irony

It's not until 1922 that they finally announced the Nobel Prize and one of the ironies he never gets it from the theory of relativity.

Furthermore, Shia-led government that the American props up in Baghdad thinks of Iran as its best foreign friend. it's irony of ironies.

The poor man inherits a great fortune and dies of a sudden illness soon afterwards, which really is one of life's ironies.

Indeed, one of the bigger ironies of the property bubble was that lenders and investors probably thought they were being relatively prudent.

One of the crueller ironies of George W. Bush's second term is that the president has listened to his critics.

One of the ironies of this whole system is we're discussing what to do about a system that we don't understand.

One of the ironies in all this is that Disney World falsifies our desire for a better world, even as it expresses it.

Back in New York, some of Goldman's older managers are aware of the cultural ironies of the Brics boom.

One of the undoubted ironies is the effect the financial crisis has had on the business school funding model.

The following questions delve behind the formal portraits of our nation's Presidents to reveal their idiosyncrasies, oddities and ironies.

What does it tell us about the ironies of the sexual revolution that its symbol of liberation was a claustrophobic metal-lined box?

Such ironies will give ammunition to the many doubters who say that America is repeating the errors of the Soviet Union.

And if you like the ironies contained in that split personality, Basildon might be an interesting place to visit.

From the beginning, this crisis was replete with ironies.

Are there any ironies of this sort in Clytemnestra's description of the fall of Troy?

One of the ironies of today's global economy is that although short-term liquidity has dried up, long-term liquidity remains ample.

As with many bilateral conflicts between the US and China, perverse ironies abound.

He inherited a fortune but died a month later; one of life's little ironies .

To paint a masked figure is to project an irony, perhaps several ironies simultaneously.

I prefer to let things reverberate with their own ironies and implications.

The moral and the ironies associated with the death of Blair River seem fairly clear to us.

Nor do the ironies he culls from the history of medicine bode well for the disease-free future imagined by some prophets of biotech.

Stephen Tomkins relishes the ironies though he clearly admires the Clapham families.

Two bitter ironies serve to deepen the gloom.

Have you noticed that in the fast-paced society, when one mentions "Somebody is a poet" , it couches ironies in the backhanded compliment.

When Gene Kelly died last week at 83, he left us to contemplate certain ironies.

There are several ironies in this.