irony

A sad irony of Justice Kennedy’s career was that his most heated critics would eventually come not from the right but from the left.

The irony: The government bleeds dollars to save a currency Mr. Milei promised to eliminate.

The remark carries a delicate wisp of rueful irony.

The irony is that failing to understand those reasons has needlessly disrupted the advancement of millions of low-income people in the name of helping them.

He listens to self-help tapes and goes out with coworkers for karaoke, where he belts out Atomic Kitten’s girl-group smash “Whole Again” without a trace of irony or self-consciousness.