Sentence examples for ironic laughter from inspiring English sources
Cue screams of ironic laughter.
His bullets ricochet through the alley like ironic laughter.
You can hear the ironic laughter of posterity – it's laughing at us – if you listen for a few minutes.
"By this time," Nourse wrote, "we had become thoroughly tired of the game and the usual witticisms were replaced by ironic laughter.
In June, Green MP Caroline Lucas wore a No More Page 3 T-shirt at a Commons debate – there was much ironic laughter when she was instructed to cover it up – and suggested the pressure would continue.
In November he performed Bored in the USA, this album's least-good piano ballad on US TV, complete with ironic canned laughter, self-playing piano, an orchestra and beehive-poking lyrics.
Nathalie herself cries rarely in the film: once, when she has to leave her mother at a care home with its "smell of death", again when she is on a bus, and her tears are converted into an ironic gulp of laughter on glimpsing her husband on the street with his new girlfriend.
As so often in "Don Quixote," the reader travels, in a page or two, through different chambers of laughter: affectionate, ironic, satirical, harmonious.
A critic at the Independent derided an early episode of Count Arthur Strong, which concludes tonight, saying: "Good radio comedy could not have sounded less funny on television, nor canned laughter more ironic".
The film specialises as much in a kind of ironic gallows humour as in laughter pure and simple, but bitterness is also avoided - which is a small miracle in itself considering the subject matter and the setting.
