Sentence examples for ironic combination from inspiring English sources

A vegetative state "is the ironic combination of wakefulness without awareness," said Dr. James L. Bernat, a Dartmouth Medical School neurologist and past chairman of the academy's ethics committee.

An ironic combination of seedy and charming, the place is filled with tacky, sparkling tables, tall horseshoe booths, a ceiling lit up with violet light beams and the loud pumping beats offered by the late night DJs.

With subjects like pirates, knights and the genetics pioneer Gregor Mendel, Mr. Zucker cultivated a combination of ironic down-home narrative and powerful visual wackiness.

When the writers at "Saturday Night Live" suggested that he take part in a sketch featuring some scatological themes, Gore demurred with a combination of ironic self-preservation and his customary good judgment.

But the combination of slickness, ironic hauteur and crude sociology is weirdly humorless.

The author's voice – a combination of lucidity and ironic sympathy for her anonymous characters intersecting with the urban geography of Paris – is captured magnificently.

Perhaps it is that combination -- of a funny, casually ironic narrator and the unapologetic intensity of her emotional life -- that gives "Use Me" its punch.

From their breakout 2002 single, Losing My Edge, LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.

There is something about the combination of rather dated Private Eye-style ironic criticism and the eye watering poshness of the event which makes them so.

Like other greeting cards, Valentine's Day cards have pretty much been destroyed in the West, by a combination of the Internet's convenience and the ironic sensibility it seems to have delivered to everyone under 30.

That it took me until I turned 27 to recognize my own mortality is ironic, really, considering that I was diagnosed with a never-before-seen combination of two strains of leukemia when I was 15.