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

2.   Dave fans want the guaranteed good time, the plain-folks atmosphere, the absolute absence of anything resembling ironic distance.

3.   I used to have more of an ironic distance than I do now.

4.   The band has insisted there is ironic distance in the song, but the crowd sang along wholeheartedly.

5.   We roll our eyes to indicate ironic distance.

6.   While the lyrics update Ernest Tubb, the modernist production lends a sense of ironic distance, like a dream in which the characters watch themselves while floating above.