Sentence examples for strong irony from inspiring English sources

The world of restaurants is a rusty old cargo ship hot, loud, slow to change course which is a strong irony, considering how trend-based food culture is.

A hipster is known for their strong sense of irony and sarcasm.

And a strong sense of irony.

Did the perpetrator have a strong appreciation of irony?

By ensuring we reflect the British sensibility – our strong sense of irony, our truth-telling.

But there was also such a strong sense of irony, energy and of solidarity among the younger people (they knew every child, it seemed, on every corner).

THE art-world gods must have a strong sense of irony: how else to explain why our greatest living sculptor of walls would find his work behind one?

Hamsun was impatient with contemporary emphasis on social problems, and his early novels Sult (1890; Hunger), Mysterier (1892; Mysteries), and Pan (1894)—exemplified these ideas; his later novels, such as Markens grøde (1917; Growth of the Soil), were less extreme but still showed a strong, sometimes savage irony.

Needless to say, festive-sweater selfies are de rigeur this year − usually done with a strong sense of irony and a raised eyebrow.

But then, as if to prove the bandmaster had a strong sense of irony and an eye on the headlines, the band launched into an even more surprising musical choice.

Enjoying Gervais' work, whether he's ridiculing Hollywood's A-listers to their faces at the Golden Globes or being serenaded by David Bowie as a "chubby little loser" in "Extras," requires a well-developed taste for cringe comedy and a strong appreciation of irony.