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In a cruelly ironic twist of fate, someday Tatoeba will make an example of us all.
I'm not sure if this is ironic or not.
That would be ironic, wouldn't it?
It's quite ironic.
Ironic, isn't it?
It was ironic.
I was being ironic.
It's rather ironic.
Movie subtitles
I love flowers and I love ironic stick balloons.
Ironic juxtaposition?
I'm sure she sees it as ironic justice.
Ironic, isn't it, Doctor?
Ironic that it should be because of my jade.
It's just a little ironic.
That's the ironic part of it.
And in spite of my hatred for the man, I felt a certain ironic admiration for the captain who had welded the steel of his own character into that plodding heap of scrap iron.
How ironic that a simple scholar with no ambition.
Ironic again, but it suits you.
You are being ironic about Jonas.
Life is so ironic.
That's why it's so ironic, what happened.
But the most ironic part of it is. that the prosecution showed these films against these defendants. men who stayed in power for one reason only. to prevent worse things from happening.
How ironic, you love a man and send him to his death.
It's ironic.
How ironic that a simple scholar with no ambition beyond a modest measure of seclusion should, out of a clear sky find himself besieged by an army of fellow creatures all grimly determined to be of service to him.
You're being ironic again - but it suits you!
How ironic.
Don't be ironic.
Which is ironic, since he's the one who sent me here.
How ironic if your friend, the tramp, turns out to be right.
I never knew her first name. How ironic.
Ironic, isn't it to think that he must have picked it up 30 years ago in Paris for a song?
Now, isn't that ironic.
How ironic!
I don't mean this personally, Miss Walker, but it's ironic.
Ironic, wasn't it?
It's positively ironic.
At the very moment she'd found a friend and thought that her nighmare was over, she didn't know yet what sort of ironic conclusion she was heading for.
Funny, ironic, isn't it?
Hitler was in awe of the nobility, but he hated it. That's why it's so ironic, what happened.
She told you to be ashamed, which is an insult, and in a sneering and ironic tone she called you the teacher of the young, which is a slander.
You can keep your ironic remarks to yourself in the future.
News and current affairs
This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.
There is something bitterly ironic in this.
Ironic, then, that America's nuclear weapons development program may promote the very proliferation it seeks to prevent, as US Senator Dianne Feinstein explains.
It would be ironic, though, if developed countries - which led the FDI liberalization wave of the past two decades - now led a backlash against FDI.
It is especially ironic that, in stark contrast to his own rhetoric, Bush's call for a Middle East peace conference is a call to wage war against the party, Hamas, that won a democratic election, and to make peace with the loser, Fatah.
It is therefore ironic to see the US Treasury Secretary once again pushing for capital market liberalization in India - one of the two major developing countries (along with China) to emerge unscathed from the 1997 crisis.
It is ironic that, at a time when many in the developing world are entering, or aspire to enter, the emerging middle class, wealth in much of the developed world is becoming more concentrated at the top.
And, most ironic of all, Israel, a nation-state built by a people despised for their cosmopolitanism, has become a prime symbol of this disturbing trend.
The bans are especially ironic, given that, according to UNESCO, Iran has the highest rate of female to male undergraduates in the world.
For human rights activists, it is ironic that an elected (but basically military-led) government that they oppose in principle should be undertaking reforms they have long advocated, but that elected civilian governments ignored.
It is ironic, to say the least, that the West's democratically elected governments happily engage with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, but refuse to work with more liberal groups.
Most ironic is the self-fulfilling critique that many activists now use.
The ironic sequel was Somalia's later fragmentation in a civil war among its clans and warlord leaders.
It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey's southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide.
There is something bitterly ironic in this. For America really is a land of liberty, a place where lives, often scarred by injustice elsewhere, can be remade.
But their protest's ironic consequence may be that the more moderate of the two figures at the summit of Russian politics, Dmitri Medvedev, will not return to the post of prime minister, as had been planned.
It is ironic that in a world where childhood malnutrition plagues many developing countries, childhood obesity has become one of the leading health scourges in advanced economies.
It would endanger the single most important - if slightly ironic - legacy of the FMLN's armed struggle: the creation of a liberal democracy in El Salvador.
Today, in fact, as the financial and economic crisis unfolds before our eyes, it is ironic to compare the relative strength of Central Europe, behind a strong Poland, to the extreme vulnerability of Southern Europe, behind Greece.
It is ironic that, in order to please their customers, they have begun offering inferior products at higher prices.
It is ironic that the ECB's offer to buy Italian and Spanish debt has exacerbated external imbalances by raising the value of the euro.
One of the more ironic results of the region's changing political configuration is that Israel now perceives a strategic convergence with Saudi Arabia.
Given the ironic reversal of globalization fears, Kipling is still right: convergence has continued to elude East and West.
But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic twist.
It is ironic that Netanyahu, of all people, is accusing anyone of incitement.
The diplomatic tension is ironic, because the parade in Moscow is meant to commemorate a victory made possible seven decades ago by the alliance of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.
It is ironic to see Iran's radical Islamist president portray himself as open to resuming US-Iran relations and suffer for it at the hands of a supposedly pragmatic Supreme Leader.
Across America, and in too many other countries, supposedly democratic leaders seem to be taking Brecht's ironic question all too seriously.
It would be both tragic and ironic if a restored Germany, by peaceful means and with the best of intentions, brought about the ruin of the European order a third time.