From the design perspective of the present, with our prevailing taste for expensively neutral minimalism for glass-walled kitchens, and stripped-pine floorboards, and Danish furniture it's easy to regard these images through an ironical eye: how did people ever live like that?
The pose they strike is brooding, ironical, conveying an aesthetic of "I don't care how I look".
This is a clear indication of how much his Anglican opponents had let Collins' irreverent wit, biting satire and ironical remarks get under their skin.
Mr. Haynes said he had discussed the music for the film with Mr. Bernstein in relation to the characters, "but never in terms of 50's style, and how we are going to navigate it and utilize it but not ever let it become too ersatz, too ironical, too much of a reference to another period".
"Russian art is ironical.
Simon wrote about how the interplay of cocaine and semi-automatic weapons jacked up the city's murder rate; he wrote about the homicide unit on Christmas — "which seemed ironical enough to my twenty-five-year-old sensibilities," he said.
This was not intentionally funny or ironical.
I find that ironical," he said.
Or flexible, many-sided, and ironical?
