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The scene near the Chennai Kaliappa Hospital, on Tuesday was supremely ironical, and drew sharp reactions from tree lovers who were passing by.
Our comedy today tends to be high-concept, slightly artsy, heavily ironical.
The waggery may be more or less refined, it may run the whole gamut from open clownery to a slightly ironical twinkle, but it is always there.
In what may be a gesture of ironical respect to animals, however, the Speaker refrains from explaining human behaviour on the basis of its so-called animality.
The editor of The Economist hereby declares that he is not aware of any scientific evidence that ironical Economist leaders are addictive.
Our financial friends tell us that it is ironical to think there is such a thing as free time.
It is ironical that in a country as water starved as ours, that the flush toilet that uses less water is more expensive than one that minimises water use.
As he treats each individual to a cross-questioning throws in his ironical little sallies about this and that.
It will be ironical, if not tragic, if the benefits of reducing the costs of communication flow only to the rich and not the poor.
Today they are faced with an ironical dilemma: they are poor in their rich land.
Witty, contradictory and often enough ironical, Wenzel's objects try to lead astray your imagination, to break up all-too-solid definitions.
There is nothing at all ironical about the fact that Pope John Paul II ordained the first Son of Mary ready to accede to the priesthood.
A clever ironical joke to conventional albums to be enjoyed like a good old vinyl.
It is not the place to be ironical, as a French tourist blog made, on the strategy of the French commanders.
We are talking, of course, of the very ironical Marcel Duchamp and his famous urinal.
But a smart Franzen will weather this storm with a healthy dose of ironical Zen.
The poem's breathless momentum and brio defy ironical posturing.
Not only do we unleash the unknown but we also create an environment for some ironical results, such as creation of new al-Qaeda cells in areas in which we cannot pay attention.
A German immigrant to Canada in 1840, Cornelius Krieghoff painted the new world he encountered, filling his renderings of local habitant life with Bruegel-like satirical humour, ironical anecdote and brilliant colours.
It is ironical that community, formerly a natural state contributing to existence and to the wholeness of life, is now something that has to be planned for, and sometimes urged upon people.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Whence our old word beldam, the more courteous meaning of which is all but lost in its ironical one.
He was loud in praise of that book, the ironical insolence and pawky humour of which he had greatly enjoyed.
With an ironical pretence of rendering deserved homage to poverty, he elaborates the important part it plays in the social scheme.
Even the marquis, with his ironical politeness, was beginning to displease her.
Bill found himself the possessor of that most ironical thing, a moneyless title.
The notion that demons or lesser divinities are the sons of gods is not to be regarded as ironical or sceptical.
Madame Fressard smiled in a good-natured but rather ironical way.
Henery gazed into the ashpit, and smiled volumes of ironical knowledge.
There was something disrespectful, not to say ironical, in his tone.
His gray eyes suddenly fixed and held the ironical eyes of the other.
And he launched forth into an ironical eulogy on selfishness.
Strive as I might I could not rid my tone of an ironical inflection.
The young inspector winced at my companion's ironical comments.
Boris smiled circumspectly, so that it might be taken as ironical or appreciative according to the way the joke was received.
Finally I must compliment Mr. Maugham on his ironical title.
That cold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the world.
Perhaps, like that other god of whom the ironical Tishbite spoke, he was talking, or he was pursuing, or he was in a journey, or he was sleeping and not to be awaked.
She realized, too, how ironical it was that with all her work she should have grown to be so ungainly although Martin retained the old magnetism of his gorgeous physique.
Madame de Villefort listened with avidity to these appalling maxims and horrible paradoxes, delivered by the count with that ironical simplicity which was peculiar to him.
Inevitably, he had a vast deal to say about women, and he used frequently to indulge in sentimental and ironical apostrophes to these authors of his joys and woes.
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