Sentence examples for comic irony from inspiring English sources

In comic irony our novelists have been pre-eminent.

And at no other camp is the comic irony behind all the rustic pretension laid so bare.

It has a straight-from-the-heart punch, a long, allusive reach and a deal of comic irony.

His voice has a very funny peculiar, refreshing and intriguing mix of comic irony and metaphysical angst.

This 1952 costume adaptation of three stories by Maupassant matches the originals in frank sensuality and comic irony but the director, Max Ophüls, reshapes the material with his distinctive blend of visual genius and bitter, worldly wisdom.

He raised rather than answered questions, jolting his audience into awareness of the ethical paradox of private interest in public affairs by comic irony rather than by moral indignation.

Through him, Brookman and Sarks illuminate the comic ironies of Torval's brand of benign patriarchy.

It's a familiar generational story of a mid-century consciousness raised, though one of the novel's nice comic ironies is that the roommate goes on to become a rabidly anti-choice senator from Indiana, made far more politically powerful by her own brand of political radicalization than Faith could ever hope to be made by hers.

Amis, a much more confident and assertive character than Larkin, disguised his serious concerns behind a facade of jokes and comic ironies.

It might be the quirk of a portrait sitter, the comic or tragic irony in a drama, or the depth charge of a religious subject.

There is so much to savour in this rolling, picaresque tale of grotesques and their progress: so much unfettered imagination, so much sly irony and comic anarchy.