“Welcome to the Stalag,” said a man with an ironic smile and an English accent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was ironic; as a child I hadn’t particularly liked working in the fields. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s ironic that Apá works at a candy factory. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’d never considered, though I should have, that these crackpot prejudices of Bunny’s which I found so amusing were not remotely ironic but deadly serious. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He wanted to rise—a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise—and, at once, to leave this temple and go out into the world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Petra Cotes watched him arrive without surprise, joy, or resentment, and she only allowed herself an ironic smile. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is ironic to see the same people in my neighborhood fight each other all the time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My flesh crawled, remembering the ironic, almost humorous twist he’d put on the last words—oh, God, I thought, my God, how could I have listened to him? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She did her best to clean up, but she found it ironic that she was in an actual Roman city and couldn’t enjoy a nice hot Roman bath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Cordelia’s father sits at the head of the table, with his craggy eyebrows, his wolfish look, and bends upon me the full force of his ponderous, ironic, terrifying charm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had an ironic smile on his lips, and—a phrase I haven't heard in a while—bedroom eyes. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed ironic, having finally gotten myself a stove, not to be able to use it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And how ironic that my sister is leaving me again tomorrow. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Throwing down an absurd card only works when you’re ironic, not medicated. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He thought it was ironic that everyone was trying so hard to leave home, when all he wanted to do was stay in one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He accepted the ironic smiles of the owner of the house, Blanca’s grimaces, and the perennial distraction of Clara, who, even after a year, was still asking him his name. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the kings-of-anns caught it and tied it with his guige, for which the people gave him an ironic cheer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And ironic as hell. When you talk about him that way, I hate him for coming between us. Do you think he’ll ever let you... let us...” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled that ironic smile of his that always made me feel so foolish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She wears shirts with puppies and kittens and not in an ironic way. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A situation is ironic when the result is the opposite—or pretty much so—of what was intended. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarcasm didn’t come naturally to her, and even to herself she sounded more plaintive than ironic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This series called Real Fake. Stuff that is crazy ironic.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Angry Arms of Death gives me a knuckle-tap and says “stay real,” which is ironic in ways that neither him nor his skulls can grasp. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I thought how ironic it was that Jake’s telescope could see stars a million light-years away, but not the town it was in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they were special from their jeans and T-shirts, their knowing, ironic looks when obscure works of literature were referred to. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It is ironic, therefore, that later examination of the photographs taken on that expedition showed the errors were as great as the effect they were trying to measure. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: The ironic thing is I didn’t expect it to work. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The prosecutor looked at me with an ironic gleam in his eye. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ironic thing is, there wasn’t much left to decide. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so ironic how all this got started. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn't think I could convince him that having the little bride and groom fall into a puddle was ironic. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

John smiled back at her, a smile that, despite the shy gratitude it was meant to convey, did not escape being ironic, or even malicious. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Those lively feathers don’t really match her personality, but like Tata Boanda in his ladies’-wear sweater, she seems unaware that her outfit is ironic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I learned the Spanish word for succeed, I thought it was kind of ironic that the word exit is embedded in it. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m being ironic. Don’t interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite. There!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was kind of ironic that as anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and the rest of the Western world increased, the media’s interest in my story grew in tandem. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I think it’s ironic that my mother wants me to fight the divorce. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara asked, and he noticed an ironic gleam in her hazel eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is ironic, but when we say someone is a “crusader,” we generally mean he is striving to do something noble: he is trying to improve the world. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

A little ironic, the sentiment her role calls for. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The camps were different, yet alike. Same overcrowded barracks, each with a Some of the concentration camps, including Gross-Rosen, had the ironic words “Work Makes One Free” above their entrances. number. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few ironic remarks Phineas ever made, and with it he quietly brought to a close all his special inventions which had carried us through the winter. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each bumper sticker has the name of a college on it, which is sort of ironic, because not many of the students here will get to go. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most darkly ironic is the understanding that no one may be gleaned who wishes to be gleaned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This fresh blow coming swiftly upon my masquerade of the night before was ironic, and rather horrible. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was ironic that given his communication difficulties, Donald functioned as a human telegraph, relaying messages up and down the coast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a bit ironic, you know,” Henry says, gazing up at it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So it was kind of ironic that the part of the army I got enlisted into was the one trying to provide it for everyone. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen Diamondstein would tell you that the red wagon was the problem, but I would say that it's ironic that he should say so. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Not so bad. That's better. Now why is Cohn pitiful? Be ironic." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Allen Diamondstein kept saying, "Isn't it ironic? My father is getting married just as I am getting divorced." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She goes on: “How ironic that the person who taught me the importance of letting people know I appreciate them is embarrassed by my appreciation.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In an ironic turn, I was now one of the ones in charge of them. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Kind of ironic that today the United States would really love more democratic countries in the Middle East, and Iran was one, until the CIA got involved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s ironic that while the Freedom Writers were taking a symbolic stand against violence in our candlelight vigil at the Washington Monument, a murder was being carried out. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He assesses them with his shrewd, twinkly, ironic little eyes and calls them “sir,” as if they’re his graduate students. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to sound composed, ironic, like a man amused at some childish prank, but his face told a different story. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was kind of funny—or ironic, anyway—that Natalie was getting in trouble for telling too much, when really she and the Greystones were keeping a gigantic secret. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“All the more reason you make an ideal suspect. As far as I can tell, Angel is a pretty ironic name for this family.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Their belief in him seemed ironic, perhaps even crazy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a kind of wry, ironic charm that is utterly winning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the burglars take great pains to steal what turns out to contain a homing device that leads the police to them, that’s ironic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ironic death for someone with a leaky space suit: too much oxygen. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A roar of laughter greeted the ironic words. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t it be ironic—” Lee could not resist the thought—“if we should gain our independence from them, on their own Independence Day?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think of Cuba,” Farmer whispered to me in an ironic tone. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Ironic, isn’t it,” she said as they left the kitchen, shrugging, and Pearl let it go without even bothering to tell her that that wasn’t what ironic meant. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alex thought, not for the first time, how ironic it was that they were living in a sixteen-story building and could only get into four apartments. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The presence of Burnham, Root, and Harrison beside the Temperance stone was more than a bit ironic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It’s ironic how Ms. G is helping us write about an undeclared war, and that night she was helping us fight it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But we rarely bumped into each other, and when we did, he always flashed me his cool, ironic smile and greeted me with an offhand, "How you doing?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I search his face, trying to determine if he’s making fun of me or being ironic, but he’s not—he’s one hundred percent serious, or at least I believe he is. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ironic thing is that I have never heard any woman, white or black, express any admiration for a conk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled, and gently raised the flats of his hands, in a sort of ironic benediction. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Unlike good names, pet names are frequendy meaningless, deliberately silly, ironic, even onomatopoetic. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that made this all the more ironic; it certainly seemed more unfair. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Poirot nods, and offers what I think is an ironic smile, but a squirrelly voice in my head tells me it’s sinister. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There he hung or hoved, his vast ironic mouth permanently drawn downward in a kind of melancholy, his lean clean-shaven chops giving him an American expression, like that of Uncle Sam. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would smile, a slightly ironic little smile. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the ironic voice, terrified, it seemed, of no depth, no darkness, demanded of John, scornfully, if he believed that he was cursed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I know how to get out,” Mr. Dacus said in a soothing yet ironic tone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But don’t tell Amelia,” she said, her voice returning to its usual ironic tone, “she’d think it unladylike to want to go to Oberlin.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed ironic that the very love for books that had nourished my dreams of a better life was about to shatter them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeking as always to put himself on equal footing with Jasper, Ged answered the question ignoring its ironic tone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Solemn, humorless despite the slightly ironic smile, he suddenly cut deep—yet with the same mildness, the same almost inhuman indifference except for the pale flash of fire in his eyes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Which was ironic, since she was having dinner with a Titan and a giant. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the Speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We're not packed as tightly as we were upon our arrival, but it's ironic—now I wish for that closeness to insulate me from the icy air blowing in. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He could take a joke, and put on such an ironic self-assured face no one felt bad laughing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

An ironic sign in a war zone at a US defensive position seven miles northeast of Saigon, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

That I was involved in the cases of teens who'd committed violent crimes was itself ironic. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The coincidence of a marriage and then a divorce both occurring in cities named Moscow was ironic enough to make headlines in local newspapers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The origin of these insecticides has a certain ironic significance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then the ironic voice spoke again, saying: “Get up, John. Get up, boy. Don’t let him keep you here. You got everything your daddy got.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As in: It’s not ironic that Grandpop died in a hospital and Dad doesn’t like doctors. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

She ran a steady race, her long ballerina legs graceful, which was ironic since she couldn't stop stepping on my toes during practice. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was ironic, but liberals believed in the South’s racial Manichaeanism almost as completely as Jesse Helms—they just aligned themselves with the folks on the darker side of the color line. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her passionately ironic love for 1980s television dramas is amazing. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I told myself it was bitter and ironic that my father needed to have a heart attack in order for some contact to be established once again between myself and Danny. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I have a tough time with them, which I find strangely ironic. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This we have done in full measure, ironic though it seems. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And it humanizes them—which is ironic, because they’re already human.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Heather she should push the fashion envelope just a teeny bit to be an ironic reflection of the 1950s, you know, innocence and apple pie. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: Jokes is one of those ironic names. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They sound like prudes, which, considering their oeuvre at Truman, strikes me as more than a little ironic. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

What is ironic is that despite how important the Red Summer is to our nation’s history, few Americans are aware that it ever took place. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As I wrote, for some reason or other, one image, symbol, character, scene, mood, feeling evoked its opposite, its parallel, its complementary, and its ironic counterpart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first I wondered if that was because I didn't know the meaning of ironic. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was ironic that I, an African, was seeing the Africa of storybooks and legend for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he often speaks, frank yet cautious, ironic, as if always aware that I see and judge as an alien: a singular awareness in one of so isolate a race and so high a rank. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor found himself trying to reassure them, which was ironic since he didn’t much like flying, either. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he was being ironic, but I should have known better. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The town’s new status may have struck many Southerners as ironic, for in the years immediately following the Civil War, Durham was known chiefly as the site of one of the Confederacy’s final humiliations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, of course. There are all of my notes and jottings. We must never let them fall into the hands of my mother. She may make a fortune from them. It would be too ironic.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First of all, it’s not ironic. I’m kind of a music historian. And for your info, I thought I could wear, um, one of Dad’s suits. Since he’s not going to be using them.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That's ironic coming from a woman helping to prepare us for slaughter. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she sees a glimmer of independence—a raised eyebrow, a carefully worded, possibly ironic observation, like, “Well, we can’t make a decision on that till the boss gets home.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was kind of ironic it was the same place I almost tripped over Ethan and Gillian on the first day of school that year—ironic, or maybe more fitting. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It struck Dell as ironic that there were kids who didn't go to school, and they would be punished for not attending with the threat of being kicked out altogether. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Afterward a reporter asked Lin, “Don’t you think it’s ironic that the memorial’s the Vietnam Memorial and you’re of Asian descent?” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For every ambiguity that is inadvertently funny or ironic, there must be thousands that are simply confusing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Madge shoots him a look, trying to see if it's a genuine compliment or if he's just being ironic. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The city had started hanging grave robbers lately—which was ironic or fitting depending on one’s perspective, as the bodies of the hanged were given to medical schools for dissection. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And how’s this for ironic: the only way to avoid being branded Cap’s backstabber was to get myself embroiled in yet another scheme with the same Zach Powers. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There was something both ironic and gentle about him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Fine, Shay,” Isabella says, and now she sounds annoyed with me, which is all kinds of ironic. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Apparently they sang an ironic twist on traditional human comedy song “One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And all three differ from self-conscious, relativistic, ironic, or postmodern styles, in which “the writer’s chief, if unstated, concern is to escape being convicted of philosophical naivete about his own enterprise.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s ironic that Zero fears it so much, then,” I reply, “but uses his own knowledge of technology to try to stop you.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What I’ve always found ironic about Sweet 16 is that they don’t go above a size twelve. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was not like my outgoing, ironic dad or my tough-chick mom. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch looks out at the clouds, and an ironic smile twists his lips. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I went, You know the part that’s the really ironic thing? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Incidents of my past, both recognized and ignored, sprang together in my mind in an ironic leap of consciousness that was like looking around a corner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like an ironic smile, on that finger; like something mocking her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure it is meant to be ironic.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Next to me, neatly folded in a plastic bag, are my jacket, my pants, my shirt, my tie, my plaid boxers, and my ironic Lil’ Kim T-shirt. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It seems ironic that the commanders considered the boys old enough to fight but not old enough to smoke: The youngest recruits were given candy instead of the usual cigarette ration that older soldiers received. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just sweet. Not ironic sweet. There’s nobody trying to twist it and turn it into something else. Not yet.” Ojai’s Golden Hour 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Music journalists and fans delighted in Caldwell’s unique sound, which combined the gangsta rap he was raised on in Los Angeles with an ironic and darkly comic sensibility. Family says lax security allowed killing of rapper Drakeo 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

“They just assumed I was being ironic and this was some kind of critique of art history, which it wasn’t,” he told “CBS This Morning” in 2018. Duncan Hannah, Artist and ’70s Chronicler, Dies at 69 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Elgar’s stately march becomes an ironic refrain to the misadventures and regrets of the three recurring characters, two men and a woman, who navigate different stages in their lives at a film school. Movie Review: ?Oki?s Movie,? Directed by Hong Sang-soo 2012-04-15T21:22:34Z

So it’s ironic that one of the painting-sculptures in her show “Welcome Back” hangs in the window of the temporarily shuttered Hamiltonian Gallery. Review | In the galleries: Contemplations on the memory of personal spaces 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

They maintain ironic distance without sacrificing emotional engagement and feature strong opinions before subverting them. Exploring That Old Knee-Slapper, Suicide 2011-01-06T22:13:28Z

Nothing can be ironic or sarcastic or a parody anymore ... Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

Unlike their pop predecessors, Disney stars don't bother trying to court the pink pound, ironic indie fans or any other extraneous audience: they concentrate solely on luring the tots away from Peppa Pig. Miley Cyrus: Can't Be Tamed 2010-06-24T14:31:00Z

And his films – Europe has always loved him, has always seen his ironic side. Carice van Houten: ‘I feel like my back is straightening when I become Melisandre’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Chandor is a gregarious sort — notably ironic given his often terse characters — and is, at heart, a probing type who takes roundabout routes to answer questions, even those he posed himself. Director J.C. Chandor follows the money in 'A Most Violent Year' 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

It’s after the tide turns and the plot’s ironic switcheroo is executed that this “True West” loses its hilariously agitating momentum. Review | Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano go at it hard in ‘True West.’ But the fight ultimately fizzles. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Gosling’s character wears a tough-guy shell of ironic protection, but even he throws himself into the moves with openhearted electricity.  Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling's dancing in 'La La Land': beautiful magic or overrated misstep? 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

All are mired in ironic detachment from their misery and attracted to Hark’s simple message. A Madcap New Novel Bursts With Fake Gurus, Yoga and a Bit of Bone-Marrow Smuggling 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

What I was doing was super-colorful and printed with a little ironic wink to vintage,” Ms. Smith said. How the Designer of Milly Broke Free 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

As luck would have it, Tor is also a technology routinely used by governments to pass secret information around, so there's a nicely ironic side to WikiLeaks' deployment of it. John Naughton on WikiLeaks 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

Takeaway being, 1601 and you already have the ironic essay about essays. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“This is the subtly ironic story of a man’s destructive quest for absolute beauty and goodness, told with compassion and skill.” Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Suspense Novelist, Dies at 98 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Immediately she feels a burning attraction towards him, even though he's come dressed as an insufferably ironic hipster Shoreditch milkman. Anna Karenina: can it beat Les Miserables in the Oscars race? 2012-06-21T15:26:39Z

Inspirational means aspirational, no arguments – and it brings out my ironic, grumpy Brit. From Groundhog Day to … Raging Bull? – films to inspire and uplift 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Anything Helps,” about a homeless man, replays the ironic refrain “you think you’re through with some things” when the man has to resume begging with a cardboard sign. Books of The Times: ‘We Live in Water’ by Jess Walter 2013-01-31T21:10:42Z

A set of four in silver or gold sets the stage for ironic cocktail party banter. Our favorite gifts for the home 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

A nice thought, if a little ironic in the circumstances. On the trail of Alan Sillitoe's angry young man 2011-08-15T20:30:03Z

Although she is known for playing wryly ironic characters on shows like “Parks & Recreation” and “The White Lotus,” Plaza said in her first-ever “S.N.L.” monologue that she was sincerely excited to be there as host. ‘S.N.L.’ Mocks George Santos Over and Over Again 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

It’s what passes for wisdom, being ironic and cynical. Barack Obama and Bryan Cranston on the Roles of a Lifetime 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

All of which comes as an ironic contrast to the album that Dee released two years previously. There's more to Kiki Dee than Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2011-01-28T13:16:42Z

It's the very speed at which something so artful in design, so ironic in idea, turns so tedious that is so nettling. 'A Dame to Kill For' is a sinful waste of a sequel 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Despite the insouciant wit, ironic intelligence and wounded heart, “Significant Other” didn’t earn its two hours and 20 minutes of stage time. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The music from the era chimes in too, making otherwise everyday moments into ironic observations. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' revives mutants' fighting spirit 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s just incredibly ironic that the wedding planner’s plans have been completely thrown into the air by Omicron,” Ms. Wexler said. A Wedding Without the Hoopla 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

In fact, I feel like what is truly ironic about the show is the alien seems to be the only real normal one walking around. "Resident Alien" star Sara Tomko on otherness and relationships: "It's so hard to be human 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

As its ruminative title suggests, the record is about teen angst, leavened by Eilish’s humor and by her fluency in ironic Internet shorthands. Billie Eilish and the Changing Face of Pop 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s also ironic that Don is accused of being a con man after he shares his secret, when he is being about as honest as he’s ever been. 'Mad Men' recap: The Big C 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Literally: the scene manufactures a feeling of awe in the room among all these repressed, ironic, arch characters, seeing this rare bird light in the middle of the room, expressing unashamed affection and energy. Mad Men?s Return: Surprise! 2012-03-26T13:11:14Z

Michael Billington writes: It is sadly ironic that Lanford Wilson has died at the very moment we are marking the centenary of Tennessee Williams's birth. Lanford Wilson obituary 2011-03-25T19:05:27Z

What’s remarkable is that Kempowski recounts this grave story almost in a spirit of lightness, with a slightly ironic distance and a quiet, steady humor. Four Books That Deserved More Attention in 2018 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

These writers are smart, observant, ironic, astute, sober, angry, idealistic, cynical, grieving, scared and passionate. ‘Youngblood’ review: A novel about the Iraq War from a soldier who was there 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

He made this song to be an ironic statement. The Protest Playlist, From the Hip-Hop Duo Run the Jewels 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

It adds a note of almost ironic detachment to whatever situation is causing me stress. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Yet they are fictions based on her story, not documents: They're too careful, too ironic, too self-aware for that. Introducing Janine Joseph, a talented poet who writes of being undocumented 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It is more an experiment than an actual film, a riffing tribute to our culture's infatuation with the Spider-Man character that flaunts Oscar-worthy animation and meta humor which is sometimes witty and sometimes obnoxiously ironic. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is a beautiful, bold, overstuffed melodrama 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

The ironic reversal of roles hardly needs to be noted. The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

And that’s a lot of time, between 14 and 40, to be answering ironic public inquiries about the weather up there. Gwendoline Christie: ‘Playing Brienne of Tarth changed my life. I feel emotional’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Scored for two pianos, three wordless singers, wind instruments and percussion, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink concerto that gleefully tosses out notions of stylistic purity for the sake of big effects and a lingering ironic aftertaste. Music Review: Axiom, a Juilliard Ensemble, at Alice Tully Hall 2012-12-13T21:26:23Z

While some of us found her roast to be sharp and ironic, for many in the mainstream media her comments targeting the appearance of Sarah Huckabee Sanders crossed a line. Samantha Bee's brutal Trump taunts: Why her Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner is necessary 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

The ironic thing about the small-scale brouhaha is that Eastwood is a Republican who opposed the bailout of the industry. Eastwood ad sparks the discord it decries 2012-02-06T22:59:00Z

It's ironic that the studio founded by the son of Hollywood founding father Samuel Goldwyn should be the one releasing "October Baby." 'October Baby': Wrapping abortion message in a bland movie 2012-03-22T20:05:08Z

In the distance is a billboard of a man relaxing on a park bench with the ironic slogan, "Lean back, your life is on track." Nick Brandt's 'Inherit the Dust' photos track Africa's tragic urban sprawl 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

"I blame the press," he sighs, affecting ironic despair. Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' 2012-07-01T18:59:01Z

And, of course, there was criticism of Morissette’s use of the word ironic, to describe a black fly in your chardonnay and a no-smoking sign on your cigarette break. Alanis Morissette: from queen of alt rock to Guardian advice columnist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Literary types will be pleased to hear the sympathy is with the library, even if his survival depends, in a neat ironic touch, entirely on football books. Theatre review | Here, There & Everywhere | Theatro Technis | London 2010-03-20T01:03:00Z

The English are renowned for an ironic take on class and tradition — and who better to bring a touch of wit to the royal household than Henry Holland. Special Report: Fashion: Catherine Versus Kate 2011-02-20T18:15:49Z

He had an uncannily quick fluency in the deeply nuanced surrealist humor that is associated with a loose confederation of comically ironic nihilists often referred to as “Weird Twitter.” Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

True, the "video ballet", a piano concerto that nominally tells the creation myth with abstract images by Adès's partner Tal Rosner, is earthier and less pointedly ironic than earlier scores. London Sinfonietta/Ad?s ? review 2011-02-17T17:08:05Z

It chronicles the life of a gorgeous, ageless French model, Guy, whose “more ironic and cultured friends called him, as the dying Proust had been called by Colette, ‘our young man.’ Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

The rank parsimony of insisting on Santa’s whiteness with such vehemence is an ironic way to defend the idea of selfless giving. The “real” Santa: Sometimes it’s a woman! 2013-12-18T18:08:00Z

So why do we still read him, and why do so many people still flock to his plays, despite their archaisms lichened with footnotes and, to citizens of our ironic century, his easily parodied apostrophizing? Review | Shakespeare still matters. A new book reminds us why. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Grace, 31, finds it ironic that she's found success in the action genre. 'Shakespeare nerd' Maggie Grace has been 'Taken' by the action genre 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

It would also be deeply ironic if it is the one Democratic gerrymander of the 2010 cycle that actually leads to the first ruling by the Supreme Court that partisan gerrymandering was unconstitutional. How to un-rig an election: In "Slay the Dragon," citizens fight back against gerrymandering 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Johnson sees ironic parallels in how women were represented by mostly male 20th-century artists and advertising executives. Review | In the galleries: A satire on images of women and the objects they advertise 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The imaginative elements came fast and furious — witty, ironic, funky — but always with a sense of proportion and style. Going to the Max: Dolce & Gabbana 2012-09-23T17:57:26Z

None of this is to say that warm, sincere TV shows are worse, or simpler, or dumber than their more ironic counterparts. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

It’s ironic to me when white people say to black people, “Why are you so angry? Your anger isn’t helpful.” These Authors Are Glad You’re Buying Their Books. Now Do the Work. 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Here’s Alice again: “What are we changing? What are we doing? Nothing, just like our parents did. We’re wry and ironic and dull.” Review: Being Young and Bored in a Book Club on ‘Sunday’ 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

One attribute of a move toward something greater is to reject the safety of ironic remove and risk the possibility of failure. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Close's personality was, in part, like his research: honest, ironic and uncompromising. Anthony Close obituary 2010-10-03T17:41:00Z

"I think he is being ironic," says Maria. Glastonbury 2010: I love Snoop Dogg the artist ? but despise him as a man 2010-06-27T18:59:00Z

In the aftermath of the ’60s, as Wallace saw it, television adopted a self-deprecating, ironic attitude to make viewers feel smarter than the naïve public, and to flatter them into continued watching. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

Satire has few places to go when popular culture pumps out its own ironic defence mechanisms internally. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z

Vocally, "Post Break-Up Sex" and "Blow It Up" shrug their collective shoulders at messy situations, but the insistent momentum hints at ironic contrasts probed by the Strokes a decade ago. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z

It’s ironic because when I was on the show, I didn’t wear a tie. Colin Hanks Learns the Importance of Fashion From Tim Gunn 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

There was no live band onstage, and for a show that’s long been lampooned as a glorified karaoke contest, the move felt ironic. 'American Idol' live a grim reminder of show's faded glory 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

"It's ironic because I was my thinnest when I was my unhealthiest," they said. "Still taboo": Eating disorders are a silent epidemic in professional kitchens 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

It argued that her kind of ironic, transgressive humor flatters herself and her audience, playing it safe. Sarah Silverman Wants to Pop Your Bubble 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

The inherent security risk of this was less troublesome to her than her sense of ironic defeat. Cultural Studies: Computer Passwords Grow Ever More Complicated 2012-06-22T20:21:40Z

Springsteen’s Texas-sized hopes for “The Rising” could have brought with him terrible embarrassment, and resulted in a chorus of critics deriding him as “washed up,” while making ironic references to “Glory Days.” Springsteen’s “Rising”: How Bruce reclaimed his role as a vital voice for America 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

There was something ironic about the fact she said that while wearing a silver beaded gown from Roberto Cavalli, an Italian brand designed by an Englishman, but it may not have occurred to her. Melania Trump, at the State Dinner in Chanel, Gave Everyone Something to Chew On 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Garten has used the phrase a fair amount on her longrunning Food Network program "The Barefoot Contessa," to the point where the internet has turned it into a kind of an ironic meme. Store-bought is (actually) fine: Letting go of the pressures of perfection in the kitchen 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z

“RoboCop” offers visions of violence, of top-down, totalitarian corporate control, and the crumbling of the American Dream itself that proves fundamentally comforting in its cheekiness and ironic distance. Fascism for liberals: “RoboCop” at 30 and the problem with prescience 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

The grimness does not abate at all, and the show’s entire sense of humor is now “ironic music choices” — a construct that is dated at best. Beyond ‘Fleabag’: What Else Will Quench That Quirky Thirst? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

It was an eye of great purity, and one that came to an ironic and undermining position after the long years of argumentative apprenticeship in the studio of Manet's master, the salon painter Thomas Couture. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z

Similarly, La La Land, which sold itself as a modern musical, is all ironic stylisation, a hipster take on the genre. Forget Cats: in a close-run field, Marriage Story was the musical highlight of my holiday 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

In a demonstration of Roy’s tonal range, this section begins in the ironic voice of an Indian government official named Garson Hobart. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Now, she added, it is somewhere between ironic and not. Serena Shahidi Is Redefining the ‘Girlboss’ 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Musically, he veers effortlessly from the ironic big-band swing of That's Not Really Funny, to Prizefighter's Dylan-esque blues, to lithe covers of two Sly Stone songs, Somebody's Watching You and Hot Fun in the Summertime. Eels ? review 2011-07-08T18:05:22Z

The title story, grimly ironic, is about a Christian soldier who possesses uncanny powers of prediction, who sacrifices himself so his mother may live. The Iraqi Christ by Hassan Blasim – review 2013-03-20T09:01:01Z

And he hated us … That's why it's so ironic, what happened … It was political murder. Judgment at Nuremberg – poetic justice for Holocaust perpetrators 2013-01-30T09:30:08Z

Armstrong’s brilliantly ironic dialogue – one character dismissed words as merely “complicated airflow” – allows the viewer space to laugh at what is transparently ridiculous, in a way that is increasingly impossible off-screen. Filthy rich: why the awful antics of Succession are so addictive 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Almost all of the anxiety over the social progress of the baby boomer generation was without justification, making it all the more ironic that it is currently the boomers directing hysterical sanctimony at millennials. My college students aren’t “snowflakes” — they’re tougher than their critics could imagine 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

Some of these ended up in Moscow’s Muzeon Park, which became famous as a kind of ironic burial ground for the discarded icons of the old regime. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

That is somewhat ironic given Dish also was in merger talks with DirecTV. HBO leads Emmy nominations. Dish wants FCC to block Comcast deal. 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

As in the Yates novel, the reader always feels the ironic distance separating the character's wisdom from the reader's own. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

Raymond was relaxed and unflappable throughout, with a gently ironic humour. Letter: Making a scene with Raymond Cusick at Wimbledon theatre 2013-03-13T12:17:59Z

"It was an ironic debunking of the myth of artists as carefree troubadours who don't concern themselves with business," says Ware. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z

The ironic juxtaposition in the story, scripted by McCarthy and Josh Singer, is that of the media and the church, the fourth estate vs. the first, the opinion-poll pariah vs. the presumed path to godliness. Review: 'Spotlight' Is an Emotional Tour de Force 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Aiken, a children’s-book author, treated her fanciful premises with deadpan seriousness, creating an atmosphere that’s ironic and enchanted all at once. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

She has created a series of ironic “CIA Failed Assassination Attempt on Castro” scenarios, whose blueprint-like style quietly mocks the technocratic mindset. In the galleries: Anything but simplicity in these drawings 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The incursion of humor was taken as proof of an ironic stance, which in turn signaled subversive intent or a cynical detachment from the material. “David Lynch should be shot”: Looking back on the madness and chaos of “Blue Velvet” and Ronald Reagan’s ’80s 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

Richard Herring does that, with the get-out clause that "I'm not like Bernard Manning because I'm being postmodern and ironic … But does that make me better than him – or much, much worse?" Funny men behaving boorishly 2013-01-04T19:00:01Z

That the whole thing is one extended, ironic performance piece. Art Review: James Franco?s ?Dangerous Book? of Art 2010-08-19T22:00:00Z

So first it was a normal song, then a forgotten one, then an ironic reference, then a genuine comeback, then a phenomenon, and now it's just there, like the sun or gravity or Hey Jude. Don't Stop Believin': the power ballad that refused to die 2010-12-16T22:14:01Z

I attached the fob, stowed the remote somewhere I wouldn’t lose it — wouldn’t that be ironic? — and went about my life. How not to lose things: Three techniques for keeping track of your stuff 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins explained why she set her film during World War I in terms that have become unintentionally ironic. The confused, confusing nationalism behind “Wonder Woman” 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

But it does seem a little meta in a show that doesn't leave much room for ironic distance. "In Treatment" recap: Season 3 begins 2010-10-26T13:01:00Z

The moment in which Coach Beard suggests Jamie is being accidentally “ironic,” and Jamie retorts that, no, he’s being deliberately “hypocritical” — and then Ted notes that the whole scenario is ironic? ‘Ted Lasso,’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Zava Superstar 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

For Mr. Richie, the “Idol” gig is another opportunity to do what he’s become adept at — trading on millennial pop culture’s ironic fascination with his pleading 1983 hit “Hello” without letting himself become the joke. Lionel Richie Wants to Teach You How to Be a Real ‘American Idol’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

These diplomatic initiatives are ironic, not least because, fifty years ago, the U.S. government harassed and hounded Malcolm at every step. The Music of Malcolm X 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

This may all sound too clever and ironic, or — to use a prefix turned tiresome adjective — too meta. Theater Review: ‘Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,’ at Playwrights Horizons 2013-09-16T02:00:02Z

Inscribed in his memory are the flamboyance and wit that thrived in Fiorucci’s creative heyday, “the outrageous displays,” Mr. Monaghan recalled, “the campy graphics, the ironic sensibility all around.” Up Close: Tale of a Fateful Trip 2011-04-13T20:14:54Z

He is shy and serious, with an ironic sense of humor so subtle it is easy to miss, and he follows many of his thoughts with an accommodating, or gently insistent, “no?” An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

The novel doesn’t offer answers to this question, so the ironic tone can be neither funny nor revelatory. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

His speech is slow and deliberate, conveying a faintly ironic impression of intimacy – but also the occasional suggestion of contempt, as if accommodating his interviewer's stupidity. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

What follows is a mixture of murder mystery, Rodgers and Hammerstein pastiche and ironic romance in which the cop assigned to the case falls for the ingenue. Theatre review 2010-07-07T01:12:00Z

