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1. Life is full of ironies, I reflected again
2. National Historic Site of San Juan is as much a reminder of the ironies and dilemmas as of the glories and tragedies of the Spanish colonial experience
3. Irony of ironies! Not only did Roger and Antonio pardon their family enemy, but they helped him in his hour of need, and they did it with kindness and satisfaction, leaving him to his inner thoughts of guilt
4. It is one of the ironies of history that the man who denounced Herbert Hover as a “spendthrift’” who
5. At any rate, the history of literature, so full of Fate's exquisite ironies, has nothing more poignantly ironic, and nothing at the same time more beautifully appropriate, than the publication of Rupert Brooke's noble sonnet-sequence, `1914', a few swift weeks before the death they had imagined, and had already made lovely
6. And it is one of the grim ironies of the universe that the stones which covered Arus's body should have been adorned with that last touch of barbarity—above a man to whom violence and blood-vengeance were revolting
7. The dream world included the ironies of life
8. Wouldn't that be the cruelest of ironies?
9. In fact, you have a highly original point of view and a wry sense of humor, together with a fine appreciation of the ironies of existence
10. ‘Was he not a victim of human dishonesty as well, including mine and the inequity of life in general? Are not the Prasads of the world having the cake and eating it too? Do they really, in a way? Why, for all that, I’m no less a beneficiary of deceit, although by default, is it not so? Is it possible that Tara’s life is the radical answer to make it equal to all? But is it really? Well, it appears that life tends to manifest itself only in ironies, doesn’t it? Oh, while I married Sathyam in the hope of becoming a doctor, didn’t he bequeath me a fortune to build a clinic! How fate has taken off at a tangent in my life
11. It is one of the many ironies of Islam that its believers should sink into a collective anachronism trying to avoid individual anarchism
12. While it was Annie Besant, the English woman, who helped the Congress form, Sonia Gandhi, Dame de Italian, might help in its eventual liquidation, of course, with the helping hand from an uninspiring Rahul, her political heir apparent! If not the maturity of the Indian electorate, at least the public allergy for the Congress’ insensitivity to the national ethos could ensure that, and as and when it happens, it could be one of the many ironies of the chequered history of Hindustan
13. So, it’s one of the ironies of Islam in that it gives with one hand and takes away with the other, and thus it is the destiny of the Musalmans to suffer on that score, even as they make ‘the others’ to suffer as well
14. ” So it seems, history has its own ironies, for Gujarat, where Mahmud Ghazni started it all for the Musalmans, became the first retreat of the Indian Musalmans
15. And then, irony of ironies, as we were dancing, I noticed that a girl I dated sporadically at the time was sitting nearby with a group of young people
16. Erasmus became famous as an intellectual elite writer by printing scathing ironies that laughed at the idiocies of the corrupt Catholic Church
17. " Life is so full of ironies! She held me so tight, so close to her, I wanted to tell her it was not seemly
18. She revelled in all the evil ironies of triumphant adultery
19. Leaning hard into the babble of Inch’s tired war stories, Josie occasionally recognized names that tumbled out in a tangle of private jokes and leaden ironies
20. And finally the uprising of his listener base, which turns out to be not some savvy cognoscenti, grooving on the ironies of his self-presentation, but the same Not-So-Silent Majority that jams up the Yackline each day
21. Wall Street has always abounded in bitter ironies, and the bursting of the growth-stock bubble has created a doozy: In 1999 and 2000, high-tech, bio-tech, and telecommunications stocks were supposed to provide “aggressive growth” and ended up giving most of their investors aggressive shrinkage instead
22. One of the ironies of trading is that an explosive breakout both confirms the significance of the pattern and makes trading the pattern more difficult
23. My mind chewed on several ironies of Shapiro’s visit, but then I gave my full attention to the doctor
24. The ironies of the lifestyle choice gave him constant amusement: nonfat butter, for example, and NPR always on the radio of his wife’s trendy SUV; and bizarre foods—like olive-wheatgrass muffins
25. My head was filled with disturbing ironies: Two of my kids had been born at St
26. And looking at Constance Rattigan kneeling there, I thought, Oh, the ironies of this lost world
27. It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks
28. One of the enduring ironies of her death was that she had been in her bare stocking feet when she suffered the fall that killed her
