1.   In fact, it accentuates the lavishly comic-book style and ironic wit of the whole film.

2.   A certain ironic wit lightens the load of mutual reproaches, as does a slowly-dawning revelation that being alone is an essential life skill.

3.   A collection of film noir cliches and outlandish plot conniptions, it keeps straining for ironic wit in an effort to appear more cleverly modern than it really is.

4.   He plays Collins as a driven, abrasive man who is capable of outbursts of ironic wit and roughhouse humor.

5.   Ironic wit is not what the XFL is going for.