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Ironies and contradictions abound, even as some of the basic facts assert themselves with blunt, oppressive force.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2019

The Ironies that Norm Ornstein writes this column.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2017

In his new book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, journalist David Rieff questions the idea that remembering the past is an inherently virtuous practice that will help us solve present-day problems.

From Slate • May 13, 2016

Ironies thereupon crowd the air like static: the instrument crackles with irrelevant news of the world while the two urbanized refugees fight elemental dread.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Life's Little Ironies" is a good title, but it is a title that implies a thesis, an attitude from which humanity is surveyed.

From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert