How To Use Ironic In A Sentence

The scene near the Chennai Kaliappa Hospital, on Tuesday was supremely ironical, and drew sharp reactions from tree lovers who were passing by.
Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
My mother's from Paris, so it's kind of ironic because when they gave him the word noisette, we heard later that the ESPN guy said, "Oh, his mother speaks French, he should know this. Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
Ironically this was in a whinge about grammar schools. Times, Sunday Times
How ironic that a German footballer should provide us with sport's finest example of Schadenfreude.

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You, young man,” she proceeded, addressing Roland Graeme, and at once softening the ironical sharpness of her manner into good-humoured raillery, “you, who are all our male attendance, from our Lord High Chamberlain down to our least galopin, follow us to prepare our court.” The Abbot
Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
Ironically, the fire was the indirect result of a new environmental consciousness. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
LIZZIE: ( ironically ) With five thousand a year, would not matter if he warts and a leer.
Ironically, this doesn't involve her first lover but instead, her best friend, the girl with whom she chose to make the all-important journey into adulthood with. Kate Monro: The Devastatingly Short Virginity Loss Story
Ironically, despite a global reversal in the world's financial fortunes, the ultrarich continue to grow (grotesquely) richer. Times, Sunday Times
This is an ironic thing about these - I prefer the word rivalries to jealousies - but I think the people who signed that letter would buy into the vision that Charter 08 puts out there. Professor: Nobel Will Give Chinese Activists Courage
The last time I'd been in Hoch, ironically enough, we had dropped acid and gone to a showing of Fantasia.
Ironically enough, debate continues over the division of labor and the artist responsible for the design of the central panel.
This friend - who in an ironic twist of fate, appears in the film not as a gambler, but as the casino manager - would sneak down to the casino, after hours, and start playing with feverous intensity.
So it's quite ironic he's here with us getting ready to play against them. The Sun
Classmates at West Point had ironically dubbed him Beauty.
It may, ironically, be the biggest flaw in his argument. Times, Sunday Times
Call us a bunch of self-referential, mocking, postmodern deconstructionist ironicists, if you will. Times, Sunday Times
He employed extremes in sonority and revels in distortions and interruptions, often through the ironic use of recognizable fragments from the everyday world. A Fierce Enthusiasm
Since the 1970s, the world had been dominated by two problems which, ironically, tended to cancel each other out.
Ironically, as Howie points out, "Gaynor" is now considered a Jewish last name in Framingham. Running a hospital
Ironically a period of severe economic depression may be advantageous, in one sense at least.
His critically acclaimed band Playgroup brought live electro to the club long before ironic mullets and fauxhawks became de rigueur.
Many say that the current president wants a weak Buganda, and that's ironic because the kabaka supported the guerilla movement that brought Museveni to power. Kingdom, Government Clash In Uganda
Ironically, it's Heston, in a small cameo role as an aging ape, who has the film's best moment.
I am bored by Monkey Wood's blantant over-use of charientism and cacophemism for my darkie brethren - it is an abomination to the Lord - who is ironically my next door neighbour ". TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
I was afraid of sewing from a pattern when I was a novice seamster, ironically, but now that I sew well, I enjoy using patterns to create more complicated clothing with attractive detailing and sophisticated elements. Oliver + S Releases Free Downloadable Pattern
A white boy dancer must deliver an impotent, but ironic, rendering of White's (love unlimited) orchestration of potent sexuality.
Ironically, one way out of this problem is to employ paid workers to fulfil some roles in a club.
The repeated recitation of upstate New York towns, with their echoes of classical greatness - Thrace, Troy, Rome, Ithaca, Carthage - are ironic echoes of other lost civilizations.
Ironically, a nation of know-nothings is secretly guided by adherents of an esoteric political tradition rooted in a grand conversation among philosophers ranging from ancient Greece to Weimar Germany.
Ironically I do not make a very good sailor.
Yet, ironically, pink - a very light tint of red - is one of the most calming colors, and is a fine choice for a baby's room, she says.
