Sentence examples for knowing irony from inspiring English sources

Jurowski conducted with infinite grace and a nice line in knowing irony.

The irony of postmodernism is you would work with styles with a certain detachment and kind of a knowing irony.

"Party Time" is excessive, even over the top, but its knowing irony saves it from degenerating into theatrical kitsch.

Like Chelm stories, Yiddish literature can be unpredictably unsettling, combining innocence and sentiment with dark sarcasm and knowing irony.

Some Nepalis have yielded to what Ms Thapa calls "a retreat from idealism into a knowing irony and its source, despair".

The knowing irony and humour that runs through all of his work likewise distinguishes it from many of the B-movies he champions.

There's an endearing, "public opinion be damned" quality to it, though it's made Kilimnik a hugely influential art star of the past three decades; her sincere whimsy blowing sweet fresh air through knowing postmodern irony.

She understood, it seemed to me, that everything she said would have to be able to survive the listeners' intelligence and sense of irony; her own intelligence was high and refined, her sense of irony knowing and humorous.

Sometimes pat and sometimes gnomic, he has a knowing, quasi-authorial irony that keeps his self-analysis interesting.

And, like the very best children's books, it is a real pleasure to read aloud because the voices are great and she throws adult readers very savoury and knowing titbits of irony".

And the 'glue' that holds the assemblage together is irony, knowing where the references come from and how they have been replaced.