Sentence examples for ironic manner from inspiring English sources

Mullen, a former Marine Corps colonel, has an offhand, ironic manner.

The proposals would dismantle Fannie and Freddie in a most ironic manner.

Schmid combined a single-minded tenacity, with a quiet, sometimes ironic manner.

In her customary ironic manner Gabriele Wohmann described three sisters growing old with dignity and humour (Bitte nicht sterben).

But their stylishness and vaguely ironic manner do suggest self-consciousness in their approach to being in a band.

Instead, the tribulations of its two main figures -- a composer, Clive Linley, and a newspaper editor, Vernon Halliday -- are treated in a cooler, more ironic manner, even as they move toward disaster.

He has a skeptically friendly, mildly ironic conversational manner and a droll, filigreed prose style.

Observing the world through horn-rimmed spectacles in an apparently detached, ironic, quizzical manner, he's a camera with its shutter open and appears as coldly fastidious and un-Californian as his immaculate suit, white shirt and tie.

"They just surround themselves with more and more tasteful office furniture and get more and more ironic in their manner".

It is suspenseful, droll and crisply ironic in the manner of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories about well-bred people who commit unspeakable acts.

Finally, could you tell me about your move away from England, and why you stopped releasing albums through Ironic in this manner?