The only continuing commentary comes from the American newspaper headlines that periodically appear at the bottom of the screen, usually in ironic counterpoint to the image.

It was a deliberate 'spin-on-this', an intentionally ironic counterpoint to music that is anything but pretentious.

Consequently, voice-overs are sometimes used to create ironic counterpoint.

And yet one does not grasp the message of this quintessential Irishman until one reckons with ironic counterpoint.

The dignity of her singing created an ironic counterpoint to the indignities Donna Elvira submits herself to.

Newspaper clippings on various topics - star maps, artists' lives - are patched in throughout, often as ironic counterpoint.

The treacly sentiment of the imagery provides an ironic counterpoint to the dark humor of the movie to come.

She provided an ironic counterpoint to Brian's intellectualism.

It would not take long for this ironic counterpoint to play out; barely two years later, it was apparent even to contemporary observers.

It was used as ironic counterpoint during a scene in which the main characters finally escape and machinegun their captors.