Sentence examples for delicate irony from inspiring English sources

Such delicate irony may fly over the heads of some "T.R.L".

He has described, with delicate irony, the discomfort he felt at graduate seminars there.

With his well-developed technique and his ripened thoughts, Truffaut had become a master of delicate irony and refracted profundity.

Ms. Peters invests each brittle line with a full measure of feeling without losing the arc of the music or any of the delicate irony in the lyrics.

By contrast, science gives us a very different picture of our cosmic relevance, a point summed up with delicate irony by Jones.

He rejuvenated the ancient art of glossing by the apparent spontaneity and simplicity, the delicate irony, and the piquant phraseology of his verses and so raised courtly grace in poetry to its highest level.

Like the previous story, this one is richly imagined and laced with delicate ironies.

Ivan Turgenev has long been thought of as a one-play man who, in A Month in the Country, anticipated the delicate ironies of Chekhov.

Here is machismo salted with 7,000 pounds of willingness and served in a delicate croute of irony.

This is touchingly alluded to in their joint rendition of "Daisy Daisy", a song that is also a delicate piece of irony.

At times the production succumbs to old-fashioned atmospherics: when the departing Ranevskaya lays a floral tribute on a music-box, Nunn treads a delicate line between irony and sentimentality.