Sentence examples for evident irony from inspiring English sources

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There is an evident irony in all this.

The new ones are strictly internal—"for employee morale," the source said, with evident irony.

Having sex and shooting, he once said without evident irony, are the same.

"My Broadway debut," he said, without evident irony, as he prepared to go on.

He wanted a handshake with the person he described without any evident irony as "the great man".

On the day of the rally, USA Today reported, with no evident irony, that Trump and his allies were plotting "a path to victory" in the G.O.P. primaries.

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The meeting had self-evident ironies.

One can leave the reader to digest unaided the self-evident ironies of such posturing, coming, as it does, from such an insider.

"Even in the high register" — formal speech — "there's often irony, which you show in your face," Moody went on, signing the words "She's really pretty" with evident sarcasm.

Beware an "of course" when a point is anything but self-evident: "The irony, of course, is that the intravidual is just as much an 'intervidual' (inter meaning 'between'), since it is the networked nature of our new, Elsewhere economy and the penetration of others into us that shatters the individual".

Dumont says he has declared war on France and the press, with no evident sense of irony, calls him Le Ch'ti Islamiste.

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