Sentence examples for Intensely ironic from inspiring English sources
I wondered what Jane, who made a moral issue out of everything, including what to have for dinner, and who had an intensely ironic sense of humor, would have thought.
He is also intensely private, an ironic quality for a man who seeks revelations from others.
Unlike many of his generation, he's un-ironic; the intensely moral sincerity of his commitment — whether to the meaning of movies or pop music or to the many principles he upholds in his fanatical letter-writing — puts him quite as far outside the mainstream of his generation (at least, as depicted in the movie) as outside that of his juniors.
Like emo it has traces of self-conscious irony, but its attitude is too intensely felt to be only ironic.
As a kid I reacted very intensely to films – I had no ironic distance and I always felt emotionally connected to what was happening, however absurd.
This would be an ironic turn for an army claiming such intensely nationalist credentials.
Now for a minute he thinks he is going to die, and he realizes how ironic it is that he is going to beat the intensely competitive Remo at his own game.
Carr seems to be casting an ironic eye over her own preoccupations, with characters mocking themselves even while suffering intensely.
As Ophelia speaks to her beloved, the music becomes more intensely personal, as the composer seemingly enters not only the pitiless and abstract aesthetic of Xenakis but also the complexly ironic tone of late Britten.
