"effect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Feminism had the ironic effect of freeing men up to spend more money on ourselves.
- Thus the dust of madness has the ironic effect of canceling itself, in this limited instance.
- Wegner found that the ironic effect is stronger when people are stressed or depressed.
- At other times, she juxtaposed on-screen images with people in the theaters, usually for ironic effect.
- Sometimes the films make overt, winking reference to this role reversal, milking it for its ironic effect.
- "Before the Rain" uses such juxtapositions with chilling authority, to powerfully ironic effect.
- Ms. Anderson also uses a similarly rational tone to even more ironic effect.
- But here his use of the expression is used to much more ironic effect.
- If so, that would be a bitterly ironic effect for a bill intended to help pornography victims.
- But protecting individual investors today has the ironic effect of perpetuating their informational disadvantage.
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