Sentence examples for a note of irony from inspiring English sources

Yet his performance contained a note of irony.

But the Wagner brothers missed a note of irony in their grandfather's opera.

When Boubat shows five boys playing Indians in Paris in 1954, there is a note of irony and self-consciousness in the boys' eyes.

Characterized by brevity, self-contained plots that end on a note of irony, a literate and facile style, restraint of emotion, and objective rather than subjective presentation, these tales were a major stimulant to the development of the modern short story in Germany.

Péladan, a writer, mystic and self-styled mage, failed to impress the young reporter, who reported on his various claims with a note of irony.

These distinctive doctrines affirmed the foundation of American fundamentalism as expressed primarily in the Protestant and evangelical church without any note of irony whatsoever to betray the fact that every single one of them was an innovation, and had never been considered fundamental to Christian belief since the beginning of the church.

Where Olivier, long ago, played that scene on a note of sardonic irony and where Patrick Stewart famously made himself a ham sandwich while conducting the necessary business, McAvoy is left simply to browbeat the two assassins who sport demonic masks.

The Sheikh Down, Mother Jones, September 2009 Living temporarily in Damascus, Bauer took time off in November 2008 to visit the magnificent Crusader castle of Krak des Chevaliers in western Syria – with remarkable conclusions about the American occupation of Iraq, and an ending which – given his present predicament – ends on a note of fearful irony.

In a note of unintended irony, the WSJ prescription for the perfect Memorial Day, a holiday established to remember the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, is the lead feature in the section it calls "Off Duty".

Millet's story about how to attract more children to the Girls Education Movement adds a welcome note of irony and light relief to an otherwise pretty intense session.

A welcome note of irony and self-mockery suddenly found its way into Creighton's ponderous speaking style; his pronouncement that "at the end, every one of us will be tested, and every one of us will be found wanting" was delivered with deliberately hammy melodrama and offset with a nice little smile.