Sentence examples for ironic view from inspiring English sources

It's a passionately ironic view of the "sacred Lost Cause".

But Mills had a far more ironic view of his upbringing.

Vitali's bleached-out beach scene is an ironic view of Italy today as a false paradise.

A retrospective of the German émigré director showcases his furiously energetic, somberly ironic view of his adoptive country.

"What a good thing it is that we have always adopted an ironic view of everything, however seriously we have taken it," he mused in his memoirs.

Kott's deeply ironic view of the political process impressed filmmakers and theatre directors such as Peter Brook King Learr, A Midsummer Night's Dream).

His finely wrought, epigrammatic poems, with their tragically ironic views of Hellenistic and Byzantine history, contain daring, sensuous glimpses of homosexual love.

It's neither an underrated gem in need of a critical second wind nor is it so bad that it survives as an ironic viewing experience.

"I think I share their self-ironic view," Ms. Rist noted cheerfully.

All this is richly ironic in view of the fact that the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell (raised to the peerage as Lord Baden-Powell) was in probability a gay man himself — though closeted, of course, considering the circumstances.

Thomas's claim is particularly ironic in view of the fact that the CEF makes quite clear its intent to teach that no amount of moral or ethical behavior (pdf) can spare a nonbeliever from an eternity in hell.