Sentence examples for ironic style from inspiring English sources

"Sometimes you have to take back the country," carols the crowd that throngs around Jackson in "Bloody Bloody," reprising the song that opens the show, "Populism, Yea, Yea," one of Mr. Friedman's rousing, nose-thumbing anthems in the ironically sincere (or sincerely ironic) style known as emo.

He expressed the identity crisis of postwar Belgium in an idiosyncratic and often savagely ironic style.

Even something like Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground is written in a really ironic style.

Ironic style distances the process of gentrification by putting it in inverted commas.

Cantor's description of the end of the revolt is a nice example of his terse and ironic style.

The form may matter more, the cool ironic style of the so-called postmodern era.

But every once in a while the band threw out anchors into older, more earthy and less ironic styles, and the saxophonist Frank Wess, now 80 and playing beautifully, remained its conscience and anchor.

His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in "A Modest Proposal", has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".

It is striking how, in the best ironic sitcom style, characters begin every sentence with 'I', while protesting empathy with their fellow human beings.

Bao Ninh's 1991 masterpiece "The Sorrow of War" (published in the United States in 1995) includes images of senseless death and waste on the Ho Chi Minh trail, presented in an ironic, nonchronological style that recalls O'Brien or Joseph Heller's "Catch-22".

Not only has Mr. Seinfeld "made great brands" by making them intrinsic parts of episodes of the series, Mr. Dweck said, he himself has become a brand, as has the show, standing for "an observational, ironic, New York" style of comedy.