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Sentence Examples The British used it to taunt the Americans, the Americans then used the same version back ironically to taunt the British. And, ironically, I found the ashram far more Indian than most of the Hindu ashrams I visited, which were overwhelmed with foreigners. Somehow they kept going and ironically were given a penalty and a last-gasp chance to win. Real estate prices too have zoomed, ironically pushed up in the first place by the IT companies themselves. The US, ironically, has been a leader in many areas of tobacco control but has been weak on the framework convention. Knowledge rhetorically induced from a representative anecdote will ironically contain both of Ransom's two knowledges. But, ironically, one of the unexpected by-products of his efforts is the availability for consumption of large populations of wild goats. It looked ironically enough, like the most expensive house in the area, even though the wooden window frames were rotting away. It is ironically fitting that he should successfully lure her with promises of enjoying the glitter and gaudery of Naples. It almost appears as if his story's rejection of faith is also, ironically, an espousal of predeterminism. There is no longer a show, the theatre is dark, and The Mirage ironically lives up to its name. Yet ironically he is, of all the African slaves, the one farthest removed from both his African heritage and his fellow slaves. Here's one of the videos about, ironically, how to get more followers on Twitter. To make it more intelligible, ironically, photojournalism is often deconstructed as art. He wants to sack loads of bureaucrats, who will, ironically benefit most from the tax cuts if they are in their current jobs. Among the survivors, somewhat ironically, was one who was wearing a suicide belt. This morning, I came across an article, ironically, about the dead making noise and speaking! Boxing day was ironically better than both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. And ironically most of the riots are engineered by those politicians who claim to be most patriotic. He loves so much that, ironically, he's a constant source of pain to anyone unfortunate enough to love him. Show More Sentences It is this struggle that creates the heat and turbulence in the Earth's core, ironically the same heat that life needs to survive. Farming, ironically, is the mainstay of the economy, but the agricultural sector is in shambles. A whole plane-load of fans, who ironically had just landed from Cork, were roundly ignored. This engendered a longing for normalcy, a sense of fatalism and passivity, but, ironically, also a willingness to take risks. So, ironically, even the economic consequences of the neo-liberal program are likely to be quite perverse in practice. It soon became embroiled in a controversy, one which ironically made co-belligerents, if not allies, of the divided parents. But, ironically, so many football coaches do deeply believe that the toughest sport teaches virtues. Well ironically, that was on an ice yacht in Antarctica, and that would have been in 1971, and of course I was able bodied then. They speak with a somewhat clinical detachment that ironically casts many of their observations and findings in a rather dramatic light. At the time, ironically, the review was dismissed as being by an obscure, sulky no-hoper rubbishing the likely winner. It is precisely this defiant sense of outmodedness that, ironically, gives the film and its characters such an edge. Affecting this sort of nonchalant style seems, ironically, to involve more work than putting together a seasonally on-trend ensemble. Christopher has been to York only once before, ironically when he had another injury. Now, ironically, it was time to fill the space formerly occupied by indigenous people with indigenous people. For a while it looked as if the ruin of the province of Britain would now ironically be achieved at Roman hands. Before Night Falls, ironically, was the film that helped to catapult Bardem into the American spotlight. As they pushed Stewartry, gaining a succession of penalties, the ball spun wide to be knocked on, ironically, by Smith with the line in sight. He had the same bounce in his step, the same inexhaustible energy and, ironically, the same tendency to laugh at everything I said. He was a life insurance broker who ironically died with no life insurance, leaving his bookkeeper, our mother, unemployed. Well, there's ironically post-modern and then there's almost unintelligible. Show More Sentences Flemming has in a way tarnished the image of mythicism by promoting bad arguments, and ironically will drive people away from mythicism. This tasty anti-globalization bonbon may have a slightly hollow centre, however, and the weakness stems, ironically, from a lack of information. Perhaps ironically, for a business whose potential rests on the World Wide Web, on-line grocery retailing is a local undertaking. The last time I'd been in Hoch, ironically enough, we had dropped acid and gone to a showing of Fantasia. Mr Smith said that, ironically, it was his book that created the swell of support that actually resulted in the Judge examining cases. Euripides' Electra ironically questions belief in a metaphysical system that encourages crime only to punish it. 