Sentence examples for cutting irony from inspiring English sources

Each step is presented in highly dramatic form and is treated with detachment and a characteristic, cutting irony.

Noel Annan, the former provost of King's College, Cambridge, lived just long enough to see this surprising book in print -- surprising because one does not expect such cutting irony and eloquence in a man who has reached his 80's.

To begin at the beginning, and for the benefit of anyone unfamiliar with them, the truth of the Bruce has always come heavily cloaked, nearly to the point of being obscured, in the most severe and cutting irony.

Les Châtiments, written from exile in the Channel Islands and published clandestinely, is a hymn of hate against the mediocrity, callousness, and greed of Louis-Napoléon (Napoleon III) and the society of the Second Empire, a deluge of brilliantly comic and cutting satire, caricature, and irony, interspersed with outbursts of compassion for the poor and oppressed.

"It was one of the more cutting ironies of the Amanda McCready case," Patrick says in the new book, "that I'd liked the bad guys a hell of a lot more than the good ones".

And with no apparent sense of irony, Congress keeps cutting funds for storm prediction and natural disaster response.

Distinctively, though, he anneals his cutting-edge irony into a compassionate anger that goes beyond the literary times.

A spokesman for the Cumbrian TUC said: "The irony is the more we are cutting, the worse the economy is getting.

So it was with great irony that as China has been cutting itself off from the rest of the world's internet, it hosted the fourth-annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen this past week.

The second irony is a more obvious and cutting one, especially for preservationists and architectural historians in Los Angeles.

The great irony at play here is that by cutting this funding we are actually increasing the possibility of more unwanted pregnancies at every socioeconomic level.