irony

The group noted the irony that the road wouldn’t be funded by Israeli taxpayers, but would use customs revenues Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority but which it frequently withholds.

But British culture’s penchant for irony makes it equally plausible that Mr. Cash wrote such things as jokes that were funny precisely because neither man believed them to be true.

The irony of it happening more than 1,500 miles away from Burning Man, where installations are ceremonially reduced to ash, is not lost.

The irony, duly noted by dramatists, is that the technological monsters we’re creating bear many of our own features — in exaggerated if uncannily familiar form.

Ultimately, tensions behind the scenes meant Nuno's position at Forest was virtually untenable - but you cannot avoid the irony that they are now looking for a manager with a similar philosophy.