It is ironic how the American Art World puts everything outside itself in deprecating categories, especially Ethnic Art, yet what could be more ethnic than it? July 2008
What you hate most in your partner is that the person is ruthless, cold-blooded, and/or ironic.
Perhaps, ironically, all those cheap jibes helped him here. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically enough, Sunstein himself has recently been the object of a right - wing disinformation campaign.
madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker
He is a listener rather than a talker, and sympathetic in an amused, ironic way.
But a kind of ironic detachment was always evident too. Times, Sunday Times
The ironic tone is a visual effect produced by encapsulating quoted matter in the balloons - a cartoonish medium that gives us permission to laugh again.
The really ironic thing is, once I get the tires reinflated I have to cycle down to the bike shop anyway to get the gears fixed on the darn thing!
That was an aberration, one of those ironic blips that sport throws up from time to time.
The story is a steamroller, flattening everything in order to make its ‘big ironic point’.
All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
And the threat then recognized would require too much effort, and what's more, ironically, require those "Christians" of Arie Oostlander's same ilk to "change" their assumptions about all kinds of things, and especially about the supposed benefits of every kind of unexamined "diversity" and "multiculturalism. Israelated - English Israel blogs
It is ironic that in an issue devoted to the preservation of salmon you glorify the ritualistic hunting and consumption of them.
The Foes were Dissenters, Protestants who did not belong to the Anglican Church, and Daniel's ironic attack on the church landed him a three-day stretch in the pillory.
Ironically, at the very end of this millennium, demotions, warnings, and anathemas have again come into vogue in several regions of our nation.
Ironically, her initial portrayal in the show, as more of a man than the men in her Cabinet, may have added to her myth.
Ironically, Mr Egan's resting place is overlooked by the field where he met his untimely death in an electrocution.
IRobot CTO steps down -- ironically, looks to "rehumanize" US manufacturing with robots Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
I guess these aren’t trendy enough or an easy slap at someone (did anyone find it ironic that one year [the annual contest] C’ville said that the place for peoplewatching was at Golden Corral and in the article slammed every person in there for being an obese porker from a surrounding county and THIS year, the place to take your folks in C’ville Annual Contest was Ponderosa? The Dec. on C-Ville and The Hook at cvillenews.com
It was too superficial an examination of the subject, which ironically reminded me that there is quite a bit that I don't know about history in general.
He died on Christmas Day, 1946 — ironically appropriate for a disbeliever who once confessed to be studying the Bible “for loopholes.” Five People Born on January 29 | myFiveBest
The constant nagging from officials to downsize and be more fuel efficient seems to have (ironically) encouraged motorists to go extra large. The Sun
Ironically, when the teeth of the plot sink in, the introduction of the supernatural nemesis, Ghost Machine begins to lag.
Ironically, rather than wiping out board games, computers have provided the connections for once-isolated games in the UK and US to swap ideas online and meet up over the gaming table.
The film is more of an ironic fantasy than a horror story.
It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors.
Ironically, Wade starts off by cleaning the windshield and then uses a blow dryer to apply an even coat of dust to his canvas.
The carrying off of the spear and the cruse was a couch of almost humour, and it, with the ironical taunt flung across the valley to Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
Ironically, her trial also gave us the lip-smacking insights into the spending habits of the rich. Times, Sunday Times
It's ironical that the weakest student in mathematics was elected class treasurer.
Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it.
Ironically, the name may carry more meaning than originally intended.
The sole saving grace of the film is Jemaine Clement (of Flight of the Conchords fame) as Ronald Chevalier, a pompous author of bad sci-fi novels who is ironically the only character to not reach unbearable levels of annoyingness. This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: 2012, Where the Wild Things Are, Ponyo, and More | /Film
There is no doubt that Hammarskj6ld's northern sense of propriety was deeply shaken by the roughness of the outburst, and ironically, since the Russian code of what is socially permissible comes largely across the Baltic from Sweden, it was precisely this rowdy behavior of Khrushchev's, dubbed Ne-Kulturny (uncultured), which eventually proved his undoing at home. An Autobiography
Ironically, the action is over a short story concerning a previous libel action.
