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...inet and obliged to defend it.<ref>Marr 2009, p. 366.</ref> Marr notes the irony of Amery's closing words which were originally directed ''against'' Parliam

*Larry, am I to understand that the use of irony in debate is banned at CZ? I won't last here very long if that's the case,

...were, indeed black and that was a well, what would you call it--political irony or something?) The ambassador, as I later realised she was, was never refer

...colonial structures and Ceylonese cultural practices, was characterized by irony, mimicry, ambivalence, liminality, and hybridity.<ref> Nihal Perera, "Indig

...ast months of Gilbert's life, he was developing a new style, a "mixture of irony, of social theme, and of grubby realism,"<ref>Stedman (1996), p. 343.</ref>

...the Laoshan hills on the border, fighting from May to July. In yet another irony, the Chinese headquarters was in [[Kunming]], where the [[Viet Minh]] had m

* Gardner, Sarah E. ''Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937.'' U. of Nor

...estiny he had hoped to become; it merely gave his end a touch of repulsive irony."<ref>Fest, ''The Face of the Third Reich'', 97</ref>

...t. I remain unimpressed with it as a standard operating procedure (British irony). I still think we should change it, and try and explain to those who are n

...first1 =David | last2 =Epstein | first2 =Lawrence | year =1983 | chapter =Irony in Tibetan Notions of the Good Life | editor-last1 =Keyes | editor-first1 =

...Nancy has injected emotional engagement and subjective judgement into it. (irony warning). Having been trained to write flat but lucid scientific journal ar

:::The irony of misstaking "f" for "ph" (when talking about acids, sulphur in particular

...involved in hot controversy, and, shall we say, I chose to strike why the irony was hot?

..."vicious cycle"? I've never hoid that -- must be a typo, or ignorance. or irony. or something. I can see why someone might have '''invented''' the phrase,

...nued, might have pressured Kennedy or Johnson to get out much earlier. The irony of Kennedy's shock that Diem and Nhu were killed does show a certain lack o

...Inveterate Nuisances, would enjoy '''wide''' support. In a nice twist of irony, I think, all of the people that I can think of offhand who might actually