Sentence examples for does ironic from inspiring English sources

Nichols has as many kinds of laughs as he does ironic inflections, but his high-pitched Big Laugh is like no other.

Michael Gove doing ironic posh rap at a dinner party while Kirsty Allsopp laughs and claps.

Ms. Parks does not do ironic bird sculptures in carnations like those popular this minute with arty floral designers.

"We do ironic headlines, smart headlines, and work hard to make very serious stories as interesting as we can," she said by phone.

Artists today mostly do ironic comments on mass culture; they adopt the modes and imagery of mass culture and then re-serve them in a slightly tweaked way, so it's not immediately clear to an outsider that there's really any difference between one thing and the other - between pop crap and high art.

She's not interested in contemporary culture, and her characters don't make ironic references to it; instead they talk about what matters most to them -- family, their own and one another's.

But she agrees that "it does seem ironic".

"Silence is praise to Thee," Maimonides wrote, quoting from Psalm 65. (Melville does an ironic version of this theology in "Moby-Dick," whereby the white whale is bombarded with masses of descriptions, and freighted with allegory, but remains gigantically unknowable).

I always knew that this piece of research had the potential to result in an original article of high quality, so this result was very gratifying, even if it does seem ironic that I received this good news while unemployed.

Then, like so many of us in the late nineties, Hitler did the ironic trucker thing.

"I never thought of what I did as ironic," he says.