* Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King ( 2008 ) has a scene, clearly meant to be an ironic reference to the eventual unpopularity of the character, where a monstrous Mystery Machine crashes through a carnival stand containing dolls of Scrappy, and running over them.

* Hypolympia, or the Gods on the Island ( 1901 ), an " ironic phantasy ," the scene of which is laid in the 20th century, though the personages are Greek gods, is written in prose, with some blank verse.

In an ironic scene, just such an eagle perches briefly over Boyd Shreave, the nature-hating antagonist of that novel, and defecates on his head.

To avoid a narrator, the serial delegates the novel's first ironic sentence to Elizabeth in an early scene.

Leo, in an ironic act calculated to humiliate him, casts him as a Russian general in a battle scene.

The bands ' emphasis on breakbeats, ironic audio samples and gangster rap samples became influential in the hardcore scene, most prominently with Australian artists signed to the Bloody Fist imprint.

In another interview, Snyder explained that Crowe's recording is " too romantic " and " too sexy " for the scene which is meant to come across as ironic and " ridiculous ".

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film " a sunny comedy " and added, " The movie's closing scene is quietly, sweetly ironic, and the whole movie skirts the pitfalls of cynicism and becomes something the Greeks could never quite manage, a potential tragedy with a happy ending.

Fink has discussed how the removal of this scene disrupted the original dramaturgical structure of the opera, as the singers of the members of the Rumor family took on symbolically ironic later roles in the opera.

Typically, he will leave the bodies at the scene along with ironic indications of why they were killed.

Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works, such as those by Esquivel, Henry Mancini, and Martin Denny.

The painting The Bar ( 1954 ) by Australian painter John Brack, which depicts a comparatively grim Antipodean bar-room scene, is said to be an ironic reference to A Bar at the Folies-Bergère.

The song itself could be seen as intentionally ironic with its main lyric of " Wherever you look, everybody wants to be part of the rock scene ", as at the time of the single's release, processed pop was dominating the charts.

His onstage persona, that of an egotistical, narcissistic, nervous comic, an ironic showbiz insider who punctured himself before an audience by disassembling his mastery of comedic stagecraft, influenced other ' 70s post-modern comedians, including Steve Martin, Martin Mull and Andy Kaufman.

It contained what would become Brooks's signature song, the blue collar anthem " Friends in Low Places ", as well as two other Brooks classics, the dramatic and controversial " The Thunder Rolls " and the philosophically ironic " Unanswered Prayers ".

Literary and other artistic uses of paradoxes imply no contradiction and may be used to describe situations that are ironic.

It was really an ironic accident that I had met Mura through other social channels.

Under a veil of politely ironic circumlocutions, such as did not deceive the bishop of Meaux, he claimed his right to interpret the Bible like any other book.

: This subgenre in its current usage is imitative in its style to mock, comment on, or trivialise the genre's established traits, subjects, auteurs ' styles or some other target by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

The high prices were considered ironic considering that Alaska is one of the main suppliers of oil in the United States, but have the highest state average due to scattered villages throughout Alaska such as Lime Village making it difficult to transport oil and other goods.

However, other commentators argue that there is a powerful ironic undercurrent running through his work, especially the Chronographia, transmitting highly critical and subversive messages about the emperors portrayed, or even about Byzantine Christian beliefs and morality at large.

A parody in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

This usage is emotionally non-neutral and usually bears a condescending, ironic, praising, or some other flavor, depending on an intonation: " Aren't we looking cute?

There are parodies of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, as well as of Mahler's own Fifth Symphony and the famous Lutheran Hymn " Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ", not to mention other ironic and sarcastic references.

Though a much darker and more ironic songwriter than Browne and other leading figures of the era's L. A .- based singer-songwriter movement, Zevon shared with his 1970s L. A. peers a grounding in earlier folk and country influences and a commitment to a writerly style of songcraft with roots in the work of artists like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell.

Act I begins when Hortense orders a costume for " a Miss Polly Browne " and Maisie and the other girls ( Dulcie, Nancy, and Fay ) sing the ironic " Perfect Young Ladies " with Hortense.

Teague has been reclaimed by some Irish nationalists as an ironic self-identifier in the same way that other terms of disparagement have been adopted by certain people they describe.

