Beust himself considers his sexual orientation a private matter; when asked directly he usually ironically refers the interviewer to his father.

The term is now common parlance in French political commentary, used both critically and ironically referring back to de Gaulle.

He referred to her ironically as la fille de mon concierge.

Local and national media refer to him ironically as "The Squire of Ravensworth".

In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world.

They referred to it ironically by an older, obsolete name: the Nursery.

The name, however, ironically refers to the celebration that students haven't committed suicide due to stress of exams.

Like the artist himself, the pieces refer ironically to their own fragile existence in the modern world.

The title refers ironically to the fact that the space is not an object but a vaccum which we endow with its physical attributes.

The title refers ironically to the type of man the female subject of the book is looking for.