Sentence examples for ironic inflection from inspiring English sources
Without any ironic inflection, he recycles ideas and tropes that were stale when Edward G. Robinson was chewing cigars and scenery in the 1931 film "Little Caesar".
"I'm the butt police, and I'm looking at your rear (rear, rear)," he says, without any sort of ironic inflection.
Her writing is understated, carrying the light, ironic inflections of her class and period.
Nichols has as many kinds of laughs as he does ironic inflections, but his high-pitched Big Laugh is like no other.
Many of the actors (including Tom Wilson, Joel McHale, and Tom Papa) are standup comics, and they give their lines slightly ironic inflections — a pause, a smile, a tic — that knock the scenes off kilter, or, at least, away from melodrama.
If there is such a thing as a sadder-but-wiser fairy, Scheie's crisp elocution and deliciously ironic inflections occasionally locked forces with a slow burn that could make Bea Arthur jealous.
I especially like the vain double-wrist flare with which Smith commences his first encounter with "Mr Anderson", and all the ironic vocal inflections in the interview that follows.
For this reason, the new Penguin version of The Master Builder sensibly confesses to having dropped much of this labelling, although when it is retained, with Solness's womenfolk referring to him as "Oh, Master Builder!" or "poor Master Builder", most modern actors would feel nudged towards an ironic or sarcastic inflection, which may or may not have been what Ibsen wanted.
Talking with old acquaintances in old stamping grounds, I noticed how often they found difficulty in giving an account of what Bacon was like for them; how self-deprecating, how ironic, how camp he could be with the odd inflection or accent.