That she is also lonely and unloved, except by her arthritic mother, is a nice ironic counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
Ironically, the district attorney could have kept charges in magistrate court pending while they went to grand jury. Cult leader Wayne Bent remains free on bond
Australians love ironic nicknames and may call you Bluey because of your red hair.
Do not dredge the pasta in flour to prevent sticking, as the flour turns to glue when cooked and, ironically, causes the pasta to stick together (using semolina flour from Italian delis instead will help).
Ironically, Pluto is so itteh bitteh that it doesn't really affect Uranus or Neptune at all: Lowell was wrong on that count, which makes it even more amazing that Tombaugh found the darn thing.
And then on Halloween, the day after Palin's disgust for various members of the Alaska media bubbled over and caused her, the mother of a daughter who bore a son out of wedlock, to ironically describe these reporters as "corrupt bastards," Palin fumed on Fox News that reporters citing anonymous Republican sources criticizing her in a recent Politico article should "man up" and "cite themselves" so she could publicly debate them. Mary Shannon Little: Man Up Sarah! This Is Your Sister Souljah Moment
It was more like the "chivaree" with which ironic crowds tormented bridal couples back in Nimrim, Mo. We Can't Have Everything
Tyler Bray is the new Casey Clausen, in that he wears flat bills, goes to the club every night with his hood up, says "holla" unironically, and spends all his time facebooking girls he doesn't know for action. Every Day Should Be Saturday
Organisers are promising a magical weekend of ice sculptures and outdoor entertainment, ironically with a sprinkling of snow guaranteed. The Sun
Ironically, Galileo Galilei spotted Neptune more than 200 years earlier but wrongly assumed the planet was just a star.
The shift of power, ironically, is a throwback to the traditional House power structure.
As soon as he went down to Washington, ironically, the very first school I'm aware of that the Secretary or the President were involved in founding is a school called Ariel Academy in Chicago. Mike Green: NFTE: Injecting Entrepreneurship into Inner City Education (VIDEO)
Although ironically he has never raced at Mondello, this determined former motocross champion is looking forward to the challenge of racing in front of his home crowd.
The general secretary of the pit deputies union said it was ironic British mineworkers were wanted in Australia.
Ironically, his cold got better on the last day of his holiday.
He looked at Sohlberg smoothly , ironically, while the latter flared up.
I'll just be blunt: i find it more than a little ironic that he seems to be defending some of the most privileged people I've ever encountered from the "elitism" of the orcing hordes. Poetry month: nikki giovanni
Real estate prices too have zoomed, ironically pushed up in the first place by the IT companies themselves.
Ironically, September 19th, 2003, is etched in the memory of most local people for a completely different reason.
Ironically, the monks, who are excluded from politics by both legal laws and religious canons, are probably among the most crucial actors in local elections.
Is there not something vaguely ironic about this? Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, Mike Griffin possesses the knowledge required, but with an arrogance and lack political savvy that has left us equally bankrupt from a leadership point of view. Major General Jonathan Scott Gration Emerges as Possible Obama Choice for NASA Administrator - NASA Watch
Ironically, despite their misadventures, the franchisees look as if they will survive in one form or another without the crutch of public funding.
Which would seem to be somewhat ironic, in this wettest washout of a summer since rain was invented. Times, Sunday Times
There was, I concluded, some reason for ironic pride in this rather mediocre revelation.
A girl-on-girl catfight, ironically enough, is the film's only moment of gender transcendence, effectively desexualizing a trope that has become little more than a choreographed excuse for women to rip each other's clothes off.
However, the seeming pointlessness of the gesture is the key to its ironic effect and the reason why it enjoys a kinship with Ferry's work.
Ironically, while it is, arguably, the 'artsiest' of Bergman's creations, it's also one of the greatest horror films ever made .... GreenCine Daily
Ironically, he is applying the steely determination of a former marine to the job of going all new age. Times, Sunday Times
In Britain, we know how to nurture an ironic infatuation with signs of difference, status and style.
