Sentence examples for ironic undertone from inspiring English sources
It is a happy combination of the frivolous (just fancy that!) and the threatening (help, a bear!) with resonances of a newly launched sweet, plus an ironic undertone of Russian‑ness.
But with sardonic and ironic undertones.
In the 1970s Gerrit Komrij and others returned to traditional forms such as the sonnet and to rhyme, often with knowing and ironic undertones.
Indeed, instead of turning the channel, millions of Americans, drawn by the show's odd mixture of positive thinking and campy, ironic undertones, have adopted SpongeBob and his chipper, rainbow-colored world.
Borges' use of labyrinths, mirrors, chess games and detective stories creates a complex intellectual landscape, yet his language is clear, with ironic undertones.
Cocky with an undertone of ironic self-deprecation that forestalls accusations of insincerity, he is a superb promoter of himself as a brand.
— had a national undertone.
The stories are wonderfully crafted and cared-for, the undertones are witty and ironic, but also serious and filled with sympathy.
