Sentence examples for increasingly ironic from inspiring English sources
Beneath the surface of the Maine summer, an elemental drama, cruel and increasingly ironic, unfolds with a logic that borders on the Sophoclean.
Despite the engrossing mixture of work in Mathaf's opening show, Sajjil (the word means "act of recording") it will be hard for many western cultural tourists, sated by successive and increasingly ironic shocks of the whatever, to get a sense of artistic traction.
It's not easy, and that's not something we should applaud, even in our post-romantic, increasingly ironic society.
"David became increasingly controlling," she said – ironic, as he was helping her set up a women's refuge from abusive men.
As the ship is about to land, David wakes everybody up; he's polite, even obsequious, but he's subtly ironic, too, and increasingly malevolent.
So it is perhaps ironic that his increasingly fraught relations with the US may prove to be the defining aspect of his time in power.
It is ironic because scientists increasingly believe there is a linkage between the prolonged dry spell and climate change.
As a tribe, the gangs of itasha drivers are increasingly less visible in the capital – ironic, given what they're known for.
And it's ironic that climate change is increasingly recognized as the potential trigger for human evolution in the first place, and the most threatening challenge to our future.
Or, as the New York Times put it in a possibly over-thinky think piece in 2011: "In a culture defined by knowingness and ironic distance, genuine surprise is increasingly rare – a spiritual luxury that brings us close to something ancient.
