Sentence examples for broad irony from inspiring English sources

Alongside the broad irony of being an atheist dependent on a church was the finer irony of earning his keep as a counsellor of at-risk youth.

But they have been steered into an acting style common to performers in children's shows -- broad, jocular and irony-free.

Reflexive irony runs broad, but it does not run too deep.

There is, though, a broader and a deeper irony.

Notwithstanding a wide open market of student loans, a grand irony prowls in broad daylight.

Mercer-Taylor comments on the irony that "this broad-based reevaluation of Mendelssohn's music is made possible, in part, by a general disintegration of the idea of a musical canon", an idea which Mendelssohn "as a conductor, pianist and scholar" had done so much to establish.

"In San Francisco, you can do anything," Miles declares with a broad smile and no hint of irony.

Henry's broad cynicism permits appreciation of this irony, and with nothing to keep him in New York, he takes the job.

But Martin Campbell's revival goes back to the kind of irony-free melodrama and broad comedy you hardly ever see these days, with stunts rather than FX.

Where do poets of broad imagination, genuine classical mooring, wit and irony and humor, and sympathy across the class lines come from?

In today's irony-drenched age, Mad's broad, if pioneering, brand of subversive humor seems weirdly out of touch.