Sentence examples for becomes ironic from inspiring English sources

If one remembers the campos' original dedication to agriculture, present-day dependency on the mainland for the import of produce and processing of waste becomes ironic.

The assertion that classic Hollywood glamour was a front for Mob violence (as with the famous horse-head scene, early in the first film) never becomes ironic, never questions or undermines his own style; it remains an arm's-length editorial commentary.

The photograph, more than an aesthetic offering, becomes ironic as well, an invitation to meditate upon a landscape at once as fragile as it is foreboding.

This is the point at which Owen's story becomes ironic, because her grandfather was the co-founder of Humble Oil, which consolidated with Standard Oil of New Jersey to become Exxon Company.

A few moments later she became ironic and added, "Welcome to the mean streets of Danvers, those hardscrabble streets".

The focus on diversity became ironic as the night wore on, with one white person after another delivering acceptance speeches.

But when shock ends, play begins, and taboos, whether sexual, political or formal, whether old or new, become ironic conventions.

In fact, the media's reduction of women to individual detached body parts is so widespread that their own attempts to satirise it have become ironic in themselves.

It's no coincidence that this is all happening in Los Angeles, where comics move to work in TV and movies and stay to become ironic, insular and defeated about it.

But more recently, funereal attire has become ironic, as demonstrated by present-day Goths, and longer ago by Karl Lagerfeld's 1977 post-Chloé show party, where 4,000 guests obeyed the dress code: "tragic black dress absolutely obligatory".

That statement became ironic when when a new version of its new operating system leaked by accident.