Feminism had the ironic effect of freeing men up to spend more money on ourselves.

Thus the dust of madness has the ironic effect of canceling itself, in this limited instance.

Wegner found that the ironic effect is stronger when people are stressed or depressed.

At other times, she juxtaposed on-screen images with people in the theaters, usually for ironic effect.

Sometimes the films make overt, winking reference to this role reversal, milking it for its ironic effect.

"Before the Rain" uses such juxtapositions with chilling authority, to powerfully ironic effect.

Ms. Anderson also uses a similarly rational tone to even more ironic effect.

But here his use of the expression is used to much more ironic effect.

If so, that would be a bitterly ironic effect for a bill intended to help pornography victims.

But protecting individual investors today has the ironic effect of perpetuating their informational disadvantage.