A more independently minded report could have used the words "wretchedly" or "disgracefully" instead of "ironically".
Police raided his home searching for him and detained his father instead, who ironically worked as a translator in the defense ministry.
Just as someone who encounters Socrates in conversation should sometimes be puzzled about whether he means what he says (or whether he is instead speaking ironically), so Plato sometimes uses the dialogue form to create in his readers a similar sense of discomfort about what he means and what we ought to infer from the arguments that have been presented to us.
Though Stewart coveted the starring role in Hitch's follow-up, North By Northwest, the director chose Cary Grant instead -- ironically, four years older than Stewart, but still, in Hitch's view, more credible as a romantic lead.
Instead she ironically uses pop songs as a reference.
Instead of ironically reading disappointment with some things not meeting expectations as evidence in support of nihilism, I choose to direct my attention to how important I feel it is to anticipate making a difference through correspondence with the world.
The instant before their execution, August Spies screamed "The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!" The men were hanged, but they did not die immediately, instead they, ironically, slowly strangled to death in front of the horrified crowd.
Ironically, instead of lobbing the barbs at the offending teen-agers, people seemed to aim most of their criticisms at the creator of the page.
Ironically, instead of being the undoing of the people who committed them, sex scandals and kiss-and-tells have become the undoing of British popular newspapers which uncovered them.
Instead, like the ironically named Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you simply point at people you don't much like the look of and scream "Off with his head!" Vigilantism is rightly deplored as mob violence that has been given a free pass to enforce its own dominant codes.
Most ironically, instead of disturbing the usual chemotactic growth of the set of bacteria, this unknown event may place a newer set of bacteria nearer to the food location.
