Sentence examples for ironic purpose from inspiring English sources

Do we ever allow it as an end in itself, or must it always be redeemed by some aesthetic, social, moral or ironic purpose?

Not a writer of ironic purpose – he has no satirical anthems to offer on a prevailing culture – his appeal lies in the sense of intimacy that comes with personal songwriting.

And you can call that irony, but I think it doesn't always serve an ironic purpose, I think that sometimes it can just be another layer.

Yet again the Sharks' "Up, Up Cronulla" team song appeared to have written for ironic purposes.

Picasso showed how to use the newspaper as found material, literally ripping it off to serve fresh and ironic purposes.

They have been surprisingly faithful to the tone and idiomatic tang of Mr. Portis's novel, perhaps because its worldview suits their ironic purposes.

But where did his handlebar mustache go? (Perhaps it no longer exists because michael sacks at last came to realize that the mustache, although funny for ironic purposes, did, indeed, look ridiculous).

Do not use Baron, Baroness etc unless there is a particular reason to do so – for example, for satirical or ironic purposes ("Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham").

It's probably the right time to bring this phrase back into recognition before the awfuls subjugate it for their own ironic purposes.

The director, deliberately, or for ironic purposes, creates a disconcerting, Goebbels quality, racial divide and animus in the audience viewing Django.

You should say them with perfect diction, for ironic purposes (did they offer diction at Campbell Hall day school? Gorgeous campus, by the way. Not like my crap-hole urban high school).