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...ations like the Black Sox and Al Capone -- but instead the scandal and the irony of having to get him for tax evasion instead of gangsterism, respectively -

...ces were considered original, with Charles described as having a natural [[irony|ironic]] [[witty|wit]] which appealed to [[talent scout]]s.

...rison to his contemporaries, his lyrics stand out by their humour and even irony. He also likes to play with sounds and adapts the rhyme to his liking. Veld

*Chemical element name (CoAgULaTe, FeY = IRONY)

* Miller Marc. ''The Irony of Victory. World War II and Lowell, Massachusetts'' University of Illinois

...though he “could almost hear his breathing.” Kennan was not blind to the irony of the situation, for during his many nights alone in the House, he had oft

...a philosophy thesis.<ref name="irony">Kierkegaard, Søren. ''The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates'', Princeton University Press 1989, IS ...first noteworthy work is either his university thesis, ''On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates'', which was presented in 1841, or his

...nalogies (most of them based on his imagination rather than research); his irony was now soaked in vitriol that annoyed his more genteel followers. From 19

...ecticism]], more general counter-cultural agitation, and easy-going [[self-irony]] were also important themes by the time the religious requirement was resc

...king Plato's Socrates to be his mouthpiece, given Socrates' reputation for irony.<ref>Leo Strauss, The City and Man (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1

...Narodnaya Volya'', or the ''[[People's Will]]''<ref name=Acton1990 />. The irony of these names, of course, lies in their implicit admission that the Nihili

...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

An irony of the situation was that Japanese expansion into Indochina did not directl

An inescapable irony about Christian pilgrimage traditions is that they seem to fly in the face

...ail a government takeover of the health-care system. It will be a perverse irony if their high-visibility protests end up persuading Democrats to damn the t

:"The irony is that it was during the time of publication that my father's relationship ...historical process, assuming that things happened by chance or "by an odd irony."<ref>Quoted (but without citing a source) by Barrett in Bridge, ''Manning

...Groussac]], for whom Borges wrote an obituary. Neither coincidence nor the irony escaped Borges and he commented on them in his work: :of God who, with magnificent irony,

...been frequent plot devices throughout the show's run, creating the amusing irony of a highly advanced space-time machine which, at the same time, is an obso

...and violence, all recounted by an omniscient narrator with a keen sense of irony and sardonicism, and always overlaid, to a greater or lesser degree, by Con

* Katz, Michael. ''The Irony of Early School Reform'' Harvard University Press, 1968.

...the birth of empirical science if not actually the founder. It is a tragic irony that his observations and opinions were to stifle the very thing he pursued

...cut off the heads of non-believers—in this case, it’s Shiite Iranians. The irony is that we’re once again working with Sunni fundamentalists, just as we d

...1|date=January 3, 2007}}</ref> suggested, "Search marketers, in a twist of irony, receive a very small share of their traffic from search engines." Instead,

...the Mediterranean Allied Photo Reconnaissance Wing in Italy. The ultimate irony was that no search for the aerial photos was ever instituted by either orga

...e writings about intelligence work for the rest of his life. The ultimate irony was that the CIA would later rely on the ''Snepp'' legal [[precedent]] in f

...opponent, the aging embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer, remarked with bitter irony that every triumphant theory passes through three stages: first it is dismi

— Richard Rorty, ''Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity''<ref name=rortycis> -->

...the birth of empirical science if not actually the founder. It is a tragic irony that his observations and opinions were to stifle the very thing he pursued

...l rights further and faster than Kennedy intended to go. Branch notes the irony of Johnson, who the Kennedy family hoped would appeal to conservative south

...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

...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>