"You might as well laugh as cry and the tragedy that is the human condition invites sarcasm, invites irony,invites satire, invites laughter.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

This effort will not remain winnable indefinitely, public support will not last indefinitely, but the cruel irony is to succeed, we need patience,discipline, resolve and time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

But Israeli experts training German pilots at an airbase that Britain's RAF used to fight the Germans in World War II is an historical irony not lost on Tomer Koriat, the deputy director of the training project.

VOA: standard.2010.07.27