Sentence examples for understated irony from inspiring English sources
A small turquoise faience baboon, 8.8 centimeters high, is a masterpiece of understated irony, so discreetly wielded that one cannot be absolutely sure that mockery was intended.
Appearing on Italy's most widely watched interview program on Monday evening, Mr. Monti, who routinely treats his predecessor with understated irony, said that Mr.
With unintentional understated irony, senior housing advisor Priscilla Phelps of Bill Clinton's Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) becomes the conscience of Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's Fatal Assistance (Assistance Mortelle), which opened Friday at the Lincoln Center for a one-week run before moving on to Miami and other cities.
Understated irony, ever so faintly tinged with melancholy, was his style.
In one of the understated ironies in which this complex novel abounds, he takes a menial job in a nearby Carrefour superstore, trying to earn enough money to get his family back home to the countryside.
Among Mazower's many delicious and understated ironies is his discussion of King Leopold II's Belgium: notorious for Leopold's personal exploitation of the Congo, which provoked Conrad's nightmarish masterpiece Heart of Darkness, but also, it transpires, the centre of "fin-de-siècle internationalist life".
Yet in trying to include all that Narayan does not, his successors often seem to scant the importance of his very real strengths: the finely burnished plots; the oblique irony and understated prose; above all, the sense of equipoise.
His own strengths are understated humour and an eye for irony.
The beauty of this focused, crisp and understated writing lies in a complex irony that allows the reader insights denied to Edward.
It builds to a crescendo of excitement; the last sentence is the most emotional, yet the punctuation treatment is so pleasingly understated that the period expresses not irony but sincere feeling.
Otherwise the stories told by the actors -- all of whom are professional and for the most part admirably understated in their anguished roles -- are full of the irony and pathos you would expect.
