If ironic distance is your idea of comfort, you'll be very happy.

The title "Beyond Belief" implies an ironic distance toward faith.

In front of "May," for instance, you have the sense both of standing in nature and at an ironic distance from it.

But at the same time they try to have it both ways and keep an ironic distance from their subjects.

He has discovered that a chilled, ironic distance is the best defense amid hotter heads.

Indeed, he brings a certain amount of his own ironic distance, and it serves him well.

By now, the steps that have brought contemporary culture to a wide-ranging embrace of ironic distance are well known.

But von Stroheim rises above it, keeping an ironic distance.

I'd been immersed in voyeurism, without a shred of ironic distance to protect me.

Almost every sculpture that may seem to be a hymn to natural life maintains a firm and sometimes ironic distance.