Sentence examples for ironic role from inspiring English sources
"China is one of the noisiest countries in the world," Mr. Yao said, "and 'sound art' plays a very crucial and ironic role in the society here".
In an ironic role reversal at the end of the novel, Molina dies as a result of his involvement in politics, while Valentín escapes the pain of torture by retreating into a dream world.
Championing a new ninth planet is an ironic role for Brown; he is better known as a planet slayer.
Corliss also hinted at Franken's "possibly ironic role as a relentless self-promoter" in proclaiming the 1980s "the Al Franken Decade" and saying, "Vote for me, Al Franken.
What is it did not discuss is the ironic role of the "wait until marriage" efforts in driving up the rates of single parenthood.
My light is in trusting my gut wrenching ironic role in being a childfree mother as I mother in more ways than I ever could have imagined.
Despite a few slips back into ironic role-playing, the music on "Red Line" sounds fresh, and the band has never sounded so confident.
By comparison, d'Urville and Wilkes had played an ironic supporting role.
Later, it is Tony who is to assume an ironic, quasi-paternal role and there is a sharply imagined scene when he turns up at the house of his dealer, a dreary, seedy, objectionable guy living alone.
Such comments are more than a little ironic, given the role government intelligence agencies have been shown to play in undermining data privacy — and arguably digital security generally — via dragnet surveillance programs which harvest data via commercial services and by tapping into the Internet backbone, as revealed by documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The ironic reversal of roles hardly needs to be noted.
