Sentence examples for overt irony from inspiring English sources
These events underpin this exhibition in Warsaw's Galeria Zacheta, which tries to show the life of the period, particularly its early optimism, without too much overt irony.
There is evidence of overt dramatic irony in the moment a man carries Laura across a deep puddle – he endures a dislikable sensation to save her from one that she wouldn't notice.
But he abandoned the earlier film's overt mockery for an elaborate irony that peeled away, layer by layer, his cinematic persona and left him a tabula rasa for his own reinvention — yet one that blazes with a repudiation of prevailing mores and values.
But he abandoned the earlier film's overt mockery for an elaborate irony that peeled away, layer by layer, his cinematic persona and left him a tabula rasa for his own reinvention yet one that blazes with a repudiation of prevailing mores and values.
Part of me secretly hoped they would keep up the censorship, just to see that happen, but the irony must have been too overt even for the dimly flickering bulbs of the internet police.
It is a form of indirection that avoids overt praise or censure, as in the casual irony of the statement "That was a smart thing to do!" (meaning "very foolish").
But there was a singular irony to the Velvet Revolution: none of its dramatis personae set out with an overt political agenda.
What a terrible irony that in this year of celebration of the Selma marches we are witnessing the resurgence of overt law enforcement brutality and injustice in Ferguson, Cleveland, New York City, and elsewhere, reminding us how far we still have to go.