He ended up as a senior employment officer, ironically, helping people to retrain when they had lost their jobs. Times, Sunday Times
Colorado (an ironic name for the town, since a "calumet" is a Native-American peace pipe) when their teacher notices something strange happening outside. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Ironically, the history of hair removal in Western cultures has closely paralleled a rise in concern over hair loss.
Ironically it was a stable "slosh" of Yuans that bought so much of US T-bills to help slowdown the US financial burnout and hold its financial credit ratings.
Ironically, it is only possible to write a cultural biography of this horse, insofar as it is possible, because of his multiply commodified status.
Ironically when the peace conference was held in September 1951 it met in San Francisco, not Tokyo.
Ironically, despite the inappropriateness of his symbol in medicine, Hermes did play a small role in the origin of the true symbol of the physician.
Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all? No, i have time
Ironically, he is applying the steely determination of a former marine to the job of going all new age. Times, Sunday Times
He was even, ironically in light of the Simpson verdicts bearing down on him, placing his highest priority on education.
It's more likely, however, that you will vow to defend heavy sponge cake and good old-fashioned unironic jam. Times, Sunday Times
It is ironic to think of the fact that even though many Christians had Muslim friends during college years, worked with Muslim colleagues, and exchanged felicitations with Muslims during big events and religious occasions; they usually had the underlying perception that they would never have a sincere and meaningful relationship with a Muslim. Mirette Bahgat: Coptic Christians In Egypt: Standing At The Crossroads
It is a bit ironic how all little girls want to do is grow up and all adults want to do is be young again.
I noted in an update that "ballast" also means roughage -- a particularly apt definition for my initial, ironical use because roughage is a great ingredient for bullshit. Is That Legal?: "Blow All Ballast Tanks . . . Dive, Dive"
I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!
Sadly, traditional vernacular is either dying or dead - with the ironic exception of the five star coral stone and thatch beach-hotels.
Ironically, police were put on the trail of the bombers when a relative of one of them reported him missing.
Ironically, in an era where global trade is trying to achieve unrestricted expansion, these recommendations will toughen border regulations.
Ironically, it is the public health discourse that has given the debate a new twist, confluent with the new discourse of economic efficiency and quality management.
Sometimes it's hard to know when Tom Brokaw is actually gauche or playing gauche; actually ironic or ironizing his own irony. Todd Gitlin: Sunday Watch 10-5-08: In Which Tom Brokaw Goes Foxy
Ironically he was killed on his first visit back to the UK in ten years when his car was hit by an articulated lorry outside London. CODE BREAKER
The comedy of reassurance, still, but with a self-conscious, ironic twist that Bruce Forsyth would never have dreamed of.
Ironically, libertarian and liberal originalists have been among the most dismissive of Justice Scalia's faint-heartedness. Howe on Slavery as Punishment and the Original Public Meaning of the 13th Amendment
'Perhaps "convert" is hardly the word,' said Vida, with ironic mouth. The Convert
Not your typical Rowland Hilder either ... quite often purchased as a 'Boots' print and featuring tip-carts, mangold wurzles, oast houses and wintery trees they're even disappearing from the car boot sales as the 'ironic decor' set pick up prints of The Green Girl along with the quintessentially English RH. A Drive in the Country
Ironically, the papacy must bear some responsibility for these developments.
In some ironic twist of fate, King Edward II was executed in his sleep years after Bohun's death, landing him the number five spot on our list.
Basic forms like blousons or trench-coats, shirts or T-shirts, skirts or pants, are always enriched by new unexpected, ironic elements.
Ironically, he was axed less than three weeks before Boro's first Wembley appearance.
This was a suite of six prose poems, mostly composed in an ironic and decorative biblical style replete with anaphora and the artificiality of thee's, thy's and thou's.
Ironically, it might have been this shadow hanging over him which was responsible for his change in fortunes on the course.
Ironically among the largest grants made was for archaeology, museum conservation and the teaching of ancient Mesopotamian languages.
