Sentence examples for lightly ironic from inspiring English sources

Carey's left-field sensibility and style have matured into serious fiction with a lightly ironic touch.

Jazz musicians in general are not prone to forelock-tugging, and Humph's rare references to his past tended to be lightly ironic.

Sensitively and even wittily translated by Miranda Richmond Mouillot, it begins in a detached, lightly ironic tone that recalls French film comedies of the thirties and forties.

I suppose Tadzio Koelb intended to be lightly ironic when, reviewing Rebecca Hunt's novel, "Mr. Chartwell" (March 13), he wrote: "Every few years, there appear in most countries books that reveal the dirty truth about the national readership.

Mr. Adler is a brand name, or at least he is a brand name for people who are interested in lightly ironic decorating, or for people looking for a no-fail hostess gift.

So this secular Jew, "who scarcely knew how to pray", found himself performing, "with a lightly ironic piety", a rite historically connected to the medieval Christian theology with which his scholarly work was concerned.

Clooney is America's national flirt, a pitchman on talk shows and red carpets who, against the background hum of the world's lust and envy, is lightly ironic, clever, and self-deprecating, with furrowed brow and bobbing head, and a gyration in the lower jaw suggesting something being moved around under his tongue.

Yet it is difficult to imagine that "The Great Gatsby" — with its crisp, alliterative, lightly ironic title — would have fared as well under Fitzgerald's preferred name, "Trimalchio in West Egg," or that "Pride and Prejudice" would have flourished as "First Impressions".