In his comically impulsive and self-deprecating turn, Wood's ironic breach of the fourth wall became a special moment. Review: 'Macbeth,' 'Tempest' among plays staged for free at parks around the Sound 2011-07-19T04:48:06Z

Her characters have little interiority or agency; the fates they run up against tend to feel inexorable, especially in her later stories, in which the ironic distance cools into cynicism. The Unsentimental, Darkly Elegant Stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

There’s no doubt that Cruz, the titular honoree, is beautiful, incandescently so, but it’s a little ironic—and by ironic, I mean pretty tone-deaf—that Jones feels so self-conscious about the assignment. Close-reading the weird canon of “Sexiest Women Alive” 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

I learned this style as a child but I’m not really impressed with my comic or ironic side. Betsy Drake, actress and writer who married Cary Grant, dies at 92 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

He added: “Coming to East Hampton was not about doing business. It was to get away from the gallery. It’s ironic that we have a gallery now.” Eastward, Ho! Even Art Is Leaving for the Hamptons 2020-07-12T04:00:00Z

“Very ironic, very perceptive. They saw the funny side of everything, as well as the tragic.” What’s So Frightening About Identical Twins? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Most of all, they share the ironic juxtaposition of real and unreal one finds in the art of Richard Hamilton. Daleks are a legacy of British pop art 2013-02-25T15:04:55Z

It's ironic that some sponsors are fleeing because it's seen as controversial to be spending money on golf, and yet the tour is scared to death of player controversy. Tiger, The Tour And Inside The U.S. Open 2010-06-15T22:00:00Z

Baldwin is more circumspect on that issue, even going so far as to admit to an ironic sympathy for Trump’s position. How does Alec Baldwin’s Trump impression sound on the page? Yuuge! 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Also ironic is that Zack’s mother spends her professional life studying the Internet. Motherlode: Two Teens, Two Videos 2011-03-21T17:18:56Z

It’s all the more ironic for Mulligan because “Promising Young Woman” explicitly grapples with the litany of cultural expectations about how a woman ought to look and behave. Carey Mulligan Won’t Let Hollywood Off the Hook 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

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. Front Row: Jonathan Adler Expands Into Accessories 2013-08-14T23:38:54Z

He would have loved that – though it's ironic that I got it by being subversive, by being the opposite of what he wanted me to be. God save the Queen 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z

Q: There a lot of ironic moments in "Eclipse." A Minute With: Taylor Lautner from "Twilight" 2010-06-24T18:07:00Z

This self-image, however artful, was true to the man, and the ironic, self-deprecating voice of Not Entitled was his voice. Sir Frank Kermode obituary 2010-08-18T13:20:00Z

When Redmayne trotted his pregnant wife across the red carpet at the Golden Globes, it was the ironic offscreen equivalent of him running the Boston Marathon after playing Stephen Hawking. “The Danish Girl’s” ersatz Oscar bait: Academy can pat self on back for Eddie Redmayne’s undeserved nomination 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s not unmoving, exactly, but all a little synthetic — less like a vintage Roth narrative than like a very well-executed O. Henry story, complete with a deliberately ironic plot twist and a sentimental outcome. Books of The Times: When Polio Disrupted the Playground 2010-10-04T17:16:00Z

Besides, she no longer wants to “sit around in Williamsburg with our friends and trade ironic banter about the latest reality TV show.” Books of The Times: Culinary Comfort in a Tumultuous Middle East 2011-02-06T18:07:19Z

Since Ivy’s emotions are, for the most part, muffled and indirectly expressed, the movie’s title may seem ironic, even as it clearly refers to her medical condition. Movie Review | 'The Exploding Girl': Zoe Kazan and Mark Rendall in a Minefield of Emotions 2010-03-12T00:03:00Z

He writes, “I want to learn to love my body + feel all its sensations”—a desire that turned tragically ironic when, in early 1987, he was diagnosed with AIDS. Lou Sullivan’s Diaries Are a Radical Testament to Trans Happiness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Hunter, who garnered a Pulitzer Prize by writing film criticism for The Washington Post, then caps his tale with a perfectly chosen, ironic reference to a classic film. Depression-era outlaws come shooting back to life in Stephen Hunter’s latest thriller 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

But I find it very ironic because liberals are supposed to defend liberal principles. Bill Maher speaks his truth: “I have never, in my entire 23 years on television, tried to offend people” 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Lydon is synonymous with the irreverence and rebellion he epitomized with the Sex Pistols in songs like "Anarchy in the UK" and his ironic take on Britain's national anthem, "God Save the Queen." No hint of mellowing for ex-Sex Pistol John Lydon 2012-10-15T23:06:50Z

The ironic twist about Denali National Park is that only a small number of visitors actually ever get to see the mountain for which the park is named. Seeking out Alaska’s Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The title was certainly meant to be ironic. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

Such ironic humor is lost on China’s ruling Communist Party. For Chinese millennials, despondency has a brand name 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

“My Struggle” is “a very ironic title,” he said. Knausgaard Tour Arrives in Manhattan 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

In light of the new children's programming, it's ironic that one of the reasons Meinert sold the festival is that he wants to spend more time with his 2 ½-year-old daughter. Capitol Hill is changing — and so will Block Party 2012-05-30T03:53:07Z

When Elizabeth complains that Lucia “burns hot” and Philip replies “That sounds like someone I know,” their ironic, rueful smiles suggest that he’s thinking of a younger, more idealistic version of his wife. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Spy Games Are Exciting, Until They’re Deadly 2014-04-10T03:01:50Z

Her voice remains arresting and androgynous, while the perspective, often, is dystopian and blatantly ironic: calling down a drone bombing, welcoming constant surveillance and looking forward to boiling oceans and burning forests. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s an ironic omission given that the majority of clerical jobs pioneered by men in the nineteenth century—jobs that were central to the formation of modern bureaucracy—are now performed by women. The Office Politics of Workplace Fiction by Women 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Her mouth is pursed, minutely—maybe consternation, maybe the beginnings of a slow, ironic smile. How Radical Can a Portrait Be? 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps it’s an ideal date spot for ironic hipsters. In Virginia, the dinosaurs still roam — sort of 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Like Chris’s movie, her work is treated as an ironic punch line; it’s not clear if we’re supposed to take either of them seriously as artists. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

But his book is not all that ironic or clever. Why Name Your Book After Hitler's? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Beaton is a popular comics artist, and she brings a funny and ironic hipster sensibility to this book about a baby who arrives on the scene and is treated like a king. 6 Great New Picture Books for Kids 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

The artists generally approach their difficult and delicate subject from oblique, ironic and non-partisan perspectives, signalling a recognition of the complex tensions and ambivalences involved in the conflict. This week's new art picks 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

His is the voice of vintage Britpop, rendered in a leisurely, ironic, condescending vein to a distant population he regards as savages. Review: ‘Hamilton,’ Young Rebels Changing History and Theater 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The video abounds with ironic, "not upper-class" images that ordinary South Koreans recognize, said Park Byoung-soo, a social commentator who runs a popular visual art blog. The social commentary behind PSY's 'Gangnam Style' 2012-09-19T10:01:04Z

The ironic punchline of the show is that the one thing missing from these hand-crafted pieces is, of course, industry. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z

I am tempted to call it a Chinatown restaurant about Chinatown restaurants, but that makes it sound ironic and effortful when it is sincere and unforced. Uncle Lou Is a Restaurant for People Who Love Chinatown 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z

The title of the record is deceptive, even ironic. First Listen to U2's New Album, "Songs of Innocence," Released Free at Apple Watch Event 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

“What’s ironic is that, 51 years later, my mother’s great-granddaughter graduated from the same school. And by then, fluency in native Hawaiian had become a requirement — but it took half a century to get there.” In Hawaii, the Search for Sustainable Tourism 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

It is ironic that the National Museum, housed in four neo-Renaissance pavilions built in 1888, largely survived the shelling during the siege only to be shuttered in peacetime by an indifferent administration. Sarajevo’s Enduring Optimism 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Over a decade later, in what some would perhaps consider an ironic turn, I work in food media. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

But Moore leavens her ironic morality tale with dark humor, including the juxtaposition of a billboard and nearby traffic sign that read “Hospice Care: It’s Never Too Soon to Call.” ‘Bark:’ Lorrie Moore casts her eye on modern relationships 2014-04-10T21:14:38Z

But maybe you should just stop reading right now, you "30 Rock" purists who don't want to know what happens or might seem to happen, however wacked-out and ironic it may be. '30 Rock': Ending a 7-season marathon of mirth 2013-01-30T14:18:10Z

Also, the nice, ironic touch in which the "dishonorable" Bronn holds his sword and looks to see if he can spare the knight and be declared the winner, to the boos of the onlookers. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

“I feel there are moments in it,” he wrote, “that hit as deeply into the farce and humor and pity and ironic tragedy of life as anything in modern drama.” Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

“I think girls are tired of it. They’re suddenly much more willing to embrace the ugly or ironic.” With Some Selfies, the Uglier the Better 2014-02-21T21:58:08Z

For a network that repeatedly touted the digital success of shows like "Riverdale" on streaming, it's ironic that streaming would end up playing a role in its slow demise. From groundbreaking to nearly in the ground: The CW’s days of defying expectations are over 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

Considering that La Dolce Vita gave rise to the term paparazzo, it was ironic that the movie resulted in Ekberg being hounded by the press herself. La Dolce Vita star Anita Ekberg dies 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Interpreted as an ironic comment on Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, it drew art-lovers to the gritty Turnpike Lane area. British neighborhood wants its Banksy back 2013-02-20T13:16:04Z

The songs, meanwhile, were carefully chosen, allowing us to hear how Mahler's ironic use of folk-based material and military flourishes maps on to Shostakovich's methodology in the 11th. BBCSO/Metzmacher – review 2013-05-27T16:00:46Z

It took only a few hours for her ironic interest to bloom into something more. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

“But I am not being ironic. This is just what life is for me.” ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

It's irony wrapped in misanthropy wrapped in schadenfreude, and finally covered in another layer of ironic irony. Jennifer Saunders blasts Viva Forever! critics and Psycho was a comedy 2013-02-12T17:51:54Z

They allow you to photograph all things beautiful, mundane, ironic and humorous and then blast it instantly to your networks online. Mashup of technology and photography = iphoneography 2010-09-17T23:19:00Z

I turned to Stella, who was a short, dark, curly-haired young man with very intense eyes and an ironic sort of smile, and said, “I take it you don’t really care for de Kooning’s painting?” When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

The album title is neither ironic nor literal. Inside David Byrne’s Cheerful Dystopia 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

That’s ironic because he’s so obviously a loser: divorced, dissatisfied, trapped in the cage of his own snobbery, scratching out a marginal and largely pointless living. Review: In ‘The Film Critic,’ a Snob Is Tripped Up by His Heartstrings 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Worlds apart from Rufus Sewell’s urbane, ironic portrayal of Melbourne in the PBS television series “Victoria,” Platt’s Lord M unleashes the Opium War on China apparently with scarcely a second thought. The Opium War and the Humiliation of China 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The deft finishing touch is the title: the humorously ironic "Trinket." Last Chance: William Pope.L's giant flag sculpture is art for this political moment 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Dolores’s faith in a just world and common interests isn’t just naïve; it’s ironic, the express result of her programming. “Westworld” is woke: Just like on the HBO show, technology is widening the gulf between haves and have-nots 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

It's ironic that, four years ago, I became obsessed with cycling. What I see in the mirror: Gary Kemp 2012-06-15T21:59:17Z

Music, being the art of clock time, has here the idiosyncratic task of being an ironic advocate of opposing the clock. When refusing the hour saves the day 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

It seems like the start of a political bit, but she keeps repeating the phrase, over and over, turning it into an ironic refrain that mocks political comedy more than engaging in it. Dropping in at the Comedy Cellar With Amy Schumer and Leslie Jones 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

But her sparse, ironic style lacks the self-conscious self-indulgence of Fermor’s prose, and is all the better for it. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

With this and other contradictory food policies and guidelines in mind, it's ironic that the U.S. is now attempting to position itself as the arbiter of rational food choices. Escalating U.S.-Mexico debate over corn forces questions about GMOs, food sovereignty 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

And the fact is I think like there’s something a little ironic about calling 24-year-old women girls was a little cheeky.  Lena Dunham Interview, Part One: What Girls Is Made Of 2012-04-12T10:45:39Z

An ironic decision, given that the subject was the goddess Diana, the personification of feminine power. Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers? 2013-04-28T08:00:33Z

Once Mr. Murphy’s cerebral, melancholy, exactingly rhythmic songs offered listeners a new language with which to explain themselves: sentimental yet ironic, self-mocking, focused on friends and the complicated wages of adulthood. Pop: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem: ‘Shut Up and Play the Hits’ 2012-07-07T04:51:37Z

It’s kind of ironic because Biloxi is where I worked summers during high school. Sit a Spell with Jimmy Buffett 2012-05-29T15:50:14.157Z

So on Sunday, she performed several lines from the play, reading them with ironic drama, at one point lurching into the Elaine Benes dance. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Once a Last-Minute Addition to ‘Seinfeld,’ Wins Comedy’s Top Honor 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

This is more on display in the earlier videos, when she presented herself as a proxy for larger feelings of ironic alienation rather than a grand symbol of herself. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

Perhaps Blanchard could have offered a little more, in her ironic but meaningful fashion, about the appeal of cult entertainment with a high degradation factor. 'Kittens in a Cage' unleashes caustic prison parody 2012-08-09T20:29:09Z

“It’s kind of an ironic statement, especially when the wearer is noticeably young and probably years away from natural graying,” said Michael Fisher, creative director of men's wear at Fashion Snoops, the trend forecasting agency. For Millennial Men, Gray Hair Is Welcome 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

There is no certain answer, and in this uncertainty, the ironic distance between Mrs Bridge and the reader is closed. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

But, as Serota said at the prize ceremony, with an ironic nod in the direction of the chants of the demonstrators, now seems to be all about sound. Susan Philipsz: Sonic boom 2010-12-07T21:30:00Z

That ironic self-deprecation is pretty much the only thing Greenstone still manufactures, and it’s a particular specialty of this book’s narrator, Virgil Wander, who owns the local movie theater. Review | Leif Enger’s fans have waited 10 years for ‘Virgil Wander.’ Was it worth it? 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

There’s a focus on character and controlled suspense, plus shades of Get Out’s ironic and humour. Making a killing: what's behind Halloween's box-office success? 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

I can only assume the the few bravos were ironic. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z

The only thing this long-held bias achieves is to keep Washington’s taxpaying residents in an ironic limbo of second-class citizenship, unrepresented in Congress. Review | ‘The Swamp’ looks at political reform through the eyes of an unlikely hero: Rep. Matt Gaetz 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z

Jordan and Laura playfully pledge that they will wed each other, if need be, joking about choosing an ironic wedding song, although when Laura suggests Whitney Houston, Jordan soberly responds: “Whitney. Is not. Ironic.” Review: In ‘Significant Other,’ a Young Man Pines as His Pals Pair Off 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s an ironic position for Mr. Hilton to take given that he is part of that global elite — he and his wife live in a $12.5 million home in one of America’s richest ZIP codes. Silicon Valley Now Has Its Own Populist Pundit 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

The title of the new show "is ironic," the actor said, "the guy is just learning now not to be a selfish jerk." Matthew Perry returning to TV as "selfish jerk" 2010-08-01T21:53:00Z

Yet even as the Brush Script typeface and embroidery make an ironic comeback, many forms of tiny graphic design feel endangered. Instagram’s Endangered Ephemera 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, we might take as the greatest sign of irony's social force the ironic reality that there will always be pundits out there signaling its demise. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

As we see in "Golden Crown"—in the scene that gives the episode its ironic title—the story of him and his sister has not just been about power, abuse and sexual barter. Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

Mr. Szalay’s subject in “All That Man Is” — the title is deeply ironic — is masculinity under duress. Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

“This is the kind of meme where it has the potential for being subversive, ironic and really challenging things like traditional gender roles and binaries,” she said. The Timesian Urge to Explain a Meme 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Pew Research Internet Project’s latest report, Social Media and the “Spiral of Silence” is a conversation starter…and that’s ironic. Pew Study: Why Don't You Speak Your Mind On Facebook (or Twitter)? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

The result is hipster baby-making music: best enjoyed by hemp candlelight, as you chink a glass of ironic Lambrusco with your life partner. Amelia Lily, Mikky Ekko: this week's new tracks 2013-01-14T06:00:00Z

The Sundance program describes his “playfully ironic, heightened” film as one that “returns him to his roots.” Spike Lee and Stephen Frears Return to Sundance 2012-01-14T00:00:37Z

“It’s a very ironic situation,” Mr. Koolhaas said, “that we are at the same time ignoring yet profoundly influenced and infiltrated by the semiotics of the countryside.” Rem Koolhaas Plans a Countryside Exhibition at the Guggenheim 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Hugo's my favourite, he's really funny and self aware, and a little a bit ironic, as well as being a genius. Child Genius; Agnetha: Abba and After – TV review 2013-06-12T06:00:04Z

It’s a casual joke, an ironic expression of the old fear that if women were given power over men, they’d subjugate them, castrate them, humiliate them. Yes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Feminist 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

If it were an ad for soda or cell phones you’d call the tone ironic distance. Gun owners are obsessed with zombies 2013-02-21T17:28:00Z

There are comic and musical moments throughout — albeit the fleeting comedy of ironic observation and the melancholy music of Sufjan Stevens singing carols. Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

But Williams’s insistence on making Stoner a blameless martyr, rather than a man with choices, and denying him any ironic self-awareness about the causes of his Job-like misfortunes leaves the novel far from perfect. Classic ‘Stoner’? Not so fast. 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

And of course, in Brooklyn, there is a hip, slightly ironic diner where the husband-and-wife owners produce rainbow sprinkles from scratch. The Funfetti Explosion 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

His pieces, while ironic, are meant to convey a deeper metaphysical message. At Venice Biennale, Erwin Wurm Makes Sculpture ‘a Form of Action’ 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

"Clearly, the notion that our thriving national pop culture should be embodied by a 75-year-old cabaret crooner is someone's idea of an ironic joke," McCormick added. Engelbert Humperdinck to sing for UK at Eurovision 2012-03-02T13:11:09Z

It was important to the three creators that, while bitterly ironic, “Have a Good Day!” was not polemical. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

What’s ironic about the activists’ push is that a big part of the reason that it’s still politically possible to repeal Obamacare is because of how few people the law impacts today. Obamacare Activists Prep to be 'Either Celebratory or Agitational' about Supreme Court Decision 2012-05-18T12:13:03Z

When Mercury announces his solo plans, Taylor scoffs at the idea, which is ironic given what went down in real life. “Bohemian Rhapsody” called out for inaccuracies, including handling of Mercury’s HIV diagnosis 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

He was absolutely sincere, there was nothing ironic about him, but he never was a believer in anything but art and love.  Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

The images of the taxidermy animals are especially poignant and ironic in this regard. Allora & Calzadilla celebrate beauty, oddity of animal world 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Far from representing an occasional divergence from our otherwise flawless self-control, the capacity for ironic error seems to lurk deep in the soul, close to the core of our characters. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

An ironic cheer went up in the park as the rain began to fall, an hour before the concert began. Jubilee concert: big noise and a big gap as duke misses date with pop royalty 2012-06-04T22:37:22Z

The meditative spaces and down-to-earth people of the Midwest were central to Wallace’s writing, as he pushed back the ironic for the heartfelt. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

What begins as an ironic fringe interest, discovered while sifting through vinyl oddities, becomes something of an obsession for Young, and the film evolves into a quiet love letter to ephemeral art. Stream These 9 Shows and Movies Before They Leave Netflix in June 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Like her creator, Emer has green eyes with different-sized pupils, which reflect “some charismatic, universal, lighthearted melancholy, like she saw things at a distance, a gently ironic remove.” David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

This combination was transgressive and ironic at a time when a flat, closed paint surface was still revered. Gerhard Richter Rides Again 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

They turned their own self-consciousness, or the consciousness of the identity gap between their public personae and private lives, into an identity in itself, elusive, ironic, whimsical. When the Maysles Brothers Filmed the Beatles 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

“He had this ironic sensibility, and I love irony,” says Graham. ‘To show them in a kind of glory’: How a high-end designer celebrates working-men chic 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Are we breaking ironic ground here, or taking two desultory steps back? The play ‘Collective Rage’: From audience’s perspective, you can say that again 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

He calls the Revolution both “ironic” and “tragic.” Gordon Wood and Woody Holton clash over past and present 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Lee is a theatrical provocateur who addresses big topics with ironic bluntness, by embracing and subverting conventional wisdom. New on Seattle stages: Kafka, a poignant Passover, a statement made without clothes 2013-03-28T22:04:00Z

Moselle said of the all-women crew, “They were using ‘kitchen’ as this ironic way of saying, ‘Okay, if we’re supposed to be in the kitchen, we’re going to be skateboarding in the kitchen.’ These new skateboarding movies challenge gender stereotypes in surprising ways 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

“Captured in spare, ringingly authentic dialogue and leavened with ironic humor, Ford’s close-up on quietly desperate lives, like Walker Evans’s famous photos, is beautiful and disturbing,” Publishers Weekly said of her 1989 novel, “Monkey Bay.” Elaine Ford, Writer of Spare, Detailed Novels, Dies at 78 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

To me, “American Dharma” includes some of the most ironic things that I’ve ever put on film. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Both siblings remain aristocratic enough to maintain an air of superiority and just ironic enough to mock their Dickensian condition. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Each shot is taken from a similar distance, which lends an ironic uniformity to the collection, though no two views are ever the same. | A Photographer Looks to New Horizons 2014-05-08T20:24:59Z

As it is, he distances himself by making them ironic. Review: Jay McInerney’s ‘Bright, Precious Days’ 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

In his case, the results are histrionic, formulaic and possibly ironic; in all entertaining but bankrupt signs of the times. Art in Review: Piotr Janas: ‘Minotaurs’ 2013-08-15T21:33:04Z

The title of the movie may be an ironic comment on Roeg’s audacious attitude to storytelling, or to the tragic fault in our lives generally: the times being out of joint. Nicolas Roeg: a daring film-maker of passionate and visceral brilliance 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z

“But it’s ironic,” Awad added, “because lots of other women are increasing the size of their lips.” Rise in lip reduction procedures and labiaplasty driven by pursuit of 'normal' 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

“La Chienne” is a ferocious, bitterly ironic drama, a diabolical satire on bourgeois hypocrisy that replaces complicitous laughter with accusatory roars of derision. Jean Renoir’s Ferocious “La Chienne” 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Tsushima’s novels seem to derive their charge from a refusal to be ironic. The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

There is graffiti from the first century at Pompeii that refers to boredom with the ironic sensibility of an ancient Banksy: "Wall!" it exclaims in Latin. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z

Indeed, it is ironic that so frothy a work generated such political intrigue. Review: 'A Silent Woman' With a Big Voice 2010-07-27T11:30:00Z

Knoxville and the gang have none of Flanagan's artistic or ironic ambitions. Jackass 3D: Now You Get Sprayed 2010-10-15T17:10:00Z

In fact, in a video he released on YouTube, Anthony even disavowed being associated with the GOP, saying it was ironic that his song was played at the Republican debate. "Rich Men" versus the rest of us: A country hit embodies the GOP's narrative 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z

It was ironic, as many British viewers said they found Morgan “too American”. Morecambe & Wise in America: how the duo made it in the US 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

“It’s ironic that people look at this link between kids and video games and decide the games are what’s causing them to act a certain way,” Dichtl told the Daily Dot. Can video games help cure depression? 2013-04-23T21:21:00Z

The Guide tells Ariel that reading what people say about his music, they always make it sound ironic or kitsch, but on actually listening, it's surprising how heartfelt it is. Before Today you may have considered Ariel Pink quite kitsch 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

"How ironic that I would love to live in the world apparently imagined to exist by so many leading capitalists," wrote Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is "deeply concerned" that "socialists are taking over" the country 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

These essays were published in a volume with the somewhat ironic title “In Gratitude” shortly before Diski’s death. The Cant-Free Elegance of Jenny Diski’s Irresistible Mind 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Some of the best contemporary works in the fair, the compositions here address African-American histories, and include American flags that appear ironic rather than celebratory in intent. The Art Show at the Armory: Blue-Chip Brands Show Their Best 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Painting” doesn’t have the ironic detachment of “Fishing,” but it can still laugh at itself. Review: ‘Painting With John’ Teaches the Art of Living 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

It’s no coincidence that this is all happening in Los Angeles, where comics move to work in TV and movies and stay to become ironic, insular and defeated about it. Riff: Stand-Up Comedy Without the Stand-Up. Or the Comedy. 2012-02-03T22:00:07Z

It was ironic that Suicide had been one of the first, if not the first act to use punk within a musical context, in a couple of their flyers from late 1970. Hidden treasures: Martin Rev – Martin Rev 2013-01-10T17:03:53Z

In a tragic, ironic twist, Dumas was shot and killed by a transit cop in a New York City subway station in 1968. From Beyoncé to Sorry to Bother You: the new age of Afro-surrealism 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Brecht’s most famous technique, the alienation effect, is a push and pull between emotional involvement and critical reflection that is often achieved through ironic or metatheatrical means. ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

It's all a bit ironic for a story predicated on the desire to meet them. The Social Network 2010-09-24T17:26:00Z

It may be unintentionally ironic, but at the time of writing, A Quiet Place 2’s release has been postponed as the coronavirus crisis takes hold. Emily Blunt: 'It's about human beings and how they're affected by a crisis' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

The question, however, was more than a little ironic. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z

Although the show often exaggerates the Wonder Bread textures of heirloom cooking shows and lampoons the weird frequencies of daytime local TV, there is not too much ironic distance on offer. “At Home with Amy Sedaris” Is a Homemaker’s Talk Show as Dadaist Carnival 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

The songs felt painfully prescient or woefully ironic. “No one will ever have sex with me again”: Why I stayed in the closet about my HIV 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Is this meant to be an ironic counterpoint to the accounts of the abused? Review: For Once, Singing of Complete and Utter Clarity 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Yet his own work, as dazzling as it is, seems laden with ironic references to Davis' music of the 60s. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

Interestingly enough, it’s the gruesome horror movie made by a man that portrays those subjects with the most ironic distance and the least desire to titillate, not the gritty urban drama made by a woman. Bad girls, big trouble: The self-destructive young woman as feminist archetype 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

“The Grand Paradise” absorbs this mind-set in all its tackiness without ironic grimaces. Review: ‘The Grand Paradise’ Summons a ’70s Pleasure Palace 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

In the last seconds before the 7 p.m. performance, the two men exchange the traditional ironic preshow greetings, although “This is going to be a nightmare” is new to me. He Invited Us Into His Closet for Theater. And It Was Astonishing. 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

I was just waiting for him to die of some horrible, ironic death. The Walking Dead: season six, episode four – Here’s Not Here 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

It's a work full of ironic cumbia, rockabilly and tropical-tronica tunes, with a straightforward commentary on the zeitgeist of our beautiful but convulsive country. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

What comedy offers, and what the public needs most, is to be reminded of how deeply ironic Trump's actions have been. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

But there was no ironic, Dave-or-Conan-style archness here in deconstructing the artifice of the moment. On James Corden's Late Night Debut, It's One More Mr. Nice Guy 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

Even at the height of his fame, in 1960, he was sardonic, bitterly ironic, unsparing. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

So it was a bit ironic that only a few months later I found myself reading a script for a Prince film that I would eventually write, direct, and edit. How “Purple Rain” found its anthem: “We both knew we needed to find just the right song” 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Cunning, evil directors almost always use classical music as an ironic foil, a tool for dissociation,” Mr. Denk wrote. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The film finished with an ironic triumph – the famous live set on the roof of their Apple headquarters during which the band played "Get Back," "Don't Let Me Down" and a joyous "One After 909." A look inside the Beatles’ messy breakup, 50 years later 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

Is a therapy robot really going to help a Rocket Man stranded on a desolate surface, floating in his own ironic detachment? Perspective | Six graphic novels to read while you self-quarantine 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

It’s somewhat ironic that a man who has spent the past decade seeking out and writing about elegant depressants stumbled onto the topic while on the hunt for stimulants. One Sazerac, and he was in: How one man started documenting a cocktail renaissance 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Adding an ironic other dimension, the looping inventions sprawl across multiple sheets of gridded graph paper. Review | In the galleries: At American University Museum, a world of atmosphere 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Style can and will do many things at once, be ironic, ambiguous, challenging, questioning, quicksilver. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z

It’s a relatable struggle, sure, but it’s also a little ironic: there’s not much in this book that will keep you from wanting to check your phone, either. Review: Top Model Alum Tackles iPhone Addiction and Social Media in New Book 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

At Artforum, Sischy ushered in a new and expansive set of attitudes about art—simultaneously rigorous and ironic, heartfelt and self-aware, sincere and playful. Ingrid Sischy in The New Yorker 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

The lack of irony in his work can itself seem ironic. The Artist Sam McKinniss on Capturing Lorde in the Twilight 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

“The film is ironic and grotesque,” Mr. Rosi told him, “and I feel you have both.” With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z

“Is the concept of people sitting around in goggles going to pollute the concept of ironic self-referentiality?” The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

Now that actual footage of the film has emerged, albeit footage swaddled in one dreadful ironic parody trailer after another, it hardly seems worth getting excited about it at all. The Canyons: 2013's most pointless movie? 2013-01-03T12:57:33Z

Venturi found Blake's disdain amusing, ironic and revealing all at once. Race, violence in Ferguson, Mo., cop killing play out on Main Street 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Look for the queues of ironic trucker caps. The Measure: what's hot and what's not 2013-05-18T06:00:17Z

It all ends in chaos, though of a very ironic and specific kind; what seemed rudderless ends up revealing itself as quite calculated. 'My Joy' takes fascinating detours on a truck driver's bleak road trip 2012-01-19T20:43:04Z

Meant as a gesture of peace and possibility in a post-war world, the abstract Hand seems ironic now considering the violence along this part of the border. Auctioning off utopia 2013-07-14T22:00:00Z

When Metronomy emerged three years ago at the height of New Rave, they wore lightbulbs stuck to their chests, did comical, ironic synchronised dancing and played tiny electronic gadgets with one hand in the air. Metronomy - review 2011-01-24T18:06:20Z

His private vision of the universe—both ironic and mystical—includes a search for something beguiling at the heart of experience and explores a loneliness that feels, to me, American.  The Best Books of 2014 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

“I have students who I think are wonderfully ironic,” she told me. Laura Kipnis’s Battle Against Vulnerability 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

It is perhaps a little ironic, given this, that one of Cray's unexpected claims to fame was on bass, rather than lead, with the fictional Otis Day & The Knights in the cult film "Animal House". A soulful Robert Cray tunes in to the sounds of his youth 2014-03-31T08:03:54Z

It was raining outside, so we were trapped among feedback-playing guitarists, ironic souvenirs, mashed-up magazines and all the other detritus of imaginations that have long since given up. Tate Modern's birthday was a soulless celebration 2010-05-17T10:49:00Z

This is more than a little ironic, since Hudson rarely participated in art fairs. Amid the Bloat at Frieze, Art Worth Seeking Out 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Serving a bunch of McNuggets at the White House to mark their accomplishment is neither ironic nor subversive. Cold Whoppers in the White House: A visual metaphor for the Trump presidency 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

I don’t see this as ironic, by the way. ArtsBeat: Notable Authors Give Snail Mail a Boost 2012-02-03T17:39:13Z

And how ironic that for decades liberals unfairly accused conservatives of “McCarthyism” to shut down debate. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z

Is that a very Danish thing – to be ironic about Christmas? Sofie Gråbøl: ‘Lars von Trier is a very caring person… he's not like his films’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

The irony is, actually it’s not ironic at all, is it actually gets worse. Matthew Rhys and the All-Feeling Male 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

Mulaney’s talent shined through in parts, but the end result felt forced and awkwardly performed, and not in the ironic way its star might have hoped. Fox’s ‘Mulaney’: When a bad sitcom happens to a great guy

Now I find myself attracted more to calm, ironic ones. Phillip Lopate Is No Fan of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

Our critic Dwight Garner said the mix is an “intoxicating combination” of earthy and ironic. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