It would be a little ironic if it was, seeing as the movie is constructed as a series of episodes along the route to the perfect noodle restaurant.
Ironically, some eugenics leaders were uneasy about their alliance because they felt it could compromise their then-respectable public image.
Using you as akey messenger forinspiring the practice of noble ideals would surely be divinely ironic. God To Don Imus: Can You Hear Me Now?
It seemed ironic that a ray of hope should come from the far north. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence. G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
Ironically, therefore, institutional religion is a product of secularization.
So it is pleasantly ironic that the dearth of male births in the imperial family looks set to force a change in the succession law to allow the first empress since 1771.
An ironic and sarcastic grin flashed upon her oval face as she announced the name of the horse.
Surely, it immediately seems ironic they should want to marry, when it is a religious ceremony, being blessed under God.
Bell's response "If it ain't, it'll do until the mess gets here" was, in the novel, exactly the kind of ironical humor that one would most easily associate with the Coens, and this is the kind of moment that would seem to gel most easily with their own aesthetic. 11/17: No Country For Old Men
She claimed that their action had been ill-considered and ironic coming so soon after the launch of their customer service charter.
They have rubbishy foam sofas and the odd ironic beanbag, or leather pouffe.
The moment his feet stepped across the threshold the memories came flooding back like a floodgate had been opened, ironically causing simultaneous feelings of joy and sadness to nearly overwhelm him.
His name, perhaps ironically, was Yorkie.
Ironically, Lauda was involved in an accident on lap two of the 1976 race that nearly killed him.
In any case, when I saw post after post going up on the progressive side of the aisle, while at that point nothing had appeared in quarters where one might reasonably have expected it, I found that mildly ironic; so I dropped Collins a line asking the obvious question. Archive 2009-04-01
Ironically, he says he has no desire to impress the art establishment. Times, Sunday Times
Yet he overcame it, and ironically he and many others came to believe that he owed his survival to the help of St Thomas Becket.
With both laughter and irritation Phoebe had returned to consciousness ironically amused at how nature could behave with such excessive romanticism.
Ironically the couple had been discussing putting smoke detectors in all the rooms just the day before the fire happened.
If this was Richard's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last.
All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
Ironically, the conductor who truly understands Bruckner pacing, Bernard Haitink, didn't take part in the Bruckner festival. Lucerne's Parade of Orchestras Dazzles and Delights
There's only one thing that's worse than kitsch and that's fashionably ironic kitsch.
It was ironic; I thought dryly, that he should feel that way.
It seems ironic to me that those who preach tolerance are so intolerant of those who do not share their liberal views.
‘Ironically,’ notes Miller, ‘the sort of feminist reading which stressed Charlotte's victimhood unintentionally reproduced the martyrology of the Victorians.’
The land here is degraded, monocultural olive groves, ecologically wrecked by big farmers and largely devastated by the fires of 2007 which ironically helped developers. Grand ambitions: ecoluxury in Greece
Ironically, the weekly singles chart is undergoing a renaissance. Times, Sunday Times
(The way he shrugs and says "I'm a smoker" is great, like don't worry, I'm normal -- ironic in this setting.) Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Finale Recap: Happily Ever After?
A sampling -- including my most favorite, on that "duelist" religion founded by (ironically enough!) Archive 2007-06-01
Other epodes take up motifs from other contemporary genres (elegy in 11 and 15, pastoral in 2) but with significant alterations of tone: Horace ironically breaks the high emotional level of the models with a detached and distant closure.
Ironically, in view of the grass-roots democratic populism of its rhetoric, the party itself was highly autocratic and centralized.
The first mistake he made was to try and do an unironic dance to Footloose - the first time someone has attempted to do so in 15 years.
This is ironic, given all the rhetoric about the incompetence and irrelevance of the public sector.
It's ironical that the weakest student in mathematics was elected class treasurer.
Levy's wry sort of humour and the ironic use of an English woman's perspective to describe the problems confronted by the immigrants is both clever and sensitive.
