In a final ironic twist, a man, who by his own confession is a ruthless thug, is now being touted as a folk hero.
It's a sly, ironic portrait of a Goethe-quoting 60-something gent who is dating a considerably younger woman, much to the sardonic amusement of her friends.
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The evening felt, rather, like a kind of ironic punishment, a comic book-style retribution for a sin I must have committed and deeply suppressed long ago.
There is something deeply ironic about a device designed to improve efficiency and foster connections achieving the exact opposite.
This is ironic in a country whose politicians spent 15 years working towards a two-party system.
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How ironic if a final spasm of Russian imperial thinking prompted a new round of Russian disintegration.
How ironic that a president who got elected on the promise of bipartisan comity has produced nothing but partisan rancor.
So it is ironic that a volcano in Iceland has erupted and dislocated much of Europe with a cloud of ash.
It would be ironic if a region that is castigated for its attitudes toward women actually turned out to be more welcoming of female entrepreneurs than those doing the castigating.
Besides, say his allies, it's a little ironic that Baker, a man derided by his critics for being the ultimate pragmatist, is now being tagged for showing too much passion.
It would indeed be ironic if a change in China's exchange-rate policy came not as a result of American pressure, but from China's own disillusion with the dollar as an international reserve currency.
"It is ironic that a man whose own organization is infamous for its insular, ineffective and uncertain command and control arrangements would be charged with resolving the infinitely more complex and problematic arrangements involved in Operation Desert Shield, " observed Frank J.
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With Christoph Waltz, who tries and fails to find a light, sub-ironic tone as a super-villain, and Cameron Diaz, who acts cheerful.
Dasgupta is a strange writer: uneven, a little formulaic, but also graced with an ironic eye and a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty.
In a sinister ironic climax, his boss, a police captain with a sadistic intellectual bent, pins him to the meaning of words looked up in the dictionary.
The fake news site has run stories about everything from a hipster antiwar activist who joined the army "to be ironic" to a Taliban proposal that the U.S. military offer a 24-hour "call ahead" policy before launching night raids in Afghanistan.
Still, it will be more than a little ironic if Altocor does wind up being a big drug for Andrx.
"It is a bit ironic, but the fact that Apple currently has such a small market share versus Microsoft 's Windows means that there are far fewer hackers writing virus code for the Macintosh operating system, " says Pile, who notes the premium IT managers place on system reliability.
It seems ironic to play a game about that fact, but one has to start somewhere.
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It is an ironic twist for a country with a reputation as a high-tech and cyber-warfare powerhouse.
It is tragically ironic that such a "Palestine" will pose a threat not only to Israel but to Jordan.
How ironic that on a day when Facebook shares hit a new all-time low, Apple shares finished at a new all-time high.
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"This is an ironic choice for a president-elect who has promised to change Washington, make politics more civil and govern from the center, " Boehner said.
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Damsels is a ironic pursuit, perhaps, given Kahlon's own errant career.
The claim is ironic, in a way, since lenders frequently started lending in minority neighborhoods to comply with Community Reinvestment Act and counter allegations of racial redlining.
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It would be ironic indeed if a law intended to ban dissent had the effect of offering it unprecedented legal protection, but then history is full of such ironies.
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Twelve years ago the Lions won after some poor goal-kicking from the hosts and Smit said it was "ironic" that a superb penalty should secure the 2009 series for the Boks after Jeremy Guscott's drop-goal clinched the series for the Lions in 1997.
This is somewhat ironic, because a data scientist is expected to do his or her job in a data-driven way, but that person also needs to be a visionary and think one step ahead of the market in order to develop an innovative product.
"I know this sounds ironic especially in a place like New York, but there just aren't enough lawyers, " said Thomas Maligno, who is leading Sandy outreach efforts for Touro Law School, which includes a legal hotline and a new legal clinic on Long Island staffed by a professor and eight students.
In a bitterly ironic twist, many foreign observers argue that Cambodia is still incapable of mounting a properly constituted local tribunal for Pol Pot's surviving Khmer Rouge lieutenants.
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