Sentence examples for serious irony from inspiring English sources
There's a serious irony here.
Given the litigious nature of online video, that is some serious irony.
And also in a serious irony, while he accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of cherry-picking science, Perkins never addressed the fact that he did the same thing during the Hardball interview when he cited a study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
In civic and online discourse, the exaggerated half-serious irony that Eminem once deployed to rile up "the moral majority" has become the conventional mode of communication.
The pros regard these anomalies as a not too serious glitch, an irony of nomenclature.
His characters were oblivious to irony: serious-minded nincompoops, they escaped from calamity by sheer good fortune and then claimed they had known how to do so all along.
It sounds incredibly simple, but after more than a decade of dead-serious conceptualism, postmodern irony and Galliano-type showmanship, the fashion industry feels stuck for ideas: designing from life for life — rather than returning to the '60s, say, or drawing inspiration from the "warrior woman" or some other female fantasy — feels fresh and modern.
You're just playing around; you ain't serious.'" The irony here, of course, is that Rees was probably more serious about protecting the brand than Corré.
The result for many was a somnambulistic recording with lyrics that were too serious, never offering much-needed irony.
"There is a lightness about the acting classes in France, and there is something very serious, and usually with no irony, in American classes -- it's very close to the shrink thing," Mr. Cassel said.
It was a joy to catch him relaxed, share a meal, listen to his anecdotes, watch his serious blue eyes glisten with irony - although those moments became all too rare as the demands of his own creativity ran him down.
