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irony and game
In a cruel piece of irony, on September 29, 2007, the Padres were within one out and one strike of clinching the National League Wild Card berth, but Tony Gwynn, Jr., son of the longtime Padres legend, tripled against Hoffman to tie the game.
This " game " not only serves as irony, but continues to deceive new audiences.
Much like in 1927, the Bisons failed to win a game in their final season until their final game, when in a case of cosmic irony they upset the Chicago Bears 19-7 ; thus, the very team that had spoiled their lossless season in 1921 had spoiled their winless season in 1929.
The poet always liked to use the lyric of role ( in which the lyrical persona cannot be identified with the author ), multistage ironythe character introduced for good favored the game conducted by the author, between him and the reader.
The greatest irony was that Van Buren almost missed the game.
His final cap with some irony was in an away game against Germany played in Dortmund ( a 2 – 1 defeat ).
Another irony: Not one of the Mega Wars games are related to each other except by name ; the original was based on the old university mainframe game DECWAR.

irony and was
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.
Absalom himself was caught by his head in the boughs of an oak-tree as the mule he was riding ran beneath it-an irony given that he was previously renowned for his abundant hair and handsome head.
In an example of tragic irony, Behm was the only one who did not want to enter the war.
Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).
It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.
One could note a certain irony: one of the first acts of many of the newly independent states was to adopt the law of the foreign sovereign from whom independence had just been gained.
MGM noticed the video was performing well since " trendy twenty-somethings were throwing Showgirls irony parties, laughing sardonically at the implausibly poor screenplay and shrieking with horror at the aerobic sexual encounters.
) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).
New York Dada lacked the disillusionment of European Dada and was instead driven by a sense of irony and humor.
It was an irony that one of the most radical Reformers ended his life viewed as having capitulated to Catholics.
The irony, of course, being that Gwynn's father was arguably the most popular Padre of all-time, and Tony Gwynn Jr. would later be traded to the Padres in 2009.
Throughout the twentieth century, Stonehenge began to be revived as a place of religious significance, this time by adherents of Neopagan and New Age beliefs, particularly the Neo-druids: the historian Ronald Hutton would later remark that " it was a great, and potentially uncomfortable, irony that modern Druids had arrived at Stonehenge just as archaeologists were evicting the ancient Druids from it.
One irony of the ' Sputnik " event was the initially low-key response of the Soviet Union.
One irony in the Bears victory was that Payton had a relatively poor performance running the ball and never scored a touchdown in Super Bowl XX, his first and only Super Bowl appearance during his Hall of Fame career ( Many people including Mike Ditka have claimed that the reason for this due to the fact that the Patriots defensive scheme was centered around stopping Walter Payton ).
The lasting irony of the Bloodbath is that an act which was intended to strengthen the position of the unionist party turned out to be the catalyst that permanently separated Sweden from Denmark.
The interaction in this story between a mode of cunning and irony ( the tricks, deceits, unexpected actions and sarcasms of the hero ) on the one hand, and a mode of pathos ( terror and brutality against defenceless people and against the hero after he has been revealed ) on the other, was aspired to and sometimes attained by the imitations that soon flooded the cinemas.
In the meantime, the Pequot War had broken out, and it was a great irony that Massachusetts Bay was forced to ask for Roger Williams ' help.

irony and O
The narrator of The Unnamable answers: “ They depart, one by one, and the voices go on, it ’ s not theirs, they were never there, there was never anyone but you, talking to you about you …” The old woman in Rockaby appears to be the exact opposite of O but although she actively seeks to be seen by someone while O does everything to avoid perceivedness, the irony is that both characters are alone with only themselves for company.
In his concession speech O ' Donoghue remarked " I hope that the irony will not be lost upon you that I stand here, on my evening of defeat, in a hall – this magnificent sports complex – which I helped to build .” He will receive a lump sum of € 237, 000 and an annual pension of € 128, 000.
Though the movie features excellent songs they all depict the situation like nothing else could, like a prisoner singing an ode to an imprisoned bird, " O Panchhi Pyare " sung by Asha Bhosle and Asha Bhosle's touching, ' Ab ke Baras Bhej Bhaiya ko Babul ' composed in ' Raga Pilu ', excellently uses the folk idiom of a traditional song of a newly married girl longing for her maternal home, ( maika ), but being sung by a prison inmate of Kalyani, immediately conveys the irony in its placement.

irony and career
*‘ The irony of my life ’ A review of the career of Louis Auchincloss ( The Financial Times, 21 September 2007 )
The irony of the place whose music scuttled his " first " career, namely The Beatles and the British Invasion, and yet has constantly welcomed him with open arms for more than 40 years, is not lost on him, he has stated in many interviews.
Nan the narrator describes the irony of her " curious gaslit career " as a rent-boy only to end up — in Diana's words — as her " tart ".

irony and leader
Perhaps the biggest irony for some is that residence that marked the move of the aristocrats from the northside to the southside ( where the wealthier Dubliners have remained to this day ), and that in some ways embodied Georgian Dublin, Leinster House, home of the Duke of Leinster, ended up as the parliament of independent republican Ireland ; but his family also produced the republican leader Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
In a bit of subtle irony, Williams also appeared in the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Virtuoso " as the leader of a planet that has never heard music before.
The final irony in both of their legacies is that Peter is remembered for being a caring and peaceful leader even though he was cruel and violent as a child while Ender is remembered for being a ruthless warmonger even though he was kind and gentle as a child.
With the help of his allies, Leonard ( now styling himself as " Supreme Commander ", a historical irony considering that the late Zentraedi leader Dolza also was " Supreme Commander ") became the most powerful figure in Earth politics.
The irony is that it was Koizumi who was a vocal critic of the switch and the likes of Okada and Ichirō Ozawa, the DPJ's deputy leader, who departed from the LDP to have made the switch in a bid to create the two-party system.

irony and per
The great irony is that USAFE per se never had to fight the Soviet military machine in Europe.

irony and attempt
For comic effect, he used irony and ludicrous extravagance, often in an attempt to liberate the reader from cultural conformity.
When the film was released, Variety gave the film a favorable review: " There is no attempt to gloss the character of Barbara Graham, only an effort to understand it through some fine irony and pathos.
In one passage the British character Rodney Savage reflects upon the irony of his being charged with protecting Gandhi against a terrorist assassination attempt.

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