I have to assume from the near-radio silence on the Wiley LP hereabouts (ironic that there's so little on the blogs about it, given the Petridis review) that everyone is as underwhelmed by it as I am.
“Ironically, then, it would seem that the authors of the ‘Copycats’ report, which delineates a wired-up Britain permeated by the ‘copycat’ tendency in the realm of digital artefacts, are themselves unconscious copycats, albeit of a different, more rarefied kind, in the realm of ideas.” Entertainment industry bullshit
The Song Book solos are little musical epigrams, which happen to survey popular Twenties piano styles from an often-ironic distance.
He tossed her a smile and strode top 8qg How ironic that in her bid for ersonal creative freewqd Laura, oblivious to the receptionist's flustered dom, she'd wound up chained to the most domineering, gratitude. autocratic, stubborn man on earth. Too Many Bosses
Thus, another historic Chapter in Chavez '"participative" democracy was closed yesterday and all we have left to find out is if the new Vice-President for the Capital District will ironically be the same person that was defeated by Ledezma at the polls last November. Undefined
But the IG report shows that Gonzales did more than "mishandle" his notes, which included operational details on what he himself, somewhat ironically, called -- after it had leaked -- "one of the most highly protected [programs] in the United States ... a very, very secretive, protected program," and correspondence between congressional Intelligence Committee leaders and CIA chief Gen. Michael Hayden. TPMMuckraker
Ironically, though, our discussion of this ultraprecise theory needs to start with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. How to Teach Physics to Your Dog
There were a couple of ironic cheers when they had a shot but it was meant in the best possible way. The Sun
After surviving the pseudo-vexfoot's assault, the haustorium-firing fungus, and the rain drain that had swallowed Clarity, it was almost ironic that he should stumble on a dry, smooth chunk of rock. Flinx In Flux
It's ironic that the weakest student in mathematics was elected class treasurer.
In Detroit, ironically for me, the celebration took place in the ballroom of the Renaissance Center.
Ironically, a formal process of strategic planning often does more to inhibit than to enhance innovative conceptual thinking ....
It's fun, it's ironic - for world-weary toymakers seeking the next big thrill. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, Beaumont is the amateur on this professional tour.
Ironically the media had reported the successful deposition of the leader before the coup had even taken place.
Ironically, even those strategies leading to success can also lead to failure.
Ironically, the one transformational issue that has caused him the most grief is the banning of fox hunting, something that has been on the wish list of the hardiest Labourites in Britain for decades.
(Ironically, Qabala is actually more grammatically accurate, since the Hebrew letter qoof is "equivalent" to Q, whereas kaf is equivalent to K.) Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah Part 5: Choosing A Teacher
It's a CD of music from the Swiss alps I bought at a flea market one Sunday when I was in an ironic mood.
The altered Eve-Mary typology, ironically, may not have been utilized by the symposium, if the previous relational Orthodox Trinitarian model were reflected upon more seriously.
To make it more intelligible, ironically, photojournalism is often deconstructed as art.
It is ironic that what O'Casey was satirising in some of his later plays, the dancing colleens at the crossroads blessed by big bellied bishops, is what, in effect, is celebrated in that father of all cash cows Riverdance.
People used to call me Mr Popularity at high school, but they were being ironic.
His Russian prose, too, though full of ironic tricks and intricate detail, tilted toward the sentimental.
Also, and kind of ironically, you have to regard the theoretical McCain model of a politician as a straight shooting, straight talker, as a bad politician to support, since straight talking at the cost of political expediency is a bad thing. Matthew Yglesias » Bygones
True preppies, rather than ironic ones. Times, Sunday Times
“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror. The Return
In the unconscious energy field of phonemic circuitry and its short-outs within the subvocal production of literary meaning, the double-cross can precipitate a visionary option or knot off an ironic one. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
Ironically, despite the travails of all concerned in Ecuador, this project, even though still formative is more likely to be able to gain momentum than many other projects in many other countries, including those more advanced on the studies’ front. Maul Scale | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

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