Sentences with phrase «for ironic tone»

Forgive / as well my penchant for ironic tone...»

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Glover's memo contained the same ironic tone that has resulted in skyrocketing viewership on Funny Or Die's own website, its YouTube channel and a handful of productions for traditional TV networks, including HBO and TBS.
Ironic considering the tone Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin were going for, but this also makes her the most pleasing from a costume standpoint.
Shyamalan's laughably wooden — and just plain laughable — fantasy epic is a melange of bad acting, terrible effects and a tone - deaf script that never even has the guts to play its ludicrousness for ironic purposes, so goodness knows how Newton Howard must have responded when seeing the rushes for the first time.
The filmmakers are aiming for a cynical and ironic tone akin to that found in Joseph Wambaugh stories about harassed and corrupt cops on the take.
The first graphic novel ever nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the 2007 Printz Award, its twisting narrative, ironic tone, classical page composition, and deep, human insights stand alone but could also make an excellent contrast for the straight narrative, epic sweep, experimental art, and deep, human insights of another graphic novel that explores themes of immigration, Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2007).
Also, it established an ironic tone, which I needed for the novel.
Rather, the disparate elements of his practice each offer an opportunity for Messina to articulate his recognizable tone and perspective, marked in equal measures by ironic wit, humour and earnest observation.
This post used a number of stylistic writing techniques to achieve an informal tone: a casual, long parenthetical aside in the middle of a sentence; the use of «we» for the blogger's voice; contractions; ironic asides; and a mix of grammatically correct sentences and an intentional sentence fragment for emphasis.
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