Quite ironic.

Ironic, and it's also, I think, quite telling.

It's very ironic. And I'll show you a little natural recursion here.

It doesn't recognize an ironic smile, or a happy smile, or a frustrated smile.

It's produced to get sulfur out of gasoline which I find is somewhat ironic.

Ironic that my legs are fine, and it's my shoulders that slow up my walk.

So we have an ironic problem good teachers don't want to go to just those places where they're needed the most.

As recounted by a member of a Kenyan NGO, Too often in recent years, a tragic and ironic story has been repeated.

Isn't it ironic that Christians who claim to believe in an infinite, unknowable being then tie God down in closed systems and rigid doctrines?

And I hate to be so ironic and sarcastic about it but it's the truth. It's just one of the filthiest cesspools you can imagine.

It is indeed sad and ironic that when we are reaching the tail end of the rebellion there are calls for such a course of action.

Now this is doubly ironic when you consider that what gives comedy its edge at reaching around people's walls is the way that it uses deliberate misdirection.

And she had this really awesome idea to sell the bag called the Feed Bag which is really beautifully ironic because you can strap on the Feed Bag.

What is unbelievably ironic is the period that we tried to depict in the film, the cry for democracy and social justice, repeats itself now again in Tehran.

That outcome is as frustrating as it is ironic. None of the Big Three can be seriously threatened without triggering direct resistance and the security guarantees of allies.

And of course, looking at this lion paw that has been skinned, it eerily reminds me of a human hand, and that's ironic, because their fate is in our hands.

And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love.

Ten years later, we may be witnessing yet another ironic outcome in the region At least for the time being, Israel seems to be the only clear winner of the Arab Spring revolutions.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

The fundamental problem was premature capital market liberalization. It is therefore ironic to see the US Treasury Secretary once again pushing for capital market liberalization in India one of the two major developing countries (along with China) to emerge unscathed from the 1997 crisis.

What happened next was what I have called an ironic reversal. As the benefits of globalization became manifest, and the damage wrought by autarkic policies also became evident, policymakers in the East began to appreciate that their anti globalization stance had been a mistake.

Rudyard Kipling famously wrote in The Ballad of East and West Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. Given the ironic reversal of globalization fears, Kipling is still right convergence has continued to elude East and West.

One of the more ironic results of the region s changing political configuration is that Israel now perceives a strategic convergence with Saudi Arabia. Despite their political systems deep differences, they both favor the regional status quo, and they share an obsessive suspicion of Iran.

The bans are especially ironic, given that, according to UNESCO, Iran has the highest rate of female to male undergraduates in the world. Last year, women made up 60 of all students passing university exams, and women have done well in traditionally male dominated disciplines like engineering.

It is indeed ironic that the tsunami disaster happened at a time when we were in the midst of preparing ourselves for an important summit to be held in September 2005, at which some of us feared security issues were going to overwhelm the global agenda.

In Stalin's time, the masterpieces of, say, Boris Pasternak or Dmitri Shostakovich were entrusted to give artistic voice to a silenced civil society. So it is ironic that Leviathan was partly financed by Russia's culture ministry and telling that the Russian authorities had no interest in its winning at the Oscars.

Yet the dollar, a symbol of American financial power, has surged rather than declined. As Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard professor and former chief economist of the IMF notes, It is ironic, given that we just messed up big time, that the response of foreigners is to pour more money into us.

But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic twist. As an anonymous American woman, justifying her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery, put it, All we have in life is ourselves, and what we can put out there every day for the world to see Me is all I got.

Only in this manner reflected most vividly in its embrace of the European project did Germany win consent for its reunification. It would be both tragic and ironic if a restored Germany, by peaceful means and with the best of intentions, brought about the ruin of the European order a third time.

But their protest s ironic consequence may be that the more moderate of the two figures at the summit of Russian politics, Dmitri Medvedev, will not return to the post of prime minister, as had been planned. A game of political musical chairs would simply be too much in the eyes of too many Russians.

