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"There has been no listening which is ironic for a charity that's all about listening."

From BBC

Sitting across from him at Canter’s, I also notice he appears to be a bit cross-eyed, which I find ironic because I always thought he had a wandering eye.

Tragic and ironic, since Kirk saw himself as a champion of free speech, even as his critics often disagreed with that framing.

From BBC

That sapiens is Latin for “wise” can just seem like an ironic joke.

It’s painfully ironic that Oliphant could look at the world so hard, for so long, and be repaid with the slow loss of his eyesight, as Banowsky finds toward the end of the film.

From Salon

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