Cronenberg handles his material with the same ironic, observant affect with which the Arosteguys interpret the modern world.
As a comic, Ansari doesn't avoid sexuality, but he does tend to treat it with ironic distance, often performing his most explicit material in lewd caricature.
That may sound like a hard slog, but for anyone interested in understanding human nature, the material is engrossing, and when the going gets heavy, Pinker knows how to lighten it with ironic comments and a touch of humor.
Some celebrated "Assassin of Secrets" with ironic tributes.
The Coens' dialogue is sharp and clever, and they're equipped with cool, postmodern sensibilities that encourage them to treat everything that's ever been thought or said — whether sublime or ridiculous — as material for ironic appropriation.
Sweetening and lifting the material were the preferred modes of the past, as in George MacDonald's The Light Princess or Jacques Demy's 1970 film Donkey Skin, which treats father-daughter incest with ironic lightness.
The Coens' dialogue is sharp and clever, and they're equipped with cool, postmodern sensibilities that encourage them to treat everything that's ever been thought or said whether sublime or ridiculous as material for ironic appropriation.
"Give me a little time to get used to no recreational materials and wearing a polyester uniform and living with 4 tatooed ex-cons and I'll be right as rain," he wrote the editor and literary critic Steven Moore with ironic brio shortly after starting.
I must wear my opaques with ironic pride.
The birth of a new government in Lebanon is often greeted with ironic festivity.
