Sentence examples for in a complex irony from inspiring English sources

The beauty of this focused, crisp and understated writing lies in a complex irony that allows the reader insights denied to Edward.

A widespread insistence upon prophetic and ecstatic power in literature seems at present to be undermining the complex, irony-minded formalism that has dominated modern discourse.

Hundreds have committed suicide after being declared fit to work in a bitter irony.

But, in a significant irony, her theorization of the mind conflicted with her analysis of Nazism in Origins and Eichmann.

In a cruel irony, our knowledge of tree species distribution on UM has increased in direct proportion to the decline in rainforest areas.

In a cruel irony, Kammerer was warmly welcomed by the Bolshevik leaders of the Soviet Union and nearly ended up moving his laboratory to that country.

In an amusing irony, he loved expensive shoes.

By this logic, in a uniquely contemporary irony, the branding industry has become a toxic brand.

In a more complex way.

In a bit of irony though, the film was shot mostly in Europe.

The inferences involved in understanding a speaker's irony can be complex.