Sentence examples for sort of irony from inspiring English sources
It's just the sort of irony that Russell savors; it's the stuff of his art.
But that sort of irony is one of the book's points.
The young adult category is the sort of irony James might appreciate.
Though influenced by Kafka, Buzzati has a devastating skill and a detached sort of irony and humour of his own.
This supposed fact may be met with melancholy (le Carré, Chandler) or with a dry-martini sort of irony.
He is tall and lanky, with a long face, a narrow chin, and bushy eyebrows, which he often raises to emphasize some sort of irony.
It's because of this sort of historical irony -- and by irony, I basically mean an iron anvil sent from the skies to land on our heads in order to alert us to the obvious lesson -- that a president without Secret Service protection is a pretty odd thing to imagine.
"I mean, that's sort of the irony, y'know?
Underlining this easy evil is Simenon's fondness for a sort of pat irony, like something out of Maupassant.
(With the sort of delicious irony even Alanis Morissette could understand, Len Mattiace, the man Weir beat in yesterday's play-off, is a natural left-hander turned right).
Either Hanukkah should merge with Christmas — a suggestion against which the arguments are more legion even than the Syrian-Greek army — or it should be spiced up with the sort of bitter irony at which the Jewish people excel.
