Sentence examples for witty irony from inspiring English sources

Since glass is primarily made from silica, there is a witty irony at work here.

His status was not high, so I did not acknowledge him, contenting myself with a dozen pages of snobbish asides that I hoped would be interpreted as witty irony, before arriving back at my rooms.

Bishop continues: Waiting for the conclusion of her longer statements, I grew rather nervous; nevertheless I found her extreme precision enviable and thought I could detect echoes of Marianne's own style in it: the use of double or triple negatives, the lighter and wittier ironies — Mrs. Moore had provided a kind of ground bass for them.

STYLE: Witty, amusing, savors historical irony and good conversation.

His Winston is the kind of queen who is tailor-made to charm audiences: witty but recessive, neutered by irony.

Price's art, witty and sophisticated while shunning irony, is grounded in the aesthetic quiddity of ceramics.

Even in this citation, Lewis demonstrates that, though witty (i.e., the irony of attempting to believe Christianity is sensible "apart from its Christianity"), he was never frivolous.

It's a light, bouncy, expertly calibrated number that's fun without being sharp, witty but with no taint of irony.

For all the jittery irony of its joustingly witty characters, "L for Leisure" offers a metaphysical dream of pure vision, one that is attainable only through leisure and landscape.

An extraordinary work in which iron is met with irony and rigidity with a relaxed, witty defiance.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony".