Sentence examples for ironic delivery from inspiring English sources
A small, intense woman with a playful smile and the ironic delivery of a barrister, she dismissed the rumours of dealer largesse.
As the title suggests, Homeland sees Laurie Anderson returning to the familiar territory of her opus magnum United States I-IV, with a series of ruminations and observations upon her native land, in which unashamed intellectualism – references to Kierkegaard, Thomas Paine, etc – is balanced by her dry wit and ironic delivery.
Despite the morbid tone of the title tune, or I Was In The House When The House Burned Down, and the terror of medical crises that palpitates through My Shit's Fucked Up or Don't Let Us Get Sick, Zevon's black, ironic delivery manages to suggest that there are still a few more twists left in these tales.
He occupies the centre of a Venn diagram (circles include "quirk", "ironic delivery", "men-children", "manic-pixie-dream-girls", "preoccupation with retro handicrafts", etc) with plenty of peer film-makers looping into its outer rings: Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and Miranda July stand out among them.
The action is controlled by a narrator (Simon O'Gorman) dressed like a clownish vagabond, who opens with a seemingly un-ironic delivery of Synge's preface to the Playboy, which argues for writing that captures the "fiery and magnificent" Irish popular imagination.
Only he did so in a particularly questionable series of posts that, although perhaps ironic in delivery, were criticised for their sexism.
It might be as simple as flipping a picture upside down--Georg Baselitz's paintings, which you'll find at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac's booth, can strike as immensely funny in that simple gesture--or it could come through repetition, parody, deadpan delivery, ironic detachment, messy execution or tongue-in-cheek titles.
Listen to Sparrow's voice with its ironic tone, throwaway gag delivery and occasional Smashie-slur and you'll hear the eerie similarity.
There's often a wryness, an ironic detachment in Murdoch's delivery, whereas what this song needs - and what Stallings provides - is straight-ahead emotional force and conviction.
His balletic movements and orotund verbal delivery lend Davoren an ironic distance – from the chaos around him and from himself.
