The commander's darkly ironic tone helped Berat regain his mental balance.

Merril's view of humanity, meant to be darkly ironic, often comes across as just plain dark, and annoyingly passive.

TV Guide writer Matt Roush also saw the central theme as lies and characterized it as "deeply and darkly ironic."

Their tribulations are at once specific and universal, by turns grimly funny and darkly ironic.

DeVore's smile was darkly ironic.

He has that darkly ironic pop culture voice of kids from the 1990's who have drawn a bead on wayward baby boom parents.

By this point, "The Greenhouse" has surrendered its tenuous credibility and become a strained fable with a darkly ironic happy ending.

His eyes rested on me, then, darkly ironic.

Darkly ironic, the film captured the surreal and Orwellian nature of life under Saddam Hussein.

It is darkly ironic that politically correct should itself fall prey to linguistic stormtroopers.