He's a firefighter who loves America so much that every article of clothing he wears is red, white and blue or the American flag — I'm not even being ironic. "Love Is Blind" hasn't really worked since the first season, so why are we still watching? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z

His playful designs are infused with an air of ironic whimsy, and the newly debuted Moschino store is no different. Jeremy Scott Moschino Store Opens in New York City 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

The scene then introduces one of the film’s terrific ironic inflections, creating a satire of consumer culture on a par with the humor of "The Simpsons." How "Toy Story" changed everything – in its first eight minutes 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Such juxtapositions are characteristic and can be either frisky or darkly ironic. In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The sharp, sometimes ironic juxtapositions of the film are lost entirely. | 'The Marriage of Maria Braun': A Postwar Woman Foiled by Men 2010-11-19T06:30:00Z

Mulaney douses the grim with prepubescent charm, distorting the lines between the ironic and the sincere; in turn, he proves that maybe that line never really existed. John Mulaney on Finding New Material and Why He's No Comeback Kid 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

It serves as a wry comment on the characters' dissatisfaction — almost all of them are very rich by now and no more settled for it — and also as an ironic fanfare to the last act. 'Mad Men' open for business again in Part 2 of final season 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

I mean an ironic mode of narrative, in which what a show “thinks” is different from what its protagonist does. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

What I need to do, Laura’s email suggested, is look for the particularly satisfying boneheaded mistakes, the cluelessly ironic ones. ‘I am a genious’ and other cluelessly ironic spelling errors 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

It could almost be ironic fun if he was punished for a crime he didn’t commit, or if he gets away with murder. Nic Cage's "Grand Isle" falls short of the Southern Gothic crazy it promises 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

For me, to stand for the anthem and to put my hand on my heart feels a bit ironic considering the fact that we are not living an American dream. High School Students Explain Why They Protest Anthems and Pledges 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Given this outspoken aversion to dogma and intellectual rigidity, it is perhaps ironic how consistent his own views remained over the decades. Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Really what we’re praising here verges on literary fiction — speckled with wryly observed details and ironic encounters but drenched mostly in one heartache after another. Better-than-ever ‘Transparent’ transitions into a study of American Jewish-ness 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

But for all the ironic joking, Mr. Ford achieved something important with this show: fashion credibility. Fashion Review: Tom Ford, Glamour Cowboy 2014-02-18T09:40:38Z

That may be true, but I don’t think it fully accounts for the compounding effect—when technology catalyzes ironic interactions, as it did at the party. Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony 2014-05-11T10:59:00Z

"It's pretty ironic that a box full of rubbers landed me in a town full of plastic," Tessa narrates, over images of a plastic world full of plastic people. Something's amiss in "Suburgatory" 2011-09-28T22:29:00Z

Kind of ironic, he noted, since Christians think he’s the Devil. Dan Savage at Midlife: ‘It’s ... “grawful”?’ 2013-05-26T01:41:37Z

“Andreas’s naïveté and eventual enlightenment might have been cartoonish in the hands of someone less ironic and wise than Roth,” our reviewer John Williams writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Outwardly, he is, indeed, most like Brendel, a fellow Central European who is a generation older but shares aspects of Schiff’s ironic wit and demeanor. Sleepless Nights with András Schiff and Beethoven’s Sonatas 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

For all the trailer's focus on authenticity versus appearance, it's perhaps a bit ironic that "Jem" looks to depart significantly from its source material. 'Jem and the Holograms' trailer: '80s toon gets a millennial makeover 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial heartland. An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her farewell brings to mind the ironic closing words of Voltaire’s “Candide”: “All that is very well, but let us cultivate our garden.” Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’ Is Emotional, Planetary and Very Turbulent 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Compared with dour neutrals and ironic casual wear, Marni is an antidepressant, the Prozac to the prosaic. At Marni, Shopping the Good Shop Lollipop 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Her choice is both apt and deeply ironic, given her own painful experience in psychotherapy -- one that she ended in "The Wheel" after learning that Don was spying on her sessions. 'Mad Men' recap: Zou bisou boohoo 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

When the executive responds that he doesn’t see the connection, he makes Moore’s ironic point for him. Why Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" matters now more than ever 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

As they worked, the blue flag of the 115th Virginia Military blew in the wind above them, its motto an ironic appropriation of another Virginia slaveholder’s dramatic call, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

This is a somewhat ironic phenomenon that is not uniquely Christian, but is rather inherent to any religious belief. Godsmacked: I’m an atheist at a hardcore Christian academy 2014-01-24T13:00:00Z

An ironically romantic sequence pitting Lupin against Germany’s own Kaiser Wilhelm in the run-up to the First World War only adds to the movie’s extravagant, ironic resonance. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s all quite ironic: Rebellious cartoonists mocking consumer culture were inadvertently producing collectible artifacts for the same consumer culture 40 years down the road.” Jay Lynch, Underground Comics Creator, Dies at 72 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

I hope it didn’t sound ironic — I was being completely honest. Retreating for the Summer, but Not Heading Backward 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

Furthermore, I can see that Godard holds himself at a slight ironic distance from the characters, as he also does in his most ridiculous Marxist agitprop films later in the '60s. "Breathless": Rebel postcard from the past 2010-05-29T18:01:00Z

And of course I'm not suggesting that Trump's election, or his disastrous environmental policies, caused these natural disasters, only that the correlation is ironic and suggestive. Disaster president: Why is Trump acting like the mayor from Jaws? 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z

When she has a daughter, she named her Snow White almost as an ironic kind of jab at this kingdom where Black beauty is not recognized or acknowledged or understood. What would today's fairy tale look like if you could "un-Disney-fy people's brains"? 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

All told in spare, ironic prose with not an extra ounce of flesh on it. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ has been feared, banned and loved. Now it’s scaring the bejeezus out of us again. 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Yet he reads Nora perfectly, even mirroring her ironic detachment to gain her trust, and he provides her with a respite from pain that we’ve rarely seen in the series. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Grief and Its Hucksters 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

For a night promising an unabashed celebration of the power ballad, it wasn't populated by longhairs exercising their ironic eyebrows. Clubs picks of the week 2011-02-05T00:05:39Z

Van Norden and Rickaby embody the synergy that made the two physicists such a formidable team — Bohrs the imaginative visionary, Heisenberg the practical engineer — with Purl serving as both nurturing peacemaker and ironic commentator. Piecing together a mysterious wartime meeting in Rubicon's 'Copenhagen' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sorry, do you mean that it looks ironic? Vice magazine bases fashion shoot on the suicides of female authors 2013-06-18T11:45:00Z

When I started filming, I thought it would be a traditional sports doc, and I'm not a sports fan, which is why it's ironic that I made this! In "Life in Synchro," this hyperfeminist sport empowers women to work together 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

The defining word of Becker’s career would be “elegance,” but he approaches it as a dynamic and ironic idea, one that conveys the rigid bearing of social convention, the deft performance of a social role. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

My praise was excessive—probably way over the top to judge by the ironic look Christie gave me. Some say the affable charm of the people and the culture is Ireland's draw, but it's the pubs 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

“On the other hand, ‘SportsCenter’ is a really cool show and really fun, and already ironic, so to parody that is the complete wrong thing to do.” Norm Macdonald Rises Again on Comedy Central ?Sports Show? 2011-04-05T15:46:02Z

Isn't it ironic that the proof of irony's power is the never-ending parade of pundits suggesting it is dead? Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Funny and aching, ironic and horrifying, it is, however irreverent, loyal to the “Ring” as a work of novelistic complexity. Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

So another girl clarifies: “Is it ironic, or do you like doing a children’s show?” A Comedy Special for Kids That Gets Their Dark Sense of Humor 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

The two also covered her hits “Toxic” and “Baby One More Time,” the latter of which featured Corden dressed in Spears’ ironic schoolgirl ensemble. WATCH: Britney Spears joins James Corden for off-color jokes and some carpool karaoke 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Such ironic humor is lost on China’s ruling Communist Party. For Chinese millennials, despondency has a brand name 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

“You know, we live in an ironic age,” he says. David Duchovny: ‘I can't play Mulder the way I did. That would be obscene’ 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

It's perhaps a bit ironic, then, that film critics are saying the new big-screen adaptation doesn't quite end happily ever after. 'Into the Woods' starts strong but magic fades, reviews say 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Baldwin writes, “In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged.” Barry Jenkins on “The Fire Next Time” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

On the back page of the supplement is a quote from George Orwell; ironic that the paper has chosen the greatest leftwing thinker of the last century to write its eulogy. The Sunday papers with ? Billy Bragg 2011-07-10T11:56:00Z

All of this is registered in myriad ways in the work on view, which is urgent, sometimes confrontational and bitterly ironic. Review | Before Black Lives Matter, Black Power’s revolutionary art 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Her narration, she said, was meant to be ironic and self-mocking — “I find it very funny, almost obtuse.” Cultural Studies: Retreat of the ?Tiger Mother? 2011-01-14T23:39:11Z

I dressed more or less in full period costume – corset, puff sleeves, knickerbockers – and even held a pipe on occasion, all under the guise of being "ironic". The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

“It was supposed to be ironic,” she said. Nigella Lawson Was Never Just a Domestic Goddess 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Politically speaking, this is the most ironic movie in the series, given that we have been in Afghanistan since 2001. The MAGA fever dream of "Rambo: Last Blood" 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Does an ironic arson fire burn any cooler? In ‘Succession,’ Democracy Goes Up in Smoke 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

On the page, that voice is at once imperiously self-aggrandizing and unconsciously preposterous, with di Benedetto’s ironic detachment reverberating in each of Zama’s utterances. Review: In ‘Zama,’ Trying to Say Goodbye (Cruel) New World 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Deft, witty, self-possessed, they are exuberant little slices of life rendered in gently ironic prose. Winter Journal by Paul Auster – review 2012-08-15T10:00:02Z

In an interview with the Kansas radio station 98.9 The Rock reported by NME.com, Mr. Taylor said his invitation to Oxford was “very ironic seeing as I didn’t graduate from high school.” ArtsBeat: People = Surprised: Corey Taylor of Slipknot to Speak at Oxford Union 2011-05-20T14:56:02Z

Oddly enough, there's also a kind of sweetness in the chaos of crushed heads, exploding viscera and mangled limbs, thanks mostly to Rutger Hauer, who plays the title character with amusing ironic detachment. 'Hobo with a Shotgun': Rutger Hauer is amusing as, well, a hobo with a shotgun 2011-05-26T20:22:51Z

Their race or ethnicity is usually acknowledged only in passing, often with ironic or pointed references that manage to leverage stereotypes while appearing to contradict them. ABC's 'black-ish' gamely takes on racial identity 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Take Malcolm X: For him, conservative attire was not ironic but proprietary. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z

Levy’s conclusion is deliberately ambiguous, but it’s clear that her title is painfully ironic; the man who thought he saw everything in fact saw almost nothing. Review | In ‘The Man Who Saw Everything,’ Deborah Levy questions our notions of reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Their appropriation of the word “housewife” may be somewhat ironic, but it’s not at all apologetic. Riff: ?Housewives,? Rebranded 2011-11-18T23:36:00Z

This not only means an ironic decline in funding for wildlife conservation but also a potentially serious disruption to it. Turns out our stereotypes of hunting are really about our own fear of death 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

You could say that this move away from the ironic and antiheroic modes is a repudiation of the bad fans. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

This field is called quantum foundations, which is inadvertently ironic, because the point is that precisely where you would expect foundations you instead find quicksand. What Does Quantum Physics Actually Tell Us About the World? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The “Petition to Ban Valentine’s Day” page sees a bump in traffic around this time every year, as people post their rants and ironic e-cards. Valentine’s Day? How about we just don’t. 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Frassinelli joined in 1968, after impressing his colleagues a series of short dystopian texts that were later published with accompanying designs under the ironic title “Twelve Ideal Cities.” Architects Dreaming of a Future With No Buildings 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

With an ironic cartoon brutality reminiscent of South Park, Furnas suggested that America is a country founded not on civil liberty, but on bloodlust. Artist of the week 2011-03-10T16:29:20Z

Knowing, ironic idiocy is now part of the culture of course – that’s the triumph of Brent. From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

It’s ironic in a sort of mordant way that we need to travel to the macabre, supernatural underbelly of Victorian London to find characters that are legitimately relatable. Disillusioned with Game of Thrones and True Detective? Try Penny Dreadful 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

Hurricane Katrina was the original motivation for the principal piece in “Vortex,” the Boston artist’s exhibition at Spagnuolo Gallery, so the serenity is ironic. Review | In the galleries: Glenn Ligon exhibition draws on Baldwin, Stein and Warhol 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

"Pygmalion" is both a classic and a conundrum — a treatise on social inequality, women's oppression and educational reform, wrapped in a deliciously ironic "romance." Seattle Shakes delivers a fine 'Pygmalion' 2012-02-28T23:02:04Z

He finds it ironic that moral relativists temporarily misplace their relativism when talk turns to Jesus. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z

Obinze, the other main character in the book, thinks that in contemporary American novels, “nothing was grave, nothing serious, nothing urgent, and most dissolved into ironic nothingness.” ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z

Ms. Powers, the NPR Music critic, said, “Here is someone who was manufactured by the music industry, by ‘American Idol,’ and it’s ironic that she has emerged as one of our most authentic artists.” Kelly Clarkson, the Role Model Next Door 2011-10-29T13:24:15Z

Says Walters, the 'tache is "both iconic and ironic: the original pencil moustache!" Still Waters 2010-12-04T00:03:00Z

This was Dovlatov’s own form of vnye: an ironic detachment that allowed him to participate in society’s obligations while also gently mocking them. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

It is ironic that a writer who left us so many memorable lines is best remembered for a quote she never actually said. Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist 2010-10-06T12:00:00Z

Which is ironic given that the plot of was rather clunkily devoted to the rise of racism in its fascist form. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z

For that reason, it is concerning and well, ironic that fans who wanted to free their idol aren't recognizing Spears' autonomy as a 41-year-old woman. Leave Britney Spears alone – yes, we're talking to Britney fans also 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

The story of a man who becomes an Israeli national hero after surviving three attacks in a single week, the book offers a sharply ironic look at the intersection of image and reality. 'The Hilltop' views everyday absurdism in occupied territories 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

For America to capitalize off of South Korea's onscreen struggles with capitalism is ironic considering how the U.S. played a role in creating the very economic situation the country finds itself in. From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z

“Gen Z yellow is both off-putting and show stealing, making it perfect Instagram bait. I like it because it’s implicitly ironic, communicating happiness and alarm in one fell swoop.” Place Your Bets on the New Millennial Pink 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

"If you just looked at the outside, it's pretty alpha-male, which is a little ironic, because that was personally never exactly really me," Springsteen said. At its heart, Obama and Springsteen's podcast is redefining the toxic masculinity upheld by Trump 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Life” might be a little too light for its cancer story, but it certainly isn’t glib or ironic. Review: On ‘Life Sentence,’ Life Is a Little Too Beautiful 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The film’s ironic tone largely defangs the transgressive films it parodies, but Kramer does broaden the scope of the queer leather canon. ‘Please Baby Please’ Review: Hyper-Masculinity, on Its Head 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

A natural comedian from his early days performing in revue sketches at the Edinburgh festival, Grant adopts an ironic tone about his work as well as his personal life. Englishmen at 50 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z

That this is happening in the first African country to legalize gay marriage makes the subject almost cosmically ironic. In the Berkshires, a Powerful Play and a Classic Musical About Prejudice 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

This is another source of the genre’s appeal: in a culture defined by knowingness and ironic distance, genuine surprise is increasingly rare — a spiritual luxury that brings us close to something ancient. Riff: Reaction Videos as Anthropological Study of America 2011-11-27T04:00:09Z

It’s also an ironic homage to psychedelic films of the sixties, with multiple exposures, tilted angles, and flashes of nudity. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The hazy, sentimental lens of nostalgia can make even the pretty bad delicious, in an ironic, self-aware way. Why Do We Care So Much About Diana’s Dresses? 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Was this an instance of ironic misandry that I interpreted as personal, or her sincere belief? Do I have to agree with those who say "straight black men are trash"? 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The ironic T-shirts straining to contain an unapologetic dad bod. Seth Rogen Is All Fired Up 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

I don’t like labels and I don’t like boxes, which is kind of ironic since we talk about a lot of things that I identify as. Ariana DeBose on Her First Oscar Nomination: ‘This Role Embodies Every Facet of Me’ 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Now for real family fun, try Couchsurfing... or am I being ironic? A Crash Course in Airbnb 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Basically, the poorest people in the world are the ones that are affected the most, and those communities are the ones doing the most about it, which is just very ironic to me. Ellie Goulding Likes Her ’90s Rock Political and Her Social Media Inspiring 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

That design may well be a consciously ironic reference but it didn't make the setting any more appealing. Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z

But he's become so synonymous with the word "intensity" that MTV once did an ironic skit in which he wore a pink bunny hat and made cute puppy noises. Man Of Steel: eye to eye with Michael Shannon, the new General Zod 2013-06-08T05:00:00Z

It has a bright viciousness to its humor, and a similar snowballing momentum and ironic doom — except it’s also a zombie show. What Should I Watch After I’ve Binged ‘Dead to Me’? 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

His exquisite technique is, as usual, in taut ironic contrast with his uproarious subject matter. Some smashing ceramics are on view at Bellevue Arts Museum's "Clay Throwdown!" 2010-09-02T19:20:00Z

But in an ironic twist, “Mia’s show was terrible and ours is in New York Off Broadway.” He’s Channeling Emma Stone. But This Ain’t ‘La La Land.’ 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Lewis has spent his career writing from an ironic middle distance. Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

“That’s also ironic,” he said, “criticizing us for being the very thing we were only a minute ago being celebrated for.” A Museum Held a Show of Protest Art. Then the Artists Protested the Museum. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

So it's ironic that their decision that even God should be addressed merely as "thou" created a new jargon of pious grandiloquence. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z

The irony of purposely ironic buildings that joked with history is that they are themselves verging on history, and history more than beauty is proving their strongest defense. Should PoMo Architecture, at the 50-Year Mark, Be Saved? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

As a writer, Vuillard has drawn on this background of protestation and distrust of power structures to produce a succession of short, biting historical narratives, distinguished by a tone of ironic exasperation. Coloring History’s Gray Areas, With Strong Moral Outrage 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

"I admire everything about them," he said with an ironic tone, though he declined to elaborate. Booker winner Carey on privacy 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Given Faith's background, I wondered if there would be some reference, ironic or otherwise, to Good Friday or Easter Sunday – the events that license the holiday. Spring Breakers – review 2013-04-04T15:58:00Z

From the start, she regards Heist as “infuriating and enthralling,” and she seems to cast herself and Heist in a California episode of “Moonlighting” complete with zinging dialogue, ironic asides and erotic electricity. Review | Jonathan Lethem is back on the detective beat looking for America’s troubled soul 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

By today’s standards the word “Adventures” can be read as ironic. David Nelson, Son in ?Ozzie and Harriet,? Dies at 74 2011-01-13T03:23:00Z

For some, it’s the closest thing to hell on Earth, which is ironic given that we’re supposed to be celebrating peace, love, understa– oh, whatever. Bah, Humbug: 12 Movies for the Holiday Blues 2013-12-20T18:09:17Z

He incorporated the season’s favorite mesh for a blouson jacket and pants and even made his favorite body-shrunk suits in Prince of Wales checks seem like an ironic take on sportswear. Special Report: Fashion: The Sporting Life 2011-06-20T11:43:45Z

In an open letter, available online, philosopher and visiting professor at NYU Slavoj Žižek bemoans the potential loss to the academy, because it is in need of her “ironic, mocking, sardonic” language. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

His situation makes the “@Large” title seem wishful, if not ironic, and raises questions both practical and philosophical. Ai Weiwei Takes His Work to a Prison 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Maron asked—so she found it ironic that she became an interviewer. No Bullshit: Marc Maron Interviews Terry Gross 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The characters and themes of those rich, subtle, ironic works are tantalizingly close to today’s preoccupations; their tone and attitude is unmistakably ours. Mozart’s Opera ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at the Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

The effect was fitting, evoking simultaneously O’Connor’s keen sense of the ominous, the numinous, and the ironic. Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan Memorial 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

In a similarly ironic twist, the same address was also the original home of Spy, a satirical publication founded by Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen, in the eighties. Harry Bliss’s “Out in the Cold” 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

In none of these cases, does the self-referentiality come close to Mr. Baldwin’s ironic blows to his own ego. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z

Predictably, the loudest cheers are reserved for Benga's 2008 breakout hit with Coki, Night, followed by his more recent offering, I Will Never Change – ironic perhaps, as tonight, sees him at his most versatile. Benga – review 2012-06-06T17:23:57Z

Trifilio finds it all a little ironic, given that she wrote it in the final days of a failing relationship. Beach Bunny Is Building an Indie-Rock Career in a Time of TikTok 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

This is ironic, I thought, seated on the grass, head tilted toward the glowing west wall of the White House. Watching Trump Win at the White House 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

And that’s ironic because of the association with the original title, with its ideological world view. Book Talk: Karl Ove Knausgaard on life after his 'Struggle' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

It would be ironic if the ultimate legacy of "Legacy" were not as a notable sci-fi achievement but as the film that convinced middle-aged actors that they should again be considered for young romantic leads. 'Tron: Legacy' looks sharp in 3D, short on story 2010-12-04T00:13:00Z

Sheila’s hopes for her play are so exaggerated that the reader assumes them to be ironic. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

Roderick described his use of various slurs and other insensitive language as ironic and sarcastic, “flipping them to mock racism, sexism, homophobia, and bigotry” as a form of allyship. Seattle’s John Roderick, aka ‘Bean Dad,’ apologizes after social media backlash 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

This is ironic, because you’d think that defining pride as aggression and hubris would serve to contain imperialistic tendencies. How LGBTQ love saves Christianity: A priest explains 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

In true Oliver fashion, he refers to the comments as fan mail, which is ironic given few seem to be fans. Watch John Oliver Read Mean 'Fan Mail' from YouTube 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

They feel arbitrary and aesthetic, with no particular connection — sincere or ironic — to Ravel’s “Bolero,” which starts up a few minutes into the piece. Dance Review: Leafy Carpets of Laughter, Hints of Wartime and a Quirky Coltrane Score 2010-10-04T21:11:00Z

It's ironic," he observes, "that it's a film about being surveyed 24 hours a day, and that I'm supposed to be a prisoner. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z

It's kind of an ironic pleasure to bring the show there. Feel the noise: 1980s homage 'Rock of Ages' coming to Seattle 2011-02-08T00:50:08Z

But the character comes across as alternately a dispenser of high-toned, dryly ironic jokes or a lecturer on ethics. Theater Review: ?Gore Vidal?s The Best Man? at Gerald Schoenfeld Theater 2012-04-02T02:17:15Z

Between these, Gavin Bryars explored repeating motifs in different surroundings in the gently ironic The Ride Cymbal and The Band That Caused the Fire in the Sycamore. Scottish Ensemble/Smith/Burgess/Brannick 2010-04-27T21:15:00Z

It's ironic it's surrounding the police station, but it's still there. "A similar genesis": The Cure's Lol Tolhurst honors goth and its (spider)web of artistic connections 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z

The delusions of people who long to be on TV are ironic and pretty sad — of course. Cannes 2012: Reality ? review 2012-05-18T12:24:28Z

“She doesn’t waste any time insisting on being ironic or too cool…it’s a kind of visceral honesty that, frankly, is underrated. As highly rated as she is, it’s not enough.” From ‘Wonder Woman’ to ‘Star Wars,’ Jenkins’ rise continues 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

Still, the year had its ironic moments and left-field surprises, plus a few artists who refused to be complacent. Critic’s Notebook: Fashion in 2013: Runway, Red Carpet, Fashion Week and More 2013-12-27T21:59:28Z

In a very real sense “Play Dead” is not ironic, either, though it’s hard to identify its specific tone. I?m Not Really a Corpse. I Just Played One Onstage. 2011-03-04T00:24:08Z

But the line resonates darkly on any number of ironic levels. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

He analyzes them as products of Brecht’s preoccupations, in particular a struggle to gain control of his overwhelming emotions by cultivating intellectual clarity and ironic distance. Stephen Parker’s new biography sets new stage for playwright Bertolt Brecht

But when the shouting of the ’60s was succeeded by more measured, ironic voices, Mr. Wesker inevitably fell out of fashion. Arts & Leisure: ‘Denial,’ ‘Bofors Gun’ and the London Revival of Rage 2012-06-17T00:00:31Z

But McCracken’s ironic perspective, her humor and her deeply humane imagination never desert her. A Dark Fairy Tale of American Oddballs and Candlepin Bowling 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

There are ironic inspirational messages such as "failure is definitely an option" framed on various walls. Digital star Grace Helbig takes on TV 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

He is known for creating works on buildings displaying ironic and provocative social commentary, and political stunts such as his recently opened 'Walled Off Hotel' in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. Banksy works highlight of Los Angeles street art auction 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

“It is not meant as an ironic gesture,” she wrote. Maurizio Cattelan’s New Work Pays Visceral Tribute to the Pain of 9/11 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

Then, another ironic comment: “Tadeo Ando has to get over concrete” — in reference to the Japanese architect — “does modern architecture have to be made of unfinished concrete?” Conjuring Temples of Deep Desire 2010-07-19T13:50:00Z

The ironic part is that I found my name, or close to it, in a cartouche on the wall of a temple. Captivated by Egypt since childhood, a traveler finally visits the Great Pyramid 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

As a kid I reacted very intensely to films – I had no ironic distance and I always felt emotionally connected to what was happening, however absurd. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

The play is worth dusting off only if these contradictory dimensions can be fully drawn out in the harsh ironic light of the playwright’s vision. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Given the venue, the applause and laughter play at once as ironic and sincere. 'Jack & Triumph Show' a twistedly sweet tale of a boy, his dog 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

He also thought the rallies were a bit ironic. A Survivor Recalls the Charlie Hebdo Massacre and a Long Road to Recovery 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Why is Hollywood's shabby treatment of women - ironic in an industry seen as a reliable champion of liberal causes - so stubborn? 'Girls' shine on TV, but not behind the scenes 2012-09-21T19:01:15Z

He added, “I think the era of ironic snarkiness in over in America.” Jay Leno: James Corden is 'Likeable' on 'The Late Late Show' 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z

The song may be intended as an ironic counterpoint to the action, but it’s also a bit of a brag. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 5: ‘Once Upon a Time ...’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Sadly, it is ironic that in the same edition of the magazine, you published Gene Weingarten’s pathetic attempt at jokes at the expense of Jews. Reader reactions to Weingarten, refugees in Canada, perch fishing 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

The novel’s long gestation period is ironic, since “Bearskin” is a suspenseful, and therefore fast, read. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a celebration of the crappiest songs we rebelled against in 1986, sold back to us again as something ironic and sincere and innocent. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z

So the flaw is most ironic -- the guy who will revolutionize the way people communicate can't communicate himself. "Social Network" a mesmerizing, must-see movie 2010-09-21T23:39:00Z

Disgust, disillusion, misogyny, self-hatred and ironic despair mingle in the speaker, and it's these often-raw emotions that charge the sequence's metrical good manners with the pulse of living speech. Poem of the week: Modern Love by George Meredith 2012-08-13T13:24:41Z

“Waters’s films have pushed the envelope, testing the boundaries of what’s acceptable,” Levy writes, “but they have done so in funny and ironic ways, not hateful or angry ones.” ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

“It seems quite ironic in this very nice fur coat to be picking coal,” says Killip. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

A beard was the perfect retro-sportsman accessory to go with a scratchy wool plaid shirt and knit cap, a perfect ironic predigital curio that seemed overdue to be brought back into fashion. The Mirror: Whiskers on Kittens (or Are They Lions?) 2011-07-27T18:15:10Z

It sounds like he lives a nightmare, which is partly ironic, given that his music feels and sounds like it could soundtrack the happiest days of our lives. There's Nothing Light About Passion Pit's Gossamer 2012-07-23T18:09:47Z

“It’s ironic but it’s a very productive irony,” Mr. Nolan said with a chuckle. ‘Man of Steel’ Aims to Make Superman Relevant Again 2013-05-22T12:06:02Z

The one I wish everyone knew about was one about abolition from 1844, beginning “Oh say, do you hear … ” It repeats Key’s phrase “the land of the free” but as an ironic statement. Is the National Anthem Racist? Beyond the Debate Over Colin Kaepernick. 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

She also, in one of the show's many ironic deflections, ponders who should receive her collection of designer shoes. Thursday - review 2013-03-01T14:02:00Z

His ironic use of historic theatrical themes and devices to place on a continuum the racial anxieties of our own time is indeed a hallmark. A playwright who’s at ease with causing discomfort 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a passably chilling bit of nonsense that builds on the past, the tropes of the genre, and relies on them for the odd jolt and the occasional ironic laugh. ‘Dark Skies’: the kids are not all right, so where’s the parental panic? 2013-02-22T19:19:36Z

It’s ironic, but shouldn’t be surprising, that a news story about personal privacy in the digital age should become a personality-based argument. Hero or Bad Boyfriend? Edward Snowden and the Personalization of Public Debate 2013-06-11T14:41:58Z

In an ironic twist, one of the goals will be to educate people about whiteness and white supremacy, a task that echoes the rhetoric used by white ethno-nationalists like Richard Spencer. Claudia Rankine’s Home for the Racial Imaginary 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

“It’s ironic to see him honored by the government he despised.’ Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Vietnam pops up as a source of ironic nostalgia, but the book is unwavering, even punishing, in its examination of modern warfare and the ethics of American intervention. The Intricacies of Colombia’s War, Stitched Together in a Novel 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Allison, who grew up in the blues heartland of the Mississippi Delta, began his career as a jazz pianist in the 1950s before developing his own brand of ironic, blues-flavored music. Mose Allison, who sang the blues with whimsy and a twist of jazz, dies at 89 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

In an unsettling time for a theater with multiple challenges, that last title may prove ironic, or prophetic. Ethan McSweeny resigns as head of American Shakespeare Center amid financial peril and staff complaints 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

“I find it quite ironic that that we did that interview and then a week later he is in handcuffs,” Peterson said. After 7 years, fugitive priest arrested in India 2012-03-19T18:53:00Z

David Means: Your stories, like all stories that are precise and clear, are ironic, but not in a fuzzy, or snarky way. “Thinking about how to transition”: David Means and Luke Mogelson, short story masters, contemplate the novel 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

But they share a love of language and a bone-deep ironic sensibility. Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

It was his ironic way of showing love, this uncle who was my second father, who called me anak though I were not his child. “Filipineza” doesn’t mean “servant”: Notes of witness from an immigrant daughter 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Either way, the play's supposedly ironic portrayal of difference was strangely confirmed by black people who were hitherto strangers gravitating towards each other in an act of self-segregation and heated debate. Clybourne Park: The joke's not funny if only wealthy white people laugh 2010-09-18T07:30:00Z

One appeal of the production is its tone: wry, ironic. Review: In ‘Paramodernities,’ Words and Dance Do Battle. The Audience Wins. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Jefferson’s memoir, meanwhile, offers candid and often ironic commentary of her upbringing in an affluent African American family in Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s. Paul Beatty, Margo Jefferson win National Book Critics Awards 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

This is ironic because – purely from a managerial point of view – she might just be the most suitable person to lead the kingdom to greater success. Six models of successful team leadership from "Game of Thrones" and "House of the Dragon" 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

It's rather ironic, however, that the actor often ends up playing the Muslim on screen and stage. Aasif Mandvi bridges East-West gap on 'Daily' basis and now HBO 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

Alongside Titian’s religious paintings, as well as an arresting 1559 drawing of Gabriel melting into a cloud of charcoal, the Richter portraits appear far less ironic. Titian and Gerhard Richter: Keeping Faith With Painting, 5 Centuries Apart 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Leamington Spa Art Gallery, to 6 Feb Dirk Bell, Gateshead It's hard to think of Dirk Bell as not being just a bit ironic. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z

“I’ve never been terribly ironic about what my passions are — I’ve never put things in quotes — but the pendulum is always swinging around,” he said with a triumphant smile. Duncan Hannah: A Painter Unmoored From Time and Trends 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

