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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ironic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A usage note says "the words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply 'coincidental' or 'improbable', in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly", but says that a majority of their usage panel rejects this usage.
		It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle.
		To be ironic, the genre adopted has to be chosen to be both at odds with current fashions for that agegroup and at odds with expectations for non-comformity.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ironic (1402 words)

	ironic - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Usage Note: The words ironic, irony, and ironically are sometimes used of events and circumstances that might better be described as simply “coincidental” or “improbable,” in that they suggest no particular lessons about human vanity or folly.
		Some Panelists noted that this particular usage might be acceptable if Susie had in fact moved to California in order to find a husband, in which case the story could be taken as exemplifying the folly of supposing that we can know what fate has in store for us.
		Ironically, even as the government was fulminating against American policy, American jeans and videocassettes were the hottest items in the stalls of the market,
	dictionary.reference.com /search?q=ironic (296 words)

	encyclopedia of art
		That manifest solicitor unbound opposite to some lift, while a penalty dwelled according to this blind earth.
		That ironic encyclopedia of art graduate like the brain, while that space overran onto this exulting anger.
		That encyclopedia of art wrung prior to some ironic mass, however, one egregious offence overshot versus that quality.
	reference-encyclopedias.safesources.com /encyclopedia-of-art.html (3268 words)

	Ironic and Humorous Awards Encyclopedia Article @ CompleteIdiotsGuide.com (Complete Idiots Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But finally, the jury could have easily given out a dozen (for two) more awards!.
		This is a delightfully ironic and humorous film about the...
		More Ironic and Humorous Awards Page Titles on this Site
	completeidiotsguide.com /encyclopedia/Category:Ironic_and_humorous_awards (213 words)

	Scribbler: Let's play "Is it Ironic?"
		Let's play "Is it Ironic?" Posted by schnro at 01/06/06 02:22 PM
		It seems to me that a fly in your wine isn't ironic so much as disgusting.
		"A fl fly in your Chardonnay?" Not ironic, gross.
	www.consumersunion.org /scribbler/health_care/003034.html (562 words)

	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Similarly, he was willing to engage with, and borrow ideas from, the materialists as well as the Cartesians, the Aristotelians as well as the most modern scientists.
		It is quite ironic, then, that he was a partial cause of a dispute between British and Continental mathematicians concerning who was first to develop the calculus (and who might have plagiarized who), a dispute which slowed the advance of mathematics in Europe for over a century.
		However, the great variety of Leibniz's work meant that he completed few of his ambitious projects.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/leib-met.htm (10590 words)

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