Sentence examples for ironic question from inspiring English sources

You saw the ironic question mark above that word "appropriate".

Like Mary, Joseph failed to comprehend Jesus' ironic question, " 'How is it that you sought me?

This ironic question confronts the orchestra as it prepares to give the third concert of its 28th season tonight at the Great Neck North Junior High School.

The newest city in Britain faces an ironic question in middle age: can its futuristic character be saved by the heritage industry?

Does any real editor of what is not being sold as an official biography edit prose like this, without slashing red lines through it and scrawling gigantic, ironic question marks in margins, the unsubtle subtext being: "Author: have you lost your mind?" This is the turgid, enumerative, cheerleading voice of political talking points and White House press aides.

As Johnston says, "Hence Unger's insistent and ironic question 'But which of o1, o2, o3, … is our paradigm cloud c?' has as its proper answer 'None'".

Peace is the future: the title given to the great annual interreligious meeting organized this week in Antwerp by the lay Catholic Community of Sant'Egidio, seemed supremely ironic: a question mark seemed more appropriate than an exclamation point.

The assertion that classic Hollywood glamour was a front for Mob violence (as with the famous horse-head scene, early in the first film) never becomes ironic, never questions or undermines his own style; it remains an arm's-length editorial commentary.

Michelle Willis Ilukaa, NSW, Australia Having been assailed on a weekly basis for some considerable time now by the ragbag of "celebrities" in the Why it Works section of your magazine, I have to ask just one thing: is the question ironic?

It is ironic that The Question of Animal Culture does not speak to a broader readership of biology students, considering that culture is a particularly salient and therefore eminently teachable example of the importance of social and other forms of environmental determination in developmental and evolutionary biology.

Exam boards have put a renewed focus upon "personal response" (somewhat ironic considering their questions are anything but).