Sentence examples for by a sharp irony from inspiring English sources
His vision can be unromantic, too, and the impulse to idealize is checked by a sharp irony.
In 1766 Goldsmith revealed himself as a novelist with The Vicar of Wakefield (written in 1762), a portrait of village life whose idealization of the countryside, sentimental moralizing, and melodramatic incidents are underlain by a sharp but good-natured irony.
Several Muslim American comics here provide sharp irony.
We had a sharp recession followed by a sharp recovery in the 1980s.
Find a sharp left followed by a sharp right after jumping off the rail.
Engku Iman studied architecture but found her calling in illustration, depicting ironic everyday cultural taboos with a sharp sense of irony.
From the passenger seat, my friend – a Syrian with a sharp sense of irony – looked back at me. "Well," he said, "that's freedom.
By an irony too sharp for any poet, the one book that did appear with his name on the spine was "Nonverbal Communication," by Jurgen Ruesch and Weldon Kees.
Perhaps this is the sharpest irony surrounding the Pearl Harbor legislation.
This sentence gives us a pretty good impression of Holden's attitude – straight to the point and just dripping with razor-sharp irony.
