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(In-your-face irony is death's calling card.) Later, a television news reporter utters the following remarkable sentence, my favorite in a screenplay so far this year: "Ironically, the woman was impaled through the head after her air bag inflated".

(In case you've forgotten, Ms. Morissette finds irony in rain on your wedding day and a free ride when you've already paid.) For instance: "Have you ever seen anything creepy or ominous -- an in-your-face irony sort of thing?" Clear asks Kimberly, who, on reflection, discovers that she has.

I searched his face for irony and found none.

I scan Actress's face for irony: nothing.

All that's missing in this entertaining glorification of the pleasures of cock-rock is a big, American major label rawk! album that boogies, choogles, howls at the moon and does it all with an absolutely straight face, no irony intended, no guilt entertained.

The face value irony of lyrics centered around the concept that Moroder's age is no object, on a track that literally proves the opposite.

While the show might come to resemble some kind of communal relic, Pilgrim never for a moment falls back on face-saving irony.

Both films face bitter ironies of class and privilege, both reflect sharply on the societies where they're set — Weimar Germany and Chad, respectively — and both involve the fate of children.

After the oath, with beaming faces and irony-free applause, the same officials congratulate applicants whom they and their sort have tortured for years.These muddled messages carry on right until the finish, when a local politician and former colonel bellows his advice on cultivating American values.

On April 13th of this year, in Washington, he said, "Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history: the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up".

President Barack Obama made the claim at the recent Nuclear Security Summit that "two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history--the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up".

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