I mean, it’s not as though an academic conference would usually catch the eye of an emergent, popular writer, particularly, and this is really ironic, a conference titled ‘Bookishness in the Digital Age’! After e-literature, there’s no going back 2012-10-29T11:30:00Z

The move is ironic, she said, given the impressive number of Emmy Award nominations earned last week by PBS programs, including the popular drama "Downton Abbey." PBS chief decries efforts to cut federal funding 2012-07-21T23:18:08Z

This time, we kissed hello with almost ironic complicity. How My Worst Date Ever Became My Best 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

With these, he transforms banal government safety messaging into almost dadaist tableaus — if only the old dada artists had enjoyed access to ironic clip art. How a federal bureaucrat uses astronaut babies and dogs riding pigeons to try to save your life 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

That a lengthy online treatise about shattered attention spans should manage to hold so many of them is ironic, it reflects wider concern. Jenny Odell on why we need to learn to do nothing: ‘It's a reminder that you're alive’ 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

She sings her Ballad — which recounts the Dutchman legend, with an emphasis on his redemption by a woman who will be faithful to him until death — with dramatic gesticulations and a sense of ironic overstatement. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

This observation pungently expresses the problem with the “cult of optimism” — the ironic, self-defeating struggle that sabotages positivity when we try too hard. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

Known for his ironic social commentary through graffiti and stenciled paintings in public spaces and private property around the world, Banksy emerged in Bristol, England, in the early 1990s. UK council removes 'racist' Banksy immigration mural 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

“Fever Pitch” still delivers the same terse, grim, and ironic power that it had when I first saw it. Richard Brooks’s “Fever Pitch” Never Got Its Due 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Ironic” is sung in the context of a high school writing workshop and the scene makes a joke from the elephant in the room: decades of pedants nit-picking the song’s misuse of the word “ironic.” Has Alanis Morissette Made the Most Woke Musical Since ‘Hair’? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

With startling honesty they examine the friction between individuals and society, as well as exposing the secret collusion between love and property, and their ironic humour is often a reflex of despair. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-01-17T11:03:01Z

Yet von Trier, a serious man when he isn't being the most ill-advised ironic wiseacre this side of a visiting planet, creates startling moments of beauty. Cannes, Day 8: That's Lars! 2011-05-18T14:28:01Z

Merton collected some of his talks to novices under the title “No Man Is an Island”—a title either aspirational or ironic or both. The Modern Monkhood of Thomas Merton 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

They look like they are made for children, but instead we talk about sex, which is generally something we don't talk to children about so it's another way of making it more ironic. Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the wild 2011-02-06T00:04:04Z

Many great symbolic masterworks arose as a result of the Code—such directors as Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and Berkeley himself managed to express the inexpressible with allusive and ironic ingenuity. Busby Berkeley’s Personalized Beauty 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Any expression of “unabashed gratitude” seems an anomaly in today’s highly cynical and ironic age. Poet Ross Gay is on a roll: He talks gardens and gratitude 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

“And just kind of embrace it in this ironic way. Because how else are you supposed to deal with it?” Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’ 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Given that, it’s perhaps ironic that, while Miklós is named in the book, his mother is given the name Lili because there were some stories in the letters that she couldn’t accept had really happened. Love is the best revenge for the evils of the Holocaust 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

Now this was a man so svelte that his nickname, in ironic homage to Thomas the Tank Engine's boss, was The Thin Controller. TV matters: discrimination at the BBC 2011-02-17T08:00:02Z

When I played Cleopatra, Trevor wanted me to look as Egyptian as possible, with the raven hair and elaborate eye makeup; yet the ironic thing is that she wasn't Egyptian at all. Kim Cattrall: absolutely fabulous 2010-09-28T20:30:00Z

He's exasperated, but there's ironic humor in it. Sound of the White Buffalo can be found between tenderness and a growl 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

“Sea of Glass” fits that categorization, faintly calling to mind Saki’s ironic short stories, Ivy Compton-Burnett’s campy tragi-comedies and the early satirical fiction of Evelyn Waugh. ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

From the 21st century perspective, is a better book, with an arch, ironic narrative voice that’s well suited to the modern sensibility. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 9: Dombey and Son 2012-01-28T19:52:46Z

The bedbug gambit is ironic; Daisey uses it to suggest how unprepared he and everyone else were for the worse disruptions that would come in 2020. Review: Live Theater Returns, With Mike Daisey and His Beefs 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

Since Barnum proves to be both the plot’s deus ex machina and the deliverer of the novel’s most terrifying speech, we may conclude that Lock expects us to keep an ironic distance as well. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

I think it probably is, for some people, but their subversive, ironic play still feeds the valorization of mass killers and encourages them to do what they do. Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

All this is ironic given how profoundly American the adaptation of the classic comic book is – though the comic’s creator, Garth Ennis, is British too. Preacher: 'It's bigger than Breaking Bad. It's a romp' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

The fact that he wrote the piece for the New Republic – a magazine which became infamous when one of its reporters, Stephen Glass, was caught fabricating news stories – was ironic enough. A life in writing: David Sedaris 2010-10-11T07:50:00Z

In an ironic twist, Douglas' son had an Academy Award before he did. Kirk Douglas, "Spartacus" actor and Hollywood icon, dead at 103 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

He still carries on ironic conversations with his late wife. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

That those effects may be the film’s best remaining shot at awards glory is somewhat ironic, considering what a point of contention they’ve been. Feline confident? Cats' last-minute dash to the cinema 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Over all, the performance felt long, , but there were plenty of exciting moments during the vast sweep of ironic waltzes and marches, frantic moto-perpetuo string sections, brass and percussion climaxes and sardonic humor. Music Review | Vladimir Jurowski: The Long and Short of Shostakovich, and Jazzy Ravel 2010-03-08T22:17:00Z

This is what Sylvia Plath was getting at, too, more concisely and with less ironic humour, when she wrote: "The blood jet is poetry." EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z

“Sure, I can make an ironic action comedy out of this,” he says. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

This is very much a novel about what is left unsaid, which is ironic considering that so much is said — hundreds and hundreds of pages of repressed grief and strained smiles. Review | Is the end of an American dynasty a real tragedy? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

In 2018, the president made remarks at the turkey pardon that now appear prescient, if ironic. The president pardons a turkey, one of the more normal things he’s done this month 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

“I’m a homebody,” she said, “which is ironic, given what I do for a living.” Padma Lakshmi’s Thanksgiving Turkey: Slow Roasted and Richly Sauced 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl, the WHCA’s president, noted that his organization typically presses the White House for more briefings and access for reporters, and so it’s ironic to be restricting access now. A ‘strange and eerie time’ for White House reporters — and a risky one, too 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

The postgraduate world is hard enough without having Charlie Sheen on your résumé, but you know millions of ironic 20-somethings are currently putting together a cover letter as we speak. My application for Charlie Sheen's internship 2011-03-07T23:31:00Z

Some classic rockers say not only do they oppose Trump using their music, the choice of songs is ironic or downright wrong. A look at artists who’ve objected to Trump using their songs 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

What’s more, I think she believed in those stories more than her ironic daughter. Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds's deaths were tragic coincidence – but we're suckers for a story 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Is it ironic that the Morgan Library and Museum is opening an ambitious exhibition about money in the Middle Ages? The Good, and Evil, of Money at the Morgan 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

An ironic thing about the "desert blues" of Saharan musicians such as Tinariwen and Terakaft is that, for all the conflict of their origins, they can sound surprisingly slick. This week's new live music 2012-11-24T00:05:34Z

Let's just pretend the final, ironic minutes of the otherwise satisfying and exciting Chinese action thriller "The Bullet Vanishes" don't exist. 'The Bullet Vanishes': Exciting crime thriller misses target at end 2012-08-31T00:01:05Z

Across the former Communist world museums like the House have been repurposed as ironic attractions for tourists often too young to remember much if anything about the Soviet era. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z

The works of Barbara Kruger spilled out of the Art Institute of Chicago and seemed to become captions — ironic, bracing, surreal — to the city itself. Perspective | Best visual art of 2021: Jasper Johns in two venues, Medici portraits and text-based artist Barbara Kruger 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

With its irresistible airs in eerily ironic settings, Distant Voices, Still Lives was the first great sing-along horror movie. The Long Day Closes: The Passion of Terence Davies 2012-03-23T22:27:48Z

After some time, I did find a few other like-minded sobers who started a meeting we named “We Agnostics” — in part an ironic nod to the very chapter most of us found so philosophically irksome. My sober conversion to atheism 2013-03-03T19:00:00Z

It would be richly ironic and very funny if, at the end of "Breaking Bad," Jesse ended up as as Walter White's boss. Tony Soprano, Al Swearengen, Vic Mackey, Gus Fring 2011-09-19T14:20:00Z

During her confirmation hearings, she was accused of being a Communist — which was ironic, considering that as a judge Motley would regularly enforce the property rights of business owners. ‘Civil Rights Queen,’ the Story of a Brave and Brilliant Trailblazer 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

That voice is unmistakable and startling — ironic, moody, modern — full of caustic, strangely comforting honesty. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Abramović, always obsessed with her physical appearance, was probably not being that ironic. Performance artist Marina Abramovi? ? 'I have to be like a mountain' 2010-03-19T12:26:00Z

It was put to music in an ironic, but tame, song-and-dance number called “We Solved It” at the top of the show. Missing at the Emmys: #MeToo 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Every British writer over for the Oscars knows the drill: ironic bemusement mixed with squeaking excitement. Wrongbestfilmgate was a moment of pure chaos – my night of shocks at the Oscars 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

‘Given to ironic expressions and knowing smiles’: Errol Morris in his Massachusetts office this month. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z

Interpreted as an ironic comment on Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations - 60 years on the British throne - and it drew art-lovers to the gritty Turnpike Lane area. British neighborhood wants its Banksy back 2013-02-20T14:05:09Z

In a way, “Happy People” is an ironic commentary on Herzog’s relationship to the documentary form. ‘Happy People: A Year in the Taiga’: Werner Herzog’s vision of life in Siberia 2013-02-14T22:45:07Z

Wegner’s intellectual territory is what has come to be known as “ironic process theory,” which explores the ways in which our efforts to suppress certain thoughts or behaviors result, ironically, in their becoming more prevalent. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

It's ironic: his antisemitism may have prompted the media to finally recognize and address longstanding frustrations with Ye within the Black community. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

He said, "It's ironic that at its beginning, the Voice did exactly what we're doing today" - opposing corruption and social wrongdoing. Protesters: Village Voice helps sell kids for sex 2012-03-29T23:09:08Z

And Correspondent Jordan Klepper even dropped his ironic, satirical persona to raise awareness. Hurricane Sandy survivors still don’t have homes: “The Daily Show” reports 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

But it also functioned as a critical, ironic or simply mirroring response to semantic inflation in America’s booming, advertising-saturated economy. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

So it was ironic that, more than anyone else I know, he was able to explain how plants played different roles. Author John Brookes was a rarity: A gardener who focused on design 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

"Exceedingly amusing", yes – yet inside this ironic "ballad" lurks something more serious and, potentially, even more gripping. The Bloody Ballad – review 2013-04-06T23:05:26Z

For all his ironic swagger, more than 20 years after publishing his debut, he still sometimes feels like a novice. Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Yet his graciousness and infectious, low-key, ironic laugh dissolves one's sudden guilt for taking up his time. 'This American Life' host Ira Glass brings his radio stories to Seattle 2010-08-19T23:44:00Z

Doubly ironic, in a time of recession coinciding with cuts in funding, audiences are needed in even larger numbers to close the income gap. Letters: Short-sighted and dangerous cuts to the arts 2011-04-01T23:05:41Z

Karen O lets the Broadway Inspirational Voices gospel choir provide the ironic ballast for the track, taking the censure from the entire congregation. What’s the Buzz for Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito 2013-04-18T09:45:32Z

Many fans call the amorphous sound social reject music, which captures their ironic sense of themselves as the lowest of the low, playfully dissing one another for devouring such low-quality, earsplitting, coarse rap tunes. How Roblox Sparked a Chaotic Music Scene 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z

There’s always been a tension in his comedy between an ironic, smarty-pants cleverness and an often melodramatic point of view. Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Will this lead to an Academy award for Zellweger, and so create the ironic spectacle of Zellweger getting more Oscar glory than Garland herself? 1917's Golden Globes glory fair reward for thrilling and distinguished work 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

Is the demand ironic or presumptuous, or both? Review | ‘My Fair Lady’ at the Kennedy Center is sheer melodious pleasure 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

There is another factor affecting sales of secondhand books, and it has hugely ironic overtones. A fond farewell to secondhand bookshops 2011-03-09T13:20:55Z

Brooks is by turns funny, ironic, sentimental and nostalgic. Mel Brooks: ‘Donald Trump doesn't scare me. He's a song-and-dance man' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

It's kind of ironic that since being grouped so closely to them, I've become a bigger fan of the band. Firefly guy 2010-02-26T11:09:00Z

There’s one moment that lurches perilously toward ironic cornpone — a scatting-and-bowing bass solo on “All of Me Belongs to You” — but the rest of the album plays it straight. Playlist: New CDs From Blk Jks, Deer Tick, Dr. Lonnie Smith 2010-06-04T20:27:00Z

It foreshadows Weill’s embrace of the lowbrow, which he bent to ironic and politically charged effect in “The Threepenny Opera.” Kurt Weill’s Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

It was ironic that I was battling deep insecurities yet singing this huge anthem of empowerment. Chaka Khan: 'A man needs to bring something big to the table' 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

From holding self-improvement seminars for fans to dispensing advice to fellow stars in distress, We Are Scientists are renowned as the ironic funsters of indie rock. We Are Scientists – review 2012-07-26T15:42:48Z

The music seems to defy formal constraints, shifting from crazed vehemence to bitterly ironic dances, blasting marches to spans of industrious counterpoint. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Takes a Big Step Toward ‘Tristan’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Twenty-five years ago — in 1989, to save you the math — two situation comedies premiered, each destined to become American institutions, even as each regarded American institutions with a jaundiced and ironic eye. The serious side of 'The Simpsons' and 'Seinfeld' 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

But the two men did not become friends, making it somewhat ironic now that Nixon is Frost’s archivist, in a way. How Richard Nixon Became an Accidental Archivist 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Cocky with an undertone of ironic self-deprecation that forestalls accusations of insincerity, he is a superb promoter of himself as a brand. | 'The Greatest Movie Ever Sold': The Hidden Persuaders Come Out in Full Force 2011-04-21T22:34:52Z

Pausing only to flash an ironic smile, she switched to English and fired back with a line from Woody Allen: “Today, I’m a star; tomorrow, I’m a black hole.” Marina Abramovic Comes Home, and Comes Clean 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

He mocks and puzzles the French collaborators by the heavily ironic gesture of being the first to turn up and demand his star, before others start forming a queue. Gainsbourg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

His tone is colloquial and gently ironic, but he is unendingly affectionate toward his heroine. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

"They're the equivalent of a best man's speech and it seems odd that they're the product of a far less ironic culture." Channel 4 launches comedy roast shows 2010-04-05T06:00:00Z

It was like an ironic statement of the fact that actual money was not gonna ever stop me, because my ambition wasn’t gonna stop just because I was broke. Ke$ha on Bathing in Glitter, Singing with Iggy Pop, and That “Intimate Experience” She Had With a Ghost 2012-11-20T13:00:55Z

By that time, it was also kind of an ironic document. Perspective | The beautiful lie Bruce Brown and ‘The Endless Summer’ told us about surfing 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

The report was particularly ironic, given Trump’s claims of rampant voter fraud. Where does Breitbart end and Bannon and the new administration begin? 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Nowhere is this more ironic than in late-night television, where not a single person of color holds an hourlong show, on broadcast television or on cable. Bill Maher smears “racist” Asians, Kimmel promotes “The Big Shawty”: The whiter the late-night stage, the flatter the #OscarsSoWhite jokes fall 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

She was interviewed for a Harper’s Bazaar profile, with a now painfully ironic headline: “The Truth About My Mom & Dad.” Cate Edwards: A steadfast daughter to John Edwards, despite pain and scandal

Despite living in this country for years — he was born in England in 1965 — Wood still demonstrates an ironic attitude toward the peculiarities of the United States. Review | What does a father most want for his children? James Wood’s novel shows us. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

That makes the company’s latest line of ironic T’s — edgy, cool, conservative shirts backing Mitt Romney — especially insidious. Urban Outfitters loves Mitt 2012-06-01T16:30:00Z

“It seems all characters in movies these days are ironic hipsters,” he said. John Michael McDonagh Carves His Own Niche With ‘Calvary’ 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

That this would offer a digital response to what’s become a digital problem adds only a nice ironic layer. 'The Interview:' What should Sony do about the film's release? 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

AP: It must have felt ironic that in the midst of a pandemic you were making a movie where swabs and lab tests, in proving the children’s maternity, is central to the plot. Q&A: Almodóvar on unearthing the past in ‘Parallel Mothers’ 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Of course, as the Kickstarter’s very own FAQ section states, many people are wondering: “Isn’t asking for charity antithetical to Ayn Rand’s philosophy?” and “Isn’t this ironic?” Atlas Begged: Would Ayn Rand Approve Of Producers Asking For Handouts? 2013-09-26T14:01:32Z

“It’s ironic that getting banned brings a huge wave of attention to books and puts them in front of many thousands of new readers,” the author, Ms. Telgemeier, said in an emailed statement. Sex, Politics and the Banned Books of 2016 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

"Inspiring" is a word which tends to carry an ironic undertone. Poem of the week: The Man by Maitreyabandhu 2013-07-01T10:29:17Z

"I know that sounds ironic coming out of my mouth, but at this point I would throw that down as absolute." Scarlett Johansson withdraws from “Rub and Tug” amid backlash over her “insensitive” casting 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Throughout the novel, the omniscient narrative voice maintains an ironic distance, slipping playfully among a fairly large cast of characters. Which out-of-print book would you like to see republished? 2012-05-24T13:59:06Z

The rest, of course, is history, and this being Salinger, much of that history is ironic. 'J.D. Salinger: A Life': Kenneth Slawenski's biography of a reluctant genius 2011-01-22T00:07:54Z

These true-crime series fill a real need, one extant since Sophocles’ days: to see a story through to the point of catharsis or, failing that, ironic tragedy. Review: 'The People v. O.J. Simpson' and 'American Crime' Aim for Ambiguity 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

It is ironic, in a sick way, when the art that ought to bring us closer accidentally insists that some of us are not really worth the effort. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

But it’s also ironic that you expect an app to accomplish it for you. My Boyfriend Wants to Sleep In. So What? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“Why not?” he whined in the hurt tone of a hormonal teenager, which I found ironic because I was supposed to be the only hormonal teenager in the room. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps worst of all, when female students try to challenge this litany of misogyny, they often come up against the defence that it’s just “banter”, it’s all just an “ironic” joke. 10 things female students shouldn’t have to go through at university 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

The ironic result is that they vote against the very policies that helped them get lucky to begin with. Don’t think you’re lucky? Think again | Oliver Burkeman 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Sedgwick was the first publicized of Andy Warhol’s “Superstars” — the name itself an ironic homage to the pervasiveness of movie celebrity. “Plimpton!” doc tells tale of literary heavyweight 2013-05-28T20:05:00Z

Her narration, she said, was meant to be ironic and self-mocking — "I find it very funny, almost obtuse." Retreat of the 'Tiger Mother' 2011-01-15T04:14:04Z

The other was “ironic and challenging” — and, in his view, true to the subversive, antislavery thinking behind Wheatley’s decorous neoclassical couplets. A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

One show is rural, one is urban; one earnest, one ironic. Willie Robertson Vs. Don Draper, State of the Union Battle of the TV Symbols 2014-01-29T12:38:51Z

It’s kind of jarring to learn that “Losing My Edge,” LCD’s breakout single, in which Murphy elaborates on the title condition, was born out of genuine desperation rather than ironic drollery. ‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’ Review: New York’s Last Rock Renaissance 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

But it's as if the dour "Interiors" had been reworked by a more forgiving, generous filmmaker who wants to move beyond stereotypes and discover what he calls the "beautiful and ironic" aspects of life. 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger': Woody Allen's new concoction of interesting characters 2010-10-07T19:33:00Z

The timing of her induction is also somewhat ironic. Linda Ronstadt on Rock Hall, but, mostly, her ‘Duets’ 2014-04-08T18:12:39Z

Vengeance is a big theme in “The House of Black and White,” an ironic title since the moral question here is anything but. Game of Thrones Watch: Making a List, Checking It Twice 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Why would a news station publicize how easy it is to commit a crime at our school? Doesn’t it seem ironic?” The school shooting that wasn’t: When a lockdown isn’t worth it 2014-02-17T21:00:00Z

He floats half-above the fray, in it, but good always for an ironic crack or slow burn in a tight place. James Garner dies: In 'Rockford Files,' he was a perfect fit 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

In this ironic tale, suggested by a play by Alexander Pushkin, it’s the careerist Salieri, court composer and Viennese music scene eminence, who is the sun around which even Mozart must orbit. But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

I thought of this movie as an interesting and maybe ironic companion piece to Steven Spielberg's film "The Post," which I'm not bashing. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Readers felt that Philly locals embody an ironic combination: loving sports without seeming to be athletic themselves. These Are America's Quirkiest Cities 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

They take you at face value, so I have to have these injections of ironic sanity to keep me on an even keel. Meltdown 2010: Richard Thompson on curating this year's event 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

He has seemingly limitless energy, especially ironic given his energy vampire origins, and he zooms about the decrepit house, destroying things. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

The agents of her transformation are five more sophisticated kids from New York City who dub her "Jules" - a cool nickname that sticks for life - and teach her the art of ironic observation. Review: Wolitzer novel charts lives of 6 teens 2013-04-08T17:21:10Z

How tragic and ironic it is that on the very day Maroun goes into the clink, a young man dies while painting the bridge. Billionaire Bridge Owner's Greed Lands Him In Jail 2012-01-12T20:50:52Z

But two years ago, when they met at a Beverly Hills Hotel bungalow for a script read-through, the combination of Ms. Streisand’s hand-waving, comic effusiveness and Mr. Rogen’s ironic detachment made immediate sense. Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen Discuss ‘The Guilt Trip’ 2012-12-09T08:10:06Z

Certainly it’s darkly ironic when Robeson sings it. Perspective | Her ‘God Bless America’ is a classic. Her two racist songs, a scandal. Should Kate Smith be banned from the ballpark? 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Aside from being selfish and cruel, it's also ironic, considering that few people are actually as stable as they'd like to depict themselves as being. The real horror of the "Midsommar" ending 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

“Laverne Cox’s character plays to transgender stereotypes and yet because of the way the show is written and acted, it has this sort of ironic undertone,” she said. Hollywood’s Surprising New Character 2013-08-02T09:45:43Z

Even at their most over the top, Mr. Ahonen’s plays are notably earnest, especially in this work, which ponders a subject that resists ironic distance: sex. | 'HotelMotel': Bellhop, There?s a Play in My Room 2011-08-11T02:30:50Z

But it would be ironic—if not at all surprising—if The Voice reaches the next level achievement by crowning its most American Idol–like winner yet. The Voice Watch: And the Winner Is… 2012-12-19T14:22:31Z

Genres and tones varied, but a typical episode offered a Spielbergian combination of ironic humor and sincere affection for retro American pulp. Why Was ‘Amazing Stories’ Rebooted? These 7 Episodes Help Explain 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

And in a movie that may prove a benchmark for female comedy, it's ironic that the filmmakers made Annie a baker who has to get her groove back by returning to the kitchen. "Bridesmaids": A triumph for vomit, and feminism 2011-05-10T20:11:00Z

Barthes’s ironic intellect, apparent everywhere in his many books, is wrapped here around his sore and nakedly beating heart. Books of The Times: Wallowing in Grief Over Maman 2010-10-14T20:53:00Z

Its viewership has transformed into multiple distinct, but parallel subcultures, from Long Island small-business tyrants to suburban wine moms to ironic online leftists. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s really ironic that it’s in the closet, because I was closeted when I was in high school,” Mr. Kim, 29, said. The Year of Blur 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z

At various points, the music is lush, ironic and quotation-heavy; there’s quite a bit of Wagner, Mahler and even Bernstein in the score. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

Her dark, ironic poem “Highway Hypothesis” made clear just what she thought of such unexamined romanticizing: Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 88 2014-02-07T20:50:12Z

Google renamed itself Topeka, an ironic one-upmanship with the Kansas city, which renamed itself "Google, Kan." in March to help lure the company's experimental fiber-optic network. Web gets April Fools' makeover of goofy hoaxes 2010-04-01T17:11:00Z

But how ironic that I chose that look – Glenn, the biker from the Village People. How Judas Priest invented heavy metal 2010-05-20T20:59:00Z

It’s a little ironic that the biggest breakout album on this list also comes from the most famous artist. The best Seattle albums of 2018: Critics choose the top 20 releases of the year 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Snowden’s digital omnipresence has an ironic quality: he’s a ghost in the screen, a disembodied conscience, a spy in the sky. Playing Edward Snowden 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Barb, presumably, is busy being the subject of endless ironic Halloween costumes. Stranger Things 2 – everything we learned from the trailer 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

To see the acronym for Make America Great Again over portraits of some of the worst Presidents in history is as ironic as it is chilling. Trump and Celebrity Approval: You Can’t Always Get What You Want 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

Again the title is ironic: these moody opaque songs don't get us anywhere close to being "inside" the singer's mind. Cannes 2013: Inside Llewyn Davis - first look review 2013-05-18T22:10:24Z

Moore’s post uses ironic wit to point out the fact that it is simply absurd Trump has not been held accountable for any of his alleged wrongdoings. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

When I made my “Sex” book I was being incredibly ironic, but I was also saying, “Look, it’s not only a man’s place to objectify a woman -- a woman can objectify herself too.” Madonna: 'Caring about what people think is the death of all artists' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Wegner’s earliest investigations of ironic process theory involved little more than issuing this challenge to American university students, then asking them to speak their inner monologues aloud while they made the attempt. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z

So you start to look for a more well-rounded education outside of these institutions, which is really ironic. Devendra Banhart’s amazing “Mad Men” finale theory involves Roger’s octopus painting and J.K. Rowling 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

“The Only Story” is just as pessimistic, with about the same satirical temperature and measuring the same ironic distance from what at first seems to be a love story that might generate some erotic heat. He’s 19. She’s 48 and Married. When They Play Doubles Tennis, It’s a Match. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

“Which is ironic,” Mr. Brooks said in an interview, “because he himself hated computers and never used them.” Brian Rust, Father of Modern Discography, Dies at 88 2011-02-02T05:22:39Z

Ms. Northman loves the way celebrities appeared to dress effortlessly in the ’90s, in oversize suits with unbuttoned shirts, thong-revealing jeans, ironic T-shirts and skimpy, sparkly halters. Gen Z Channels the 1990s 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

This is kind of ironic being The Times just had an article on homeless people camping out in Colorado forests. Glamping Adds a Touch of Luxe to the National Parks 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

That challenge is complicated by an ironic fact: Unlike other flagging brands, Anne Klein never stopped making money. Can a faded fashion house reclaim its 1970s glory? Inside the effort to save Anne Klein. 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

It deals with the branding of art and artists, who embraced the techniques of corporate advertising, sometimes critically and with ironic detachment, but all too often with uncritical enthusiasm. Review | The 1980s New York art world was cynical and crass. Should we be honoring it? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Spacey, the only man in American movies drier and more ironic than Bateman, dines out on the role of Bateman's boss, a smug control freak. 'Horrible Bosses' offers a cast, script that kill 2011-07-07T14:54:00Z

Dalton, a West End stage luminary with heartthrob looks, played Bond with the ironic scowl of a killer who was battle-ready yet war-weary. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z

It was cruelly ironic that he continued to play Harry Harper, sometimes being required to inform patients that they had an incurable disease. Simon MacCorkindale obituary 2010-10-17T17:26:00Z

“Gay Babadook” was born when a somewhat ironic post to Tumblr in October went viral: “Whenever someone says the Babadook isn’t openly gay it’s like?? Did you even watch the movie???” The Babadook: how the horror movie monster became a gay icon 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

He elucidates, above all, the ironic dimension of his film’s title, imposing an elegiac, gently pessimistic tone on the energy and immediacy of what he sees and shows. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

It is ironic that Trump dismissed the severity of the virus only to then liken it to a war he was going to win. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

So, where does art rise above ironic ridicule and aspire to greatness, in terms of challenging convention and elevating the human spirit? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

But while a level of modesty is appreciated, even the ironic reiteration of one’s advantages can present as its own kind of aloofness. In ‘Vacationland,’ John Hodgman confronts surrealism of adult life 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

And they were the culmination of a long evolution for Mr. Jacobs, erstwhile ironic outfitter to the cool crowd. Marc Jacobs’s Curtain Raiser 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

But there is a complication: Johnny and Omar are lovers, and their relationship finds a kind of ironic symbol in the laundrette that may yet get turned into an unlikely thing of beauty. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

“It’s so ironic that the institutions that demand disclosure from others are the least willing to be transparent about themselves,” he said. The Guardian offered a bombshell story about Paul Manafort. It still hasn’t detonated. 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

One of Poland's most acclaimed writers of recent decades, her humane and often ironic poems won a wider audience in 1996 when she won the Nobel prize for literature. Polish poet's will calls for new prize, foundation 2012-02-29T15:23:18Z

According to Laura Wexler, a professor of women’s studies and visual media at Yale, Liu’s images are “reminiscent of a strain of contemporary Chinese photography that is ironic, sardonic even, about human social space.” The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Now, it's also true that the Coens are coming at this classic western yarn from a 21st-century perspective that might misleadingly be called "ironic," but it's better not to get hung up on that. "True Grit": A ferocious heroine in a classic western 2010-12-22T02:01:00Z

Far from critiquing her by applying an ironic varnish to the performance, Lansbury dared to advocate for her by making her as clever and merry as possible. Angela Lansbury, Broadway’s Beloved Everywoman 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Maybe the title is wry, rueful, ironic, nostalgic and mischievous — all of which “Smut” itself turns out to be. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z

A heavy sense of obligation runs through Murphy’s direction — through every word, every inflection, every choice, every time a new-wave dance hit becomes an ironic dirge. ‘The Normal Heart’: Then and now, a relevant outrage

His work tirelessly satirises their human inadequacy, by turns savagely or with an ironic compassion. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z

As readers of his New Yorker magazine columns know, Iverson was being slightly ironic, but only slightly. Earshot Jazz Festival 2018 brings both the traditional and the eccentric 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

In an ironic echo of the play’s plot, Childress found herself at odds with the would-be director when “Trouble in Mind” was slated for its Off Broadway premiere. Alice Childress Finally Gets to Make ‘Trouble’ on Broadway 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

And maybe in part because they are new to those questions, teenagers tend to approach them without much embarrassment or ironic distance. Why John Green Likes Writing for Teenagers 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

In an ironic twist, homeowners report thieves are stealing video doorbells — while being filmed. Why installing a smart doorbell might be a clever move 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z

“Crowns are fragile things. They are symbols of power. Perhaps it’s ironic and meaningful that they fell.” Oops! A Museum Selfie Gone Wrong Causes $200,000 in Damage. 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

“Unlike Roy, I wasn’t interested in ironic simulations of pop media; I wanted to make mysterious pictures.” James Rosenquist, painter of unnerving large-scale masterworks, dies at 83 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

As a result, some people can't stand his music, weighted as it often is with a dollop of ironic distance. Ariel Pink plugs into 'Pom Pom' buzz in his own singular style 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The difference here is the compassion that Haneke affords the two people in this story, and the love, not twisted or ironic, they show each other. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z

If There Wasn't Something There almost sounds like a Kanye West track, which is a little ironic, considering Womack's scorn for hip-hop. Bobby Womack: The Bravest Man in the Universe – review 2012-06-09T23:05:29Z

Chaykin's appearance, with his fleshy, expressive face and soft body, allowed him to suggest pathos, but he was able to play it with a fierce, often ironic, comic intelligence. Maury Chaykin obituary 2010-08-19T17:22:00Z

