It's so ridiculous! So ironic!

Unfortunately, irony has been completely misunderstood.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

How about that?

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.

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

That... is even more ridiculous.

What a grand joke it will be!

What kind of mockery is this?

I mean, it was just a joke.

They can't make a fool out of me.

The special arrangement for the trial is no joke.

To be laughed at before the world

There's a burlesque in Union City. Let's go to Union City.

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.

Is money a laughing matter to you?

Today, energy experts no longer scoff.

Is it satire, or just bad taste?

But I'll tell you how they do it. No cynicism.

Come on. Just once. Don't rub it in.

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Not at all a dig at The New York Times, this, by the way.

It's not easy to stand alone against the ridicule of others.

Fate!

Ironically, Erdogan was also a former footballer who played in the same centre forward position as Sukur at semi professional level, although his sports career never took off in the same way his political career did.

Ironically, some 10 years after independence, Algeria had taken that same plan and set out to apply it in the territory of its Moroccan neighbour, claiming that it was merely defending the right of the Saharan people to self determination.

But I just wanted to say and I mean this without irony

Of course a lot of these was tongue in cheek, but that were feminists so heavy with baggage, negative baggage.

Teachers and peers were underestimating her she was teased at school.

Pot Hole

I guessed as much.

Manifest destiny.

It's destiny!

About this much.