Sentence examples for seeming irony from inspiring English sources

Many people are surprised to learn of the seeming irony of the fact that Native Americans possess more enrolled military members per capita than any other ethnicity in America.

Becker-Ho's lawyer, when informed that Debord's game was displayed alongside the electronic version, said that her client was "furious," but would not offer any comment about the seeming irony of a revolutionary Marxist pursuing copyright claims against a free video game.

There seemed irony in this.

If their intent seemed confusing — irony attaches naturally to them, like a shadow — the energy level of the music completely erased the issue.

There would, perhaps, seem some irony in a move to Rome out of protest, since this would seem to be more of a Protestant trait than a Catholic one.

However, some of those listed qualifications are practical and worth passing on, and there seems no irony in the claim that "Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage".

It seems an irony that the founders and stakeholder like Wikipedia annual plea for donations seem to offer something people want but are not prepared to pay for.

But Bernstein's gig insisted on the necessity of irony, seeming to believe that these kinds of material – puns, classic one-liners, gentle-chauvinist gags about nationalities and henpecking wives – can no longer be performed without it.

Born in 1977, at the tail end of Generation X, I came of age in the 1990s, a decade that, bracketed neatly by two architectural crumblings — of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the Twin Towers in 2001 — now seems relatively irony-free.

Then, seeming to recognize the irony of his situation or, in any case, seeming to recognize that I found it ironic—Halal added, "We think that man did what he did for money.

Dotcom seems oblivious to irony at times.