Ironies

One of trout fishing's Ironies is that just when the spring angling urge is hitting, your favorite rivers are high, muddy, and unfishable.

How and Why to Fish for Headwater Trout in the Spring 2006

"Ironies," Stymy said, and a huge set of metal legs appeared, focusing on the iron knees.

Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

Also notice the improper spelling of the word 'preceding' in the last sentence (entry 437 in the Big Book of Unintentional Ironies, '05, Houghton-Mifflin).

How to Use An Apostrophe 2009

Also notice the improper spelling of the word 'preceding' in the last sentence (entry 437 in the Big Book of Unintentional Ironies, '05, Houghton-Mifflin).

How to Use An Apostrophe » E-Mail 2009

Ironies aside, the basic insight of this book is an eloquently stated platitude, that love is 'no finite commodity,' that 'to give to one did not necessarily mean to take from another; that the heart in its infinite capacity . . . could open itself to all who would enter, like a house with windows and doors thrown wide, like the heart of God itself.'

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010

Ironies aside, the basic insight of this book is an eloquently stated platitude, that love is 'no finite commodity,' that 'to give to one did not necessarily mean to take from another; that the heart in its infinite capacity . . . could open itself to all who would enter, like a house with windows and doors thrown wide, like the heart of God itself.'

Shelfari Omnivoracious 2010

Oliver committed treason and sold arms to the Iranians yet has a cult-like following at FOX News (I would list that as one of the Top 5 Ironies in media), while Eliot was out shagging college-aged girls behind his wife's back yet he is now in the media as a commentator on corporate ethics.

Damien Hoffman: Who Cares About John Thain's Solutions to Our Banking Crisis? 2010

Ruth Schwartz Cowan challenged this idea in her book More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave, which was published in 1983.

More Work for Mother ? Linda 2008

Ironies, Unrest and Upsets: Politics and the Power of the People

Wayne Trujillo: Ironies, Unrest and Upsets: Politics and the Power of the People 2010

Ironies aside, the basic insight of this book is an eloquently stated platitude, that love is 'no finite commodity,' that 'to give to one did not necessarily mean to take from another; that the heart in its infinite capacity . . . could open itself to all who would enter, like a house with windows and doors thrown wide, like the heart of God itself.'

Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2010