All 5 Uses of
irony
in
Not Without My Daughter
- With a sense of righteous indignation I realized that, ironically, Allah was on my side.†
- Cut off from the world, I found irony in some of the details that bothered me.†
- I had brought Mahtob to Iran in one last desperate attempt to assure her freedom, and the irony was all too apparent now.
*irony = when what happens is very different than what might be expected
- But official government reports set the total at six, and added the news that, ironically, the Iraqi air raid proved that Allah was on the side of the Islamic Republic of Iran.†
- It was ironic that we were to take the same route planned by Miss Alavi.
ironic = when what happens is very different than what might be expected; or when things are together that seem like they don't belong together