Sentence examples for ironic position from inspiring English sources

Still, track and field finds itself in an ironic position.

As a result, we now find ourselves in a very difficult and slightly ironic position.

It's as though, in the grotesquely ironic position of current tempter, he is conducting an agonised inquest on the past.

Belafonte now occupies a bitterly ironic position, an octogenarian radical whose politics are well to the left of many people half his age.

Laura is, of course, in a deeply ironic position: she does not "deserve" the tarnished beauty queen crown, but she has found personal reserves of toughness.

Here, for me, is our ironic position – women's bodies being scrutinised after making babies because our whole species is programmed to assess women's potential to make babies.

(The German Benedict and the Latin-American Francis occupy ironic positions in this divide; Benedict is something of an anomaly among his countrymen, and the brashness of Francis, the Argentine son of Italian immigrants, may stem in part from his upbringing in a place in which, at the time, Catholicism still amounted to a total culture).

Al Gore, they say, lost Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, Florida, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Missouri as a result – which is ironic given his position on climate change.

It's ironic that VC firms position themselves as supporters, financers, and even instigators of innovation, yet the industry itself has been devoid of innovation for the past 20 years.

BofA's position is ironic given that the government's controversial assistance in its acquisition of Merrill was based on a verbal agreement.

The company's market and financial position is ironic, considering that Ross Perot launched Perot Systems intending to outdo EDS, which he built into the world's biggest computer services provider and then sold to General Motors for $2.55 billion in 1984.