Sentence examples for classic irony from inspiring English sources

"It's a classic irony," he said.

The title I take to be the classic British irony on how mostly arrivistes from outside the establishment can seem to break the bank without anyone discovering their chicanery -- until it is too late.

The work had all the ingredients of a classic Banksy: political jest, irony and deliciously dark humor.

If I had to pick out Olivier's greatest gift, however, I would say it was for finding a vein of subversive irony in classic heroes.

The family structure underpinning Breaking Bad's story architecture has served the writers well in the past as a classic source of dramatic irony.

The situation is loaded with all the irony of classic Canadian comedy: at a time when any clear-thinking Canadian is – for perhaps the first time ever – envying the United States for its political leadership, it seems that Canada is finally being envied for its economic strength.

So this is the irony of loving classic movies and going to the TCM Classic Film Festival.

As a war poet, he sidesteps the classic distinction between romance and irony, opting instead for the surreal.

You can never be sure whether you're a cutting-edge cultural mandarin basking in the irony, or a classic pigeon, ogling the flesh and shedding your cash as if it were feathers in molting season.

The adjective "American" appended to a word in a movie title always implies something with instant design-classic status, gorgeously laced with irony and modernity.

"It was a joke and an irony on what was classic".