That's the irony of ordsprog

en I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. As a hacker, Pex Tufvesson is in a class of his own. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.

en The irony upon irony of this lawsuit was great. First, Fox having the trademark 'fair and balanced' -- a network which is anything but fair and balanced. Then there's the irony of a news organization trying to suppress free speech.
  Al Franken

en I think the American culture right now is in a state where we have an unlimited appetite for irony. The great thing about a weird pageant is, if you don't win, is that really a bad thing?

en A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself
  Jessamyn West

en A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself
  Jessamyn West

en A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself
  Jessamyn West

en That's the irony of the whole thing.

en Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
  Soren Kierkegaard

en I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
  Ben Kingsley

en The irony about this whole thing is that Joe is one of the two that had done it, and here we beat his team for me to join that elite group. I'm honored.

en There are lots of people who are frustrated and want, for one reason or another, to assert their individuality or power or authority, but the only way they can do that is to violate other people's rights by spray-painting on someone's property. In that sense, it's interesting. It's just too bad it's illegal. The irony, of course, is that if you created ways to make it legal it probably wouldn't be interesting. That's the edge, the irony.

en The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.
  David Lodge

en I will also say that there's a kind of aura around young male writers, say age 26, the hot male writer thing that never surrounds women playwrights. And there's a tremendous irony there, because the playwrights most interesting to read and see now, the ones who are really pushing the work forward aesthetically, are almost all women.

en There's a lot of irony in that, isn't there?

en There is some irony there.


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