It is ironical that all this is happening under the leadership of an Oxford-educated economist.

BBC: Is the India growth story over?

Mr. MUKWAZHI: Well, I think it's ironical, you know, that you're saying that there isn't any food crisis.

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Springsteen came to glory in the age of Letterman, but he is anti-ironical.

NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

So here is Berlin in his own ironical voice, as selected by editors.

ECONOMIST: Isaiah Berlin

France is leading a campaign to begin rebuilding Brazzaville ironical if, as some claim, it was indirectly implicated in its destruction.

ECONOMIST: Congo-Brazzaville

To use him as courier for a contrite message to the people his party still brutalises would be ironical, to say the least.

ECONOMIST: Japan in the right

Dr. TRENBERTH: That's one of the - that's one of the ironical things that people don't understand, I find, about global warming, is that ironically you can get more snow as a consequence, in part, of global warming.

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Though my own writing voice tends toward the ironical, cleverness was not the right note for the title of a book about the life and afterlife of a country girl who, though far from corn-pone, was more Branson than Brooklyn.

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It would then be ironical that the U.S. saved a currency that was partly designed to displace the dollar as the main international reserve currency in the longer run, once America would have gone bankrupt under deregulated finance and indebtedness.

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Dr. TRENBERTH: Well, one of the ironical things in the West in particular is that most of the water rights and the water allocations were set based upon a relatively wet period during something like the first 20 years of the 20th century.

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