Sentence examples for ironic response from inspiring English sources

"She has a point, but at the same time, it could just be an ironic response to that idea".

A joke encapsulates the ambivalent attitude toward the communist past, as it exemplifies the traditional ironic response of Bulgarians both before and after the fall of communism.

Was the final, triumphant (excessively triumphant?) episode Shostakovich's ironic response to Soviet authorities who had condemned his music as decadent modernism?

Asked by lawyer Jason Galbrepresenting, representheg the BBC, if it could have been an "ironic response" to her lighthearted suggestion, Smith said: "It's possible but I honestly don't think that was how it was meant.

This nationalism may be an ironic response to the growing need for international co-operation so many of today's issues are global from tax evasion to terrorism—that deals have to be done between governments.

Four months later, Gilberto released Jobim's "Desafinado," an ironic response to the critics that upped the ante.

The music when Don was pulled over in his dream was Merle Haggard's Okie From Muskogee, his possibly ironic (possibly not) response to draft-burning hippies.

The book ends with Barnes's ironic, stoic, tragic response to Ashley's wistful insistence that they could have had a good time together: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" Eighty years later, in that same city, Adam Gordon concludes his story with more hope: "Teresa would read the originals and I would read the translations and the translations would become the originals as we read.

It would be ironic were this response itself to rouse worldwide outrage, making allies less likely to collaborate with us and stiffening our enemies' resolve.

Kellyanne Conway explained the contradiction during an appearance Monday on "Fox and Friends," saying the tweets were meant to be ironic and in response to the Washington Post's reports.

Exam boards have put a renewed focus upon "personal response" (somewhat ironic considering their questions are anything but).