Alanna Ubach

Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.

American Actress

Marianne Williamson

Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.

American Author

Mike Quigley

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.

American Politician

Ethan Hawke

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

American Actor

Gretchen Rubin

Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

Lionel Shriver

Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.

American Journalist

Paul Auster

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Geoff Downes

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

English Musician

Frank Abagnale

Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people.

American Celebrity

Roy Lichtenstein

When I have used cartoon images, I've used them ironically to raise the question, 'Why would anyone want to do this with modern painting?

American Artist

Use 'ironically' to highlight a situation's outcome is the opposite of what was intended or expected.

Unexpected Outcomes

'Ironically' often signals a twist in stories, making events more interesting by adding contrast.

Plot Twists

Use 'ironically' when something is humorously contrary to what one might think, especially in reflective or wry comments.

Reflective Humor

Use 'ironically' to introduce a statement where you say the opposite of what you really mean as a form of verbal irony.

Verbal Irony

'Ironically' or 'ironic' often precedes sarcastic remarks, signaling the listener to the speaker's true intent.

Sarcasm Indicator

It can be used to mock or mimic someone by repeating their words with a tone that suggests the opposite meaning.

Mocking Echo

 predatory mammals so what you then saw was what was left of the wildcats that had been annihilated were hanging on to western scotland that's where the last wild cats were left and in fact they probably would have gone extinct too were not for the first world war which ironically meant the gamekeepers went to the front lines but didn't come back so the wildcats then began to come back

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 and, ironically, use the same technology that's driving us to distraction to help us step out of our unhealthy habit patterns of smoking, of stress eating and other addictive behaviors. Now, remember that bit about context-dependent memory? We can deliver these tools to peoples' fingertips

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 You know, ironically, we have to isolate physically, while in terms of looking at community groups that are pooling resources to help make sure food gets to everyone and help assure medical care, you know, if older people need to be moved out of common facilities,

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 The ensuing power vacuum led to a series of civil wars, during which Brutus, facing certain defeat, took his own life. Ironically, the ultimate result would be the opposite of what the conspirators had hoped to the end of the Republic

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 were the comfortable, movable chairs. People would come in, find their own seat, move it a bit, actually, and then stay a while, and then interestingly, people themselves attracted other people, and ironically, I felt more peaceful

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 and I'm just going to get on with my life," ironically, those are the people who are most enslaved by what they have. Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows. And the people who do better

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 thus, ironically, proving the point. And today, the quote, whoever said it, is truer than ever before. In previous decades, most media with global reach consisted of several major newspapers and networks

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 transformation but ironically one of the greatest dangers the larvae will face is being themselves impregnated by other species of parasitic wasp incredibly the wounded caterpillar helps them out

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 that had to be written to say what needed to be said to validate my reality even if it was disavowed which it was it was testimony ironically it was my mother who passed on to me the tools

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 on our mind's and our body's health. And there she was standing in my lab, which ironically overlooked the entrance to a mortuary, and -- And she had a life-and-death question for me.

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