Sentence examples for ironic timing from inspiring English sources

I read Ian Parker's piece on the Times restaurant critic Pete Wells on September 11th, ironic timing for a piece that refers to five-hundred-dollar dinners ("Knives Out," September 12th).

While many Mexicans expressed delight Wednesday that their country would be the first to host three World Cups, others were quick to point out the ironic timing.

"It's incredibly ironic timing that the Transportation Department would move ahead with more advertising while city planning is curbing it," Ms. Quinn said.

The story that broke early last month that Google would again cooperate with Chinese authorities to run a censored version of its search engine, something the tech giant has neither confirmed nor denied, had ironic timing.

It is with a sense of ironic timing that the game is in Milwaukee because it is the hometown and headquarters of Bud Selig, the commissioner and the official directing the owners' labor initiative.

With wonderfully ironic timing – the American Associations of Law Libraries meets in Portland in July – the Legislative Counsel Committee of the State of Oregon sent a cease-and-desist letter to Justia, a free online resource for judicial decisions and statutes, claiming that Justia's posting of the Oregon Revised Statutes violates its copyright.

What's ironic about the timing is that, in other areas, these are good times.

An ironic stroke of timing–Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency a month after she started work helped Ms. Singh become more politically aware.

The "comic timing, ironic self-deprecating and very British charm" of Hugh Grant has been celebrated by the British Film Institute which on Tuesday evening bestowed on him its highest honour.

The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the handsome Miami priest who defected to become an Episcopal priest when he fell in love and married a woman from his parish, found the pope's timing ironic.

Unlike the antiwar soul singer Edwin Starr -- who, in an ironic bit of timing, went to his eternal reward early this month just as American ground forces were sweeping toward Baghdad -- Mr. Shultz knows what war is good for.