He shot me a knowing look and responded, "You know - it's only 12 days before the election," thereby unsubtly and ironically reminding the Muslims present at the gathering about the detrimental electoral "taint" of being associated with our kind.
Until these conditions and the values they propagate change, our students will prudently focus on job preparation while in college rather than developing a "life philosophy". Ironically, they will thereby miss exposure to the very tools and values that could help them change things.
In short, a duly elected president who willfully ignores the message sent by a popular vote "trolls" the nation he leads and thereby destabilizes it in a way that threatens, ironically, his duly earned legitimacy.
But she could have been speaking ironically, meaning and believing that she did not have to work, thereby giving an affirmative answer to Alan's questions.
Ironically, it also escalated violence designed to thwart the Civil Rights movement, thereby making it all the more necessary.
The industry has been told that all 650 crematoria must halve mercury emissions by 2012, but, ironically, one way to do this is to cremate at a higher temperature, thereby leading to more emissions.
But the "danger," if there is one, is that yoga in the West could come to be viewed merely as another vehicle for self-fulfillment, and thereby fall into that very American category of spiritual practice, in which the goal of practice -- ironically just like the goal of American life -- is to get whatever we want whenever we want it.
Ironically, modern agricultural practices (monoculture, chemical fertilizers and petroleum fuel) generally exclude integration practices, thereby having a negative impact on the environment and on long-term food security.
