Sentence examples for ironically brilliant from inspiring English sources

As with most of Austen's works, it's full of gems that are often ironically brilliant and applicable to modern life, and sometimes amusingly dated – but always worth revisiting.

Ironically -- in a brilliant strategic PR shift by the Church government -- the horrors of the Sack allowed the Church to survive and thrive.

"Ironically the day finished in brilliant sunshine with Durham poised to try and press home their advantage on day three".

Ironically, these 'inventors' are so technically brilliant that they don't seem to quite understand the complex concept of "cloud hosting," as they're suing Rackspace only because GitHub is hosted on their servers.

But, ironically, possibly the greatest message from our brilliant women is for our not-so-glorious men.

Season 6 proved to the first for which 24 was not nominated for best dramatic series at the Emmys, ironically coming right after the show's brilliant Season 5 swept the awards.

His texts, based on a story from Ovid's "Metamorphoses," were brilliant and witty, but his delivery was too ironically poised to be convincing.

It incites a strange sense of isolation, though ironically, the glowing tube surrounds whoever stands within it in brilliant white light. .

Ironically, the author praises Louis XIV in The 50th Law, for his most "brilliant manoeuvre" in creating a "cause for the French people to believe in – the greatness and glory of France itself".

A brilliant little poem he composed for Prince Hamlet (Act V, scene 2, line 115) shows how ironically he perceived the qualities of poetry in the last years of the 16th century, when poets such as John Donne were writing love poems uniting astronomical and cosmogenic imagery with skepticism and moral paradoxes.

(Ironically one of its most successful recent commissions has been from Richard Move, a solo performer/choreographer who made his career performing brilliant, but deviant pastiches of Graham herself).