Sentence examples for easy ironic from inspiring English sources

And one can see that, far from enacting an easy ironic resignation, Dyer is really a late Romantic, a flâneur out of Rilke (but with a vinegary English dash of Kingsley Amis), eager to experience as much as possible, to travel and fall in love and meet new people, and wary of writing and reading, because, although they preserve such experience, they do so at a mimetic remove.

They find their resolution in the unaccompanied choral singing closing three of the six movements, punctuated by tolling bells; resolutions that often seem to be in an all too easy, ironic juxtaposition with the agony that has preceded them, and which also use the effect known as the Tierce de Picardie, the so-called "happy" third which lifts music in a minor key into an unexpected major.

Oh, he lost the easy (apparently ironic) racism of his early stories, and his fascination with bodily fluids eased a bit, but Mr. Hannah still relied on his singular and beguiling voice, his prose (even in the stories that didn't work) always a lovely spew, like a gasoline rainbow on a lake.

In "Yi Yi," there is no such easy cynicism or ironic distance.

It rediscovers the aching, desiring humanity in a genre -- and a period -- too often subjected to easy parody or ironic appropriation.

He had an easy drawl and an ironic wit, the tastes of an urban aesthete and the manner of a small-town innocent.

"That was easy!" the device declares, an ironic commentary on another bedeviling day.

Though Mr. Jordan was known as "Easy Ed," the nickname was ironic.

Alan Ball: Well, it's very easy to be glib and ironic in connection to the suburbs.

Of Montreal Dour Percentage With its falsetto vocals and chirpy flutes, this song is easy to dismiss as an ironic nod to the 1970s.

For years, Mr. McCain has struck a different kind of cloth as a presidential candidate: as a politician capable of defying his party or embracing it; holding a world view that defied any easy ideological setting; having an ironic detachment as he observed himself on the campaign trail, combined with a sly sense of humor that leavened his occasional bursts of temper.