Sentence examples for but not ironically from inspiring English sources

Heller shows how the Brandens formed the nucleus of a growing group of young Rand followers, a herd of individualists who nicknamed themselves "the Collective" — ironically, but not ironically enough, for they began to display the frightening group-think of a true cult.

By one count, $2.6 billion in productions have been shot in Wilmington, including such titles as Blue Velvet, The Road to Wellville and Sleeping with the Enemy (but not, ironically, the remake of Cape Fear).

She has breathed her own life into the Christian icon's plaster, not deliberately and not ironically but humanely, and she demands that her husband respond to this achievement with mercy and respect.

(Don't worry too much over the name of the bill. Yes it's rah-rah, but in this case, not ironically so).

Her looks suggested a desire to be truly, not ironically, anonymous, but she was always recognizable: in the oversized men's jacket and little choker she wore on the way to marrying Jason Alexander, in Las Vegas, in 2004; in the many obscuring fedoras; in the cheap wigs she sported on her custody dates with her two children; in those fraying Uggs she stood in to pump gas.

The name means "wrist watch 1," but not so ironically sounds like world war I.

Key to Wigglesworth's unlocking of this complex score was the glorious partnership - not, ironically, of Tristan and Isolde, but Isolde and her handmaid, Brangäne.

This song appeared on the "Elevator" album, which did not, ironically, climb the charts.

It even concludes with John Lennon's Power to the People over the closing credits – and not ironically.

High-Def will celebrate, he said, "the paramount importance of youth and love and friendship and hanging out and being awesome — not ironically awesome, just awesome".

WINNING Used repeatedly and not ironically by the actor Charlie Sheen at the time of his tumultuous departure from "Two and a Half Men".