This usage is emotionally non-neutral and usually bears a condescending, ironic, praising, or some other flavor, depending on intonation: " Aren't we looking cute?

Signed to the label in 1969, they were signed among other popular acts of the early 1970s, including Freda Payne ( Scherrie's older sister who saw a # 1 hit in 1970 with " Band Of Gold "), and The Honey Cone who saw a # 1 hit with " Want Ads " In an ironic twist of fate, ' Want Ads ' was originally recorded by Glass House with Scherrie on lead vocals.

Ball found the young painter especially pleasant, and was impressed that, unlike his peers, Janco was melancholy rather than ironic ; other participants remember him as a very handsome presence in the group, and he allegedly had the reputation of a " lady-killer ".

Sacchetti, who is obese, has a number of ironic visions involving other obese historical and intellectual figures, such as Thomas Aquinas.

It is ironic that the suitably intelligent Constructicons should sacrifice their thinking ability in their combined form, but simple-mindedness is a common limitation of the assorted other first-generation combining Transformers, because Devastator's thoughts and actions are limited to what his six components can agree upon at any given time.

Occasionally her arrangements intentionally mimic works by other performers, most noticeably on " Rainy Day Parade " from 2000's Pink Pearl, which quotes TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme to lend ironic triumphalism to a song about a woman going back on anti-depressant medication, and " Cinnamon Park " from the 2004 album Underdog Victorious, which paraphrases portions of the 1972 single " Saturday in the Park " by the band Chicago.

It is ironic as, when the company first began, a clear marketed difference from other more " mainstream " soft drinks was the lower sugar content the company's blends originally had.

has shifted to the hybridized posthuman of technoscience, from “ representation ” to “ simulation ,” “ bourgeois novel ” to “ science fiction ,” “ reproduction ” to “ replication ,” and “ white capitalist patriarchy ” to “ informatics of domination .” While Haraway ’ s “ ironic dream of a common language ” is inspired by Irigaray ’ s argument for a discourse other than patriarchy, she rejects Irigaray ’ s essentializing construction of woman-as-not-male to argue for a linguistic community of situated, partial knowledges in which no one is innocent.

The Nasby Letters, although written in the semi-literate spelling used by other humorists of the time, were a sophisticated work of ironic fiction.

Dark, witty, and depressing in its ironic hilarity, Notable American Women allows the reader to delve into the mind of a well-meaning but obtuse young man, to glimpse into his turbulent upbringing full of radical experimentation and forced-breeding ( among other things ) and, possibly, to become attached.

Mohammad Abu-Koash ( Palestinian representative ) said " It was ironic that Israel which claimed to be representing Jews everywhere was campaigning against a Jewish professor who had been nominated for the post of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Kanafani ’ s affinity to the peasants was ironic because, “ the nature of Zionist colonization, with its stress on acquiring land struck at the existence of the peasants, the largest section of Palestinian society ,” ( Jewish Virtual Library ).

The film's casting department considered the casting of the Jewish Adi Stein as the Catholic Pete O ' Malley an ironic joke, due to the character's attempting to convert a Jewish boy to Catholicism.

The resolution was criticized by Leo Rudner of the Canadian Jewish Congress, who stated " I think it's ironic individuals who speak about freedom of speech jump to the opportunity to take that freedom away from other individuals.

" Above all, we must assert that Jewish theater, through the pieces played on its stage, has indeed an educative and moral scope, because on the one hand it represents scenes from our history known by only a tiny minority, refreshing, therefore, secular memory ; on the other hand, it shows us our defects, which we have like all men, but not with a tendency to strike at our own immorality with a tendency towards ill will, but only with an ironic spirit that does not wound us, as we are wounded by representations on other stages, where the Jew plays a degrading role.

" However, he is sensitive to anti-Semitic jokes, though conversely, he also occasionally makes comments that play on Jewish stereotypes, usually in an ironic fashion.

Leigh Hunt, writing in 1850, gives an ironic indication of Braham ’ s eventual Anglicization, dropping many of his Jewish mannerisms:

While sociologist Larry Ray in his reply ( 2006 ) acknowledges Fine's reading of the essay as an ironic defence of Jewish emancipation, he points out the polyvalence of Marx's language.

Director Dani Levy, himself Jewish, has made an ironic comedy about modern Jewish identity in present-day Germany.