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Not ironic enough and not obvious enough.
Lest that is not ironic enough, given Desmond's newsroom history, it also states: "You must be respectful towards your colleagues".
It's a tongue-in-cheek mystery which is neither quite scary and serious enough to be suspenseful, nor witty or ironic enough to count as a comedy.
As if that weren't ironic enough, there is also the little matter of a entrepreneurial capitalist fresh from attempting to create the world's largest multi-media conglomerate through a takeover of Time Warner complaining about a rival's market dominance.
The fact that he wrote the piece for the New Republic – a magazine which became infamous when one of its reporters, Stephen Glass, was caught fabricating news stories – was ironic enough.
"Not ironic enough for Pop, too funky for the glossies, 20 years early for Neo-Ex and Metro-Pix" is how Thomas W. Styron of the Greenville County Museum of Art in Greenville, S.C., explains why Rosalyn Drexler is not better known as a painter.
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Her power trio's hungry stomp is heavy enough for classic rockers and post-ironic enough for hipsters looking for bar band sincerity.
Apparently Tenacious D wasn't sincero-ironic enough.
There is enough ironic self-awareness in this observation to make it funny, and enough sincere, self-deluded disappointment to make it sad and a bit irritating.
And anime, unlike live action, gives Linkin Park's treacly message enough ironic distance to make it palatable to teens.
The simple end of offering a re-creation of one life's moments remains, if guarded by enough ironic intelligence, perfectly attainable.
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