Sentence examples for firm irony from inspiring English sources

With the firm irony of an electronic cigarette or a rusty can of Rust Oleum these celebratory mavericks wielded signs harking such messages as, "Don't Read This," and "This Is The Sign You've Been Waiting For".

But Amazon, whose technology chief, Werner Vogels, was recently mocked when he described the firm (without irony) as "a 20-year-old startup", is still in land-grab mode as today's move demonstrates.

For my firm there is a particular irony.

Others noted the irony of the firm's motto: "Grassroots marketing -- word-of-mouth makes the difference".

Pimco's compensation has long been a closely guarded secret, an irony as the firm's ugly politics have often played out in the open.

Richard Aylard, director of sustainability and external affairs for Thames Water, said the firm was aware of the irony that heavy rain had set in after the hosepipe ban was announced.

And, sweet irony, executive-search firms such as Heidrick & Struggles have started to lose staff to Internet firms that think they can get more dedicated service from an in-house recruiter.The pick of the bunchGoldman Sachs, McKinsey and others have got used to the assumption that they can simply pick from the cream of America's business-school graduates every year.

Matsushita the world's largest consumer-electronics firm and Sony's arch-enemy refused.The irony is tharch-enemy refused.Theare now obsolete.

In a Budget claiming to support small firms and encourage enterprise, this announcement is a cruel irony".

Irony was slippery; the sincerity of Annagret was firm.

"It's funny - it's a great irony," Keith G. Swirsky, a lawyer at GKG Law who runs the firm's aviation practice.