Rather than stopping things short, the song ironically comments on and advances the action.
Nonetheless, as Hall ironically commented at the time, advocates of the postmodern were pronouncing the "death of the subject" at the very moment when the black self was constructing itself as a speaking subject.
The idea is that you are pretending to speak in the common language of Facebook, and are in fact speaking in that common language, but are aware of how unoriginal you are being; so when you write "omg" you are ironically commenting on the use of "omg," but when other people write "omg" they are seriously saying "oh my God".
Thereupon Johannes Rau ironically commented on this lapse by observing that Heinrich Rau was a "Minister of Trade, a Swabian and a communist" and he was none of the three.
"Yes, it's me," Mr. Yue said in a recent interview, and he smiled, though in a gentler, less face-splitting fashion than the man in his paintings — the one who drifts Zelig-like past various familiar backgrounds making a sardonic, or perhaps ironically despairing, comment on the passing scene.
Ironically, the comments made by Obama regarding free speech and internet freedom became targets of the Chinese internet sensors and fell prey to what is known as "The Great Firewall of China".
Her life goal and ambition became the ensurance of succession of Shantanu's lineage and inheritance of his fortune by her sons but ironically (Ayyer comments), Bhishma - whose right to the throne was snatched because of her - outlives her children in life and in fame.
It was a rule he honored -- brilliantly -- in the breach, introducing romantic love into his stories only rarely and in order to comment ironically on its silliness.
It's the punchiest in this show of five, well, metaphysical photographs that seem to comment ironically on science, art, their ambitions and intersections.
