ironizing

All I am saying is that if you start ironizing nationalities or putting them in quotation marks, you will never be able to speak of Taiwan or Taiwanese society with a straight face.

Chunghwamintzu Rulz: thanks for making my point Michael Turton 2009

Sometimes it's hard to know when Tom Brokaw is actually gauche or playing gauche; actually ironic or ironizing his own ...

Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 10-5-08: In Which Tom Brokaw Goes Foxy 2008

Sometimes it's hard to know when Tom Brokaw is actually gauche or playing gauche; actually ironic or ironizing his own irony.

Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 10-5-08: In Which Tom Brokaw Goes Foxy 2008

Sometimes it's hard to know when Tom Brokaw is actually gauche or playing gauche; actually ironic or ironizing his own ...

Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 10-5-08: In Which Tom Brokaw Goes Foxy 2008

The criminal big-shot, viewed in the distorting mirror of the satirist, is a parody of the American dream of success, ironizing the business ethic by the illegality of his methods as well as by his ultimate defeat; the inevitable fall of the big-time gangster creates a sense of entrapment in an economically determined reality.

Singing Soprano, While Dissin' the Bass: America's White Thug Love & Ethnically Acceptable Violence 2007

Monroe, these plays of Jelinek are disarmingly self-ironizing, but at the same time mercilessly serious narratives about female worlds and self-images, about submission, power, life and death.

Elfriede Jelinek: Provocation as the Breath of Life 2005

But they could sneak off and play WoW -- only to make certain no one thought they were "playing a game," they'd do this with the kind of arch and distanced ironizing over the self that one can go to...oh, a Korean karaoke bar on Canal Street if you're a white dude which is what the Linden gang did when they were at SOP.

Class Begins in... 2005

But the whole way that WoW could become a kind of golf for elite master game devs and academics was because of the arch, deliberately removed, deliberately urbane and ironizing stance that these academics and game devs take toward it.

Class Begins in... 2005

The bounder must have known, as he sat smoking his cigar and ironizing on the ruins of empires, that the safe and settled little world to which they both belonged was already in a blaze.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

He does so with conviction and commitment, while still maintaining a sense of humor without falling into the trap of over-ironizing.

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