0 interesting, strange, or funny because of being very different from what you would usually expect:
1 using words that suggest the opposite of what you intend, usually in order to be humorous:
2 odd or humorous because something has a different or opposite result from what is expected:
It is ironic, too, that recent incursions by ' lit-critters ' into historical writing reproduce the very stereotypes long ago demolished by decades of historical research.
How ironic, given his disdain for serialism and even atonality.
Only when familiar irony is used in a literally biasing context can its salient ironic interpretation be suppressed and discarded.
Likewise, 77% (2164) of ironic simile types are disambiguated automatically.
That this ground - this ample geography - is covered by temporary housing is an ironic pointer toward the transitoriness of human settlement.
Indeed, this can be seen to be the basis for the sequence's powerfully ironic juxtaposition of different cultures, landscapes and textual geographies.
They also gave more or less ironic renderings of classics from official mass culture.
But it is a rewriting that yields a nicely ironic conclusion to the story told here, of the coincidences and conflicts between modernism and modernity.
