Sentence examples for irony between from inspiring English sources

The barbarous vanity of the two swaggering Greek warriors Ajax and Achilles is almost lost; the irony between word and deed is unfocussed.

Poetry can express both the maker and the artifact, and measure the ratios of irony between the one and the other.

His plays aspire to intellectual and visual astonishment, combining curiosity and compassion into satisfying puzzles, which bring together public concerns and private griefs in order to explore the irony between the realms.

Also note the gentle irony between the government's bristling take on Edward Snowden — the primum movens of the recently declassified data — and the fact that the government actually released this stuff.

There is no distance or irony between a girl-person and Taylor Swift.

To this day, Mickey remains for the artist a transitional figure, full of irony between the innocent imagination of children and an often cruel world.

In the mid-60's, she was the prophetess of a "new sensibility" that would demolish the boundaries between high and low culture, between irony and seriousness, between pleasure and thought.

The delivery of the actors, many of whom are nonprofessionals, flattens speech to the point that distinctions between irony and sincerity, between questions and exclamations are erased.

Hence the great irony hidden between the lines of the Guttman study: the power that Jewish religious groups are gaining may make them recognize that Israel's democratic society is also theirs to preserve.

Right now, I'm trying to put something into words about the uneasy balance in national dialogue between irony and earnestness, and also about the difference between the regret we feel for saying some things versus the regret we feel for leaving things unsaid.

"The work transported me to this place with a gorgeous landscape and yet with intense ironies, conflicts between the poor and affluent, and extreme racial divides," Ms. Lyons said.