"If we truly want to understand sexual politics, we need to read, instead of ironic blogs and Caitlin Moran and faux sociology, more novels like this one".
"We will boycott the electronics products of the U.S". Erdogan continued to suggest that for every Apple iPhone Turkish citizens could use a Korean Samsung phone instead — an ironic statement given the importance the iPhone had in helping him quell a military coup in the country in 2016 that sought to remove him from power.
"Maybe instead of taking ironic pictures in the street while hidden, maybe I can slow down and look at things more directly and with love," he said.
Often, our embarrassment about the format makes us run instead for the ironic cover of an Alan Partridge or a Mrs Merton.
But something stops me agreeing with him, and instead I voice an ironic, "Thanks".
Lumen wasn't a perfect example of that phenomenon — she lived past the finale, for one thing — but her presence marked a transition for Dexter: he had ceased to be an unnerving paradox, and instead, like Pinocchio (an ironic touchstone for both the show and the books it was based on), turned into a real boy.
The morning I head off to meet Amy Adams something happens that is almost too common to be called ironic, so instead let's call it a typical absurdity arising from being a woman in a world that has not entirely caught up with the 21st century.
Wellington Paranormal is neither sexy nor slick, and sometimes the self-consciously gumby affectation barely even registers as deliberate or ironic, lending instead to a truly authentic, Fred Dagg-ish vibe.
But as she grew older she seemed to attach herself to Carla, and in this attachment she was suddenly much wiser, less skittishÂshe seemed capable, instead, of a subdued and ironic sort of humor.
But as she grew older she seemed to attach herself to Carla, and in this attachment she was suddenly much wiser, less skittish — she seemed capable, instead, of a subdued and ironic sort of humor.
