The question is, when did things really become so completely without irony?

"And what's going to become of me without your company, boss?"

God wanted to show just how corrupt the world would become without the influence of the people who served him.

Now Americans have had plenty of time to realize how different the world has become without it.

How much worse could they become without even minimal standards?

What would become of him, then, without either betrothed or parents, he did not want to think about.

She wondered what he would have become without his human counterpart.

Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end.

Late afternoon became early evening without a sign of Mitch.

Saved a little bit from the thing Q would become without his influence.