Sentence examples for compelling irony from inspiring English sources

In what advocates say is a compelling irony, the site is close by El Camino Real, the trail used from 1592 to the late 1800s by people traveling between central Mexico to what is now Sante Fe -- a 1,500 mile trek.

Here we have the true tragedy of the Collyers, and perhaps the most compelling irony, that it was not self-reliance but mutual dependence that did them in.

Often sad, and even a bit strange at times — but with a compelling sense of irony or discovery.

This was a headline writer's dream, compelling drama and delicious irony rolled into one to leave Ireland and Mick McCarthy planning for the World Cup's second phase with equal measures of hope and expectation here last night.

The irony – and the compelling justification for it – is that it's cheaper to operate that way.

Elegant prose and imaginative ironies bring these compelling short stories to life in this first English-language collection from Mexican author Roberto Ransom.

But that is easy to forgive, because hers is such a compelling comic personality, mixing faux-naivety and self-irony, critical intelligence and blatant affront.

The irony in Mr. Oz's plight is too compelling to ignore.

He went on say that there was no "anxious energy or knife-edged irony that made the group's earlier albums so compelling".

So far, though, the Earth Shoe has not prompted the excavation impulse of irony-enthralled fashion editors to whom Birkenstocks seemed so compelling this summer.

The irony is that St. Mary of Egypt would be a far more compelling and powerful icon of the church, even as she identifies with the decadence she practiced and the lusts she could not satisfy.