Attractive like "a homosexual pirate" and cloaked in excessive, impermeable irony, Sebastien gets mixed up with Lily, and thereby the murder case, when all he really wants is to be left alone to grieve his parents, killed in a suspicious plane crash some years before.
Deconstruction, appropriation and excessive use of irony as main forces of expression have largely alienated the audiences, and for the vast majority of the public that means contemporary art is being avoided altogether as a result.
"Party Time" is excessive, even over the top, but its knowing irony saves it from degenerating into theatrical kitsch.
Noah Berlatsky objected to the idea, calling the strip "excessive and infantile, linked, not to a sense of irony, but a sense of wonder", which he compared to the "eternal appetite of infancy" that G. K.
Beneath her dress were elaborate Spanx and a leotard, reading "Bye Dave!" Irony can be as cloying as gushiness, in excessive doses.
Rather, as this tale of sharp-suited gentlemen spies taking on a deranged American ecoterrorist strains for shock effect towards its calculatedly excessive finale, the unvarying pitch of the film's violence and snarky irony prove only tedious.