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. And so, ironically in a land whose enormous wealth depended upon its control of seaborne trade, this entire vast sweep of coast was almost empty. With the dust now settled on him, he muses that this push for the local may, ironically, have precipitated its downfall. Despite his smooth exterior, the arrogant person is, ironically, restrained and inhibited from expressing his true self. Rolfe Kent's sunny up-tempo soundtrack bubbles ironically along, its sixties Italian jazz the quintessence of carefree. In our earnestness to romanticize the cowboy we've ironically disesteemed his true character. However, ironically, it was its apparent lack of objectivity that weighed against it for most North American psychologists. Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks. You've turned him into your spiritual project, and, ironically, you're nothing more than an enabler for his own negative pattern. This event marked a downfall of popularity for the hot air balloon, and an increase in popularity, ironically, in hydrogen. These chronicles became the handbook for future travellers and ironically, for gold prospectors and desperados planning quick gains. If diversity is always imagined in the same ways, it becomes, ironically, homogenized, and loses its power to unsettle established ways of thinking. The comment is not intended ironically, no inverted commas are used. After she left Lehman, callan went to work at Credit Suisse to develop a business that, ironically, deals with hedge funds. Show More Sentences The grey horse just made too many mistakes over the big obstacles, though ironically it was a bad error at the smallest fence, the water jump, which ended his chances. For now, the coherence and scale of Moral Mondays is a success ironically founded in shared defeat. Shakespeare himself, the book describes, coped with ironically similar struggles. But ironically the family's decision to opt for Majorca the following year had nothing to do with the quality of the redcoats ' entertainment or even the shared toilet blocks. It's instructive to read it in tandem with his collection of Italian Folktales, which ironically turn out to be more architectonically constructed than the stories in Castle. With her absolute loathing of the working class, she ironically created a species of vandals whose sole purpose in life seems to be to destroy the society they live in. Although, ironically, the lack of rain in recent years has made the problem worse, as winter flows can help flush sediments through the system and out to sea. The disconnect points ironically to the subtitle of this book and the concept of liberalism. Some, like the bus from Terminal Norte to Teotihuacan, are decorated with such baroque flourish, visibility can become seriously and ironically impaired. One other big movement behind the push for legalization is, ironically, feminism. The shamefulness of this act is ironically pointed up by the fact that it follows the description of two English knights chivalrously dying in each other's arms. And, ironically, in the darkness, he sees the luminescence of the jungle around him. Pieces that, ironically, untether women from their devices while keeping them connected. 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. In any case, this is nitpicking, and, ironically, Klingman does the same thing in his essay. Some undersuits come with uninsulated mesh areas at the wrists which, ironically, have a big blood supply near the surface, causing chilling as a side-effect. But ironically the former slum houses are now sought-after properties following regeneration and the flats have become increasingly unpopular with residents. They continued to control matters and doubled their advantage in the 67th minute, ironically on a breakaway from a promising attack led by Mark Betts. But ironically the conduct that led to him spitting the dummy was the evident, gross and habitual bias of insurance company expert medical witnesses. Unfortunately, and ironically, this renders the renditions superfluous as, especially with Bachman singing, they're almost note-perfect versions of the originals. Show More Sentences Congress itself ironically recognized as much in its effort to rein in presidential use of force after Vietnam. I mean, jeez, if I'm going to wallow in obvious hipsterism, I want it to at least be fun and well-executed, not ironically arch, foppish and bloodless. It is thrilling to see how this desire for deeper spirituality, redemption and grace suffuse the poem even as it ironically ends with the beggar's spirited demands. 