Sentence examples for ironic uses from inspiring English sources

Adopting his clinical style, they have noted the ironic uses he made of photography and in different ways paid tribute.

Ironic uses of sexist language to make a point in comedies were weeded out, along with compliments about a person's appearance in situations where an on-screen relationship already exists, eg two Breakfast presenters on the sofa.

In "Our Andromeda" Shaughnessy has brought to bear her inevitable syntactic and sonic hula-hooping, her playful and ironic uses of form, her vivid mind on poems that absolutely matter.

Because of its frequent ironic uses, "regret" is rather too cool a word for what I might feel, or indeed for what Agamemnon might have felt.

Wilmore's manner is more avuncular than Colbert's or Jon Stewart's, but softness also has its sly, ironic uses.

In "Shostakovich," the highlights are perhaps the cleverly ironic uses of his own music to tell the composer's story as he scrambles around Charlie Chaplin-like to avoid the bullets that pick off his contemporaries one by one.

Ironic use is also in vogue.

7.44pm: Ironic use of Christian icon as mirror.

It is unclear whether this is an ironic use of the font comic sans.

Another device is Grenville's frequent ironic use of italicized words or phrases, over which each character pauses.

One of the great inspirations of "La Juive" is the ironic use of a church organ and the Te Deum as counterpoint to the action.