The outer world of banter and irony, a healing or at least comforting force, gradually vanishes, as does Midge, their embodiment, leaving us with increasingly lonely images and sounds.
The final irony of the World Trade Center folly is that it was deemed too expensive to dismantle, floor by floor.
The world it celebrates with such mindless irony is also, alas, color-deaf.
We live under the rule of cool, and we are expected to encounter the vicissitudes of the world with a certain degree of irony.
The irony is that industrial production world-wide is at an all time high, as are corporate profits.
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The irony is that, while the world's telecoms firms spend a fortune building third-generation mobile-phone networks, even though they are not sure that anybody wants them, in many parts of the world they seem unable or unwilling to provide broadband connections at reasonable prices, even though customers want them.
It would be a wonderful irony if one of the methods that helped the world solve the crisis of carbon emissions made use of carbon itself.
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Jeopardy is seen as the ultimate challenge in the artificial intelligence world because the game's clues involve analysing subtle meanings, irony, riddles and other complexities where humans excel and machines do not.
Consider the irony: Paul Wolfowitz lost his job as head of the World Bank because he helped his friend get a promotion and a raise.
The irony is inescapable and the story a familiar one, as the developed world again turns to the less developed countries in hopes of powering their economies.
It is an irony, though, that his adopted country is the one place in the developed world where the neoDarwinian explanations that he and his colleagues created are not the commonplace of the schoolbooks, and where many people prefer to cling to the campfire tales of Genesis, rather than face the awesome thesis that Mr Mayr helped to elucidate.
The irony is that California has the highest rate of car-ownership in the country, if not the world.
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