Sentence examples for speaking ironically from inspiring English sources

Was he speaking ironically?

He may be speaking ironically, but Rita takes his words at face value.

Freud draws deeply on his cigar, speaking ironically, acting manipulatively, simultaneously bold and cautious in advancing his theories about sexuality.

According to a spokesman for the firm, the partner who said he bills clients for "thirty-five or forty hours on a good day" was speaking ironically.

But she could have been speaking ironically, meaning and believing that she did not have to work, thereby giving an affirmative answer to Alan's questions.

Suppose that while walking with us in the driving snow, Swede says "It is a good day!" We may wonder whether he was speaking literally, and meaning just what he said; or speaking ironically, and meaning the opposite of what he said; or perhaps engaging in understatement, and meaning that it is a wonderful day.

So strong was this orthodoxy that a more adventurous staging of "Three Sisters" in 1967, directed by Anatoly Efros, in which Vershinin spoke ironically, had to be closed down.

Like Lucretius, he admired Ennius and the old Roman poetry and, though apparently interested in Hellenistic work, spoke ironically of its extreme champions, the neōteroi ("newer poets").

But Socrates does not always speak ironically, and similarly Plato's dialogues do not always aim at creating a sense of bafflement about what we are to think about the subject under discussion.

Addressing residents in the Nicaraguan town, Bernie spoke ironically about Reagan's foreign policy.

I was careful to only speak it ironically.