Sentence examples for underlying irony from inspiring English sources

If the playwrights were aiming for underlying irony, the laughter that greets Lansky's angry outburst when his Israeli citizenship is denied is a measure of how far they missed their mark.

The underlying irony was that Trump has been criticised by conservative opponents for having held liberal positions and supporting abortion rights.

But with Detroit's city operations now under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager, there is an underlying irony to every handshake and heartened stump speech.

"Shortages amid plenty are the underlying irony of it all," says Jed Bailey of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy in Massachusetts.

Tara Smith Austin, Tex., Oct. 17, 2010 • To the Editor: Re "For Tea Party, Sway Beyond Mere Numbers" (front page, Oct. 15): I continue to be amused by those on the right who promote Tea Party candidates with no sense of the underlying irony.

The underlying irony of India's continued flirtations with anti-American despots is that India is one of the most pro-U.S. countries in the world.

Which brings us to the central irony underlying "Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950," by Glenda Gilmore, a native North Carolinian and the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward professor of history at Yale University.

There is a bitter irony underlying this dreadful story that has torn holes in two families at least.

A self-mocking irony underlies the struggle of his heroes to transcend everyday life.

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.

"The Inglorious Bastards" has little of Aldrich's underlying moral seriousness and nothing of his deft rhetorical irony.