It is ironic that in a world where childhood malnutrition plagues many developing countries, childhood obesity has become one of the leading health scourges in advanced economies. The World Bank estimates that over a third of all children in Indonesia, for example, suffer from stunted growth, confronting them with the risk of lifetime effects on fitness and cognitive development.

Cautious steps are being taken, like the review of religion based laws and curricula that have contributed to a creeping talibanization of Pakistani society. For human rights activists, it is ironic that an elected (but basically military led) government that they oppose in principle should be undertaking reforms they have long advocated, but that elected civilian governments ignored.

Zionists in Palestine rejoiced in 1947, following the UN General Assembly vote for partition into a Jewish and an Arab state. It is ironic that, as rockets from Gaza reach the outskirts of Tel Aviv, those Israelis who celebrated the partition, and their descendants, do not see the importance of fulfilling the other half of the partition plan.

As the Economic and Social Council is an essential and principal organ of the United Nation charged with dealing with questions of economic and social development, it would be ironic if we failed to strengthen it at the very time when poverty, disease and environmental degradation are considered to be among the main threats to international peace and security.

Over the past two years, academics, regulators, economists, and financial institutions have all linked the secular stagnation in demand with greater income inequality. It is ironic that, at a time when many in the developing world are entering, or aspire to enter, the emerging middle class, wealth in much of the developed world is becoming more concentrated at the top.

The world has learned since 2008 how dangerously financial expectations can interact with policy blunders, turning modest economic problems into major catastrophes, first in the US and then in the eurozone. It would be ironic if China s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than Western devotees of free markets.

It is ironic that the ECB s offer to buy Italian and Spanish debt has exacerbated external imbalances by raising the value of the euro. Perhaps that is just a temporary effect and the euro will decline when global financial markets recognize that a weaker exchange rate is needed to reduce current account deficits in the eurozone s three major Latin countries.

It is ironic to see Iran s radical Islamist president portray himself as open to resuming US Iran relations and suffer for it at the hands of a supposedly pragmatic Supreme Leader. But Ahmadinejad is no exception to the historical rule in Iran every faction that loses out to its domestic rivals looks beyond the country for an alliance with outside powers.

Looking back, it is ironic that the Chinese government s draconian one child policy, imposed in 1979, was implemented at the same time as the open door policy, aimed at capturing labor intensive foreign manufacturing investment. While both policies must be regarded as successes, over the years the family planning program has contributed to an aging population that may diminish China s attractiveness as a low cost, labor intensive manufacturing hub.

It is particularly ironic that many Kurds from Turkey s southeastern provinces, having been promised Armenian property and a guaranteed place in heaven for killing infidels, were willingly complicit in the genocide. They later found themselves on the losing end of a long history of violence between their own separatist forces and the Turkish army, as well as being subjected to an ongoing policy of discrimination and forced assimilation.

It is ironic that an administration fixated on the risks of Middle East oil has chosen to spend hundreds of billions potentially trillions of dollars to pursue unsuccessful military approaches to problems that can and should be solved at vastly lower cost, through R amp D, regulation, and market incentives. The biggest energy crisis of all, it seems, involves the misdirected energy of a US foreign policy built on war rather than scientific discovery and technological progress.

It is ironic that an administration fixated on the risks of Middle East oil has chosen to spend hundreds of billions potentially trillions of dollars to pursue unsuccessful military approaches to problems that can and should be solved at vastly lower cost, through R D, regulation, and market incentives. The biggest energy crisis of all, it seems, involves the misdirected energy of a US foreign policy built on war rather than scientific discovery and technological progress.

Malala s efforts, while applauded by the West and some segments of Pakistani society, were deeply resented by the obscurantist forces that go by the name of the Taliban, which in Pakistan calls itself Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan. Their choice of name is an ironic one, for Taliban, an Arabic word, means those seeking to be educated, whereas the Taliban s principal aim is to keep Muslim societies backward so that they can be persuaded to adopt a seventh century version of Islam.