Sentence examples for structural irony from inspiring English sources
They can't achieve a lot, we know that, so they're trapped in an eternal structural irony.
The combination of her physical frailty and juggernaut intellect has acted as a kind of structural irony that informs all her work, and provided a sense of outsidership that she revels in as much as resents.
Dramatic irony is also sometimes equated with tragic irony, situational irony, or structural irony; all those terms are also sometimes understood to exist within a hierarchy that establishes narrow differences of meaning among themselves.
(Sarcasm can be considered a form of verbal irony). Dramatic irony is also sometimes equated with tragic irony, situational irony, or structural irony; all those terms are also sometimes understood to exist within a hierarchy that establishes narrow differences of meaning among themselves.
With its suspense, its emotional coolness, its "perfect murder" plot, its structural elegance, the cruelties and ironies of fate and coincidence, and the literal steel trap at the centre of the movie (a stalled lift preventing the killer's escape), it bypasses Hitchcock to genuflect more in the direction of that great pessimist and fatalist, and master-builder of steel traps, Fritz Lang.
The irony is that thanks to this subtle, albeit crucial structural tweak the new substance, the analogue, might end up carrying far greater health risks for consumsers than the illegal drug itself.
But the movies are not free of irony and mischief; on the contrary, irony is their main structural principle, mischief their underlying intent.
Whereas modernist music emphasized structural and stylistic integrity, postmodern music is a polystylistic hybrid, mingling and matching incongruous elements with a heavy dose of irony -- just like film music.
