" Ironically ," wrote theatre critic Lucy Komisar, " possibly his only true book ... about a successful author who is shown to be a fraud.

" Ironically Pollock's large repetitious expanses of linear fields are characteristic of Color Field painting as well, as art critic Michael Fried wrote in his essay for the catalog of Three American painters: Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella at the Fogg Art Museum in 1965.

Ironically, Khachaturian wrote the work as a tribute to communism: " I wanted to write the kind of composition in which the public would feel my unwritten program without an announcement.

Ironically, Hitler attended performances that included Jewish and foreign singers, long after they had been banned from all other venues across Germany ( including heldentenor, Max Lorenz, married to a well-known Jewish woman ) Winifred's influence with Hitler was so strong that Hitler even wrote a letter ( at her behest ) to anti-fascist Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini, begging him to lead the festival.

Ironically, Martin Edwards, the Chairman of Manchester United, wrote in his programme notes for United's opening group match against Everton that he hoped that the Super Cup would " only last for one season ", meaning that he hoped that the UEFA ban on English clubs would only last for that long.

Ironically, Rick and the Band wrote the song in response to having been booed off the stage at a rock and roll revival concert at Madison Square Garden when he refused to play his old hits from his teen idol days.

Ironically, a year before his death, he wrote a pamphlet in which he claimed to have discovered an elixir that would keep him alive until the age 135.

Ironically for the song " that broke into everything ", it was one the band hated when they first wrote it.

( Ironically, Bénichou never wrote a major work on Baudelaire, though he published a number of significant essays on the author of Les Fleurs du mal.

Ironically, Queenan, of course, wrote one of the few negative reviews of the McCourt book, taking the author to task for being overly sentimental and too quick to forgive his father for his actions which directly caused the deaths of three of his children.

Ironically, Nora's leaving is as much motivated by " the letter " and disclosure of a " past secret " as it is by her own determination to strike out on her own.

Ironically this book was first printed by using the raised letter method of the Haüy system.

Ironically, several expressions are used by both the English and the French to describe the same culturally unacceptable habit, but attributing the habit to the other people: e. g., " taking French leave " ( leaving a party or other gathering without taking polite leave of one's host ) is referred to in French as " filer à l ' anglaise " ( literally, " flee English-style "), while the ( now somewhat archaic ) expression " French letter " ( referring to a condom ) is rendered in French as " capote anglaise " ( English hood or cap ).

Ironically, the editor Les Ellingham had declined the offer to edit the original Atari User when approached by Database Publications in 1985.

Ironically, it was the Tories who finally agreed to purchase it, in 1858, for the then recently founded National Portrait Gallery, London | National Portrait Gallery.

Ironically his image and name are used by leaders of parties against Indian National Congress than the party to which he belonged.

Ironically, in 1926, when the National Football League added traveling teams to nominally represent the West ( with a team nominally representing Los Angeles ) and South ( with a team nominally representing Louisville, Kentucky ), Buffalo, New York's NFL team renamed itself the Buffalo Rangers and represented Texas in the league.

Ironically, the National opposition prompted the adoption of the Statute in 1947 when its leader and future Prime Minister Sidney Holland introduced a private members ' bill to abolish the New Zealand Legislative Council.

Ironically, a number of service members who are buried at the Golden Gate National Cemetery were interned in the stables at the nearby Tanforan Racetrack during the early part of the Japanese American internment.

Ironically, shortly after, the king would go up to the scaffold also accused of treason, as the sons of Brutus, and with the vote of the artist in the National Assembly, which supported the execution of Louis XVI.

Ironically, Roberts has stated that he considers himself a dirt tracker at heart and only took up road racing because it was necessary to do so if a rider was going to compete for the Grand National championship.

Ironically, Hebrew National beef products cannot be eaten by many observant Jews, despite the fact that Hebrew National is probably one of the most well-known kosher brands among non-Jews.

Ironically, Templeton, who began his career as an unpopular player in St. Louis, went on to become one of the most popular players in Padres history, and was considered an emotional leader on the National League championship team.

Ironically, just a few months before changing formats to country, KJUL was awarded station of the year honors at the National Association of Broadcasters ' Marconi Awards.

