Sentence examples for fine irony from inspiring English sources

By a fine irony, McBurney's achievement in this brilliant show is to have embodied the unifying theme of Murakami's imaginative world: where individuals are at permanent odds with their external, daily selves.

There is a fine irony in the F.B.I. file on Algren: he fooled the special agents (and kidded his friends) with an alias that was really an inside joke.

As to the claim that Thatcher and Reagan were "even closer than Churchill and Roosevelt," along with all those endless invocations of World War II, culminating in an exhibition of "The Art and Treasures of Winston Churchill" at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley when Thatcher was guest of honor there in 1993, Aldous points out a fine irony.

And, he quips, "it's not as though we've had the art version of 'Project Runway.' " A fine irony from the man who gave the world "Artstar," a doomed cable reality television show that must have had even Andy turning in his grave.

As Oppenheimer puts it, with fine irony, "Podhoretz began to reorganize his very self around the fight to win the war he hadn't been aware he was launching when he wrote Making It — in defense of America against the barbarians of the Left".

(There is a fine irony is the way the hedge funds are pilloried for having been right about the incompetence of the banks. If only the politicians and everybody else had been as canny. Their sin, of course, was that they went ahead and put their money down and made fortunes).

By contrast, presenting a fine historic irony, the only organized opposition to legalization in this state is coming from longtime marijuana advocates — the "dispensary-quackery complex, which has turned medical marijuana into a money-grubbing sham," as The News Tribune newspaper of South Puget Sound memorably put it.

Judging from the work posted on her Web site, Alexander writes with a fine, angry irony, in vividly concrete images, but her poems have the qualities of most contemporary American poetry — a specificity that's personal and unsuggestive, with moves toward the general that are self-consciously academic.

Andrew Palmer works a fine line in irony, so I'm told: "Let's just get this clear..

Brecht's fine sense of irony and moral paradox redeem him from absolute dogmatism but give his work a hard satiric thrust that is inimical to tragedy.

No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo (1969; Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes By) includes poems in which there is a nostalgic desire to relive the past, sometimes coupled with a fine sense of irony.