Yet the new high-tech global world co-exists with old-style affectionate, ironic and enthusiastic celebrations at street level, from local parties to window decorations. Style: We're All Invited to the Wedding! 2011-04-25T12:00:59Z

Once a choice epithet for the fashion blogger or Lohan-minded minion, the phrase now takes on an ironic sheen that blurs the marks of privilege. The “hot mess” humblebrag: Successful white women still love to pretend their lives are in shambles 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

“The Pop artists in New York were ironic about it,” Mr. Foster said. The Face on the Canvas and Other Mysteries 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z

It is ironic that a black intellectual American wrote a defining account of a great American novel while incarcerated for expressing his ideas. Ahab’s White Whale and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The front door opens into the living room — an ironic name for such an uninhabitable place. How cleaning out my hoarder Mother-in-Law’s junk caused my own marriage to crumble 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Amid the clips and ironic sendoffs, there were plenty of moments of real heart, from his tribute to his family to his earnest farewell speech. 10 tearjerker moments from Dave Letterman’s big finale 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

In the end, there was an ironic combination of more religion and more freedom of religion at the same time. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z

“The name is a little big ironic and it’s more like the name of the project than a serious institute with structure,” he said. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Avant-Garde Time Capsule in Polish Apartment 2010-11-16T08:30:00Z

“It’s so ironic that here I was, utterly, utterly naked – and I felt completely liberated. Not because I was naked,” she adds, “but because it was my choice. Totally my choice.” Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

“The First Bad Man” is ironic, somewhat depressing and often macabre. Book review: ‘The First Bad Man,’ by Miranda July 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Written with ironic humor, each play is a searing reminder of the importance of the artist as a provocateur. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z

The teetotaler washes meals back with Diet Coke, an ironic choice given that the vain billionaire once tweeted, “I have never seen a thin person drink Diet Coke.” The world is Trump’s oyster, but he prefers Filet-O-Fish 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Boy howdy,” I would say, if I were folksy or ironic enough to pull it off. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Bride dumps her ‘moody’ best friend; are her other friends disposable, too? 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

With ironic paternalism, Baldwin habitually applied this sweet nothing to that set of permanent children proud of their whiteness. Reading James Baldwin in the Black Lives Matter era 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Lady Gaga made her name with ostentation, ironic flamboyance and pseudo performance art. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Watering holes that pay wry homage to our maritime heritage have, ahem, flooded the market, as common these days as ironic taxidermy at a Capitol Hill dive. Drinks, ahoy, at the Octopus bar 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

This ironic fact was never more apparent than during the Trump years, when we kept hearing how Trump was killing comedy at the exact same time that Trump comedy was peaking. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Swift’s ironic phrase is such a hardy part of our language that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it is that we’d still be referring to a 3,000-word political pamphlet almost 300 years later. Perspective | Ghosthunters, grabbers and grifters: What would Jonathan Swift say of our times? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Rather than standing up to torture for the sake of true love, she is showered with presents by Selim as an ironic allusion to “Glitter and Be Gay,” Leonard Bernstein’s Mozartean parody in “Candide.” Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

“Hollywood dialogue was once witty, intelligent, ironic, poetic, musical,” he says. Life Itself - A Memoir - By Roger Ebert - Book Review 2011-09-25T04:13:02Z

“It’s ironic and sad,” he said, “but not nearly as sad as the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of people not being paid.” Shutdown Leaves Uninflated Space Sculpture Circling in Orbit 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

James says he thinks it's ironic that Trump uses sports to capitalize on racial divisions, when sports has served as a bridge for so many people. LeBron James to Don Lemon on CNN: Trump “used sports to divide us” 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

While Garten was sincere in her delivery, the phrase made its way through the more ironic corners of the internet, until it was eventually imbued with a slightly more snide edge. It's always an "Ina Garten Girl" summer 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

From reverence, to reckoning, to redemption, these three novels mark a larger shift in tone from the ironic to the sincere. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

The issue of class was simplified in the film, which cut “Christmas Bells,” a chorus of homeless people singing an ironic Christmas carol about trying to manage a living in a New York winter. Why ‘Rent,’ the Movie, Was My Gateway Musical 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

She is also afraid of heights, which is…ironic? Counting Down New Year?s Eve: Who?s in it the Most? 2011-12-09T15:58:05Z

Nearly all were replete with ironic humor and startling metaphors. Charles Simic, Pulitzer-Winning Poet and U.S. Laureate, Dies at 84 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

This is an ironic maneuver, given the institution of slavery, but it's not performed with the winking postmodern drollery of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," another musical improbably inspired from the pages of American history. Through 'Hamilton,' the Founding Fathers might once again make history 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

A terse text at the film’s end is a gruesome, ironic twist on the adage about living to fight another day. Review: The Vietnam War, as Fought by the French, in ‘The 317th Platoon’ 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

For someone who spent his days “swinging a metal detector, looking for a bomb,” it was an ironic exit from the battlefield. For these vets, making people laugh is the best medicine 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Was that an ironic gesture in a city of failing bankers and falling wages? Special Report: Fashion: Mary Katrantzou, as London?s Summer 2012 Shows End 2011-09-20T18:00:53Z

The ironic twist comes when the women reveal that the producers also asked each woman to “get friendly with this other woman” before they were sketched. Stop posting that Dove ad: “Real beauty” campaign is not feminist 2013-04-18T15:10:00Z

Then she bursts out laughing, one of the few times she seems to relax, knowing how ironic her comments sound. Cher Lloyd: 'I don't want to be a joke' 2011-07-27T21:00:02Z

The abundantly shameless, frequently wreckage-strewn nature of modern celebrity makes for some ironic switcheroos, as this afternoon's D-list punch line becomes the subject of tonight's somber eulogy. Don't eulogize Bret Michaels yet 2010-04-26T16:12:00Z

The thumbnail summary — “Aubrey Plaza becomes a thief” — conjures up a bone-dry comedy in which her deadpan persona creates ironic friction with the criminal underworld. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

And, in keeping with the postmodern taste for amused skepticism, there are ironic columns — columns that mock or cleverly subvert the form. Monolith Mania Comes to Chelsea 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The first music that introduces these supposedly intimate peeks behind the curtain is mocking and even ironic: Tracey Ullman singing “They Don’t Know.” Television Review: ‘Our Nixon,’ a CNN Documentary About White House Cameras 2013-07-31T22:11:25Z

But this sort of ironic approach has been a licence for any halfwit to vent the prejudices they'd been keeping in the closet since Love Thy Neighbour was taken off the air. I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough 2011-02-05T21:30:00Z

Is the biting, waltzing third movement a bitterly ironic jab at tyranny? Review: A Symphony Talks Politics 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Given the penchant for old man Biden jokes, such a view could be wickedly ironic, except it's wrong. Is political comedy dead now? 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Gisele Itie is simply a damsel in distress, and as for Charisma Carpenter - well, one would hope she has some woodworking skills, so that her name isn't completely ironic. The Expendables: 'See it with the rowdiest crowd possible' 2010-08-05T12:10:00Z

It's ironic about the way it came to be. Allen Toussaint, reluctant solo star 2013-11-07T15:52:00Z

According to one criminologist, that would be a welcome but somewhat ironic development, since mass school shootings seldom provide compelling evidence in favor of more restrictions on weapons. Mass shootings are actually bad for gun control advocates 2012-12-17T18:14:00Z

Bradley devoted the first decade of his CV to what might be called ironic, anti-painting paintings. Joe Bradley Begins Again 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

But where Warhol was ironic, Hill is fluorescently bold. In the galleries: Where nature and art come together

It's ironic, in a way, because conservatives have long viewed Chick-fil-A as being a company that has the same values as they do — and understandably so. "Et tu, Chick-fil-a?": Far-right pundits turn on Chick-fil-A over diversity and equity initiative 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

There’s something ironic, if not perverse, in the fact that “Downhill” arrives in theaters just a few days after “Parasite” won the Oscar for best picture. Perspective | On the heels of ‘Parasite’s’ Oscars win for best picture, can we finally jettison the dreaded American remake? 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The Oxford art dictionary hedges its bets, defining kitsch as "art, objects or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way ..." Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z

But beyond Mr. Neumann’s ironic juxtapositions, there is no poetry. Dance Review | David Neumann: A Meeting of ?Giselle? and Hasselhoff 2010-03-05T23:59:00Z

It is all the more ironic, then, that this reviewer’s experience of “Find Me” was one of such profound disattunement. “Find Me” Is a Shallow Sequel to “Call Me By Your Name” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I wish there was some way to be interested in iconography without people thinking you’re being ironic,” she said. Tavi Gevinson: The Oracle of Girl World 2012-07-27T21:24:36Z

What could be more sophisticated than ironic quaintness? Re-gin-eration: what’s behind the botanical spirit boom? 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

It seemed slightly cruel — and ironic — to be picked up by the same manner of transport that had just burst into flames, but there was no other option presented. The Day My Megabus Caught Fire 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

"George F. Kennan" has an ironic subtitle: "An American Life." Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z

One of Poland's most acclaimed writers, her humane and often ironic poems won a wider audience in 1996 when she won the Nobel prize for literature. Last book of late Nobel poet hits stores in Poland 2012-04-20T11:46:11Z

The song commenced, as always, with Mr. Dillon’s blunt, ironic introduction. Free to Rock, and Rightly So 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

There are potential laughs here at compulsive quirks and ironic realizations. In ‘Gruesome,’ love and dysfunction meet 2013-07-30T16:49:12Z

It would be fitting and a touch ironic if we brought the mammoth back purely so that we could see a living breathing one with our own eyes at long last. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

“There’s a new generation with fresh, ironic ideas.” An Art Scene by the Sea in Uruguay 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Baker’s book is studded with sharply ironic reflections on the wider implications of the medical world. The Real “Knick” 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Really, when you think about it, the whole situation is very ironic. See Why the Fashion and Architecture Worlds Are Leaping to the Defense of a Tokyo Hotel 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

In “Self Portrait,” he discusses this explicitly, and the diary films are full of ironic acknowledgments of their own artifice. The Avant-Garde Filmmaker Who Tried to Tell the Truth 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

She had an ironic and sometimes ribald wit, engaging in puns and wordplay. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z

Best of all is Beams’s tone: ironic and arch when relaying the spirited optimism of Samuel’s precious experiments, urgent and sinister when depicting their nightmarish outcomes. An Adulterer, a Gang Member, a Dystopian Teacher: 3 Novels of American Womanhood 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

They write entirely about their own experiences from an ironic perspective, and churn out tongue-in-cheek books about such diverse topics as getting old, snoring and having children. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z

As they reminisced, Mr. Komar and Mr. Melamid riffed on whether Warhol was ironic or idiotic, and they lamented the lack of irony today. Soviet Pop Art Duo Reunites for First U.S. Retrospective Since Their Breakup 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

In a work or social situation, you can almost see her drawing from both parts of herself, her conversational manner direct and mildly ironic. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z

That sense of period renders everything ironic, melancholy. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z

There was an ironic parallel when Bruno S was lionised when he appeared with Herzog at the 1975 Cannes film festival, where the film won the grand jury prize. Bruno Schleinstein obituary 2010-08-22T18:12:00Z

“I’m close to all my boys. We’re very family-like, which is ironic as we play such a dysfunctional family,” he says. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

How ironic, considering that we were never for long without our Rick Steves travel guidebooks. Balancing a marathon — and constant gelato stops — in Rome 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

A recently released trailer for the third season is a textbook example of the ironic mode, relishing the backbiting and insult-poetry of the Roy family, who are no less despicable for being delightful to watch. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

What's ironic is that the article doesn't bother to include the video of Cohen, just a link, while the various covers get the space, and the... How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

They have a presence that blows away much of today’s thin, ironic, media-saturated confections. The other modernism 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

This mild interjection is the first hint of his disillusionment; compared with what is to follow, it is supremely ironic. From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Thus her ironic references to herself as "lady painter," a sly put-down she used knowing full well that her art deserved to hang alongside that of her more celebrated male contemporaries. Painter Joan Mitchell finally gets her due 2011-05-02T10:57:09Z

As Ophelia speaks to her beloved, the music becomes more intensely personal, as the composer seemingly enters not only the pitiless and abstract aesthetic of Xenakis but also the complexly ironic tone of late Britten. Listening Booth: Operas by Rufus Wainwright and Hans Abrahamsen 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

And the result was polished, refined and ostentatious in an ironic way. Special Report: Fashion: Nicolas Ghesquiere at Balenciaga Mixes Heritage and Style 2011-09-29T17:18:23Z

I got voted in and thought, right, they've gone for the 'ironic' vote. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

Then, in the sixth chamber – in an ironic denial of what has caused them imaginatively – "the books are received by men and arranged in libraries". William Blake brought me face to face with my literary fundamentalism 2012-11-06T12:09:21Z

Stein brings his usual ironic sass to this attack on Trump-style populism, but his underlying project is sincere, and fueled by a desire to understand the roots of today’s cultural divide. New & Noteworthy, From Philosophy to New York Architecture 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

Photos of a battered Nicole Brown Simpson circulated on Twitter with the ironic quotation “conflict free life.” O.J. Simpson is granted parole, closing another chapter in a neverending saga 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

And this will perhaps seem ironic, but I tend to avoid memoir. The Very Sweet Way Sarah Broom’s Mother Showed Her Love With Books 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

In a way, his hip-hop is a lot like his comedy: flavored with irony — because an Indonesian teenager rapping about gang warfare is ironic — but ultimately driven by a passion born of talent. Meet 17-Year-Old Indonesian Rapper Rich Chigga 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Somehow, it found a new tonal register for movies: profoundly flip, joyously melancholic, mundanely surreal, sincerely ironic. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s a wonderfully ironic backhanded way of finding positivity in absolute negativity.” A Festival That Conjures the Strange Magic of H.P. Lovecraft 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

It is the kind of assessment that Ms. Huppert is apt to greet with one of her ironic smiles. Isabelle Huppert: ‘The Best Way to Please Is Not to Please’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

This deeply ironic, conflicted work became an unironic hit, much like, say, Madonna’s “Material Girl” would. The ‘Preppy Handbook’ & Me 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

They're vain, competitive, ingenious, witty, sulky, timorous, creative, ironic, adaptable, adventurous, quarrelsome, collaborative and romantic. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z

With a massive sound from added brass and percussion at the start, this Five Pieces was less lightly playful and more Mahlerian — witty and ironic, but with martial heft. Review: The New York Philharmonic Brings Back the Standards 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

It’s partly because this band has an ironic sense of humor, and seems to signal in several ways that it’s not as sincere as its Facebook note appeared at first glance. So you want to make a sex tape hoax: Yacht’s little publicity stunt is one odd way to self-promote 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

As Ruth Franklin observes, in a profile of the author in New York, “Give Me Your Hand” “plays with cultural constructions of female ‘blood rage,’ often in a self-consciously ironic way.” Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

“It somehow seems ironic that on afternoons very much like this, Air Force jets bear the bodies of male Kennedys out of the West back to their resting place in the East,” he had said. Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

To some, he is the epitome of the hipster young American: cool, knowing, ironic. Taipei by Tao Lin – review 2013-07-04T08:00:01Z

On the contrary, his career has been based on creatively pushing the boundaries between comedic wit, personal narratives, informative analysis and ironic insight. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

The ironic thing is that “Shazam!” dates back to the early days of comics. Nodding to ‘Big,’ ‘Shazam!’ brings the superhero down a size 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Lehrer wrote that it was ironic that the Watergate hearings helped establish the importance of public TV, since President Richard Nixon hated public broadcasting. Jim Lehrer of the ‘MacNeil-Lehrer Report’ dies at 85 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's ridiculously ironic that a woman named "Posh Spice," was claiming that she grew up working-class. Why do some celebrities pretend to have struggling, working-class backgrounds? 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z

So, to be more nuanced about what’s at stake: In the present moment, where does art rise above ironic ridicule and aspire to greatness, in terms of challenging convention and elevating the human spirit? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

The refrain – "And I believe in a promised land" – tries to bury tortured ambivalence in resounding slogan, one of Springsteen's favourite ironic devices. Bruce by Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock 'n' Roll by Marc Dolan – review 2012-11-28T08:00:01Z

At the time, because they were provided by Wolfgang Goebbel, an incredibly tasteful avant-garde lighting designer, I thought they were ironic. Es Devlin, set and costume designer – portrait of the artist 2013-07-09T17:16:54Z

“The Man Who Saw Everything” is a gently ironic title. Crossing Abbey Road: It’s More Dangerous Than You Might Think 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

With this neatly ironic Möbius strip of dialogue, Alicia created, in effect, an introspective loophole. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

But it’s ironic nonetheless, as bro country is just one more of Williams’s children. The Awkward, Enduring Influence of Hank Williams, Jr. 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Eco's characters may verge on the dry, but the plot is as neat as Conan Doyle or Christie, with ironic undertow echoing Chesterton's Father Brown series. The Times' 1983 review of Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose:' An intriguing detective story 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars in an ironic action-comedy remake of a beloved piece of entertainment, in this case a TV series. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

While the performances adopt the ironic "Oh hey man" deadpan tone of much current comedy, and cartooning, there is something felt and even spiritual here. TV Picks: 'Altman,' 'Poirot,' Cartoon Hangover shorts, 'The Killing' 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

That curious diminutive "Little" reminded me a little of "Uncle Junior" in The Sopranos: an ironic piece of family lore. Film review: Winter's Bone 2010-09-16T21:42:00Z

“She has a point, but at the same time, it could just be an ironic response to that idea.” Noticed: N.B.A. Chic for the Slim Fit 2010-09-18T01:14:00Z

It’s dynamic, at times volcanic, like artistic genius is supposed to be, but it can also have a comedic, even ironic quality. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

It’s an odd orphan, not howlingly bad enough for ironic adoration at midnight screenings, but not competent enough for enshrinement in the canon. Ishtar at 30: is it really the worst movie ever made? 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

There’s an almost unbearable sense of ironic deja vu in a scene that is practically lifted wholesale from “Aliens,” which Reiser did 31 years ago. Review | It’s the era of the homage and the satisfying ‘Stranger Things’ is the prototype 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z

For a show that claims to be about how to understand people, there’s an ironic lack of a single moment of credible human behavior. What You Should Watch Now That Fall TV Has Arrived 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

As I looked through a catalog of available designs, contemplating an ironic purchase, a mother and her daughter walked in and began to browse in earnest. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z

At 71, the artist does not carry himself like the ironic prankster you might expect from his work. Wegman, the Weimaraner artist, brings cheer to kids at Georgetown cancer clinic 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But he doesn’t see disemvowelling creeping into more formal areas, and expects the trend won’t move “beyond the realm of that which is ironic or iconic.” Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

The Coke ad, which McCann did, indeed, produce, was used in the finale as an ironic counterpoint to Don’s actual experiences in California. 'Mad Men' Finale: Readers Respond 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

It is perhaps ironic that Mr. Potts, who found playing for dancers distasteful, should be the subject of an evening of dance. ‘Riverdance’ Was Years Ago. Colin Dunne Makes Quiet Music Now. 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

In reality, though, that’s unlikely to be the case, because Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson only really makes three types of film: the ironic action comedy, the kids movie and the disaster epic. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Full House” fandom is also rooted in nostalgia, but it’s the kind of nostalgia that’s so much better consumed in hindsight through ironic filters. Here’s why a “Full House” reboot is an insane idea 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

About Mr. Obama’s evolving stance on same-sex marriage, for example, Mr. Kennedy declares: “That the nation’s first black president defends separate but equal in the context of same-gender intimacy is bitterly ironic.” Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race 2011-08-11T22:00:15Z

This is ironic given that "The Last of Us" creators once had to defend against critics concerned with the game's hardcore gore. "The Last of Us" could change how Hollywood does video games, but hateful gamers make it difficult 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

Like the purple velvet rope attached to the counter that Headley hooks at precisely 6 p.m. to separate the open kitchen from the crowd, ironic but functional. Behold the humble Superiority Burger, the rage of NYC 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

“The human personality is key to understanding every strength the show has. I remember it being colder and more ironic when I first watched it,” Zoller Seitz said. At the first-ever SopranosCon, meet the fans who never stopped believin’ 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

Here’s what we learned from speaking with him just days before The O.C.‘s 10th anniversary: Josh Schwartz: “I’d never really watched—and this kind of ironic now—a lot of teen dramas myself. 11 Things We Learned About The O.C. from Series Creator Josh Schwartz 2013-08-14T09:45:30Z

In this movement — a melting yet pungently ironic juxtaposition of Owen with the liturgy — the delicate tone Morlot drew from chorus and orchestra provided a perfect surround for Griffey’s melting solo. A sublime, profound ‘War Requiem’ at SSO | Classical review 2013-06-14T18:03:36Z

It’s very ironic because it’s an American muscle car. Ludacris Talks 'Furious 7' and The Most Controversial Verse on His New Album 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Professor Gage said that at a time when many people are concerned about the lack of political diversity at elite campuses, it was ironic that the Grand Strategy program had come under fire. Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

But Rachman brings his own, warmer touch to the crime, transforming it into a surprising act of defiance that’s both deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate. Review | The art of rebellion: The son of a famous painter tries to reframe his life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

Now our comedians are not just using ironic comedy to help bring clarity to the crisis; they are also showing the leadership our administration sorely lacks. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

That credo also reflected an ironic wrinkle in Forster’s personal life: As a gay man in a punitively homophobic society, he could not openly express his own passionate nature. Edwardian travelers of ‘Room with a View’ come to 5th Avenue stage 2014-04-10T00:10:47Z

There is something deliciously ironic about a magnanimous book on termites. Termites Are Actually Shrunken Cockroaches and Other Things About Them You Really Don’t Want to Know 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

It’s meant to be ironic -- even though there’s some very handy items on that list. Madonna: 'Caring about what people think is the death of all artists' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

The punishment is ironic, considering the Academy rules state that only three producers are eligible to be awarded the best picture statuette. "Hurt Locker" producer punished for Oscar violation 2010-03-03T02:04:00Z

The heckling was particularly ironic since the tagline to the proceedings was “listen as well as speak”! My friends can’t stop moaning | Mariella Frostrup 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Whatever residue Snapchat left in terms of neighborhood animosity, it’s kind of ironic that some people are upset that Snapchat moved to Venice, fixed things up, cleaned up things,” and then left, Mr. Bill said. Snapchat’s Disappearing Act Leaves Venice Beach Searching for Its Future 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

But the new episodes also boldly refuse to position themselves as a big deal, still boiling down to Mulder and Scully wandering dorky sets, exchanging dialogue that characteristically merges the ironic with the breathlessly earnest. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

He first gained widespread attention in 2000 with “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” an ironic memoir about dropping out of college to raise his little brother after their parents died. Review | Dave Eggers’s ‘The Parade’ is a heartbreaking work of staggering cynicism 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

This seems pretty ironic, given what won best film. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

It’s an ironic pattern in a project so earnestly concerned with clarity and pedagogy: While the book argues for technology’s inherent neutrality, the stories themselves push forward and excuse a certain paternalism. Memory, That Unreliable Narrator: New Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

Bee’s coverage has offered anger, insight and ironic commentary that offers her viewers a cathartic release unavailable on most mainstream news shows. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the narrative's forward motion -- consider that entire phrase ironic -- is told in little staccato bursts, disconnected violent tableaux accompanied by yowling faux-metal guitar. "Jonah Hex": Hard-boiled heavy-metal idiocy 2010-06-18T18:01:00Z

After a stunned Ingrid Bergman announced the two winners in 1969, Streisand famously opened her acceptance speech by greeting the statuette with a saucy “Hello, Gorgeous!” — echoing her ironic first line in “Funny Girl.” Oscar Rewind: Pop Star Plays a Performer and Wins? It’s Happened Before 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

In his acceptance speech, Tan said, “Our film is about a creature that nobody pays any attention to, so this is wonderfully ironic.” Shaun Tan?s Wild Imagination 2011-04-23T04:30:02Z

“I’m an ironic fan,” said Elliot Townsend, 23, a sales clerk and photographer. ‘Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2’: Fans Bid Farewell 2012-11-17T00:17:10Z

But to Bassett and fellow believers, this didn’t read like a bit of ironic Twitter humor. UFO truthers want to make Roswell an issue for 2016. Meet their lobbyist. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

But renunciation has a narrative thread, not without ironic turns. A film ride that cuts to the chase 2011-07-20T12:02:50Z

I hit a happy face only once, and then it was more or less as an ironic gesture. Apptitude: Sleep Cycle didn’t help him wake refreshed — or at all

The trailer for Marvel’s “Black Panther” features sound bites from Gil Scott-Heron’s anthem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” which seems ironic since the movie itself seems downright revolutionary. New Trailer: ‘Black Panther’ 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

That stance, in fact, is commonplace for political comedians who walk the fine line between offering the public important correctives to misinformation while also trying to bring ironic levity to dark times. “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zacarías clearly wants us to view the outlandish antics onstage from some ironic distance, but the play’s only appeal is its silly soapy outrageousness, which is heartily embraced by the excellent cast. Women’s Voices Theater Festival in Washington Is an Energizing Showcase 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The words that inspired “The Insult” are more than a little ironic, considering Doueiri’s background as the child of what he calls liberal, left-leaning, secular Muslims. Oscar-nominated ‘The Insult’ reopens old wounds — but to heal them 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Especially when you consider that the particular example I’ve quoted is atypically soft: Bon, the person saying it, is part black, and being mordantly ironic. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z

There’s art about sex and gender, pieces that are funny and angry, but interestingly not ironic. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z

So there was an ironic element of truth about it. ArtsBeat: Emmy Nominees: Connie Britton of ‘Nashville’ 2013-07-18T18:45:25Z

Bridget was so sincere that the over-all effect was ironic: she was a strong, independent woman who desperately wanted to look skinny and find love. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

"He actually left to go travelling," she chuckles, "which is really ironic." The Levellers take it to the next level ? the return of crusty 2011-02-17T23:21:01Z

I’m saying it comically, but it did seem ironic. Hollywood sexism hurts more than careers: “Traditionally women have used fame as a platform” 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Then again, that number is 666, so it might be an ironic action comedy about some soldiers punching the devil. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

It's kind of ironic that now I'm standing before you as a girl and I'm not raising my hand anymore. "It's hard to watch": Armie Hammer's aunt on her family's "sick and twisted behavior" in new series 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

“It seemed ironic, and sad, to me that people who were initially drawn to the natural beauty of Utah’s native landscapes often replaced them with generic, irrigation-requiring landscapes.” A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Some fans probably enjoy his work as a kind of ironic prank on comedy itself. Joe Pera and the Surprising Pleasures of Gentle Humor 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

The general engine of these jokes — ironic call-and-response wordplay — is not unique, and lameness as a humor virtue is well-trod ground. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I declare these jokes groundbreaking 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

The choreography is entirely forgettable but enjoyably showcased the dancers as distinct personalities, switching between fervent classicism, ironic shimmying with feathered fans and more a contemporary, grounded physicality. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

There's nothing like swaggering around in your "too big to fail" pants to summon the gods of ironic punishment, now, is there, Jeff Zucker? 2010-01-14T20:15:00Z

“We would produce the sculpture with our bodies in front of the actual sculpture as a sort of ironic gesture,” she said. When One Dancer Is a Ghost in the Room 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

But all these ironic references and momentary throwbacks are but minor diversions. Spoiler Alert: Snow White, Warrior Princess, and Her Forgettable Dwarfs 2012-06-04T10:45:38Z

It’s novel, playful and slyly ironic and requires total confidence. Designers reveal their most challenging paint colors and how to master them 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Even if the comment is initially meant to be self-aware or ironic, the rest of the book belies any attempt at irony by presenting Owen as an archetypical effete. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z

A bit ironic then, if understandable, that the Irish novelist Sally Rooney is chafing at her fame. Sally Rooney and Love in the Time of General Systems Collapse 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

“The Germans are not used to having an ironic view of the Holocaust.” New Publisher for German-Language Edition of Martin Amis's 'The Zone of Interest' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Of course, there’s something ironic about enlisting jinn in a battle against humanity’s belief in the supernatural. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

I would like to think that your post/boast is made as an ironic joke, but my years of experience in our National Parks and wildernesses tell me it isn't. A National Park’s Plea: Enjoy the Animals; Don’t Act Like One 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

“The ironic thing, of course, is that people still think Jack Handey is a made-up name.” Jack Handey Is the Envy of Every Comedy Writer in America 2013-07-15T19:46:10Z

“That’s definitely a fault of mine in general when it comes to dating: I’m not as honest as I should be with how I feel,” he said with ironic candor. Date Lab: She had no expectations and was delighted that he didn’t either 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

The most current version of the band, which played the Metro Saturday night, is missing retired guitarist Bruce Gilbert, which is ironic, since this incarnation explicitly nods back to the band's past eras. 80s punk icon Wire returns with a brutal economy 2011-04-10T15:02:00Z

Kurt Vonnegut is a deeply ironic writer who has sometimes been read as if he were not. What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Zelenskyy's satire is in this same family of using ironic wit to foster political change and using the charisma of comedy to help defend and advance democracy. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

The admittedly ironic fact that he is now a gilded-cage émigré in Russia – America’s longtime global rival, and a vastly less free and open society – is surely not lost on Snowden. Laura Poitras on Snowden’s total, preternatural calm 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Of course, this is ironic, considering the class and varying identity-based barriers to hygiene products. Why do we even care which celebrities bathe? An investigation 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Which is bitterly ironic, because in terms of geography and history, our people were here long before the West and Southwest became part of the United States. The American Latino Experience: 20 Essential Films Since 2000 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

That said, she also wore a flowered robe at the Kennedy Center’s Club at Studio K on Wednesday night, which added an ironic twist. Jaimie Branch trumpets a note of fun into avant-garde jazz 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

She was at the forefront of the recent trend toward post-male-gaze prairie dress, an aesthetic that could perhaps be best described as ironic Amish. Will We Lose a Generation of Designers? 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Back in 1992, Al's line about the walls being paper-thin warranted an ironic laugh – now the Parisian set gets a round of applause of its own. Acting married: thespian relationships in the spotlight | Alfred Hickling 2010-03-23T14:04:00Z

He added, “I’ve never felt so alive, which is ironic since I’m not that alive.” ‘Saturday Night Live’ Sends Off Trump With a Ballad 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wondrich himself looks vintage, his bushy trademark goatee less an ironic statement than a slightly dandyish nod to the chin topiary of yesteryear. The Tipsy Diaries: Punch, the Drink of Dickens, Redeemed 2010-10-14T20:36:00Z

The ironic theme song, “A Well-Respected Man,” is a classic from the Kinks. 'Mr. Sloane,' a dark British comedy with Southland roots, comes to KCET 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

The first section of the book leans heavily on the hackneyed ploy of the child narrator, whose unconsciously ironic observations are apparent to the reader. Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘Bream Gives Me Hiccups’ is no masterpiece 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

"It is ironic that what I was accused of 'stealing' had already been 'stolen'," she adds, segueing into an explanation about intertextuality and how words and phrases percolate into works unconsciously. Helene Hegemann: 'There's no such thing as originality, just authenticity' 2012-06-23T23:05:24Z

Funhouse baroque isn't even an ironic style: it's a coat of paint, underneath which is revealed the "good-natured jumble" of old-fashioned family entertainment. Joyland by Stephen King – review 2013-06-12T06:31:01Z

“And isn’t it ironic that the first time I actually pay someone, they try to send me to jail?” ‘Saturday Night Live’ Tackles the Trump Indictment 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

On the spectrum of ironic to enthusiastic, it’s not quite clear where his affinity lies. Yeah, so I dig Tom Cruise, and ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ might make my year

"Their furnishings came from swap meets, thrift stores. "The ironic thing is that when people watch the show, their first response is: 'How can they afford a space like that?' Looking back at Friends 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Southern, Catholic, ironic, oblique: “The Moviegoer” doesn’t add up, quite. We Still Live Within the Mediated, Alienated World of “The Moviegoer” 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Ryan Gosling wearing a shirt with an old photo of Macaulay Culkin is an ironic comment on the nature of stardom. New Trend: The Endless T-Shirt 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gillette said his efforts “are in no way ironic,” adding they are simply his “earnest attempt to get a painting correct.” Bob Ross Fans Seek Some Happy Little Appreciation for Their Muse 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

