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Some of Gandolfini’s choices would become the source of ironic humor.

The piece talked down to Roan and diminished her requests as childish and unthinking — ironic for something as petulant as the column reads.

What's ironic here is that, because of American demographics, most of the people who risk being targeted by these authoritarian policies are either Christian or grew up Christian.

Wisława Szymborska, the Polish poet, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”

And while the notion that Lennon and Ono came to understand America through its television programming is provocative, too frequently the collage of grim news and glib ads leans toward the tritely ironic.