Sentence examples for ironic touch from inspiring English sources

His ancient Aztec name is an ironic touch.

Carey's left-field sensibility and style have matured into serious fiction with a lightly ironic touch.

The viciousness that makes Juvenal and Jonathan Swift great is beyond his modestly ironic touch.

It is an ironic touch typical of Phoenix's thwarted career that his finest performance was scarcely noticed.

The French have never really forgiven London for pipping Paris as 2012 Olympic hosts but their pique now has an ironic touch of piquancy.

(In a lovely ironic touch, the conference hall is only a few steps from the Ferris wheel in the Orson Welles film noir classic set in postwar Vienna, "The Third Man".

Below the surface of this genial suite of dance tunes, you detect the young composer sticking it to the Soviet cultural police with seemingly ironic touches: sour voicing of chords; excessively filigreed clarinet riffs; sturdy bass lines that turn thumpy.

These scenes were handled surprisingly convincingly, with smartly ironic touches, such as the terrified passengers using their phones to tell people they loved them, despite the possibility that doing so could mean it would be the last call they ever made.

Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle gave the film one and half out of five stars, saying "Enshrouding the whole gooey mess in the already blood-spattered surgical garb of the ongoing health care debate is a crafty move on the screenwriters' part, but once you get past that pseudo-ironic touch, this Saw is no more or less disturbing than any other in the series".

The apartment is decorated with a designer's eye for color gray furnishings, orange accents and with ironic postmodern touches.

But for a man so reluctant to reveal anything of himself (to a journalist! Who'd have thought it?), his preferred plot motivation is a touch ironic.