“I find it ironic that fear is eliminating the possibility to tell stories that depict our ability to overcome fear,” said the film’s director, Gore Verbinski. Sony, ‘The Interview’ and the unspoken truth that all movies are political 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

“Poems are visible right now, which is terribly ironic, because you rather wish it weren’t so necessary,” she said. American Poets, Refusing to Go Gentle, Rage Against the Right 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

Known for his uncompromising and often cruel stories such as "Funny Games" and "Cache", critics were right to assume that the title of Haneke's latest film was ironic. King of Cannes Haneke could get record third Palme d'Or with "Happy End" 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

“My dad just celebrated his 93 birthday and this is what he said...Dad: ‘Sandra, isn't it ironic? Florida man celebrates 93rd birthday by visiting beach for the first time 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

On Sunday, Brand took a more ironic view of his troubles in Japan. Russell Brand deported from Japan, wife Katy Perry says 2011-05-23T18:41:00Z

It’s probably heightened nowadays because of how easy it is to hide behind a postmodern ironic view of the world. Meet the Daniels. Their new movie is about a farting corpse. 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Maybe it's ironic or maybe it's for another reason. Nigella Lawson: "Cook for yourself. No one else is going to judge you." 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s not nasty or mean or condescending or ironic or any of those things,” Matt says, “which a lot of content can be right now.” Stories from the Set of Stranger Things, the TV Escape We Need Right Now 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

“I was afraid of people backlashing against me because they say it’s ironic that I might be supposedly capitalizing on the tour,” Mr. Pellagatti said. Exploring the 'Occupy' Protest 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

The book’s success led to a job as a television weatherman, a witty and ironic black man in a cold climate. Dany Laferrière, a Guardian of French, Joins the Académie Française 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Even when the celebrated illustrator's gently ironic gaze settles on someplace other than the French capital, Sempe sees his subject from a quintessentially Parisian perspective. Paris pays homage to its biggest fan, Sempe 2011-10-20T11:47:08Z

His tone was gently ironic, the song full of feeling. Nashville, Tennessee: Music City’s still got soul 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The real-life parallel issues are anything but comic fodder, which puts form and content at odds, the nihilistic ending less grimly ironic than grimacing. Loads of dark satire in 'Occupation,' but little dramatic coherence 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Reference to the Holocaust in Achebe’s poem provides a way to meditate on the ironic condition of human cruelty. Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

A diversionary scene in which she wears a bright red dress serves as an ironic reminder that during the war years Stalin relaxed somewhat his grip on the people. Music: A Tortured Russian Poet's Twisted World 2011-04-05T13:30:06Z

It's ironic that Davies has created a series in which death doesn't exist, as he's never showed any hesitation to kill characters in his TV shows. Immortality is the lure of Starz's new 'Torchwood' spinoff 2011-07-06T16:08:03Z

With Dylan's concentration on New Orleans-inspired piano, it was ironic that Knopfler's set was the one more rooted in folk and country traditions. Bob Dylan Is Animated At KeyArena Concert 2012-10-14T17:56:02Z

He lost to two white Southern chefs, which he found ironic: “Their story is rooted in West Africa, too,” he said, “just in a different way.” A Chef Tells the Story of the Slave Trade Through Dinner 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

Along the way, we encounter ironic, funny and telling moments involving some of the larger personalities running these companies, all of whom are gambling with their destinies to transition away from fossil-fuel-powered vehicles. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-06T19:01:05Z

But it’s a sports bar, and it’s a bit ironic that it has sports games on that no one pays any attention to. Gay New York: a guide to clubs, bars, drag shows and queer culture 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Today, Feinstein’s work is known for its unpredictability and ironic allusions to pop culture and art history. Rochelle Feinstein Makes Work That Is Purposefully Hard to Define 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

“It’s ironic that you want to try a little harder, and suddenly there is nowhere to go,” said Ms. Basile, who lives in Washington, D.C. Cute Dress. How Many Bells Did You Pay? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

A crucifixion given an ironic title passed as satire. | Abroad: Take My Bulgarian Joke Book. Please. 2010-10-27T17:57:00Z

You can sense the slickly ironic lBurnham touch in the framing of the play. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

In communist countries during the 1980s, dissidents did their best to annoy, outwit and undermine the apparatchiks with ironic gestures. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z

It’s a cinematic fantasy that could be written off as a guilty pleasure, though the best erotic thrillers can be appreciated without taking an ironic distance. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

The age of the camp persona, the biting comment, the ironic allusion is not passing, exactly, but it is moving towards a particular section of a particular gay community at a particular point in time. How to Be Gay by David M Halperin – review 2012-08-29T09:00:00Z

But her genuine passion for music led her all the way to a performance at Carnegie Hall and earned her a cult following of ironic devotees. Meryl Streep on Guns, the Wage Gap and How She Picks a Role 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

But now there seems to be a conscious, ironic use of the tone in circulation. Uptalking is back, with an ironic twist 2010-05-02T20:00:00Z

"It is ironic, because our theatres could have got them much cheaper before." Black actors make it to the main stage – but there is still some way to go 2013-06-09T09:00:05Z

Gaga is doing her postmodern 'ironic' take on stardom, Ke$ha has that party tramp with a heart of gold thing going on and Katy Perry is fun and cheeky but wholesome. Readers reviews 2011-03-31T22:30:00Z

If only Coldplay’s video had a fleck of the ironic self-awareness of the song’s title, “Hymn for the Weekend,” it might have been fun. Coldplay’s eat-pray-love India: Their Beyoncé collaboration is even more insidious than cultural appropriation — and it’s not the band’s first time 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

On one level, this oddball cast of characters simply represents the joys of the picaresque novel, in which the author’s set design is intentionally surreal and ironic. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

SC: It’s ironic on a level, but I hope it’s an irony that the audience is aware of as well. I’m More Like Plutarch than Katniss: A Conversation with Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence 2013-11-21T10:45:04Z

But Mr. Herzog’s photos of a man leafing through magazines at a newsstand and of the dense forests of commercial neon that used to line Granville Street are not ironic. My Vancouver: An Ever-Unfolding Story 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

That has been the key, pleasantly ironic discovery of the entire venture: that something so obviously brought into being by a runaway ego should end up being so humbling. The critic who hit the stage 2010-05-13T21:00:00Z

Having not seen The Last Jedi yet myself, I don't know if that is ironic in this case or not. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z

It is further ironic that a dominant theme in Citizen Kane is the opposite: mortality as a punishment – symbolised by Kane's dying word: "Rosebud." Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z

“The really ironic and sad fact is that the content of this opera is more relevant in 2014 than it was even in 1991, when it was premiered,” Mr. Adams said. ‘Klinghoffer’ Composer Responds to Met’s Decision 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Again, it's sad and ironic -- Ray's spent his whole existence as a shapeshifter feigning real emotion in order to pass, and yet in the end it's his inability to hide emotion that is his undoing. "Fringe" recap: Two shapeshifters revealed 2010-10-15T12:30:00Z

It’s a fun song so it’s ironic that it came out of a situation that made me so angry. Nick Jonas: I Want a Career Like Elvis Presley 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

I'd call all this appropriation ironic, but it would only rub salt in the wound: the Greeks invented irony too. 'Clash of the Titans': Ancient Greece and Us 2010-03-19T20:01:00Z

It is perhaps ironic that a woman who eschewed popular fashion and beauty norms is now adored by the mainstream as a style icon. London museum exhibition focuses on Frida Kahlo as a style icon 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Her characters listened to music, got stoned, made ironic jokes, broke up or talked a lot about breaking up. In ?Walks With Men,? Ann Beattie Returns to the ?80s 2010-06-07T22:12:00Z

The title of the Rubinstein show is, I think, ironic unintentionally. Doll’s Play 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Literary scholar Paul Fussell dead at 88 2012-05-24T01:58:08Z

She wrote on a post added on Tuesday, “How ironic, the week I quit social media I receive ‘my second fame’. A social media star comes clean: “Everything I was doing was edited and contrived to get more value” 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“It is ironic that we went from these great heights to subterranean,” chuckles Chin, who as a professional climber and skier has typically done his filming around sheer cliffs. ‘Free Solo’ filmmakers swap peaks for depths in ‘The Rescue’ 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

There are over 1,000 distinct kinds of frowns on display, from rakish to tragic, ironic to crushed. Review: ‘A Very English Scandal’ Is Very Good. And Scandalous. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Both men became media stars through their comedy — ironic for Letterman, crude for Stern. Barrymore sets high standard in her models as talk show host 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

I also noticed my cheering was becoming less ironic. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z

Allegra Goodman is in no danger of falling into this ironic trap. How to turn a great American novel into a Great one 2011-02-17T09:49:44Z

Later it would make me apoplectic to hear people say, “It’s ironic that a grief facilitator gets cancer.” The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z

I love celebrity memoirs, and not in an ironic way. Friends in Lowe Places: Rob Lowe and the Art of the Celebrity Memoir 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z

It's ironic, because when I finally left Italy and came to London, everyone was excited because I was Italian. Alessio Natalizia of Walls: 'What does Italian music sound like anyway?' 2012-07-11T12:03:14Z

Rothschild had plans to create 1,000 MetaBirkins, which he has described as an “ironic nod” to the renowned brand, but only 100 have been released since the project began in 2021. Hermès Wins MetaBirkins Lawsuit, With Jurors Deciding NFTs Aren’t Art 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

If anything, Miller seems to want to improve upon Fitzgerald, to do away with the novelist’s brooding and ironic detachment in favor of a more glamorous celebration of city life. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

But their work, Bullock says, has more than its share of ironic humor. Finding the music in Beckett, the drama in Schubert: Let the L.A. Phil's experiment begin 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

“It’s ironic that I called the one guy who made me not want to be the aggressor because of what he did years ago.” Still in Love With Comic Books, and Now With Her, Too 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

It’s a fun enough idea, but it never quite landed, and segueing from that ironic niceness to Oh’s genuine earnestness just set everything off on a confusing, slippery start. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

Which, when you think about how Trump alleging Pelosi’s “meltdown” turned into a story of his own temper, “is rather ironic.” Analysis | That photograph of Pelosi and Trump is a work of art. Some say it’s a masterpiece. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The comment was ironic given that some Hollywood executives may see China as flouting WTO rules. Hollywood rep conciliatory in 1st China speech 2011-06-13T11:39:14Z

In the moment, there was a certain rolling of the eyes among them as they touched their glasses together, muttering indulgent and ironic things: “Amen to that” and “Hallelujah, brother.” Gloria: a short story by Alice McDermott

He told the BBC he thought the "certain ironic quality" surrounding the Domestic Goddess brand could help it survive. Brand Nigella: Will court case affect her career? 2013-12-20T12:45:14Z

As it is, it's ironic that your somewhat unhinged attitude might do more to frighten people about guns in others' hands than anything you write. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

I'm not sure whether the location is ironic or outright indecent. Cannes film festival: rebel yells 2010-05-18T20:30:00Z

The "plenty" of the title comes to look by the end of the evening more than ironic: it's as if Hare were actually saying enough, already. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic ? review 2011-02-13T00:06:05Z

He lends his name to the town closest to the Crazy Horse Memorial Statue – ironic, given that the Native American chief was on the victorious side at Little Bighorn. Head for the Black Hills: tales of Crazy Horse and Custer in South Dakota 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

What Noah does is use satirical wit, sarcasm and ironic commentary to show how most anti-BLM chatter is not just racist; it's also stupid. Trevor Noah's wit is an effective weapon against white supremacy and defense of police violence 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yet there's nothing of the classic "SNL" spirit here, nothing acerbic or especially ironic except the film's cute central premise: Famous monsters of old need a place to hide away from scary people. 'Hotel Transylvania': a cute monster mash with 'SNL' vets in cast 2012-09-27T20:22:06Z

Perhaps predictably, YouTube clips of the statement ricocheted around the world, causing a firestorm, even though she was just kidding: "I was being ironic on stage," she said in a statement. Madonna's apology for calling Obama a Muslim just the latest in a sorry career 2012-09-26T20:47:45Z

In an ironic twist, Sofia Coppola's new movie "The Bling Ring", about a gang of celebrity-obsessed teens who break into stars' homes to steal their possessions, premiered at Cannes on Thursday evening. Jewels stolen in Cannes, Chopard says not for stars 2013-05-17T18:05:37Z

To Katie Shia, a 23-year-old product designer in New York City, Gen Z’s embrace of a digital tool to facilitate in-person connection feels characteristically ironic. Is This the Least Cringe Option to Get People to Your Party? 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was a happy if somewhat ironic turn of events considering that she and her teammates didn’t get along very well. Review | ‘Proud’ and other best books to inspire young readers 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Even more striking is the power of Rockman’s painting, which doesn’t feel like an ironic comment on the Moran, nor a pendant to it. Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The title is ironic: as Ben Donovan, the general manager of the Sunshine Center, a San Diego sports and entertainment arena, Matthew Perry isn’t sunny at all; he’s a gloomy, self-absorbed loner turning 40. Television Review: Sunny Town, Gloomy Boss 2011-02-08T22:17:19Z

They wore pigtails, baby slings, ironic T-shirts, a head scarf, a lobster hat, a crown, a tiara and halos of white hair. One Morning in Maine, 225 People Went to the Library 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z

Morris has cropped silver hair and a large genial face given to ironic expressions and knowing smiles. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z

In its style, this “true history” — a phrase that usually denotes an unbelievable fiction — is as partisan and pervasively ironic as Lytton Strachey’s iconoclastic “Eminent Victorians,” and just as beguiling as A.J.A. Review | ‘The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith’ toppled the standardized Great Man tradition of biography 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

It’s so ironic that Disney backs me, because they created the perfect ending. Why Tamron Hall’s Role Model Is Rocky 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

Steve Martin took his own, pointedly ironic approach to the startling events: "Slow news day," he tweeted. Bin Laden targeted by TV's late-night humorists 2011-05-03T09:01:06Z

“On a hormonal level, I’m just a teenager,” Ms. Ménard said, with a faintly ironic smile. A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France’s Confusion) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

The ironic twist is that a friend asked me to officiate her wedding, whereas my whole first special and the TV show I did at NBC were all about how I didn’t believe in marriage. Whitney Cummings: "Crazy" Is the "New C-Word" 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

"The Gentlemen" — and yes that title is meant to be ironic — should be slick and stylish, or at least dumb fun. Guy Ritchie's 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

It's a brilliant coup, complete with Spanish habanera, glittering splashes of coloratura and ironic vocal rhapsody. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

“Hollywood is probably the last bastion of coat and tie, other than Wall Street, and I felt like I was too old to wear ironic T-shirts,” he said. Matt Jacobson, Facebook’s Gatekeeper for Hollywood 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

As for their viewing of Spike Lee’s movie, the scene that Tanne derives from it is a minor masterwork of ironic psychology and mother wit. The Authentic Joy of “Southside with You” 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

In addition to the prevalence of what she called “in-jokes” about the art world, Mr. Waters’s taste in art tends, unsurprisingly, toward the perverse, the ironic and the cheerfully nihilistic. John Waters, Droll Bard of Baltimore, Promises Art to Hometown Museum 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

Gibney said Assange had asked him to report what other interview subjects in the documentary were saying about him, something he found to be "highly ironic." Wikileaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange 2013-05-24T11:18:48Z

There's less a shadow of veiled criticism in that, I'm sure, than an ironic admonition. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z

He thinks of fiction as a "form of social opposition", but his prevailing tone is sociable, ironic, forgiving. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

Tom was looking at me in that way he had, both kindly and ironic. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z

Given our emotional attachment to vanity sizing, our critique of A&F is both ironic and ill-conceived. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z

What you can't recreate on the tube is Austen's ironic tone. Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Madox Ford is where it belongs ? on TV 2010-07-30T14:48:00Z

Isbell spoke of how ironic it was that Spencer lost his way after the treatments came and the lifesaving mission came to an end. Life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic | David France 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

He showed me a picture of my grandfather I had never seen, looking wry and ironic sitting on a donkey. Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

These days, he's more likely to jump around in a giant papier mache head, striking ironic rock poses and generally swivelling his hips. Arcade Fire: Dressing up and falling over 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

It was a postcard version of Indonesia — and a perfectly ironic place to capture a less stereotypical perspective on the world’s fourth most populous country. One Album Released by 44 Labels. Is This the New Global Jukebox? 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

Sherman is a humorous, ironic – and perhaps wise – artist. Why I'm seduced by Cindy Sherman's Sex Pictures 2012-11-26T12:02:00Z

So how ironic that this most self-revealing of composers has been so often overshadowed, even betrayed, by his biography. From fact to fantasie: discovering the real Schumann 2013-05-18T08:01:32Z

First, it’s not “ironic” that being among other Jews allows a Jew to feel normal. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z

The show expresses this truth by using arias to break through the ironic surface to create and comment on the moral bonds between all of us. Streetwise Opera: The Answer to Everything – review 2013-04-24T17:01:12Z

Other illustrious practitioners were Lindsay Anderson, who offers ironic counterpoint to If… with captions such as "Crusaders", and carves up the nation into "West," "North" and "South" in O Lucky Man! Anne Bilson 2010-06-03T21:20:00Z

A dark ironic seam is mined, too, with Evelyn scattering rose petals in a parody of glory. Review | Broadway veteran Florence Lacey stars in new musical ‘Kaleidoscope’ 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

“The title is not quite ironic,” she said, “but aspirational. Everyone says they want to be working in good faith. The play asks: Can we?” Will a New Play Restart a Fire? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

What should be a cute story about a mischievous orange tabby cat instead becomes an ironic, even vaguely smug movie in the vein of something like “Deadpool.” ‘The Amazing Maurice’ Review: A Cool Cat and His Band of Merry Rodents 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

No one seems to think it is a little ironic for a man who was brought down by accusations of sexual impropriety in the workplace to now keep a mattress in his office. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

It makes low-level depression and ineptitude seem stylish and ironic, almost a supreme way of being in the world. Books of The Times: ?Lucky Bruce,? a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review 2011-10-10T22:35:49Z

Which is ironic, as this damp flannel of self-pity and mandolins is a compelling argument in favour of nationalising the British music industry. Peter Van Hoesen, Frank Turner, Dizzee Rascal: this week's new tracks 2013-06-14T12:00:00Z

The author is known only as “B. E. Gent.,” with the “Gent.” standing for “gentleman” — ironic considering how ungentlemanly his dictionary was. ArtsBeat: The Dulpickles and Nigmenogs of 1699 2011-04-01T18:30:00Z

How ironic that at 6, children await the reward that comes from a visit from the tooth fairy, celebrating their first loss. Letters: Reader Letters on Megyn Kelly 2011-12-16T23:41:22Z

The story is loosely based on a Venezuelan daytime soap, “Juana la Virgen,” but refitted with ironic distance and much more artful cinematography. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

We are a bunch deeply dedicated to watching the series in a mocking, ironic way — although the show is increasingly becoming self-aware and doing the mocking for us. “The Bachelor’s” sexism has finally gone too far — and viewers are right to be pissed 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

It lingers on fumbled efforts to console the bereaved, which is ironic for a show on a platform that allows people to do exactly that by clicking on a little blue thumbs-up cartoon. Sorry For Your Loss: has Facebook created its first great TV show? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

It seems ironic that at a moment when the manufacture of fine china is heading back to its country of origin, the industry should be focused more on its heritage than its future. Nymphenburg Porcelain Gets a Fresh New Look 2010-04-26T14:01:00Z

It’s ironic that it’s applied to a moment of theft. Actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, on his love letter to Texas 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s “ironic” in a way her fans are not going to understand, she thinks. ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 2 Recap: A Human Moment 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Not all pop-culture stories carry enough emotional weight to stand up to ironic semiotic revisionism. | An Opera Finds Pathos in the Milli Vanilli Saga 2014-01-24T22:32:39Z

But while the frame may be Joyce's, the story's ironic twist is closer to the method of Maupassant or O Henry. Where Have You Been? by Joseph O'Connor – review 2012-10-05T21:55:03Z

Inspired by the BP oil spill this year, it transcends the artist’s description of it as a kind of “ironic” Champagne flute to merge suggestions of human, tree and anthill. Art Review: Visual Culture Out of Africa 2010-12-02T23:49:00Z

It would be ironic if it weren't our own future that was in peril. 'Rise of the Robots' and the threat of a jobless future 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“But the tone is soft and ironic. Very ‘Goodbye, Lenin.’ ” Escaping, Literally, in Budapest and Beyond 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Many of his pictures carry a tension between the ironic distance of the viewer and the subjects’ earnestness, encapsulated by a proudly carried sign or boldly emblazoned T-shirt. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Or is this deeply serious actor just being a good sport and allowing his natural or even humourless solemnity to be used for ironic purposes? Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

It’s kind of ironic, because it’s the principal of American dance rhythms, but everybody got away from it. An Interview With Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis 2012-09-26T18:22:55Z

Instead of an articulate, ironic, chill American father, Raffi is getting an emotional, sometimes yelly Russian father with a limited vocabulary. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

On this new turf, however, a problem arises for the author: Though ironic art may not lead the protagonist home, irony is a basic component of the kind of self-critique that will. Percival Everett's 'So Much Blue' takes on art and secrets — and he doesn’t have the broad audience his writing deserves 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

It puts the title in a brutally ironic light. Out of prison and into the fire of race and sex in ‘Lights Rise on Grace’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

I find that very rewarding and somewhat ironic. Navajo the chosen one for new 'Star Wars' dub 2013-04-27T15:28:08Z

Netzer is best known for "Medal of Honour", an ironic movie about a pensioner who erroneously receives an award for his "heroic" actions in World War Two. Mother's obsessive love exposed in Romanian movie at Berlin 2013-02-11T16:33:50Z

The downside of his sense of being an outsider was an inferiority complex kept in control by his ironic awareness of its being there. Frank Kermode: a tribute by John Sutherland 2010-08-20T23:22:00Z

And that, it was “so ironic that as a father Hunter passed on so few traditions, yet he possessed these traditional reflexes that would show themselves unexpectedly.” Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

So it’s ironic that Bieber is now facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the song, along with Skrillex, who produced the track. Justin Bieber and Skrillex Have Been Sued Over 'Sorry' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

"It is profoundly ironic that this news coincides with the cutting of the UK Film Council," Seghatchian said. The King's Speech gets a royal reception 2011-01-14T19:21:22Z

The music is ironic, marching, strict, pitch perfect in its adopted pose of detachment. Robert Schumann: A Hopeless, Brilliant Romantic 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

KLF – Justified and Ancient I think this is an ironic collaboration. Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty 2010-10-21T23:01:00Z

He is either a liar or the victim of a cruelly ironic misunderstanding. Who I Am: A Memoir by Pete Townshend - review 2012-10-09T11:35:01Z

That is not the fault of the actors, particularly Eve Matheson's dignified Hecuba, but because the ironic, distancing voice of the male characters – and the playwright – overpowers these women's cries. After Troy ? review 2011-03-21T18:29:02Z

For a director who is sometimes lazily understood as being uninterested in human emotion, or only able to approach it through ironic artifice, the consistency of his tragic vision is remarkable. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Scott, an ironic relation, in a way, for an actor who once said: “Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.” Eli Wallach, veteran character actor, dies at 98 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Some ironic combination of self-importance and inconsequence, perhaps. In Boulder, Where Inner Peace Meets Outer Beauty 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

Diana is erudite but unworldly, witty but never ironic, supremely self-confident and utterly mystified by the modern world. Review: ‘Wonder Woman’ Is a Blockbuster That Lets Itself Have Fun 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

All of these works regard recent changes in Chinese culture — the proliferation of McDonald’s, overcrowded cities, even a booming art scene — from an ironic stance that needs no translation. Art Review: As China Evolves, So Does an Artist 2011-01-27T21:05:47Z

“How ironic that I was singing: ‘Life is what you do while you’re waiting to die. Marin Mazzie on Cancer and Songs in the Key of Life 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Yet Mitski doesn’t entirely reject pop gloss, especially when she can give it an ironic twist. Mitski Steps Back Into the Darkness 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

As in the first movie, the guiding comic principle here remains the appearance of ironic detachment followed by an assertion of sincerity that’s as appealing as it is disingenuous. ’22 Jump Street’ Puts Cops on Campus 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

I do more sarcastic, ironic caricature, political, opinionated stuff. Broadway Artists Talk About Their Work 2010-08-22T01:05:00Z

Here and there a logo from the plastic packaging peeps through — “Nature’s Wonders,” “100% Natural” — like ironic graffiti. Israeli Artist Turns Plastic Pollution Into ‘Earth Poetica’ 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

Later he produced novels, original works of history and a variety of essays that reflected his unique, ironic sensibility. The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

In an intentional move to distinguish themselves from David Letterman’s detached approach, O’Brien and Richter didn’t double down on ironic distance, with the sidekick bringing his own earnest silliness to the show. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

By some ironic fate, this Friday Londoners are offered not one but two of the greatest "trashterpieces" of recent times. Film festival picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Sounds a little too ironic, and yet the movie means us to understand the irony. Dear Oscars, I Love You. But We Need to Talk. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Music and folk-song thread through the piece, not as an ironic counterpoint, but as a simple and often touching commentary on the action. Vincent Dance Theatre – review 2012-11-18T00:06:05Z

Which is ironic because it wasn’t considered a hit when it came out. “Some Kind of Wonderful” at 30: On the John Hughes film’s epic romances — on- and off-camera — that endure 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

I think it’s deliciously ironic that it was Easter Sunday. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z

When a friend of mine expressed confusion over the Bone phenomenon, I explained that it was like when you claim something bad is actually “awesome,” illustrating your ironic enjoyment of it. The rise and fall of Ken Bone: This is what happens when real humans become Internet memes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Racism is an inescapable shadow, but we’re left to make our own connections among scenes that are variously triumphal, mysterious, everyday, surreal and ironic. Garrett Bradley Reminds Us That Black Joy Always Existed 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

“And then, as it was being critiqued, it went into this ironic concept.” Serena Shahidi Is Redefining the ‘Girlboss’ 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Overall, the group took a muscular approach, missing some of the composer’s ironic gestures by setting moderate tempos too fast. Carducci Quartet takes on Shostakovich’s quartets at the Phillips 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Isn’t it ironic when people watch a rerun of a James Corden bit from six months ago and a the clip goes viral? Because you missed it: Watch Alanis Morissette sing a millennial version of “Ironic” with James Corden 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The interviews assume the form of a dialectic during which Marker's tone is often ironic and judgmental. Chris Marker obituary 2012-07-30T11:57:53Z

Despite the self-protective tinge of ironic self-awareness in her voice, I have no doubt she means it. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

In one ironic segment, the film shows disgraced former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich saying he would never grant a pardon to Bartman. Film probes baseball scapegoat who keeps mystique 2011-04-26T20:16:38Z

It means something like "awe" in one passage, as well as reserve, in the often ironic sense of characters who find themselves in situations in which they display restraints from certain impulses. From Biden’s giant Bible to Christian flags waved by rioters, "religion" means many different things 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

In late October, Carlson devoted a stupendously ironic monologue to likening Cross' show to Hutu radio hosts who helped incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Tiffany Cross was too real for MSNBC 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

In fact, in origin these pictures were ironic, sending up the whole system. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z

And lest the title seem cruelly ironic, think again. Theater Review: Plays That Grapple With Grief in War and Love 2011-03-22T13:00:07Z

In place of the earnestness that has marked so many architecture shows in recent years, their save-the-world drive, this one is cerebral, well-tailored and faintly ironic. 'Make New History,' the second Chicago Architecture Biennial, brings the focus back to square one 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

But it was just this kind of trope on which his later career would provide an elegantly ironic perspective. Robert Forster: a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

Some people have interpreted the title of the show — “Love” — as ironic. “My friends and I are indoor kids”: Paul Rust on “Love’s” dorky movie themes, working with Judd Apatow and subverting rom-com clichés 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

We couldn’t do that — there’s no point in writing a musical if you’re going to be ironic the whole time.” Tim Minchin Puts Emotion on Broadway. Just Don’t Call Him Sentimental. 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

A bit ironic, a bit knowing, a bit annoying, definitely metropolitan, white. Bingo is back – and even the hipsters have got their eyes down 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

It was ironic that the Jerusalem event happened just a week after Louis C.K. stepped on stage at a comedy club open-mic night, having unilaterally decided it was time for his comeback. Perspective | What do we still want from Monica Lewinsky? 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

"I would have been happy for it to have been a little bit more on the ironic, satirical side, but as it's turned out to be quite overtly funny, that's fine with me." The Doctor's Tale: Barking up the right tree 2011-03-31T20:45:01Z

It is an ironic opening to what follows. Girl X ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:35Z

The song, he says, "was a testament to a lot of really talented people to put together something that was just ironic enough that you knew that it knew what it was." 'Lego Movie': Lord and Miller on the birth of 'Everything Is Awesome' 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

The revue contains such satires as "The Song of the Double Bed," an ironic tune about the internees' sleeping arrangements. Music of Remembrance honors Hans G?l 2011-11-02T21:03:04Z

He sought her out for “an unexpected campaign where we could let her be confident, ironic and also accessible,” he said. Martha Stewart Welcomes You to Generation Ageless 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

A 13-year-old girl called Rebecca Black became an ironic internet meme when "Friday", her cheesy pop video made courtesy of a bespoke service called Ark Music Factory, went viral and clocked up 10m YouTube hits. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z

Rich is obviously an ironic opportunist, exploiting the traffic of the international art world as a trade route outside the global marketplace. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

During the Roaring Twenties, “it began to appear far more often in tandem with glorifications of wealth,” she writes — and therefore took on an ironic, even facetious, dimension among critics of the new dispensation. How ‘America First’ and ‘American Dream’ Went From Hazy Sentiments to Loaded Clichés 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s ironic. This product was made to wean addicts off cigarettes, and in reality it’s attracting teenagers who would never smoke.” The Juul Is Too Cool 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

The interplay between the two is masterful, rich in the wry, ironic humour of Jewish eastern Europe. Another Yalta conference 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nguyen is a master of the telling ironic phrase and the biting detail, and the book pulses with “Catch-22”-style absurdities. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Never have I read a more unintentionally ironic sentence. Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

"A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is," Monicelli once said. Monicelli's films captured Italy's flaws, sins 2010-11-30T20:46:00Z

On this work’s wall label, curators have added a final ironic indignity for the artist, who died in 1944: an estimate of its price, €150,000. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

It may be more mainstream than the sly/ironic original, and more based on action movie convention. Make “Ghostbusters” great again? Reboot culture, male rage and the pathology of nostalgia 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Though I came of age in the time of ironic 70s disco nights, I was never tempted, perhaps because my daily outfits were often mistaken for fancy dress. Fancy dress is great role play – as long as you’re under 10 | Eva Wiseman 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Now and again, American productions will capture the ironic mirth embedded in such Chekhov masterworks as "The Seagull" and "The Cherry Orchard." 'The Office' meets Chekhov in 'Suffering, Inc.' 2011-11-10T22:23:07Z

Mr. Hampson’s powerful baritone projected easily in the hall, his expressive voice conveying the drama and mood changes among the mournful, angry and ironic songs. Music Review: Thomas Hampson Sings Schumann, Uncut, at Alice Tully 2010-04-12T22:36:00Z

How ironic also, the streetcars, cable cars and other light rail that they successfully put out of business were electric modes of transport. British Nuns, General Motors and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

This time, however, there’s an ironic spin on the character. Review: ‘The Comey Rule’ and What a Fool Believes 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

The mash-ups sound ironic to the ironically inclined and like pure joy to the joyfully inclined, and for both camps they’re fun to dance to. The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

And not in an ironic way – a nice sit down in front of Middle Class Murders genuinely provides the kind of surge of wellbeing that usually comes from an expensive massage. Midsomer Murders: Bye bye DCI Barnaby 2011-02-02T14:30:42Z

As Chernow puts it, “It is sadly ironic that Grant’s presidency became synonymous with corruption, since he himself was impeccably honest.” President Clinton Looks Back at President Grant 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

To anyone familiar with the history of the computers that make the internet possible, it was an ironic idea. Lookout 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Her satirical article, “Bra Burners and Miss America,” backfired after its ironic tone was lost in translation. No bras were harmed in the making of feminism (sort of) 2014-04-18T21:35:00Z

