Sentence examples for curious irony from inspiring English sources

In a curious irony, Gordon Brown, who has hounded News International over phone-hacking, may escape relatively unscathed.

By a curious irony, the Midland counties and South Wales representatives, it was said, missed their train connections owing to the strike and failed to appear.

It is a curious irony of our time that such blatant fakery can flourish in the age of the Internet, in which everything is known — and, simultaneously, isn't.

(A Berlin Philharmonic tour of the US, under Furtwängler, was planned for 1955; ultimately it went ahead under Karajan, a curious irony).

With the recent boom in business ethics comes a curious irony: the more entrenched the discipline becomes in business schools, the more bewildering and even off-putting it appears toff-putting iters.

This is a curious irony, that a writer chronicling a less self-conscious period should need to be so circumspect, not because race has ceased to matter but because it's too important to mention directly.

In other words, in a curious twist of irony, the bond between the men is broken not by the friend's betrayal but by the husband's duplicity.

In a curious late-capitalist irony, however, a means of monetizing the work of the household has emerged over the past decade or so, in a form that would have been unimaginable to those early activists: the so-called — if odiously named — mommy blog.

"Janeites - at least in the US - regard their excesses with a curious mixture of irony and seriousness," she says.

But while the book, and the divisive thinking behind it, took off in conservative circles, few stopped to look at the curious origins or ironies behind its publication.

Such searing, often painful subject matter makes for a curious mix of deadpan comedy and irony.