"irony" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This can sometimes make for poignant tragic irony - it is often clear to the readers, but not to Mary, that other characters do not mean well.
- But with pressed lips she managed to keep the bitter, poignant irony bottled inside, without uttering a sound.
- It is a poignant irony that a scholar trained in political science found more appreciation among members of the historical profession than among his own colleagues.
- The phenomenon of Classic Rock carries poignant ironies.
- The poignant irony of tonight's "Cats" party is that it has already been upstaged by the "Hercules" party thrown in New York over the weekend.
- Though dancers in the foreground are the subjects, the architectural backdrop now gives a poignant irony to an otherwise innocuous genre scene.
- There is poignant irony about this quest to integrate his grave, to dignify, reclaim, allow, belong - and thus literally to bury the past.
- He smiled slowly, thinking to himself that life was full of poignant ironies.
- To the Editor: It is a poignant irony that democratic elections in India coincided with a military coup in Pakistan (front page, Oct. 13).
- Had he looked inside, he would have discovered a particularly poignant irony.
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