Weaver's comic ironies can occasionally seem repetitive, and he tends to recycle particularly catchy phrases.

Still, the fact that the minstrel on stage would desire someone the audience knew to be another man was a source of comic dramatic irony.

Mr. McMurtry's is sentimentality laced with comic irony, and it works very well.

More successful are the heavy comic ironies placed against gloomy and imaginative elucidations of modern life.

But now comes the comic irony; which never fails to follow on the attempt of the Prussian to be philosophic.

He appears to put himself in that category--a piece of comic irony that may make you laugh.

There is a comic irony about these two.

With delicious comic irony, Robin introduces him at the neighborhood Memorial Day picnic as a foreign exchange student.

The most important characteristic of their lyrics is the strong sarcasm and comic irony which gives the music a peculiar goliardic touch.

There are touches of comic irony amid the philosophizing.