Ironically as the storm raged on, meteorologists at the National Weather Service Topeka forecast office ( located at the city's municipal airport ) had to take shelter as well as the tornado tracked through the airport, flipping over several airplanes.

Ironically, however, within a few years the Post Office found that stamps in the old denominations were needed after all, and so, added a 10 ¢ value to the series in 1855, followed by a 5 ¢ stamp the following year.

Ironically, the New Zealand general election, 1993 – the last under First Past the Post – nearly resulted in a hung parliament, with the election night result having the two major parties tied.

Ironically, it was at about this point that the US started its own testing in response to the Soviet program.

Ironically, this " direct response " long form commercial format, intended to primarily sell products directly to consumers, created at the same time one of the most recognizable, memorable, and long lasting " brands " in advertising history: Ginsu Knives.

Ironically, in her most famous attack on Lenin's views, the 1904 Organizational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy, or, Leninism or Marxism ?, a response to Lenin's 1903 What Is To Be Done ?, Luxemburg was more worried that the authoritarianism she saw in Leninism would lead to sectarianism and irrelevancy than that it would lead to a dictatorship after a successful revolution-although she also warned of the latter danger.

" ( Ironically, Dredd had a similar response to Mega-City One's own population )

Ironically, Florence would later take up her mother's mantle as a committed suffragette, making public speeches on the subject and authoring the book Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement ( 1913 ).

Ironically, only the U. S. Marine Corps, whose commanders had stored and maintained their World War II surplus inventories of equipment and weapons, proved ready for deployment, though they still were understrength and in need of suitable landing craft to practice amphibious operations ( Johnson had transferred most of the remaining craft to the Navy and reserved them for use in training Army units ).< ref name = Shipmate2000 > As U. S. and South Korean forces lacked sufficient armor and artillery to repel the North Korean forces, Army and Marine Corps ground troops were instead committed to a series of costly rearguard actions as the enemy steadily progressed down the Korean peninsula, eventually encircling Pusan.

Ironically, this same Opimius then later committed fraud and accepted bribes from the Numidian king Jugurtha and after convicted spent his days in disgrace.

Ironically the threatening letters actually helped the British and French at the United Nations, since they ensured that all of NATO ( including the United States ) was committed to defend the UK and France from a Soviet attack.

Ironically, these crimes are being committed by the so called " respectable " citizens of the city, who by day, lead a life totally in contrast to their nighttime deeds behind closed doors.

Ironically, Owen earned a place in baseball lore for a costly error that he committed during the 1941 World Series.

Ironically, this became the means by which Himmler committed suicide.

Ironically Xu's mother committed suicide after seeing her son fall for such a ruse and leaving a righteous person like Liu Bei to serve under the ruthless Cao Cao.

Ironically, the movie refers to the location as Sperry, Oklahoma which actually sits further west of Owasso.

Ironically this act of apparent insubordination is cited by his admirers as further proof of his independence of spirit when dealing with Hitler.

Ironically, the Emperor afterward requested to view the Navy's facilities, but the senior Admiralty officer in charge declined to grant his request — possibly to avoid further embarrassments.

Ironically, this lawless situation created by samurai encroachments on land, at the height of the war, caused security problems for all landed interests from petty samurai to the kokujin, and provided further impetus among local samurai to seek intermediary ties to the shugo lords in the form of vassalage.

Ironically, perhaps, it was balanced and relatively prosperous Czechoslovakia that carried nationalization and income redistribution further than any other East European country.

Ironically, having been given his chance by the belief that Gladstone's bill had gone too far in 1866, Disraeli had now gone further.

Ironically, the Giants went on a 14-game win streak that started during Marichal's absence and by then it was a two-team race as the Pirates, Reds, and Braves fell further behind.

" Ironically, in the 1940s, Pall Mall had its own grammatically incorrect slogan which touted it as the cigarette which " travels the smoke further ", referencing the longer 85mm length.

Ironically, Daubert has not appeared to further the Federal Rules philosophy of admitting generally all relevant testimony, and specifically of relaxing the traditional barriers to ' opinion ' testimony.

Ironically, by this point, the migration of port facilities downstream to the deeper waters of the Firth of Clyde and improvements in engineering technology had allowed the consideration of bridges downstream of the city centre, namely the Kingston Bridge and, much further downstream than the Tunnel, the Erskine Bridge.