Sentence examples for splendid irony from inspiring English sources

There was splendid irony in Alexander Wang's bon voyage collection, shown in the former ticketing hall of the Cunard Building in Lower Manhattan.

And it will be a splendid irony if the nation's unexpected poverty were to release its poorest citizens from their dismal inheritance.

Neame also points out the splendid irony that the only country in which Downton Abbey is being shown without interruption is the US, where (presumably because it was considered uncommercial) the series is screening on public service broadcasting.

With splendid irony, the panel will include the former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, fingered by the Telegraph for claiming a flashy makeover of his London flat on expenses, going head-to-head with none other than Benedict Brogan, the chief political commentator of, you guessed it, the Telegraph.

Assessing his predicament (the digital age predicament) of having access to so much information and so few ways to process it, Borges wrote in "Poem of the Gifts," "No one should read self-pity or reproach into this statement of the majesty of God, who with such splendid irony granted me books and blindness at one touch".

And here's the splendid irony.

Ms. Chalfant, a deep-voiced stage veteran of commanding reserve, and Ms. Thompson, an Oscar-winning British actress with a crisp air of forgiving irony, were both splendid in a role that fitted them more naturally than it does Ms. Nixon.

An irony underlies this splendid biography: although Mary Shelley revered the memory of her mother, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who died shortly after giving birth to her, she was dominated by men all her life, beginning with her father, the impecunious radical William Godwin.

And yet, in a Franzenian irony, there's something kind of splendid and meaningful about the fact that people can go on Twitter and be so wrong about him.

Ms. Rice and her splendid company have stealthily stripped us of the layers of irony that many of us now bring to a film like "Brief Encounter".

Still, for all his reticence, his breathless enthusiasm, sometimes maddening navete and flair for irony inform the entire memoir, as do the splendid family snapshots he has painstakingly assembled.