Sentence examples for but ironic from inspiring English sources

Live, LCD Soundsystem is sweaty and aggressive, anything but ironic.

But ironic consumption was something that the 80s pioneered.

Faculty found him erudite but ironic, cool but not aloof; students found him intimidating and charismatic.

It's not only appalling but ironic, since the author's marriage, according to Kantor, is the "putative subject" of the book.

That night they tested WRDZ, which looked Scrabble-inspired, and the home version of "Remote Control," a corny but ironic trivia game show that is on MTV.

It was sound but ironic advice from a huge man who, for all his gifts, could never quite master that particular art.

Move right past the jaunty-but-ironic seasonal tone?

Duff favours me with the stern-but-ironic look she's given many a klutzy male during her acting career.

The approach succeeded, but in ironic fashion.

Mr. Puryear's work is humorous but not ironic.

It is often extremely funny, and often painful; earnestly direct but glancingly ironic, even whimsical.