"ironic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

ironic adjetivo

ironic + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 67
ironic twist • ironic smile • ironic tone • ironic humor • ironic comment • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(7) detachment, distance
Kolokacji: 2
(9) sense, sensibility
Kolokacji: 2
1. ironic sense = ironiczny sens ironic sense
2. ironic sensibility = ironiczna wrażliwość ironic sensibility
  • For all his ironic sensibility, Hartz was something of an optimist.
  • Fox can also be heavy-handed with his interpretations, which are sometimes highly idiosyncratic, as when he writes that "modernists did not invent the ironic sensibility.
  • But unhappily, as the movie goes along, its initial flash of wit and its hint of an ironic self-referential sensibility quickly dim.
  • The arrangements filter some of the most flashy British blues-rock stylings through an ironic post-punk sensibility.
  • Purdy's target was the ironic sensibility that, he said, had infected just about everyone under 35; his arch villain was Jerry Seinfeld, "irony incarnate."
  • The stories in the collection depict the lives of Czech immigrants in America with an ironic sensibility.
  • Mr. Davies had an ironic sensibility about 20 years before it became cool.
  • And this year's Peabody board members were not immune to programs with lighter, ironic sensibilities.
  • What is different is Monteverdi's richer ironic sensibility, yet another aspect of his provocatively modern sense of theater.
  • "The ironic sensibility inhibits the act of remembering how to value what you value."
(10) amusement, salute, cheer
Kolokacji: 3
(11) contrast, glance, edge
Kolokacji: 3
(12) intent, intention
Kolokacji: 2
(13) attitude, stance, perspective
Kolokacji: 3
adverbio + ironic
Kolokacji: 24
somewhat ironic • particularly ironic • slightly ironic • most ironic • bitterly ironic • ...
ironic + preposición
Kolokacji: 3
ironic in • ironic about • ironic to

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