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357 examples of Ironic in a sentence

It is ironic that he turned down the lead role in Casablanca and movie fans should be grateful.Recommended
Plot gets a little predictable midway through which is ironic as you would expect a little more ingenuity from the director who brought us Tetsuo.
Feed manages to rip-off every serial-killer film made in the last 15 years and does so with what I hope to God is an ironic awareness of its own ineptitude.
London to Brighton is a faintly ironic title, recalling vintage cars rallies, bike races or simply a day out by the sea.
Sometimes it seems intended as a black comedy, but it's not remotely funny; it's gimmicky instead of parodic, banal instead of ironic.
Michelle Pieffer is very ironic and cynical.
It is ironic that director Fred Zinnemann once directed High Noon, arguably the most perfectly-paced film ever made.
This makes Chee ever superior, which is very ironic, because in the books, Chee always feels vastly inferior to Leaphorn because of his much greater police knowledge, education, and experience.
Considering the depth and power given her character by author Burnett in the first half of the story of "The Secret Garden," it's ironic that with the introduction of Colin Craven, her cousin, Mary seems to be elbowed out of the way in favor of a bigger emphasis on Colin's story line.
It's especially ironic in light of the fact that it was through Mary's efforts that the garden and its magic were resurrected, Colin grew strong, and the reconciliation of Colin and his father was enabled.
The title seems throughout the film to be rather ironic, since most of the situations they encounter, such as being cheated at a snack bar, are far from wonderful.
Our first story deals with sex, political correctness, race, and fiction writing, as a young liberal college girl has unpleasant and ironic sexual experience with her Black writing professor.
It is perfectly ironic that he was an Aussie.
The title of the movie is actually ironic, as the movie itself is no better than a common criminal.
While ironic that Leigh's best performance was in her least seen film, it is understandable considering the subject matter and almost expressionistic style of "Heart of Midnight", which needs at least two viewings to be properly appreciated.
Not too ironic, or a coincidence more likely, to what the film is about.
Concluding with an ironic albeit extremely telegraphed ending, "Mantis in Lace" is ultimately a real mixed bag; a psychedelic psycho curiosity that should have been better.
Storytelling is an indictment of repressive suburbia, but it is also an indictment of the postmodern, ironic, and politically correct intellectuals, and how both parts of society control and restrict people from being truly who they are.
After their Oscar winning turn last year, The Coen Brothers are back with the new film, this time comedy/crime/spy story which is very funny, very dark, quite angry, at times surreal, always ironic and to put it simply a must see for any Coens' fan which means a fan of great movie making.
Several of Roscoe Arbuckle's films have titles which became cruelly ironic in the hindsight of his 1921 trial for manslaughter: notably 'The Life of the Party' and this two-reeler, 'He Did and He Didn't'.
You will find the images of the young Peter Berlin arresting, and the story of this in-your-face 70's sexual icon by turns funny, ironic, and mournful.
The ironic thing being that with a PG-13 rating, you can't really be sexy.
This phony macho tough guy cop stuff is more overused than fart jokes on South Park, only in this case without the attached ironic humor.
In the last half hour, matters finally begin to coalesce, but other than an ironic set of tension-producing coincidences at the conclusion, there is really nothing new or unexpected here.
Some events are just so ironic that they just seem too weird to be true.
This all seemed painfully ironic when after five minutes of the first episode I saw the same sketch, in a marginally different location, then another, and another.
How ironic that the man who directs these sorts of movies gave a debut to a back-to-back Oscar-winning actor.
It is that homoristic and ironic spirit of James L. Brooks that is missing...
It's somewhat ironic that Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, a comedy about a long lost horror series re-emerging during a creative drought was overlooked on its release.
Huston finds a strange, distant tone that is somewhere between ironic and completely bizarre, with intentionality that is questionable at best.
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