Sentence examples for eye for irony from inspiring English sources

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A photoblog with an eye for irony.

Manto's eye for irony here is sharp as ever.

His own strengths are understated humour and an eye for irony.

Though the book lacks the perfect melding of subject and sensibility found in Joan Didion's "Salvador," though it lacks the verbal energy of Mr. Rushdie's own fiction, it has been written with a novelist's eye for irony and metaphor; and it gives us an impressionistic picture of the country in bright, patchwork colors unavailable in your usual journalistic dispatches.

He has a keen eye for irony and a high tolerance for awkward situations, so he walked around the city, chuckling at hipsters — a word at least as hard to define as "ghetto" or "gentrification" — and listening sympathetically to residents of the city's dwindling African-American neighborhoods.

Maybe it's the combination of windswept edge-of-the-world bleakness and the forlorn remnants of out-of-season frivolity, but the Kent seaside town's amusement arcade, Dreamland, appears to exert an uncanny fascination over film-makers with an eye for irony.

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With a Czech eye for deadpan irony, the policy was officially known as "normalization".

His clear eye for the ironies of contemporary global culture, for the Anglo-Indian heritage of Mumbai, the anachronistic tourist industry of Tibet, lead him always back, he says, to 'the questions I take everywhere with me, of possession... of the play of light and dark... and of what we take to be real'.

Or was it merely Philby's penchant for irony, his singing, along with Ol' Blue Eyes, "And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing"?

A few ______ came, for irony.

So much for irony.

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