Sentence examples for ironic turn from inspiring English sources

And, let's face it — at their best, they have a wry, ironic turn of mind.

And, let's face it at their best, they have a wry, ironic turn of mind.

The filmmakers consider this an ironic turn: "It's the very thing our film is about — public servants bowing to pressures, direct or indirect, from high-dollar donors".

But in an ironic turn of events, almost no students attended, as they were too busy dealing with the issues that the documentary tries to tackle.

In a bitterly ironic turn, New York took to financing prison construction through its Urban Development Corporation, which had been set up for low-income housing.

In an ironic turn of events, out of the extraordinary array of 143 bovid species, only one sheep, one goat, and three bovine species have been domesticated.

Whatever tragic and ironic turns U.S. and Southern history took thereafter, it did so without the "peculiar institution" holding it back.

But Mastretta portrays revolutionary Mexico from a woman's perspective, which gives the whole process a subtly ironic twist that sometimes turns into outright humour.

Franklin's essentially ironic, distancing turn of mind, which was often so baffling to his literal-minded American colleagues — Isaacson's funniest pages are supplied by John Adams's stunned and alarmed accounts of Franklin's nonchalant diplomacy on the Paris mission — gave him a kind of second sight into the minds of his hosts.

It would be ironic to turn over a linguistics paper that is flecked with grammatical errors.

(Score that one for the charming, salt-of-the-earth barber, and zero for the ironic writer turned politico. Mr. Kurson manages to sheath this weapon, wisely, when discussing issues.