Sentence examples for governing irony from inspiring English sources
Rigoletto is the one character who is permitted to look into himself, and in the final scene the governing irony of his life is revealed to him: his public role, that of cruel jester, has ruined his private one, that of protective father.
In step with the tale's governing ironies, the book begins with Rasselas maundering in his happy valley, miserable amid plenty for want of the contrast that would give it flavour.
Irony governed Eissler's life the way it had Freud's: he was considered a virtual psy-clone and yet remained unorthodox and a maverick in every way.
It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western European nations, and Japan) increasingly report dissatisfaction and frustration with their governments.
The irony of the current political environment in Washington is that a divided government requires that Republicans demonstrate that they are capable of governing.
For Fianna Fail, governing party for 75 of the nearly 90 years since the free state was established, the ironies are crushing.
To eradicate this irony, we must develop a new science of brains, minds and machines that seamlessly weaves together physics, computation and neurobiology to both elucidate the design principles governing neural systems, and instantiate these principles in physical devices.
The irony is that PT and PSDB are both recognisable centre-left parties whose leaders have far more in common with one another than with the other political parties that they have relied upon to form governing coalitions.
Select governing board members.
"He has been able to use wit — or mockery, or impersonation, or irony — to try to govern every disastrous situation he is in".
