbook is touched with many ironies, not the least of which is the need to consider it as a social document.
He savors the irony that because a standard textbook quickly picked up his rent-seeking concept, "there was a period when a lot of brand-new elementary [economics] students knew about it and no one else did".
There is an irony in the fact that the new hero's textbook is so often Thoreau, or even Gandhi, for a crowd looks not into itself but at itself.
The outcome of the neuronovel, being biologically determined, has no meaning in terms of "irony or fate or comeuppance"; it has nothing to teach us, apart from medical-textbook symptoms.
In what may be an unintended irony, Carroll County is using that windfall — $178,450 last year — to buy old-fashioned but much-needed textbooks for its brick-and-mortar schools.