The often whimsical direction and ironic text projections made sure of that. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

I was about to say that this is ironic, coming from two NBC-throwback sitcoms on a streaming platform that has also reanimated “Saved by the Bell” and “Punky Brewster.” ‘Girls5Eva,’ ‘Rutherford Falls’ and the Nostalgia Trap 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

It’s ironic enough that Bailey himself is one of Hollywood’s most seasoned and well-respected cinematographers. Perspective | Without editing and cinematography, there’s no movies. So how can you have an Oscars telecast without them? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Amnesty said it "acted in good faith" and the campaign "was intended to be ironic". Amnesty sorry over unauthorised ads 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

The distance between what happens on screen and the title may make it seem as if Mr. Loznitsa is having a cruelly ironic laugh. | 'My Joy': ?My Joy,? Directed by Sergei Loznitsa - Review 2011-09-29T23:47:55Z

Quite the opposite; Bob-Waksberg manages to balance his ironic humor with a deep sincerity that continues to surprise and delight. Review | ‘Bojack Horseman’ creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg expands his funny, melancholy empire 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Instead of pinball machines and ironic kitsch, Kopelman’s sanctum is outfitted with art, books, family photographs, and beloved keepsakes. Art Advisor Will Kopelman Devises A Sophisticated Home Office 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

There’s something a little ironic about Men, Women & Children director Jason Reitman interrupting an interview about how technology is harming kids today to answer a FaceTime call from his young daughter. Jason Reitman on the Internet: 'So Many False Opportunities to Feel Loved' 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

A brilliant opening sequence of still shots shows the four musketeers goofing around by the pool with their wives and kids, flexing their muscles, Mr Universe-style, an ironic demonstration of power and strength. Husbands – review 2012-09-27T21:50:01Z

In his farewell interview Dan Stevens said the series's popularity was occasioned by a sort of "ironic enjoyment". Downton Abbey: plot moving slowly? It must be time for someone to die 2012-12-26T12:22:58Z

A major literary voice in Europe, Ugresic brings deep personal insight into the grinding despair and destructive nationalism of post-communist societies, often writing with lively, ironic flair keenly translated by Elias-Bursac. Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Does he find it ironic that he’s speaking with The New York Times about art he makes with copies of The New York Times? Jim Jarmusch’s Collages Are Ready for Their Close-Up 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

“It would be ironic, after all these years of aggressively and actively promoting the Poe House and the Poe grave, to have it close,” said Jeff Jerome, the house’s curator for more than 30 years. Poe Museum Is Threatened With ?Nevermore? 2011-08-07T16:21:11Z

The piece is not afraid to play with operatic conventions, as in the Roman general’s exaggerated coloratura, but neither is it emptily ironic. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z

I find it ironic that because I'm not bilingual that many times I am excluded. Asian-American Actors Are Fighting for Visibility. They Will Not Be Ignored. 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

It has become the first “Thanks, Obama” or “Benghazi” joke of the Trump era—an ironic repurposing of conservative outrage that is defused and made ridiculous. This Is the Joke That Liberals Need 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

At last, the novel veers into pure gothic horror, and Nathan’s writing, having lost its subtle ironic edge, barely skirts histrionics. Living in Extreme Isolation: Is It Possible Without Going Mad? 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

All the signs are there – ironic graffiti, pop-up supper clubs, skateboarding adults. Ten years living on a boat: 'It's a fun life – I'm not a watery hobo' 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Worse, they looked inauthentic, which is ironic for such a quintessentially British branding effort. Design Research Unit: the firm that branded Britain 2010-10-12T14:47:00Z

Forced to imprison two of her dragons — a particularly ironic tragedy, considering Daenerys gained power by freeing slaves. The horrors of ‘Game of Thrones,’ character by character 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

“It was quite ironic later, because when Indonesia became very well off again after independence, tempeh was considered food for poor people, and the middle class and rich looked down on it,” she said. Weeknight Vegetarian: Make 2015 the Year of Tempeh 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps due to his ironic tendencies, Wayne and Hathaway thought Dennis was some kind of communist. I was Dennis Hopper's henchman 2010-06-03T21:29:00Z

One criticism Palladium faced – and given the lyrics quoted above it's maybe not so surprising – was that they were some kind of ironic in-joke. Hidden treasures: Palladium – The Way It's Not 2013-03-26T16:31:00Z

“It’s deeply ironic that he’s at his most sparkling now when he’s probably his least healthy,” Crowe said. David Crosby opens up in new documentary ‘Remember My Name’ 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Colbert’s ability to do more serious interviews — minus the ironic distancing of his “Report” character — has also been an advantage. Colbert Rides a Trump Wave, While Fallon Treads Water 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

“Now I don’t know where else I would live. It’s a very kindhearted city, friendly and gentle. That sounds ironic to say but it’s true.” Attention Please, Anne Tyler Has Something to Say 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

As is his way, Mr. Payne maintains an amused, ironic distance from his characters that may feel as if he’s condescending to them but is more truly an acknowledgment of life’s absurdity. Critic’s Notebook: Many Films Still in Running at Cannes for Palme d’Or 2013-05-23T22:01:08Z

How ironic and devastating that her redemptive mission was so poorly chosen. 'Broadchurch' Recap: Properly Angry 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

After Communism’s collapse, Gospodinov was active in protests for democratic elections, and later edited an influential newspaper and co-founded a literary group that published ironic takes on canonical Bulgarian writers. This Bulgarian Writer’s Books Bend Time 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

“The patois of the characters, the love of language that permeates the whole film, makes it very much of a piece with their other films, but it is the least ironic in many regards.” Film: The Coen Brothers, Shooting Straight 2010-12-10T19:26:00Z

Twitter users found Palmer’s tweet to be hilarious and ironic, among other funny reactions. Tweet about child causing 'lentil pipe' disaster at zero-waste shop goes viral 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

The 'meet cute' is Hollywood screenwriters' name for a standard plot device in which a couple meet in a way that's charming, ironic, or just generally amusing. Clip joint: The top five 'meet cutes' 2013-01-23T17:36:53Z

Akhtar also plots his hero's downfall with a remorseless logic and shows, with ironic cunning, how a liberal action in the cause of justice leads to Amir's undoing. Disgraced, Bush theatre 2013-05-23T17:21:04Z

Is it a merely a less than subtle ironic comment on the paradox of asking viewers to invest themselves in contrived fictional entertainments? ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 3, Episode 5: Taking the Long Way Around 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

This is all the more ironic given the title of the film with which Arena won the grand prix at Cannes, about reality TV. Aniello Arena: the Italian gangster who turned movie star 2013-02-17T00:02:02Z

Photograph: Getty Images Once a symbol of youthful ire, now an advocate for therapeutic healing – I want to ask if that’s ironic, but I know Morissette has a tangled relationship with the word. Alanis Morissette: from queen of alt rock to Guardian advice columnist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

“Straight men don’t really do that much, but one ironic selfie if it’s a good picture could be okay.” Happy swiping: This is how to make Tinder work for you 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Fourth is steeped in Viennese Classicism, and yet it maintains a slight ironic distance from that tradition, a melancholy detachment. In Search of Charisma at the New York Philharmonic 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

That would have been an ironic twist, for the landmark was originally erected by property magnate and Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler in 1923 to advertise an upmarket real-estate development. Hollywood sign saved by Hugh Hefner donation 2010-04-27T11:04:00Z

"The ending is ironic and kind of confusing but realistic," said Szumowska. New Polish film tackles homosexuality in Catholic Church 2013-02-08T15:21:02Z

David Chase’s story took expectations of the mob story and upended them, made them caustically ironic. REVIEW: Boardwalk Empire Watch: Golden Boy 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Kristin Scott Thomas is his wife, Clementine Churchill, a woman of brisk confidence and ironic disposition who long ago made peace with her secondary place in his public life. Review: ‘Darkest Hour,’ or the Great Man Theory of History (and Acting) 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

And, in her slightly brassy, ironic monotone, she often talked lists. Jennifer Bartlett, Conceptual Painter on a Vast Scale, Dies at 81 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

It might be considered rather “Austin-y” to commit to a resolution for irony’s sake, but the ironic part didn’t last long. She makes a tiny chair, he eats a taco, she braids a lock. Every. Single. Day. 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

"He just thought Alejandro was someone not afraid to talk about love and passion and without being ironic or coy or hip about it." In 'Birdman,' Alejandro G. Inarritu takes his doubts and lets them fly 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Coming next fall is a new series tentatively called "Dark Nights" — an ironic appropriation of arts-venue slang for "the theater lights are off because nothing's happening." To remain relevant, Music Center aims to reflect all of Los Angeles 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Or, maybe, by definition, it wasn’t actually ironic. Watching Trump Win at the White House 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Mahler writes that the second movement, an ironic parody of the ländler, the Austrian country dance, should be “somewhat clumsy and very coarse.” Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Mahler and Thomas Ad?s - Review 2012-01-07T00:40:59Z

The words, unreadable by nearly anyone in this flattened form, are ironic. In the galleries: 3 artists explore 3-D 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

After the incisive fugue and the ironic inflections of the waltz, the relative acquiescence of the final bars carried a sense of stoic resignation rather than resolution. Royal String Quartet 2010-07-20T20:30:00Z

Overall, the women looked kind of matronly – ironic in a town known for its desperate attempts to look young. | A Golden Globes Recap 2011-01-17T22:45:15Z

It is ironic that a man elected to lead is incapable of leadership. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a juxtaposition of dire conditions in the verses and ironic joy in the choruses. Music Review: Global Citizen Festival, With Neil Young, to Combat Poverty 2012-09-30T16:23:44Z

The art of irony has turned into ironic art. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

It's cruelly ironic that the first line he sings is "Don't shed a tear for me". Alex Clare ? review 2011-07-13T17:40:01Z

They are happy or wrecked or gentle or violent; fat or tender or artistic or gullible or all four; or simply super and funny and ironic, or maddening ill-educated bores. Are TV sitcoms too middle-class? 2011-01-30T00:04:16Z

It may be just the look for Bushwick denizens, looking for their fixies after a night of swilling ironic peppermint schnapps. Browsing: Exit Hammet, Enter Holmes 2010-08-19T00:57:00Z

I found it harder to think of Columbiners as engaged in some kind of subversive, ironic “play”. Why are women obsessed with true crime? Rachel Monroe has some answers 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

He remarked how fun this song is, adding, “It’s ironic, because dancing is such a big part of this Guardians of the Galaxy script.” Vin Diesel Teases New 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Details 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

"It's ironic that in my deteriorated state I'd be able to make a film that was creatively everything I'd ever wished for," he told the Associated Press last year. Still Alice film-maker dies aged 63 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

We’ll just have to assume that he is playing ironic games with the world, sending up the idea that the Trump candidacy is an apocalyptic event literally foretold in the Book of Revelation. Donald Trump rocks to the left with REM songjacked 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Hewitt's programme notes point to her concern to reflect the music's dance origins, so it was ironic that tempi and cesuras were sometimes pedantic. Kammerorchester Basel/Schr?der/Hewitt 2010-05-25T21:00:00Z

World's Greatest Dad Robin Williams leads an ironic parenthood comedy. This week's new films 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z

But midway through the night, I caught myself in a mirror and realized my mustache was no longer ironic. Justin Bieber Killed the Mustache 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Added ironic fact: The funny bone, which is really the ulnar nerve, is right at the end of the … humerus. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Noogies vs. wedgies (and life’s other dilemmas) 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

But the humor is darkly ironic, and the moral is grave: Birds are vanishing, and fabricating new ones is not really an option. Galleries: ‘Kaleidoscope,’ ‘Aviary Wonders,’ ‘Interconnected,’ ‘Are You Gonna Eat That?’

“Some people maybe say that’s ironic,” he said, alluding to his stagecraft. Beck Promotes ‘Morning Phase’ at the Hammerstein Ballroom 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Even more ironic is that he survived one of the worst recorded attacks by a great white. Diving with the shark attack survivor who filmed Jaws 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Stewart and Colbert were groundbreakers, but even they tempered their political edge with ironic distance and a concern for balance. The New Politics of Late Night 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

She is never ironic or underwhelmed; her preferred mode is fierce, devoted and elegiac. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: 'Ten Thousand Saints' 2011-06-17T20:37:55Z

Here, as so often, the dialogue is an ironic counterpoint to the visual field, a continuous verbal montage interrogating our ways of understanding reality. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

“It is sadly ironic that we must cancel performances of this brilliantly funny show titled ‘Force Majeure’ because of a… force majeure event,” said artistic director Michael Longhurst. Live theater in London, NYC grapple with new virus outbreaks 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

The historic segments mesh with a parallel plot, a fictional indie film shoot that can seem like ironic commentary on the show’s idealism. No Room Service, but History’s on the Menu 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

You recognize that voice immediately — it’s a voice shaped by the internet: ironic, inexplicably defensive, “funny.” Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

As to whether Ruiz wants us to see all this aristocratic bodice-ripping and histrionic piety through an ironic or political lens, I would say he leaves that up to us. Pick of the week: Rapturous 19th-century soap "Mysteries of Lisbon" 2011-08-05T01:01:00Z

It's ironic that at the very moment Portnoy is decrying irrational hatred for others he is indulging in it as well. Philip Roth and race: A legendary novelist's troubling pattern 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

It is ironic, then, that Stevens would keep his life as a lawyer and senior insurance executive in Hartford, Connecticut, separate from his career as a poet. More truly and more strange 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

“The whole evil, ironic concept,”’ as she called it, started 15 years ago with a variety show called “Jackie’s Kosher Khristmas.” Encounters : In New York City Christmas Comedy Show, Jackie Hoffman Lampoons Holiday 2013-12-18T23:24:10Z

Looking back, I think this was more than a little ironic to my parents. House Tour: Carversville, Pa. 2011-05-12T20:02:21Z

This kind of ironic statement is par for the course among Kavenna’s often humorous descriptions. Review | A technocratic society unravels in Joanna Kavenna’s ‘Zed’ 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

While his style quietened, his inner dandy never died; Alexander McQueen designed him a memorably ironic military-style Union Jack overcoat splattered with pigeon droppings. How David Bowie Changed Fashion History 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

“I don’t talk about the process — or sometimes have a, let’s say, ironic distance to disclosing the process — because it’s a very personal thing,” he said. Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

Melville's novel is a kind of ironic counterpart to Aquinas's belief that God can only be described by what he is not. The New Atheism 2011-08-26T21:55:10Z

But if he was savoring his rise, Mr. Banyai, ever arid and ironic, rarely let it show. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z

Jasper Johns' exquisite 1960 study "White Flag," an ironic symbol that pleads for negotiated surrender, makes me gulp: It's oil on newspaper on paper over lithograph. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

One depicts the lingering suffering to which the murdered men's loved ones are subjected by having Dahmer transformed into an ironic comic book hero. Ryan Murphy's "Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" is an example of the brand undermining the mission 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The difference, both ironic and awful, is that while Regan MacNeil is possessed by a demon, Anna O’Donnell is possessed by the suffocating dogma of the church in which she was raised. Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sorkin called the story “awfully ironic,” noting, “these were people whose social lives blew apart as a result of what they were trying to do.” Film: A Zillion Friends, and a Few Enemies 2010-09-19T04:36:00Z

That’s what led me to create an ironic sorority. Okay, a somewhat ironic sorority. My ironic sorority disaster 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's ironic – and something of a sore point – that Fevered Sleep have become acclaimed for their children's shows, as Harradine and Butler never intended to make work for young people at all. Fevered Sleep's old age playmates 2010-09-07T20:59:00Z

What he seemed to mean was an ordinary Joe, a person for whom a jeans jacket is a basic item of workwear and not an ironic commentary on Americana. Fashion Review: Milan Men’s Wear for Spring 2013 2012-06-27T21:26:14Z

There are ironic, out-of-time bugles here, and lamenting Kurdish singers carrying along the idea of an England that bleeds out into the world. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake ? review 2011-02-13T00:15:33Z

It may seem in our slick and ironic age that the principle of anonymity is a quaint anachronism. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

That seems ironic now that he is a single parent whose daughter is the centre of his existence. The mother my daughter will never know 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Hechinger called it “bitterly ironic” that National Harbor made demands on the struggling nonprofit while the Petersons received millions from the state and county for roads and other infrastructure costs. The little museum that couldn’t ... 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

This is far less problematic in “Midsummer,” in which, of course, acting is required and a slight self-consciousness suits the ballet’s gently ironic tone. A Taste of Russian Dance in London 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Albert’s skein of ruses, as unravelled in the film, yields wildly ironic literary delights—which is why the film ought to have been, and could have been, much better than it is. The Reductive Narrative Tactics of “Author: The JT LeRoy Story” 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

“I guess this is kind of ironic, considering his character on TV, but he can’t stand having any animosity with anyone,” she told me. Larry David, Master of His Quarantine 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

I don’t know anything about opera, but I do know this would really benefit from an ironic Puccini soundtrack. Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels: brief encounters of the ‘textbook generic’ kind 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

She started to sing, getting into the ironic holiday spirit, slowly then picking up steam, “I was a patient of Sigmund Freud in Santa Claus’s window.” Encounters : In New York City Christmas Comedy Show, Jackie Hoffman Lampoons Holiday 2013-12-18T23:24:10Z

A mother of four has a bright, unpretentious, ironic voice that will keep you reading this 1,000-page novel made up mostly of one breathless sentence. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

It will feel especially ironic – for UK viewers at least – that Gwyneth Paltrow, with zero scientific training at all, is referred to throughout by her initials “GP”. Bow down to the vulva! Why Gwyneth's Goop Lab isn't all bad 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

“I find it a little ironic,” he was quoted as saying. Reports of Rockettes Inauguration Turmoil Cause Company to Lash Out 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The metaphor helps to organize the scattered dilemmas Mirza’s characters experience, and it is as ironic as it is profound. Sarah Jessica Parker Has a Book She Wants You to Read 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Here the bitter, almost hostile, ironic Shostakovich seems to come through in episodes of blaring fanfares and faux-triumphant marches. Review: A Surprise Conductor Makes a Superb Debut 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

In that sense, the title “Comedian” is ironic — for Mr. Cattelan, like all the best clowns, is a tragedian who makes our certainties as slippery as a banana peel. A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Bannon’s sometimes ironic demeanor and perpetually rumpled appearance may be temperamental attributes, but they are also tactics. ‘The Brink’ Review: Considering the Unlikely Charm of Stephen Bannon 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

So it’s certainly a difficult time, but I think in a sadly ironic way, it might be a perfect time for the movie. With ‘Tigertail,’ a Filmmaker Hopes to Comfort Asian-Americans 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Yes, these few remaining possessions may be worth more than most people in the world will earn in a lifetime, but the story of the new minimalism is nothing if not bitterly ironic. Less is more: the age of minimalism 2011-02-11T07:59:01Z

Director and scenic designer Roger Benington's minimal sets — mostly huge swans that move like days melting into memory — float in and out, both to ethereal and ironic effect. 'Glowworm': Funny, haunting and affirming 2011-04-18T21:59:04Z

Does anyone actually think that Darkness cover with the babes smeared with syrup is NOT ironic? The worst album sleeves of 2012? Our art critic thinks they're fine ... 2012-12-21T14:50:27Z

In a statement released Friday, prize judges praised Baxter's "original mind and ironic wit" and his "acute feeling for the landscape of marriage, childhood, and art." Author Charles Baxter wins prize for short fiction 2012-05-11T15:11:13Z

For Wallace, regurgitating ironic pop culture is a dead end: David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z

So one can be opinionated on social media, but one is dry or ironic at one’s own risk. How TV Went From David Brent to Ted Lasso 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

"Available Light" is suddenly an ironic choice as well. How David Geffen's gift to Lincoln Center reflects on Music Center 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Then, one week later, wrote off his endorsement as “like an ironic joke thing” and said that rather he’d “abstain in protest.” At least we got Wu-Tang out of this election: Martin Shkreli live-streams Once Upon a Time in Shaolin 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Pop Up” sliced through the cultural landscape by giving music fans exactly what they wanted: credibility, not to mention some ironic distance. ?Pop Up Video? Retooled for a New Decade 2011-10-02T02:45:05Z

The lesson seems to be that in modern music, any real belief – no matter how extreme – can eventually be assimilated and reduced to an empty, ironic gesture. Black metal, darker than your average music scene 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z

"A lot of time was spent finishing the film about the last show, which was ironic," he reports drily, down the line from New York. Manchester International Festival 2013 2013-05-29T09:46:41Z

Things turned ironic with Andy Warhol’s Oxidation series, achieved by the artist and others urinating on canvases painted with copper metallic paint. At 7 Art Galleries, the Ecstatic Flow of Paint and the Stories It Can Tell 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

Our obstacles were people seeing me as qualified or capable, which is ironic, given that Rep. Ellmers was a nurse before getting into politics. Clay Aiken on a Second Run for Office: 'I Think It'll Happen' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

They are real life as seen through a pair of ironic but undoubtedly sympathetic lenses. I found my inspiration in Bradford, but future students might not be so lucky 2013-06-07T16:50:50Z

This is clearly a society in which women are treated as commodities but Middleton's ironic twist is that it is a fellow female who is the agent of destruction. Review|Theatre|Women Beware Women, Olivier, London|Michael Billington 2010-04-27T23:29:00Z

I find it deeply ironic that in the fields that are predominantly women, the men are treated well. Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Though it’s ironic because in the last 10 years of my dance work, there is a lot of talking. A Supernatural Dance Explorer’s Art and Wanderings 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

Now, as soon as you get some resonance of this value, there’s room for a question that is essentially of the ironic form, which would be: What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

"I went to a university that matched my profile," says Crocker, always ironic. Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:01Z

To describe it as ironic would be to seriously underplay the dysfunctionality of such behaviour. My boyfriend is addicted to porn but doesn’t want sex 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Especially viewed in the context of inwardness, Schumann offered an ironic juxtaposition with Debussy. Review: Hersh recital opens Olympic Music Festival season 2010-07-04T18:03:00Z

How was she able to combine such feelings of unbearable sadness, ironic humor and total honesty? My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

It is light on searching ballads — and includes ironic rock tunes. 'Next to Normal,' coming to 5th Avenue, tries to paint authentic picture of mental illness 2011-02-16T23:19:17Z

“The most beautiful thing is when someone is happy from within,” she says; “as ironic as it sounds”, her new nose helped her to attain it. Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Burnett claims that the problems of irony will be alleviated if attention is placed on consciously reducing ironic behaviors and technological dependencies. How to fight back against irony: a guide 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

“The big interview is tonight. I think it’s going on right now. Please, no spoilers. I TiVo’d it: Which is ironic, because sometimes my TiVo also cuts things off.” Congratulations, Bill Maher! The winner of the first televised Bruce Jenner joke contest 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

It was cruelly ironic: aspiring lawyers hiring real lawyers to sue a nonexistent law school. After a law school shuttered, aspiring lawyers hired real lawyers to sue it 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

This desire to honor history is not ironic; grandmillennials are searching for something deeper in their environments. The ‘grandmillennial’ style brings tradition and peaceful decor into the home 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The title of Miller’s book is both literal and ironic. Nearly 20 Million Americans Have a Felony Record. What Happens After They’ve Served Their Time? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

“It may be ironic that it takes living in a city with well over a million Jews to stop feeling like a Jew,” he writes. Books of The Times: How Yascha Mounk Grew Up a ‘Stranger in My Own Country’ 2014-01-14T21:22:09Z

It falls somewhere between appropriate and ironic that Ro wants to question her former commanding officers about committing treason. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

“Warhol was very concerned about his appearance, and it’s ironic that he poses himself in such an incredibly out-there way,” Mr. Hedges said. An Ellsworth Kelly for Football Fans 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The app does not sell any product overtly but, rather, random human encounters, which is ironic given the conventional wisdom that technology is replacing human encounters. Apps Like Tinker Tailor and Spring Help You Shop (Uh-Oh) 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Pollack writes that she played “a sweet passenger who communicates in ‘jive’ with two streetwise black passengers — an ironic comment on her previous incarnation as America’s white-bread mom.” ArtsBeat: Barbara Billingsley, Who Played June Cleaver (and Later Spoke Jive), Is Dead 2010-10-16T23:57:00Z

Today, she says, "It's a harmless thing, but I think the movie is challenging the idea of that, and the idea of people being so ironic about everything all the time." Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

All this disintegration makes Grade's current major work — likely to be his most visible yet — rather ironic, because it also will be his most enduring to date. Art of decay: John Grade's fascinating sculptures crave disintegration 2011-05-29T01:58:15Z

“His novel is very special because it brings together what normally doesn’t go together: love, sex and Auschwitz, sometimes in an ironic view,” he said. New Publisher for German-Language Edition of Martin Amis's 'The Zone of Interest' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

As such, “Don Giovanni” is both a dramatic unfolding of a philosophical theory of empathetic love among equals and a wild and ironic harbinger of the French Revolution. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

They have been surprisingly faithful to the tone and idiomatic tang of Mr. Portis’s novel, perhaps because its worldview suits their ironic purposes. | 'True Grit': Wearing Braids, Seeking Revenge 2010-12-21T23:00:16Z

It’s both ironic and sad that an entire religious denomination and its clergy who purport holding to Christian teachings on marriage would look to the courts to justify their errant beliefs. Radical right, radical hypocrisy: Same-sex marriage masterstroke exposes extremist agenda 2014-04-29T11:43:00Z

Toe.”— with such ironic vigor that cigar, celebrity and offer collapsed into layers of self-parody. Cultural Studies: On Celebrities Good and Bad, or Alec Baldwin 2012-06-29T20:57:20Z

Only a scattering of sympathetic characters and the book’s ironic title provide anything resembling light relief. Gang stories 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Each is carefully preserved in death – an ironic twist. Birds are going extinct: Entire species are hanging on by their wingtips 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Label the art explaining that Krafft wasn’t being ironic after all? Seattle artist finds personal opinion, art an uncomfortable mix 2013-03-23T22:33:44Z

That she is the most dangerous of all is but one of the satisfying, ironic touches. 'A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night' has a definite bite 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The narrative choice, hand-to-hand combat and a showdown in the streets in order to save children from cynicism and non-believing, is ironic but hardly surprising; like most children’s movies,  mimics the patterns of adult entertainment. Rise of the Guardians: Santa and His Superhero Posse on a Quest to Save Childhood Innocence 2012-11-21T16:15:34Z

The sentiment is now sadly ironic: months following the interview, HBO cancelled the series due to poor ratings. Looking: trailer for the HBO movie is a bittersweet delight 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a dimension of ironic comedy here that remains to be discovered — and perhaps Shimizu externalized the character’s pain too overtly in the final scene. L.A. Ballet's ambitious all-Balanchine program leads to missteps, but also one big triumph 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

His range of emotional expression was limited to ironic comments and quasi-spiritual pronouncements. Why I tried to be a punk 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Too many of them simply didn’t understand what they were reading, as if the whole of French critical theory could be reduced to an ironic bafflement at the slippage between the sign and signified. Review | The 1980s New York art world was cynical and crass. Should we be honoring it? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

The study’s authors ran three experiments using twelve short stories, some with ironic twists, others from mystery genres, and a few literary tales. Sorry to spoil your “Game of Thrones” revenge-spoiler fantasy, but it doesn’t work 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

Relationships can be ironic — especially the doomed ones. I was bad Santa 2012-12-25T12:45:00Z

Mr. Eubank clarified that the drinking of White Claw was ironic. The Memes Are Pouring the White Claw Down Your Throat! 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Even the title is an ironic allusion to the inertial power of the mundane—leftovers, tonight’s dinner as tomorrow’s lunch. The Leftovers: Tom Perrotta's Rapture 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

The movie’s lack of irony is all the more ironic since its subject is the recklessness of mankind in daring to synthesize humans androidally in order to extend our own control over the universe. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

The ironic thing is that Courteney Cox is actually a brilliant comedy actress. Screen burn 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

This ironic allusion to “the Chinese Dream” — President Xi Jinping’s national slogan — is just the kind of sly protest that keeps Yan’s novels suppressed in his native country. Review | ‘The Day the Sun Died’ is a social comedy that bleeds like a zombie apocalypse 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

From the outside, the whole set-up appeared to be drenched in irony, but el and its artists were not so much ironic as romantic and witty. Hidden treasures: Anthony Adverse – The Red Shoes 2013-01-17T12:53:54Z

But the son of Ernie Anderson, onetime voice of ABC, threads the needle between ironic distance and deep empathy. ‘Inherent Vice’ is complex and subversive. Paul Thomas Anderson is pretty normal. 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

“Trump canceled the meeting with North Korea over their, quote, ‘tremendous anger and open hostility,’ which is ironic, considering ‘Tremendous Anger and Open Hostility’ is Trump’s 2020 campaign slogan.” Late-Night TV in 2018: Trump, Trump, Facebook and More Trump 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The pop-culture references and musical cues that pepper the action are not as ironic as they may seem. Review: ‘The House’ Is a Comedy Built on Despair 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Did the occupant of the apartment have this on permanent freeze-frame as a generous gift and ironic reprimand to anyone who happened to be spying? How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z

The Book itself has a marvelous voice: adult, ironic, affirming at every turn the importance of books as a repository of humanity’s deepest wisdom and highest aspirations. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Bishop’s proposed waiver of environmental laws is an ironic tribute to Krentz. Border fence’s devastating toll 2012-09-18T22:00:00Z

Also helping to set the ironic tone: Woody Guthrie singing "This Land Is Your Land" on the soundtrack. 'The Ambassador': Director goes undercover in Africa 2012-09-06T20:24:09Z

Posters on her pages often addressed their messages to either “ironic supporters” or “unironic supporters,” but increasingly that was a distinction without a difference. Ironic Occultists for Marianne Williamson 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

It is delivered without a lick of ironic wit. ‘Panama’ Review: Welcome to the Jungle, We Lack Fun and Games 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The whole intolerable spectacle — an ironic, spiritually deflating take on the sublimity of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel — is complemented by booming audio. Perspective | Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

That the song failed to include any actual examples of irony is in itself ironic. The imaginary American town that became a tourist attraction 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

What do you mean by the “ironic cast” of the 20th century? Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

That distinction now seems bitterly ironic for the network. Another long, disappointing week for NBC 2013-03-12T18:27:12Z

The ensemble cast largely avoids — or at least makes fruitful use of when it doesn’t — the tiredly ironic default mode that has settled over so much theater these days. Review: ‘Bambi______/Kaffeehaus’ Mixes Up an Absurdist Linguistic Orgy 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

But it's not like he adopted some newly concocted "postmodern" or "ironic" approach to narrative that violates the Ten Commandments of how movies are supposed to be made. Love and loss in "Asteroid City": Wes Anderson's intoxicating alien-invasion meta-movie 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

The world has gone mad of course — this is a Polanski film — so all we can do is puzzle through the madness, dodging the traps with our ironic detachment and tongue lightly in cheek. Movie Review | 'The Ghost Writer': Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man 2010-02-19T05:58:00Z

In their 47-minute video “The Bots,” they examine content moderation on Facebook — the title is ironic, since their subject is the people who decide what can and cannot be said on the site. A Different Kind of Museum in Hong Kong 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z

We joked about how ironic it would be if we had trouble conceiving, given how much of my early 20s I’d spent worrying about getting pregnant. Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z

The storytelling that grew organically out of that logistical need is fun, and ironic to me. Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould on Better Call Saul: 'It could have been a huge flop' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Perspectives are once removed, ironic and often oblique as with, for instance, Poshya Kakl, who records Iraqi women prisoners adorning the fences that constrain them with embroidery. This week's new exhibitions 2011-08-26T23:05:08Z

Each of these is ripe for an ironic interrogation, the outcome of which would be a much richer sense of what it would be to be an American. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

And you wrote in the book about how I think our generation of feminists felt a lot of pressure to be fun and ironic and kind of rye. Rebecca Traister: “We know what [MAGA] is code for. It’s not even a secret” 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The media’s focus on Clinton’s remark increased its inflammatory reach, providing the Trump campaign with an ironic slogan. What the Covington Saga Reveals About Our Media Landscape 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