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. Beggars can't be choosers, but ironically this is the situation in which the second-richest club, in what is now the most lucrative league in the world, find themselves. But if we seek direct power and social control, we will, ironically, be assimilated into the very idolatries of wealth, status, and power we seek to change. But ironically it could be the best of times for the Indian infotech sector, which has been witnessing annual growth of 50 per cent in recent years. However, matters of clarity are, ironically, often contestable. The fellow with the cell phone, ironically named Virgil, chats obsessively on it with a number of intimates, including his former girlfriend Alice. He is seen in the film apologising in his plummy tones to the man and, ironically, it is this stiff upper lip that sees him through some sticky patches. According to a brief article in the New York Times, research has shown that pessimists are, ironically, more likely to die earlier than optimists. A quick glance at some of the figures, ironically, and several of the figures seem to resemble one another, with their pointed headdresses and bug-eyed countenances. The demand, ironically made by parents as well, is for crash courses. Anticipation is intuitively, ironically proleptic in that it both foresees things in their absence and, in the very act of apprehension, presents them unwittingly into being. In practice, rather ironically, Buddhists often have a slight tendency to eternalism. And, ironically, in this age of austerity, CGI has been doing quite well. His attempt at kingmaking ironically rallied support to Henry VIII's eldest daughter, Mary, instead. This would mean, ironically, that production of ozone-friendly chemicals is actually releasing some ozone-destroying gases into the atmosphere. Will Raul Castro ironically be responsible for ushering in a wave of Cuban ballplayers to the Yankees or other MLB teams in time for next season? His proud association with the Kennedy family sigil ironically created his chief limitation as an actor in the century's great events. Show More Sentences We are now seeing this process repeat itself but ironically the fool's gold here is actually gold. But some of the people who received the letters, which ironically bear the numbers 999, thought the letters could be letter bombs. To describe that as misleading is, ironically, itself misleading. Private detectives and bounty hunters flooded the region, ironically provoking more violence, which in turn led to more negative publicity. Most of these were food exports that ironically went to supply their enemies in Britain or British colonies. Somewhat ironically, the text contains many features that distinguish insular from continental French. It is, ironically, based on the well-established model of the USDA's own plant quarantine regulations for nonrecombinant organisms. Veronica Petrillo's typical virgin is ironically similar to her streetwise actor, except for a certain added buoyance. Both Antony and Octavian were vying for an alliance with Pompeius, who was a member of the republican party, ironically, not the Caesarian faction. However, Christopher Awdry found himself increasingly coming into conflict with his publishers, which ironically arose through the success of the television series. The company was stranded in Paris first by the outbreak of World War I, and then by the Russian Revolution in 1917, and ironically never performed in Russia. The book reduces a number of complex gray areas to simplistic black and white, making the volume's title, ironically, more apt than the authors may have intended. After seven consecutive losses they found themselves marooned at the foot of the table, 5 points adrift, but ironically with the second best defence in the league. This is why the former Soviet Union seized East Prussia, displacing about 15 million Germans and why Poland seized part of Silesia, including ironically Auschwitz. He often explored these topics ironically, making comedy out of suffering. He adopts for his names Greek words that either confirm the character or undercut him or her ironically, and sometimes lead to, or depend on, wordplay in the text. But Kenny's analysis of how Aquinas individuates thought ironically confuses Aquinas's account with that of Averroes, whose explanation Aquinas rejected. He said a combination of finding new ways to hunt and fears that last year's Boxing Day foxhunt would be the last has ironically boosted interest. Alas, the pair have collaborated on Miley's not ironically titled new album Bangerz with a track called SMS, so they have probably had time for some chinwags. The mosque, visited by all Muslims, has ironically become one of the most symbolic battlegrounds of the increasingly sectarian fault line between Sunnis and Shi'as. Show More Sentences Mols wasn't playing that night as he had suffered a serious knee injury in the Champions League, ironically also in Germany against Bayern Munich. Philip Kane's solo album, somewhat ironically titled Songs for Swinging Lovers, is a stunning mix of styles but through it all shines the singer's treacly tenor. Ideas to rebuild the city's downtown were numerous, ranging from hotels and new stores to, ironically, a strip mall, with few buildings left for historical reasons. Forrester is generally recognized as the first appearance, although ironically in this case the judge found the victim to be the sole proximate cause of the injury. Salty Scioscia, ironically the king of gamesmanship, overreacts, and then Robinson, who has never been accused of failing to take himself seriously, really overreacts. But other difficulties with this book include name-calling, belittling, adolescent obscenities, political oversimplifications, and, ironically enough, a truncated theology. In a letter addressed to the King of Spain, he expressed, somewhat ironically, that he had to act as a conciliatory force during the course of his expeditions. The political and economic defeat ironically sparked what is known as the Danish Golden Age during which a Danish national identity first came to be fully formed. Ironically