Damsels is a ironic pursuit, perhaps, given Kahlon's own errant career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That Britain is only now severing ties between Parliament and the judiciary is more than a touch ironic.
So, it does seem a little ironic that this whole mess was created over their attempt to foster community.
In a further ironic twist, Wanxiang generates large amounts of revenues from selling auto parts to General Motors and Ford.
It all had a very ironic pop sensibility or was very maudlin.
In a particularly ironic twist, secret evidence of his organization's intent to conduct attacks against Americans is being used by the prosecution.
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These abstractions may sound difficult to grasp (How is a perfume ironic? you may ask), but Turin and Sanchez are at least worthy guides.
Anthony's comment rang a bit ironic Wednesday, when the Knicks concluded their regular season and the 28-year-old finished the campaign as the NBA's top scorer.
Well, if she didn't, Mr. Tarantino couldn't fold the Siegfried and Brunhilde myth into his mashup, and draw a bitterly ironic parallel between Candyland and Valhalla.
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"It's a bit ironic I'm going back there, " he added.
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"I can't remember much about a month or so - then I woke up in the hospital where I was working, which was a bit ironic and strange, " he said.
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But if I were consulted about creating an exhibition timeline, I'd have to put Cel-Ray, touted for its medicinal qualities in a more ironic era, near the front, right after carrot juice.
With Christoph Waltz, who tries and fails to find a light, sub-ironic tone as a super-villain, and Cameron Diaz, who acts cheerful.
Which, actually, the way it comes out of her, is quite a friendly and ironic sound.
And in a weird, ironic twist, it's presented in the form of Barry Bonds.
It was at this point that the first in a series of ironic twists occurred that helped her make it to the top of the defense sector 40 years later.
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Ever since Soft Spot, and starting with the title track to 2005's End of Love, he's taken to occasionally needling those for whom expressions of love run counter to a painstakingly maintained ironic distance.
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.
Critics tend to see this "romantic image" as a failing of the ironic Austen, says Professor Todd.
There is something deeply ironic about a device designed to improve efficiency and foster connections achieving the exact opposite.
So it is ironic that a volcano in Iceland has erupted and dislocated much of Europe with a cloud of ash.
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