Sentence examples for ironic effect from inspiring English sources

Could it be these are good musicians playing badly for ironic effect?

that has had the ironic effect of darkly glorifying the perpetrators.

We plead guilty to using an unexpected word to avoid tedium or for ironic effect.

By allowing for greater ease, they had the ironic effect of promoting workouts.

"Do you want to know what I was really worried about?" she said, pausing for ironic effect.

"A Burial at Ornans" (1849-50) convenes a provincial society to solemn and mordantly ironic effect, on an epic scale.

This willingness to see Roman civilization as essentially barbaric has an ironic side effect: it leads historians to be skeptical about the most outlandish examples of that barbarism, the "bad emperors" whose colorful depravity has always been fodder for moralists.

An Aug. 14 letter comparing stoop life before air-conditioning and now points up an ironic side effect of our prosperity: before air-conditioning, we knew our neighbors and had a sense of community.

Sadly, my call for an entrepreneur to build an eBay for international rights remains unheeded — however, the column did have one amusing and ironic side effect.

That's great for something like the air horn (for ironic comedic effect only, I swear), but less great with music.

But by 2025, there will be 20 million more young Chinese men than women, according to the National Bureau of Statistics - one ironic side-effect of the one-child policy will be the high value of these young women.