Examples of ironic

• For one, postmodernists exploited the ironic possibilities of the colon.

• The letter is unintentionally ironic in that secular scholars of this time had already begun to construct scholarly editions of classics from antiquity.

• So she politely goes along with the nave believer and becomes an ironic believer in i the fictitious life she is supposed to have led.

• Accordingly, they develop a computational model of irony based on three types of ironic situations, which they call intentional, serendipitous, and competence irony.

• It is ironic that some of the most vocal critics of distributed representations first came to modelling through this software.

• That "ministers and markets" might have given rise to the modern research university is a compelling ironic tale.

• The entire novel has to be understood as a masterpiece of ironic stylization.

• But it is a rewriting that yields a nicely ironic conclusion to the story told here, of the coincidences and conflicts between modernism and modernity.