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Example sentences for: irony

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Maybe this is where the bulk of cross-talk belongs, though it needs an audience to apprehend it correctly, which makes it also linked to dramatic irony.
The irony, in fact, is that the flat tax is the perfect relic of an era when a lack of computing power and of information made it difficult to make meaningful distinctions between groups of people, let alone individuals.
From Jules and Jim there are the plucked, fragrant melodies that stop brilliantly short of cloying, the spasm of frantic neo-Baroque fiddling from Day for Night , and the tangy sounds of an out-of-tune barroom upright from Shoot the Piano Player . In these eclectic sketches--which capture an image but have no emotional arc of their own--the irony of this project comes into focus: the contradiction of championing film music by cleaving it from film.
Does the very effort to defend irony to those impervious to its charms require you to trick it up as something it is not?
It said there was also some irony "in expecting a president to be absolutely truthful on personal matters when he heads a government which often varnishes the truth--or worse--on matters of much graver importance."