Sentence examples for ironic points from inspiring English sources

Cabaret is best understood as one of WH Auden's "ironic points of light" that shines in the political and cultural darkness, offering hope to the likeminded.

"Miss Porter makes none of the melodramatic or ironic points that are the stock in trade of ordinary short stories; she falls into none of the usual patterns and she does not show anyone's influence".

She makes none of the melodramatic or ironic points that are the stock in trade of ordinary short stories; she falls into none of the usual patterns and she does not show anyone's influence.

WHEN the fighter pilot's fire ripped through a plane carrying an American missionary family over Peru last week, the bullet holes opened up ironic points of light into American foreign policy in Latin America.

Yet, dotted everywhere Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

If that's the ironic point, Bourdos doesn't make much of it.

"The show has a smart, ironic point of view, which we know will translate well in the US".

Many years later in 2001, Young protested that Tony Blair's support for meritocracy missed his ironic point.

These contradictions, Conlon says, have led many New York City police officers "to develop a decidedly ironic point of view".

And several of the briefer vignettes look as if they exist either to provide exposition or to make a self-evidently ironic point.

The simplicity and clarity, which sticks to the language of Charles Portis's 1968 novel (the basis of both movies), has an ironic point.