Sentence examples for gently ironic from inspiring English sources
He could be a gently ironic messenger of hope.
But Christoforou's touch is lightly teasing, gently ironic.
Like my father, he favored a gently ironic tone of voice.
He is, for the most part, soft-spoken and gently ironic with a perceptible Irish lilt.
The uncompromising, gently ironic and humanistic quality of his work will ensure that Malgudi lives on.
Kidder's "smart and gently ironic writing is always good company," Ben Yagoda wrote here in 1999.
There's a very English sensibility to so much of Parr's work: understated, ironic, gently humorous.
This gently comic sense of ironic, bitter, and morally exhausted desperation even has its own Kafkaesque emoticon: ¯__/¯.
A novelist and essayist whose work regularly appears in the New Yorker and the London Review of Books, Lanchester brings an eye for the ironic and a gently rolling prose style.
"But it's totally ironic, because it's been anything but gently down the stream.
He elucidates, above all, the ironic dimension of his film's title, imposing an elegiac, gently pessimistic tone on the energy and immediacy of what he sees and shows.
