You may remember from the Paralympics that each athlete is classified by impairment to ensure fairness - a kind of codified handicapping system (we won't bring up the irony if you don't).
He didn't note the irony of comparing Facebook to an industry that his site and others are marginalizing.
Early on I felt that some of my work was wrongly perceived by feminists, who didn't get the irony.
But critics of eurozone austerity programmes can't help seeing a rich irony in German politicians fretting about accidental tax rises and spending cuts in the US. Aren't they the ones who've been insisting that large parts of the eurozone head over their own fiscal cliff, entirely on purpose?
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The lesson of this is that humour (and especially irony) don't travel well, even in the Anglosphere.
"The irony is he didn't even run on health care, " says one Democratic pollster.
The irony is that Japan won't be recycling its savings and trade surpluses abroad into high-yield foreign currency assets as much as in the past.
The irony was that McKeon didn't remember working with Harbaugh at all even though her boyfriend grew up in Indianapolis and is a rabid Colts fan.
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The United States is the one country that doesn't produce many miscellaneous wines (a bit of an irony considering we popularized the category on wine lists).
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But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have kept it smart and irony-free -- there isn't a trace of condescension in their evocation of working people trying to hold it together, if not get ahead, or in their concentration on familiar, even timeless themes.
" That scruple and his unwillingness to welsh on a deal leads him to say, with irony, "Actually, I don't think I am a good 'businessman.
Yeah, I miss the carnival atmosphere, the oddball celeb sightings (hey, isn't that Ralph Nader?) and the onscreen diet of twisted sex, hipster irony and low production values.
Sure, we've been frustrated by solar-powered iPhone chargers and amused by the irony of solar-powered lamps in the past, but that doesn't mean we're not looking forward to the day when we can meet our gadgets power needs without relying on fossil fuels.
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The irony of the Canadian situation is that for years, curbs on fishing didn't seem to be working.
But the irony in all of this, according to Brim, is that fame doesn't provide the sense of belonging that its seekers long for.
The irony: Normally I'm one of maybe ten women in America who aren't obsessed with food, but I became fixated on portions, grams, what I had eaten that day, and what I could consume next.
He gets his laughs, but Tony's self-irony has been replaced by the star's self-comment, and it doesn't help that the writing often depends on glib banter, the most conspicuous example of which is an extended set piece in small-town Tennessee.
The irony that a man with a taste for beautiful cars was killed by a sports car wasn't lost on Trimble.
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