Arnold himself liked to express the occasional dislike of hereditary honours and titles. Ironically though, Ashley, who has always had an exhibitionist streak, says the job has built her self-confidence. Ironically Radio Australia's Cantonese service was closed on the same day, July 1st 1997, that Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule. Ironically it was Shier's own new hand-picked team of executives, imported at great expense, who voted him out! Ironically enough, his foray into racing was an attempt to ease off from a life of monomania, to prepare for retirement by finding new interests. Ironically this mine of medical misinformation about sexuality was intended to exalt the state of matrimony. Ironically one is now safer wandering the streets of Luxor than in many European cities. Ironically the figures consistently confirm that fear of crime is completely out of proportion with reality. Ironically this process was endorsed and socially legitimised by the Varna system. Ironically detached, they will not test, one-by-one, the proposed septuple functions of Christ's hand, nor will heptamerousness appall them. Ironically among the largest grants made was for archaeology, museum conservation and the teaching of ancient Mesopotamian languages. Ironically enough, debate continues over the division of labor and the artist responsible for the design of the central panel. Show More Sentences Ironically while it won't grow here, its close relative the camphor laurel grows only too well. Ironically it is during the hongi that I begin to feel the deep differences between them. Ironically the only covers which seem to fall flat here are the film tie-in editions which look stodgy next to the originally designed covers. Ironically it was the French who put strong pressure on the Acadians to relocate to French territory. Ironically it was a backfire, set to contain the prescribed burn, that was caught by unexpected wind gusts and roared out of control. Ironically the media had reported the successful deposition of the leader before the coup had even taken place. Ironically this year, the winner of this African beauty contest comes from the United States and has never been to the continent before. Ironically both pictures quickly returned to the London market and were then effortlessly acquired by the gallery. Ironically the very same day, a leading Urdu daily, the sister publication of the eveninger, carried the story with a positive angle. Ironically red spinels, often referred to in ancient texts as balas rubies, are actually more rare than ruby but, unlike ruby, they can sometimes be found in very large sizes. Ironically the man who was a world champion in wood chopping, loved trees. Ironically Webber, doing commentary for NBA TV, joyfully nailed James during the finals. Ironically Gourlay now spends much of the year plying his professional trade in Australia and is expected to base himself Down Under in the not-too-distant future. Ironically for someone who is supposed to be a champion of clean politics, he has fallen afoul of the very rules that were introduced to stamp out political corruption. Ironically though, it was this lack of ports which brought the Dutch to trade at Banda instead of the clove islands of Ternate and Tidore. Ironically it was this same Duke to whom Mercator would turn ten years hence. Digestive problems Ironically, giving up gluten when you don't need to may actually result in digestive problems. Ironically as he was feted abroad, he left many Mexicans cold. Ironically it was another war that led to a resurgence in Tenby's fortunes. Ironically it was the same sceptic which made me the perfect candidate for a master class in feng shui. Show More Sentences Ironically enough, Laurence Olivier is less gifted than Marlon Brando. Ironically this handed Nelson Piquet his 23rd and last F1 race win. Examples from Classical Literature Even while he was speaking, he was struck by his own exigence, and laughed, almost ironically. He laughed ironically, and pushed her from him so suddenly that she sprawled upon the steps. Something ironically vulgar, sordidly tragic has seemed to creep into my relations with Judith. Just stay alive and you can outsmart these savages, he repeated ironically to himself. He turned away much shocked, and saw the calico cat watching him ironically from the chicken-house. Forecasting is famously difficult and inaccurate, but ironically, one reason for that inaccuracy is a misplaced emphasis on precision. The shortcomings of blitzkrieg ironically rest in its strengths. If I like, I can dae my darg wi' ony man,' he replied rather ironically. Mrs. Blair's tones were mysteriously, ironically significant. Socrates ironically replies, that he is not going beyond the truth. Although dust's cooling effect on Earth seems to predominate today, high amounts of dust ironically may have triggered the ends of the ice ages. But it's only a temporary arrangement and the Aberdeen golfer intends to have a fresh caddie with him in Dubai which, ironically, happens to be Byrne's home. Ironically enough, they did much to familiarize the revisers with the rhemish version and its merits. Ironically the sylphlike lovely comes from part of the Black Country which often comes near the bottom of league tables for obesity. Find more words! 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