“I feel as free and as creative, as sexual and as eager, as I ever have. And it’s ironic because I’m thinking: ‘How much time do I have left now?’ Glenn Close: ‘You don’t lose your sexuality as you get older’ 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

They've both done their best to subvert the idea of identity in an image-obsessed industry, and at times it's hard to tell if they're being ironic or just a bit rubbish. Spring Breakers hunt James Franco – but wait, he looks much less attractive 2013-02-06T13:53:00Z

There are a lot of movies that feature such grim content, with the added ironic kick that they’re supposed to take place at the happiest time of the year. Yule Be Sorry: 10 Movies You Forgot Were Set During Christmas 2013-12-23T10:45:33Z

Within the context of the song, it’s a mildly ironic lyric about social anxiety, but it also happens to allude to Toledo’s early approach to creating. How Car Seat Headrest went from recording in a car to playing music’s biggest stages 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

And here is the ironic thing: It’s at that moment that we start to let our guard down. A Rock Band Novel — and a Snapshot of the Bell-Bottomed 1970s 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

But it is offered completely straight, without any ironic or comic palliative. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

He’s being ironic, of course – possibly with the uneasy foresight that no one would make that much money from this movie. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

Still, his best songs have a disarming, even humbling quality, and the beautifully widescreen likes of Northwestern Skies and Get on the Road find yet more mileage in Lightbody's favourite but ironic theme of escape. Tired Pony: The Place We Ran From 2010-07-15T22:59:00Z

Range is trying to be ironic and dramatic at the same time, and it backfires. Wretched David Bowie biopic "Stardust" should be launched into the sun 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Now the prohibition of the iconic logo has come about through an ironic twist. Berlin bans Hell’s Angels logo 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

This was Ms. Prada at her ironic best: making clothes roaring with originality and sweet, indeed, to wear. Special Report: Fashion: Miucci Prada Revs Up For Summer 2012 2011-09-22T18:39:59Z

She looked at me with those ironic eyes of hers and smiled her ironic smile. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Such has been the ironic trajectory of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.” Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

It’s a hostile, self-promoting act—a covert ad for Jimmy Kimmel Live—rendered as ironic acid that corrodes our sense of wonder.” Jimmy Kimmel: The Boy Who Cried Meme 2013-09-27T21:53:45Z

“It is very ironic that at the time we get a chocolate president that it’s not the chocolate city,” she said. A Trendy Turn in Obama’s Town 2013-01-18T21:47:08Z

The play moved at a "rather breathless rate of action, losing ironic nuances, making the various romantic reversals seem absurdly abrupt, and broadening characterization," the Financial Times said. Pride and Prejudice's foray onto outdoor stage 'intelligent' 2013-06-27T13:01:21Z

Insufficient use of ironic distance or nods to atrocity? What it takes to be in Vogue 2012-06-11T14:58:00Z

Don Giovanni can’t change his life, of course—and the composer and librettist bring him to justice in a furious, slyly ironic conclusion that’s one of the greatest tag endings in the history of theatre. The Revelations of “Don Giovanni” at the Met 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Not because of the Long Island accents but because my mother was one of the most ironic people I’ve ever met. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Over the last few years, the idea of luxury has grown enough to include the stylish and unstylish, the well-to-do and the aspiring, the sincere and the ironic, the real and the fake. Is Gucci Stylish or Tacky? Yes. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

So I started calling her that too—in that “ironic” way so I could claim that I didn’t actually mean to upset her, even though I knew exactly what I was doing. My penis size obsession: All my life I’ve worried about measuring up 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

So you are unlikely to find photos of old-fashioned sherry trifles, unpretty Irish stew or traditional meat-and-two-veg meals, unless it’s in a shrewdly ironic way. Click plate: how Instagram is changing the way we eat 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

It's a distinctive, stylised piece, with blunt violence, scant dialogue, gallows humour and lashings of ironic Russian folk-rock. The Great Gatsby, Beware Of Mr Baker, Fast And Furious 6: this week's new films 2013-05-18T05:00:09Z

If it had been a church instead of a TV show, the sermons would have scared off the congregants; even the happiest endings came at the expense of some ironic loss. Review | ‘The Twilight Zone’ returns, in case anyone needed the extra anxiety right now 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

It may sound ironic, but because of the success of “Lady Bird,” I felt like I could take a break — which I did, last year, for six months. How to Come of Age Onscreen? Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet Know 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

There was a lot of prejudice and snobbishness among comics about the American way of doing stuff, which was ironic considering that the whole concept of a Comedy Store was an import from the US. Robin Williams appreciation by Nigel Planer: 'He wouldn't be happy until the furniture was laughing' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

And as Newman’s song often encase misanthropic words in angelic ragtime melodies, so his listeners always had to infer the ironic abrasion between the songwriter and the views of the characters he creates. Randy Newman's Faust: The Devil Laughs and Cries 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

It seems to me that Mrs. Clinton’s failures repeatedly stem from hubris - which is ironic because extreme hubris is a character flaw most... The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

It seems to me that Mrs. Clinton’s failures repeatedly stem from hubris - which is ironic because extreme hubris is a character flaw most associated with men. The Walls That Hillary Clinton Created 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

The movie mood then was serious and swoony, essentially feminine; now it's ironic — by which we almost always mean sarcastic — and very dude. Water for Elephants: Under the Big Top with Reese and RPattz 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z

I don’t know whether Embiid or his editor chose the headline, but it seemed to hint at a certain ironic distance from the form. Joel Embiid and the Narrative of the N.B.A. Playoffs 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

It wasn't, if you ask me, much good: he was too much invested; the ironic distance of his voice collapsed and it ended up being Lawrentian in the worst way. EM Forster's work tailed off once he finally had sex. Better that than a life of despair 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z

The song is ironic as hell, but it also captures the warmth of the heartsick ’70s Americana it mimics. Eminem Follows His Own Lead on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 2013-11-05T10:45:08Z

The problem, as is so often the case with Kipling, is trying to decide if his song is celebratory, ironic or some odd mixture of the two. Poster poems: School 2011-02-04T09:00:02Z

"It's funny, but not ironic, it's a real feeling," McCaughan says. Mac McCaughan and Superchunk wrestle with change 2013-09-05T15:24:15Z

Luebeck does not find it ironic that she is wearing rose-colored glasses. In Las Vegas, nervous Democrats have no poker face 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Publishers are now in the ironic position of making money off books by authors that they once held in disfavor. ‘A Conflicted Cultural Force’: What It’s Like to Be Black in Publishing 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Bacon-wrapped everything dominated menus as dudes with handlebar mustaches and a spritz of ironic bacon-scented cologne collectively got pork bellies tattooed on their forearms. "My favorite meat": Mitt Romney goes viral in an alien-like ode to hot dogs 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Victoria Belanger, the self-proclaimed Jell-O Mold Mistress of Brooklyn and an expert in the gelatinous arts, said that among fans of her work, “there’s a kind of ironic attitude toward Jell-O molds.” How Jell-O Molds Claimed Their Spot on the American Table 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

“I sent a fairly new acquaintance a ‘big hug’ emoticon — which, for the record, was ironic. Cultural Studies: Emoticons Move to the Business World - Cultural Studies 2011-10-21T21:52:46Z

Weill set Brecht's mordantly ironic lyrics to brilliantly simple melodies with blues, jazz and tango inflections, in a score molded for actors rather than trained singers. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z

The duo instead performed what is now called sketch comedy: short, situational scenes that used sharp juxtaposition and crossed intent to climb, like a Da Vinci staircase, to fantastically ironic peaks. Learning How to Talk Like Nichols and May 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

It's not exactly an ironic stance, it's subtler than that. Under the Same Stars by Tim Lott – review 2013-03-17T00:05:17Z

Sweet Life sounds like an ode to kicking back and luxuriating, but the line "Why see the world/ When you've got the beach?" suggests an ironic subtext. Frank Ocean: Channel Orange – review 2012-07-14T23:05:46Z

It's all a mix of the homely and the ironic; the grubbier a cookbook, the more likely it is worth recommending. Dorothy Iannone: art's original bad girl 2013-03-13T18:00:54Z

Shouldering that heavy load, which looks to outweigh Witherspoon, is one of the lighter, ironic reprieves seeded through the film. 'Wild' takes Reese Witherspoon into raw, bracing new territory 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

This villanelle brings to a height the craft and ironic tone of a poet of casual grace. The 10 best American poems 2011-03-11T12:56:22Z

“But how ironic,” Adriane exclaims, “an Exiled Individual recruited to cure antisocial behavior!” A Dystopian Thriller From Joyce Carol Oates 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Someone said they were having their own private party, which seemed too ironic to be true, so I went to the Vanity Fair party in case they were there. Self-flagellation and stuffed goodie bags: my night at the tacky, endearing Oscars 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

This year has been a game changer in British attitudes toward sports, leaving behind the typical ironic and laconic talk about being “good losers” and instead rejoicing in gold medal glory. Sporty? It's the Olympics, Stupid! 2012-09-18T17:23:29Z

Oldenburg took an ironic view of contemporary society. Party Like It’s 1959 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

It’s ironic that it was approached with such reluctance. The Genius of ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s the Sugar Plum Fairy 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Thanks to the show’s attention to set design, costuming and name-dropping, it certainly looks a lot like 1947, but the events that take place bear a complex, ironic relationship to history. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

It is concerning and well, ironic that fans who wanted to free their idol aren't recognizing Spears' autonomy as a 41-year-old woman. Leave Britney Spears alone – yes, we're talking to Britney fans also 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

When Oscar Wilde published his ironic morality tale about decadence and disillusion, the press — and, eventually, the courts — had a sanctimonious field day. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

It’s an odd case of the ironic outsider clashing with earnest New Yorkers. Buddy Emmons, innovator on pedal steel guitar, dies at 78 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

“But her emails . . .” goes the ironic line that aptly summarizes too much of the media’s coverage of the candidates. Perspective | This week should put the nail in the coffin for ‘both sides’ journalism 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Anthony said the public considered it “funny and ironic to hold this cookie contest in 1992.” The 2016 first lady cookie contest is just as weird as the rest of the election 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

This is of course meant to be heavily ironic since American methods in Vietnam might be considered to be unsound. Apocalypse Now: Archive review 2010-10-19T10:54:00Z

Bee’s feminist interventions are important because they are the perfect balance of angry, ironic and smart.  Samantha Bee is Jon Stewart’s real heir: Finally, the 2016 campaign has the satirist we so desperately need 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

The late novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace is best remembered for writing "Infinite Jest," a sprawling 1,079-page opus full of ironic wit and dynamic, digressive prose. 'End of the Tour' trailer: Jason Segel takes on David Foster Wallace 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

It turned out he was staying at the Playboy Towers, which we thought deeply ironic. My Story: My Night With Leonard Cohen 2013-07-18T05:00:01Z

No longer ironic, it was something to laugh with, not at. Keep your ugly sweaters – Hanukkah isn't Christmas and doesn't need to be 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z

Which is ironic, because this book in all three regards is exactly the opposite. The Great Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison ? review 2011-01-15T17:47:01Z

Don’t turn into the ironic image of the instrument of injustice you seek to overturn. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

This deconstructionist art-pop trio has just released a second album, Never, which like its predecessor Jewellery is a cerebral yet visceral pile-up of detuned guitars, fuzzy beats, industrial noise and ironic contributions from vacuum cleaners. Micachu and the Shapes – review 2012-07-26T15:42:22Z

It’s never a good sign when a movie racks up its first ironic music cue before there is anything to be ironic about. Review: ‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’ Delivers on Its Title 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

His collection of subtly linked short stories — the title is deeply ironic — is about masculinity under duress. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

His hundreds of subtle, ironic and innovative verses reflected alternating calm and stress as the Communist Party’s rule stabilized, weakened and then, in 1991, quickly disintegrated. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z

“I know I am somehow, in some inexplicable way, being ironic,” he reports. ‘The Last Magazine,’ Michael Hastings’s Posthumous Novel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

James Spears says the call for his urgent removal is “ironic” considering the call he received from Montgomery on July 9. Britney Spears’ father says ‘no grounds’ for his removal 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

It’s ironic that the defining feature of all our lives – the inevitability of nothing staying as it is – is what we battle hardest against. My best friend met the love of her life – and I can’t cope 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

In this way Rowling’s metaphor attacks itself in the ironic fashion of her character, who is a danger to those close to him during his transformed periods. J.K. Rowling’s allegory fail: Werewolves are not a useful metaphor for HIV/AIDS 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

This is effectively ironic, though the tone is self-serious rather than comic, which seems like a missed opportunity. Dorrance Dance and a Mythili Prakash Premiere at Jacob’s Pillow 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

When it does, she tends to pile on layers of references and meta-references for ironic effect. Unsuk Chin Talks About Her Music and Influences 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Is this return to the old style fundamentally ironic? Perspective | America needs an epic narrative right now. Painters are working on it. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

How ironic that the Cosmos writers shine light on how scientists’ biases affect how they interpret the same data! Neil DeGrasse Tyson reveals age of Earth, creationists’ heads collectively explode 2014-04-25T11:50:00Z

Unfortunately I cannot say that I’m even half-way joking about Trump’s intentional and darkly ironic staging of the Kavanaugh announcement as an unscripted competition event. Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS rose ceremony: When networks help Trump win ratings, democracy loses 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

“As time went on his work became more and more ironic, sarcastic and pointed,” said Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Architecture and Design. Obituaries: Tobias Wong, Designer and Conceptual Artist, Dies at 35 2010-06-03T05:24:00Z

The ironic thing here is that Anonymous, which proclaims itself a defender of free speech, is actually doing the opposite. Anonymous targets pedophiles 2012-07-13T00:00:00Z

In many of her movie roles, from Edward Scissorhands to Heathers, Ryder reacts to bizarre situations with a sense of ironic, chill acceptance. Review: 'Stranger Things' Is Nostalgia That Works 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

At gunpoint, most people could probably name a maximum of three S Club 7 songs, and even then only because they'd just been to some sort of hideous, ironic student disco night. Why an S Club 7 reunion show needs to happen 2013-05-30T14:26:24Z

How ironic you claim to be a fan of books that uphold truth and honour above all else. Book 'pirate' goes underground after being named by Terry Goodkind 2012-07-11T16:04:06Z

And it’s so ironic that it would be those two things, because no one is interested in an old artist now unless they’re a has-been. Bettye LaVette comes roaring back 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

It would transform one of the archly ironic landmarks of postmodern architecture into something agreeably “updated,” which is to say perfectly bland. Philip Johnson's AT&T Building has always been vain, idiosyncratic and flawed. Let's keep it that way 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Kind of ironic for a place that entices visitors to “Satisfy your sweet tooth at Storybook Treats” or “Wake up with treats like freshly made funnel cakes and delicious waffle sandwiches.” Disney’s healthy choice 2012-06-05T20:00:00Z

He identifies as queer and hot, he says, preening with ironic self-regard. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

In ironic timing, news almost immediately followed that Jason Collins, a veteran center in the NBA, had become the first active male athlete in a major American team sport to come out as gay. Religious right shuns black gay athlete 2013-05-09T20:05:00Z

It was such a rush that when they then returned to the affable theme, it felt like ironic humor. Review | Jazz vibraphonist and drummer Chuck Redd shows a hometown audience his enduring range 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

For that reason and others, "Hair" was hard-hitting for its time, and plenty ironic about American politics and mores. The real 'Hair' ? more than flower power, says director of Seattle-bound revival 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

The ironic play of the two characters so wildly at odds with one another underscores the alienation that we come to understand is Mrs Bridge's essential condition. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

The line’s ironic specificity foreshadowed the cultural precociousness that Monsoon brought to an otherwise bland season. | Jinkx Monsoon’s Joyfully Cracked Ode to Vaudeville 2013-07-17T22:20:27Z

If so, it's absolutely in keeping with a gleefully ironic set. Devendra Banhart at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T18:14:00Z

An "ironic" celebration of the Diamond Jubilee is being staged by London's WW Gallery. In pictures: Diamond Geezer exhibition 2012-05-15T00:46:45Z

My resistance to them is ironic in that, when I showed up for my own first year of college, others would have been justified in calling me a bro. White bro reading: Yes, I’m reading men and women equally — but they’re still mostly white 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Salome” becomes a dark, ironic entertainment that Jews mount for themselves as they face extinction. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

In light of the recent events in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, it seemed ironic timing, he said, that the program was being heard anew now. New York Festival of Song at Merkin Concert Hall 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

It's not prepared in a funny or ironic way. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z

I always liked the ironic distance, and Presley definitely had that. The summer of 1969: When Elvis made his true comeback 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Manicures are not de rigueur for the 8,000 beacon bearers but are part of this year’s patriotic fervor, with an ironic edge. Fash File: Pulling Out the Stops for the Jubilee 2012-05-28T12:05:16Z

How ironic that 11 years after selling its derelict H Street home, that neighborhood is sizzling. The little museum that couldn’t ... 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

And one of the unforeseen, ironic results of the genuinely valuable conversation and consciousness raising that books like “Unraveled” have spurred is that sustainability itself has been transformed into a selling point. The Life and Death of Your Jeans 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

He’s the persuasive moral core of the piece, and his Prior segues effortlessly from ironic self-deprecation to ferocious righteousness and back again. Review | Forget ‘important.’ ‘Angels in America’ is brilliantly entertaining. 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

Bringing her off-kilter sensibility to environmental crisis, she recounts yet another story of ironic sacrifice. A Poet Whose Calling Is Doubt Celebrates Language’s Uncertainty 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Over and over again, characters misinterpret prophecies, often in ironic fashion, causing their own dooms in their bids to either fulfill promising prophecies or prevent distressing ones. Arya Stark's big move is proof that "Game of Thrones" prophecies are never what they seem 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Some read a bit like the earthy and doomed short stories of the West Virginia writer Breece D’J Pancake, as tweaked by an ironic miniaturist like Lydia Davis. Review: With ‘The Correspondence,’ a New Contender in the Ring 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Little wonder that English cricket, constantly interrupted by rain, cultivates ironic detachment and a sense that the game shouldn't be taken too seriously. The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon by The Authors Cricket Club – review 2013-07-18T07:00:01Z

The ironic jab of that teensy “only” is the kind of thing a translator savors getting just right. Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

It consists of possible works to be undertaken by the pseudonymous street artist, related in a relentlessly ironic tone. Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones - review 2012-06-01T07:00:02Z

On “Chappelle’s Show,” skits like “Mad Real World,” “Reparations,” and “Racial Draft,” meant to be ironic lampoons of American race politics, made white audiences laugh a little too hard. Meghan Daum to Millennials: Get off My Lawn 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

At this point a major dramatic and thematic device appears to link the action, the humour and the ironic morality, and it's whisky. The Angels' Share – review 2012-06-02T23:05:32Z

Considered as a parable, the simulation argument is essentially ironic. What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

“As ironic as it sounds, I am truly grateful to the disease.” A rough diagnosis and a sanguine resolve 2013-05-29T22:50:35Z

As it turns out, the real Stephen Colbert without scare quotes is pretty much the same, minus the bluster and the ironic self-indulgence. A penis and 'Hootie and the Blowfish': Colbert's art censorship bit was a classic 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

“Good People” is a faintly ironic title — if only in that it sounds so firm — but the play itself avoids easy ironies. On Broadway, Old Friends Walking on Air 2011-05-12T14:27:20Z

Despite the archly ironic title, this is a documentary that portrays its young subjects with real sensitivity. TV highlights 24/06/2013 2013-06-24T06:00:11Z

It’s a shame, she says, in high ironic mode, that art history is such “an elitist sport” because it taught her so much about the world. Perspective | How Hannah Gadsby’s evisceration of Picasso helped her change stand-up comedy 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Hoff understands the embrace to be partly ironic, and that it doesn't preclude affection. David Hasselhoff: 'If we have to go with the Hoff to pay the rent, let's go with the Hoff' 2012-08-05T19:00:01Z

Underneath him, Mr. Klein added a sequence of tolling chords — sometimes ironic, sometimes plainly lovely. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

I’ve written here recently about his mastery of melodrama as a modern, ironic variety of tragedy, and about the powerful visual style with which he invokes that idea. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

No wonder he took such ironic delight in his success at the Ambleside flower show. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

The branding of this conference is to be ironic and different. Tech Is Eating Jobs But At Slush Nobody Cares 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

This is the kind of rhetoric you expect to see on 4chan’s political message board, a den of white supremacist rhetoric fused with ironic memes. The Rise of the Internet Fan Bully 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

The notion that Calhoun College could remain Calhoun College, and that its name could become, in some sense, an ironic form of critique, suggests just how different universities are from other places. The Meaning of Names at Princeton and Yale 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

It’s all the more ironic, then, that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is the ultimate example of the symbiotic relationship between Christmas and consumerism in America. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z

In a tragic display of ironic wit, Noah exposes the basic idiocy of much white nationalism, which tends to value empty symbols more than the lives of fellow citizens. Trevor Noah's wit is an effective weapon against white supremacy and defense of police violence 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

It seems ironic to me that such sublime writings prompt such extreme and often irrational behaviour by so many well-educated people. I receive hate mail for questioning the authorship of Shakespeare plays 2013-04-23T07:00:02Z

“I Am Rage” is an ode to female anger sung in a lilting, ironic whisper. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

In these, Perry's tone is sometimes wry and ironic, sometimes sombre and straight. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

With the $3 cupcake firmly entrenched across America, there’s a new contender for your playfully ironic baking dollar: designer organic Pop Tarts. | Pop Art Pop Tarts 2010-12-16T21:43:00Z

The resurrection of this ironic parable serves as a chilling reminder of the valiant spirits lost in the unthinkable human destruction of the Holocaust. Review: 'The Last Cyclist' is an affecting fable 2013-05-31T00:19:17Z

So with Kulka's work: this is the product of a master historian – ironic, probing, present in the past, able to connect the particular with the cosmic. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by Otto Dov Kulka – review 2013-01-25T07:00:02Z

It is ironic that I found holiness inside Lynwood, where a nun, who also told me “never make friends with those people” would have me believe I’d find depravity. “My synagogue was a jail cell”: My miracle happened behind bars 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

Saunders, as has been noted on Twitter, has spent his career writing about sensitive artistic types crushed by corporatocracy, so his doing this is a little ironic. Seven authors we wish were writing for Chipotle cups 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I realised with a start that he was not being ironic. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z

You can imagine a mischievous grin on Sondheim’s own face as he dreamed up this ironic love song. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

That contemporary Americans fear food more than the French is rather ironic, for many modern food fears originated in France. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z

"And I thought, how ironic. Where are all those folks who support the Tarahumaras?" ESPN's "30 for 30" challenges the fetishization and appropriation of the barefoot ultramarathon 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

He was an excellent soldier—he received fifteen commendations for bravery—but he hated the war and spent the rest of his life writing about it with chiselled, ironic rage. The Unsettling Arrival of Speculative 9/11 Fiction 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

More crucially, the joke invites us to consider the extent to which Pagliacci's depression is a consequence of, and not merely an ironic counterpoint to, his desire to keep the whole world laughing. We don't need a prestige Joker movie, but "The Dark Knight" made one inevitable. 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

"Yeah, it did seem rather ironic," she says. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z

“The ironic twist to that is that those are the exact people who become gigantic superstars!” Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

“I think it would be a hilariously ironic moment to suddenly have a hit on NBC.” Television: A Show About Something: Marriage 2010-02-27T06:47:00Z

There is also pleasure, often of an ironic sort, in calling someone by a name that connotes indelible connection. Please, My Wife, She’s Very Online 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

So it seems ironic that the planet’s greatest shark-hugger is partly to blame. Diving with the shark attack survivor who filmed Jaws 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Actually, it’s ironic because I was recently speaking to a friend who’s living in Bangkok and has been involved in a 4-month tourism challenge sponsored by the Thai Ministry of Tourism. 2010-01-20T20:13:00Z

It’s wonderfully ironic that the cultural production of this milieu that eventually reached the widest audience is a talking-animal story. A Deer in the Headlights: ‘Bambi’ Reconsidered 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

“At first,” L’Heureux writes, “he couldn’t figure it out, but after the third time he realized it fitted perfectly with everything he had thought about an ironic God.” An Ex-Jesuit Who Wrote Tales of an Ironic God 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

When those scenes did happen, I was very aware of trying to alleviate it, to make sure the killing doesn’t seem too graphic or to make it seem ironic or comedic. She Shaped the Sound of ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Again 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

"It's both ironic and amusing that it took an actor from Bollywood to shine a light on the yawning gaps in Indian journalism," political commentator Tavleen Singh wrote in a recent column. A movie star makes India confront its taboos 2012-07-23T11:43:12Z

One hopes her taste for the work of Thornhill had not entirely lapsed by then—as her youthful priggishness had abated into the wise compassion, ironic humor, and psychological perceptiveness that characterize her novels. What Michael Bloomberg Could Learn From "Middlemarch" 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Your early work will probably be too earnest and overwrought and snarky, and you’ll try too hard to sound ironic and erudite, but if you keep at it, you will get better and better. Salon’s guide to writing a memoir 2013-01-20T23:00:00Z

But she added that she relished that instead of keeping an ironic distance from painting, he let himself go and indulged in his “hand.” An Artist Who Appropriates With a Wink 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

The blowback from that tweet was such that Netflix has altered its methods a little, now opting for slightly ironic overpraise over outright sniffiness. Why does Netflix keep making so many cheap TV movies? 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The ironic, experimental film, whose title was based on a local tongue-twister, was influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno film festival. Ra?l Ruiz obituary 2011-08-19T14:53:12Z

Filming in Franco’s Spain with the sufferance of the Church, Buñuel set the action in pre-Civil War Toledo, but his sly, ironic fancies do the established order no favors. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

The reversal between those two states is what created the ironic cast of the 20th century. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z

In an ironic twist, a mass-market edition of Swimming Home is now being co-published with - one of the mainstream publishers who originally rejected the book. Booker shines spotlight on indie publishers 2012-09-19T00:00:23Z

A straight cover can also form a sort of ironic commentary. Weezer’s cover album: Is the rock band honoring or exploiting the originals? 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

For him, the sentence is an act of pure performance – a tense high-wire act, a piece of grave and ambitious vaudeville performed with energy both comic and ironic. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z

The new plan is that Wolverine will go back many decades to 1973, but there will be no ironic retro kidding around. X-Men: Days of Future Past review – chaotic but fun 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

It is visionary, painful, angry poetry, but often funny, moving and savagely ironic. Collected Poems by Edward Dorn – review 2013-02-01T16:01:01Z

The entire story is starting to feel as though it’s building toward a denouement that will form the basis for series 11 of Ryan Murphy’s dramatically ironic American Crime Story. Kanye and Taylor: the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford of pop 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

It would be ironic if Europe’s first farmers succumbed to an introduced disease, because other diseases introduced by European colonists of the New World after 1492 equally decimated Native American populations. A Brand-New Version of Our Origin Story 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

The omission of the question of discrimination is all the more conspicuous because it’s the very question that “The Founder” builds, with yet another fine ironic twist, into Kroc’s founding vision. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

It was an ironic twist for a story that Flynn was afraid might seem too unrealistic when she first started thinking about it, seven years ago. Gillian Flynn Takes Her Paranoia to Television 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

However, Luther — obdurate and reckless, bilious and doctrinaire — eventually swamps the book, as he eventually swamped the urbane and ironic man of letters. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The fashion movement hit its stride around 2014, with a devotion to looking completely ordinary, but in a winking, ironic way — wearing chinos and mock turtlenecks and zip-up fleece, like a suburban dad. Cottagecore, cluttercore, goblincore — deep down, it’s about who we think we are 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

As he searched for an objective voice to add ironic context, he considered someone with a Spanish accent and asked the director Fernando Trueba to try. When Daniel Giménez Cacho Met the Three Amigos 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Whether being allusive, ironic, aphoristic or downright playful, Eliot shows the full power of her intellectual arsenal. Epigraphs: opening possibilities | Toby Lichtig 2010-03-30T12:00:00Z

A quizzical prologue sets up two long sets of intricate variations in myriad styles, with echoes of Neo-Classical Stravinsky and ironic Shostakovich. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

“What is remarkably ironic is that while all of our physical borders remain closed, our relationships with our international partners and colleagues have been strengthened,” Glasscock said. Theater to Stream: A World of Fringe and More Apples 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

For within a handful of years, Stravinsky was pursuing an ironic, detached and elegant neoclassical aesthetic, which initially bewildered his fans as much as his detractors. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z

“There are renegades delivering babies in the woods,” Aria says, in a tone both ironic and mischievous. Labor of love: The super-secret outlaw doula in backwoods California 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Please understand, I am not offering my cheers in sarcastic celebration of Whedon's and Garlin's separate and unrelated authoring of their ironic reversals. Why we should be thanking Joss Whedon and Jeff Garlin for their candor about workplace misconduct 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

The degree to which the music is ironic — its bubbly passages even politically subversive — is unclear, a familiar ambiguity from a composer adept at playing all the angles. Review: The Philharmonic’s Conductor Returns to His Perch 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

Written in Jen’s clear, assured style and delivered from Grant’s slyly ironic perspective, “The Resisters” will captivate readers. Review | Gish Jen’s ‘The Resisters’ reminds us of the importance of standing up for what’s right 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z

His rapid-fire delivery takes a heavily ironic pop at Jewishness, climate change, politics and the world at large; everything is fair game. Comedy profile: Lewis Schaffer 2010-04-27T14:26:00Z

Tonight's episode title, Happily Ever After, has got to be the most ironic yet – are we heading deep into Sideways country? Unreported World 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z

Coming from Mr. Harrell, 25 minutes into the show, the speech was ironic. Dance Review: Heidi Latsky Dance Performs ‘Gimp’ at Lincoln Center 2012-08-05T21:27:28Z

In purely visual terms, it looked old-fashioned, like something you find in a museum, where the wall text tells you, “This is about the ironic appropriation and commercial exploitation of images.” 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

We have all these different ideas about irony floating around, but maybe you can walk me through what it actually means to be “ironic.” What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z

It’s ironic, or at least strange, that his work has come to stand as a kind of baseline, middle-C of mainstream Victorian melodrama, because he himself was not a mainstream individual. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z

It was little ironic that he chose those things, specifically, to be on the set. ArtsBeat Blog: Emmys Watch: Beth McCarthy-Miller 2011-09-13T19:11:49Z

Even the “ironic” title is bad; there is just nothing “nice” about this film. Worst of 2016: 10 movies that failed spectacularly to deliver on their promise 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Just as the Left’s exclusionary identity politics is ironic in light of the Left’s ostensible demands for inclusivity, so too is the emergence of a “white” identity politics on the right. How America's identity politics went from inclusion to division 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

Light touches and restrained, ironic humor were his forte. Roger Moore wasn’t a good Bond, but he was my Bond 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

If you read “The Sympathizer,” you’ll immediately recognize this ironic and endlessly conflicted voice. Review | In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

“One of the things that really strikes me about American art is that it’s often overwhelmed with this coy, joking, ironic tone,” Leigh says. How Black Lives Matter turned performance into powerful activism in 2016 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Lucas said it was ironic that her teeshirt was deemed inappropriate while The Sun, with its racy page three, was available to buy from eight outlets in the parliamentary buildings. UK's Sun drops topless 'Page Three girls' after campaign 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Doc Savage Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson stars in an ironic action comedy adaptation of the closest thing he could find to Indiana Jones, after he failed to secure the rights of Indiana Jones. What The Rock is cooking: Dwayne Johnson's next 26 films decoded 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a film that is funny but never ironic, as sweet as it is silly, with characters who can shrug off injury but cannot avoid heartache. Spider-Man: Homecoming – at last a superhero film for millennials 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

To me there are enough disturbing and ironic things in life.” Faithful to Two Worlds: The Marines and the Artistic Life 2010-12-19T22:58:16Z

Sharp, ironic, deadpan and light enough to slip in a backpack for those moments of holiday torpor. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

Neither ironic nor straightforward, Currin’s oils on canvas are curdled and perverse, both timely and twisted. John Currin has a way with awkwardness 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

In the presentational style, Jones made a welcome ironic comment on the commercial nature of ready-to-wear. Dior pulls the stars in conveyor-belt menswear show in Paris 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z