Investments in distressed assets may also provide ironic comfort.
When the images themselves are terrifying, music can bring about an even trickier reversal, providing ironic reassurance or genuine compassion.
Shakespeare used vocal music to evoke mood, as in "Come, thou monarch," and, while doing so, to provide ironic commentary on plot or character.
It often seems easy to guess whom Mr. Terkel liked and who is there to make a particular point or provide ironic contrast.
To attend religious school on Sundays in Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, Jewish children walk beneath a Soviet-era mosaic of an idealised youth into the Pioneer House, formerly home to a Soviet youth organisation, where a larger-than-life-sized statue of Lenin provides ironic inspiration.
My shoe!" someone yells, who is either getting his yeezys stomped on or is providing "ironic" colour commentary from the safety of the back.
TV Guide critic Matt Roush opined that "the civil rights movement provides ironic bookends for the episode, reflecting how insular the universe is for these smug but deeply flawed purveyors of the American dream, none more memorable and maddening than Don Draper Jon Hammm), the alpha hunk who appears to have it all.
And then, the very next evening, there was another event that provided an ironic counterpoint to that summer valentine.
Bill Wendell, a radio and television announcer whose crisp authoritative voice provided an ironic foil to entertainers from Ernie Kovacs to David Letterman, died yesterday at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla.
It could be an allusion to the word komaru, which in Japanese means "troubled," and provided an ironic reference to his always being broke.
