irony

There’s a strange irony to this age of relentless self-filming: It’s birthed a devaluing of openness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

There is an irony, then, that Palmer, Rogers and Chelsea's other established stars may have secured future opportunities for the very fringe players whose performances had put the club's EFL Cup campaign at risk.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

The Tiny Tim needledrops, an in-universe parody of Adam West’s Batman, the irony of its main character finding fulfillment as a fry cook — it all pointed toward Gen X’s wry, detached view of culture.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

The irony of the reconciliation isn’t lost on Cohen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

She remembered Urvashi’s laugh....If they really are Pandavas, then the irony that you are the one who has been chosen to help them delights me.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Juneteenth, though, is awash in ironies, both naturally occurring and of our own making.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

And herein lies one of the central ironies of the Windsor story today: Those who have worked with Harry in the U.S. say he would have also made a great working royal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

Irony of ironies: Authors and artists have accused OpenAI of stealing their content to ‘train’ its bots -- but now OpenAI is accusing a Chinese company of stealing its content to train its bots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

Brinker’s expansive, dazed tone suggested that here was one of life’s giant ironies, “There you are!”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles