So, ironically, I took a flight back to China and headed toward the North Korean border.

It's so ridiculous! So ironic!

If you want an instance of the irony of fate, Bertie, get acquainted with this.

Unfortunately, irony has been completely misunderstood.

By killing three Israeli civilians, these acts of murder represent an ironic tragedy.

Or, do you throw caution to the wind and explain the true meaning of irony?

A situation is only ironic if what happens is the exact opposite of what was expected.

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When he does, reality aligns with expectations, and so that is not irony.

I really want you to be creative during surgery, and so I guess there's a little bit of irony to it.

If you expect A, but get B, then you have irony.

When I look back now, it s kind of ironic that Arab American publications didn t give us any press when we first started.

Isn't it ironic that at the very moment we are building intelligent machines, perhaps the most important invention in human history, some people are arguing that innovation is stagnating?

Do you laugh along with the laugh track and let this grievous misinterpretation of irony go?

The irony of all ironies, though, is that, in the Banda administration, Zambian President Sata s Malawian lawyer, Ralph Kasambara, is now Malawi s Justice Minister.

It is often half jokingly pointed out that the number of generals and admirals in some European countries (none mentioned, none forgotten) is glaringly disproportionate to the number of fighting troops.

What a grand joke it will be!

What kind of mockery is this?

And while many examples of true irony can be funny, that is not the driving factor of being ironic.

Fascinated?

Fairly.

Does tolerable.

To what extent the EU can take this strain, only time will tell.

How about that?

Partly, they'd had a bit of a delay.

It's fairly negative.

Somewhat. With me.

Quiet well.

No, somehow I don't.

In a way, yes.

This enables us to work out how much Keynes thought was enough.

Then, when that reasonable expectation was not met by the tripping sidekick, irony would have been exemplified.

They cut out his tongue in mockery of his oratory, and no one knows what they did with his body.

And we're all living it to some extent.

They kind of just flatten out. Yeah.

So that's pretty straight forward.

I'm feeling a little tired.

Wait'll she gets a little nearer.

Makeup's a little heavy.

That is quite reassuring.

My wife is a little nervous. We've had a shock.

So, in a sense, you get what you pay for.

That... is even more ridiculous.

So I am a surgeon who studies creativity, and I have never had a patient tell me that I really want you to be creative during surgery, and so I guess there's a little bit of irony to it.

Even though the pools of workers may be somewhat segmented, there is enough overlap that it forces service intensive industries to pay higher wages, at least in the long run.