Sentence examples for particular irony from inspiring English sources

There was a particular irony for me.

For my firm there is a particular irony.

There's a particular irony to this twist in the tangled plot of Trump's Presidency.

For historians, there's a particular irony in the missile defence angle.

There is a particular irony to the fact that Americans hate paying their taxes: Americans love helping the less fortunate.

That we should confront these questions in 2014, in the centennial of the onset of the First World War, is a particular irony.

My family still has to countenance the particular ironies of our situation: my father was a lawyer for the Office of Special Investigations of the Justice Department.

While Gold published a wide range of material, Galaxy became known in particular for irony and satire; the work of authors able to adopt the wry style he favored, such as Knight and Robert Sheckley, appeared regularly in the magazine.

American ethnic writers in particular employed irony in works ranging from memoirs (e.g., Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior [1976]) to novels (e.g., Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus [1991]) to disrupt racial stereotypes.

Whether you find Snowden's words heroic or dopily self-aggrandizing, they have a particular, inescapable irony when viewed alongside excerpts from the blog of Snowden's girlfriend, Lindsay Mills, who recorded much of her life and posted it online.

But there is a particular historical irony to the fact that it is Texas that has to admit to the world that students in the top 10 percent of numerous public high schools aren't good enough for the state's flagship university.