Use "ironies" in a sentence
1. Life is full of ironies, some hilarious, some tragic.
2. From the beginning, this crisis was replete with ironies.
3. That is one of the painful ironies of domestication.
4. The trial is an ironic finish to a career replete with ironies.
5. The reception history of Georges Bizet's final dramatic work, Carmen, is rife with ironies
6. It is one of the great ironies that Bourbon is a dry county.
7. They saw them as contradictions, occasions for elaborated ironies, for indignation and anger.
8. The chaotic mass spirit possessions of the God Worshipers nearly destroyed the movement before it began, just as the multivocality of the Eighteen Lords and the ironies and Apathies of the People’s Republic pose serious obstades to organized movements for change.
9. Their proposed kidnapping of Brewski baron Alfred Heineken (Hauer) is particularly fitting for Rem, since the boy's meek father (Ton Kas), who worked at Heineken, was laid off for having become, irony of ironies, an alcoholic.
10. All manner of ironies, slynesses, and Archnesses, which are not there, and praise him for his humour where he is really writing with "ful devout corage." The lungs of our generation are so very "tickle o'the sere".' (pp
11. With this material Chambers is at his best, and similar Appreciations of the manner in which Lucan hovers over Marvell's Restoration satires show how a critic's responsiveness to the interplay between classical models and seventeenth-century texts can both explicate specific passages and, more broadly, display the arts and ironies of
12. His complexion was of the kind which used to be called Adust-- burnt up with inner fires; his visage was long and somewhat harshly designed, very apt, it would seem, to the expression of hitter ironies or stern resentments, but at present bright with friendly pleasure.