Sentence examples for mildly ironic from inspiring English sources
The tone is flippant or mildly ironic.
It would be mildly ironic to find the tactic backfires.
It is sentiments like this that make even mildly ironic people wince.
He has a skeptically friendly, mildly ironic conversational manner and a droll, filigreed prose style.
You'll come out singing theme tune Everything is Awesome in only mildly ironic fashion.
Still, her proposal that the invisible hand is a "mildly ironic joke" may be a few shades off.
It is Lili in a nutshell: observant, ironic, mildly arrogant and strangely lighthearted in the face of a cold and godless universe.
The caption reads: 'Bulgaria's nascent capitalist class gathers for its annual general meeting.' The words might be ironic, but there is something genuinely disturbing, even mildly terrifying, about the image.
He considered the second half of the disc to be mildly disappointing, although concluded that this was excusable because the overall record "[balances] the ironic and the heartfelt, the quirky and the mainstream, the real and the fake with remarkable aplomb".
Sure enough, there is indeed something mildly insulting about Champagne Life, not least its grisly title (its curators insist this mention of bubbles is ironic, but I'm not so sure: the exhibition's major sponsor is Pommery).
Why waste time with mildly titillating late-night satellite TV shows such as Sexcetera when you can watch Vice TV's super-ironic sexpert Karley Sciortino investigating the outer reaches of sexual fetish?
