Sentence examples for ironic move from inspiring English sources

"Dorian Gray" became Carson's main resource, and he elected to treat it as Wilde's life story — an ironic move, because in its pages Basil complains that "men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography".

Painting themselves as sensitive to racism or women's rights is an ironic move from a movement that believes women should have no control over their bodies and futures, but a savvy one nonetheless.

In a deeply ironic move for a materialist state that officially believes physical matter is the only reality, the order claimed the right to manage the reincarnations of all lamas in Tibet, who may number around 2,000, including the Dalai Lama, the most eminent one.

Rather an ironic move for the former film distributor-cum-proselytizing tool, as Methodist founder J. Arthur Rank saw it.

To the extent he sometimes seems to embrace this stronger claim (see the example, above), we must simply take Nietzsche to have overstated his case — something which his penchant for hyperbolic rhetoric and polemics often leads him to do — or to be engaged in the kind of ironic move described by Clark, above.

It's an ironic move given that all the music in question will no doubt appear online again somewhere else, but it also heralds a new approach from the IFPI, which now seems to be going after 'the pushers' instead of 'the druggies' (with apologies to any Amsterdam readers).

To convey what is significant in a poem, we might describe it as ironic, moving, expressive, balanced, and harmonious.

Clever, ironic and moving.

It makes the company's new slogan for webOS all the more ironic: "Life moves fast.

I just sort of assumed it was ironic and moved on – she's a musician, performance artist and zinemaker, so chances are we were terrorised by the exact same people in our younger and more vulnerable years.

I just sort of assumed it was ironic and moved on she's a musician, performance artist, and zinemaker, so chances are we were terrorized by the exact same people in our younger and more vulnerable years.