Sentence examples for fierce irony from inspiring English sources

Mike also pointed to a fierce irony: The mythic junkie had become an immense musician.

It is a fierce irony that this government's commitment to reform comes after two or three years of destabilisation of prison and probation services largely on its watch.

She brought with her two years of university education and a few published stories, a perfect 1950's cinched-waist figure, and a fierce sense of irony that she kept carefully hidden.

Done by a painter apparently trained in the Flemish tradition, the portrait exudes a cool irony and fierce determination that are well in tune with the Shakespearian ruthlessness of the age.

The image of Mingus's defiance and of his transformation of Ellington's ballad into a song of protest is sublime, yet I can't escape the irony of the fierce Mingus making his stand in a university enclave.

David Constantine's "Tea at the Midland", which won the 2010 BBC National Short Story award, could be credited with having achieved that: its subject, with fateful irony, is a fierce argument over the dubious sexual tastes of a dead celebrity emblematic of the BBC.

Jane Austen's irony never ages, never loses its fierce critical edge.

There is a nice irony that so many fund managers, fierce proponents of free market philosophy in public, are dependent on handouts from the monetary authorities.

The irony of Maserati's rescue is not lost on those familiar with their fierce historical rivalry.

Dylan took the fierce and liberating erotics of popular music and mixed it with reflection, and nearly bottomless irony.

In an irony that he might not have appreciated, and that could perhaps only have happened in Paris, this fierce Marxist critic of the bourgeoisie has made shopping here an intellectual pursuit and unquestionably fashionable again.