Sentence examples for obvious irony from inspiring English sources

There's an obvious irony here.

Miliband laughs at the obvious irony: "That's never normally been the accusation.

The main inventor, John Kestner, said he's working on bringing its retail price down to $60, to "avoid obvious irony".

The Mephistophelian doctor Michele Ferrari (Guillaume Canet) offers him what the doctor calls, with obvious irony, "a heavenly vision".

There is an obvious irony in Orwell's being spied on in a way that can only be called Orwellian.

The snippets from musical comedy recordings between scenes impose quotation marks on Mr. Bradshaw's script that push it into obvious irony.

There are two obvious ironies here.

One of the obvious ironies in all this is that couples are not asking for anything radical.

AS Tom Scheerer, a Manhattan decorator who spent six years in Charleston, noted, "One of the obvious ironies is that no one will ever live as well in these houses as Sheila and Peter do".

Granted, a few shrewd souls (like Katherine Dunn in her 1989 novel, "Geek Love") manage to sidestep the cheap pathos and obvious ironies, but too many others take the bait with the eagerness of a midway mark, giving us variations on certain trite and less-than-urgent truths -- that the dog-faced boy has feelings too, that sometimes clowns are sad.

Obvious sarcasm and irony should be tagged as "Other".