Sentence examples for grave irony from inspiring English sources

Soon after Kuchibhotla's murder, a commentator in India pointed out a grave irony: in the run-up to the 2016 election, a number of right-leaning American Hindus supported Trump's candidacy, not only with donations but also with elaborate prayer ceremonies to propitiate the gods.

Various other kinds of figurative reinterpretation are exhibited in various other recognized figures of speech: metonymy (This policy covers you from the cradle to the grave), irony (You're a fine friend), hyperbole (loud enough to wake the dead), and so on.

If having to pay an entry fee to visit Karl Marx's grave wasn't enough irony for this week, it's now emerged that George Orwell's estate is allegedly issuing takedown requests for people trying to profit from the numbers one, nine, eight, and four.

The sets moved through time, beginning with a meticulous re-creation of Wahnfried's back garden, imagined as the grail knights' protected realm; with wonderful irony, Wagner's grave took the place of the prompter's box.

The final section is a different irony and the book's grave heart.

The space is currently being investigated by archaeologists looking for the great medieval abbey whose foundations lie under the prison – and the possible grave of a king, Henry I, an irony even Wilde could not have dreamed of.

The events attendant on the presence of Jim Morrison's grave site at Père-Lachaise held no small irony in light of the cemetery's celebrity-seeking founders.

There is poignant irony about this quest to integrate his grave, to dignify, reclaim, allow, belong -- and thus literally to bury the past.