Sentence examples for scathing irony from inspiring English sources

Rukeyser brings to his subject a unique combination of intense interest, scathing irony, unabashed amusement, and professional competence.

The author, Maxim Kurochkin, who was then 30, developed the idea into an iconoclastic work that mixes contemporary Russian life with characters from the old German Nibelung saga, poetry with social satire and pathos with scathing irony.

But her gentle irony is far more scathing than that.

The four conservative justices penned three scathing dissents, including one from Justice Anthony Kennedy noting the "irony" that judicial candidates would have their own First Amendment rights curtailed before they even took the bench to protect those rights for others.

And Brockstedt, also of Berlin, brought the work of a lively artist of the cynical Neue Sachlichkeit movement, Jeanne Mammen, whose scathing drawings of Berlin cafe culture in the 1930's share the ironies of Grosz and Dix.

Irony, irony, irony.

Critics are scathing.

Labour has been scathing.