Sentence examples for profound irony from inspiring English sources

There is a profound irony here.

The profound irony of Disney is that, long ago, he was a hero to the left.

Mr. Luna's great gift was to infuse storytelling with profound irony and dashes of magic.

It is profound irony that it should be in the year of peace and recovery that we have to accept this new hardship.

It is a profound irony that he is now experiencing levels of surveillance and harassment that have some parallels with his treatment by Iranian authorities".

It's a profound irony that our growing passion for cookery books and TV shows has had relatively little effect on the ability and inclination of the majority to cook at home.

It is a profound irony that Blair has helped to defuse the Ulster crisis and reduce terrorism by the very means that he has abandoned in his crusading zeal against the world enemy.

Lady Manningham-Buller said in an earlier debate: "I am afraid it is a profound irony that we are seeking to protect our values against this pernicious ideology by trying to bar views that are described, too vaguely, as 'non-violent extremism', but which fall short of incitement to violence or to racial or ethnic hatred, which is already forbidden by law".