But historians will also recognize the irony of this magnificent feat.
And this is the grand irony to the advocacy of secularism today, whether in France or Britain.
The greater irony is that teachers are still held accountable for the test scores that the students earn, while the students are given a waiver.
It would be a curious irony if the spiritual east embraced the ruthless pursuit of wealth just as the western nations that invented modern capitalism went for a Zen-like repudiation of materialism.
He smiles ruefully at the irony.
Hearn's sharp voice softened a little with irony.
It's a striking irony that to extract its plentiful uranium, Namibia must use quantities of a very scarce resource: water.
There was some irony in this as early plans for the 8th Air Force had envisaged the need for an escort, albeit with short-range Spitfires.
Relieve a friend's anxiety,” he said, with no change of his voice and tone, in which indifference, and even irony, was perceptible through the veil of courtesy and sympathy.
The name Guerilla Girl also has a twist of irony.
He may have missed the irony that Mr Blair and Mr Brown were a famously dysfunctional pair in British politics.
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisisted: but with irony, not innocently.
Equilibrium returned periodically, courtesy of Woody's steadfast sense of irony.
If modernists such as Virginia Woolf relished depth and metaphysics, then postmodernists such as Martin Amis favoured surface and irony.
And that's why the irony was that in the Treasury offering in the first four days after the downgrade, more people actually came and bought our treasuries than before.
A melancholy fold, which resembled the beginning of irony, wrinkled her right cheek.
Do I detect a tinge of irony?
The irony is that the dangerous dwindling of diversity in our food supply is the unanticipated result of an agricultural triumph.
The irony that Sony couldn't use Facebook to directly promote the social Network didn't mean the studio had to abstain from social media.
Toward the bottom of the footnote, 731, left-hand column, ust as in conversation, we understand irony to the extent to which we are in agreement on the subject with the other person.
I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.
The irony: juxtaposition is a juxtaposition of juxta and position.
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