6 sentences with 'irony'
Example sentences and phrases with the word irony and other words derived from it.
• « For all its vitriol and irony, Leiber's fantasy is based on a reality that can be summed up as follows: "The human brain is the last and greatest biological frontier. »
• « "The irony is that these kids had understood that they shouldn't drive if they've been drinking," comments prosecutor Scott Heiser. »
• « A great irony of the idea that Western civilisation is somehow inherently Christian is that Islam is unquestionably just as "Western". »
• « The irony of this period is that Egypt's economy diversified and expanded. It seems to have been a time when a new elite commissioned royal-inspired goods and thus supported the emerging craftsmen. »
• « The great irony, therefore, is that the most glorious era of Athenian democracy and philosophy was financed by the extraction of wealth from its Greek sister cities. »
• « The irony was not only that Athens reached its peak during the period of the Delian League and the wealth it extracted from other polis, but that Athenian democracy itself was at its peak: even as it was carving out an empire over the other city-states, Athens was becoming the first great experiment in democratic government in the history of the world. »