Sentences with phrase «with bitter irony»

resonates with bitter irony given the FBI bigwig's own personal secrets.

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The bitter irony of the situation is not lost on West Ham fans, who have been frustrated with the way both Slaven Bilic and David Moyes have handled Hernandez this season.
Yet, the bitter irony is that he and younger brother Tony, a defender with Rangers and Cardiff City, never featured in the World Cup finals.
Having once dismissed Gordon Brown's pre-election promise of an AV referendum as doomed by association with him, there is a bitter irony here.
Sand Castle ends, having come full circle, with Ocre muttering the phrase «beautiful goddamn day,» his voice full of bitter irony.
The fact that Volvo's new Chinese owners have a stellar premium mid-size car to sell while the company that invested in its development has nothing to compete with it is an incredibly bitter irony.
«The bitter irony of towns once so self - sufficient, which contributed to the bottom line of American industrial empire lay in rust, turned into casinos, or simply left to go forgotten with the exception of the hearty locals that soldier on.
The bitter varieties of this risk irony are virtually endless; among them is the fact, that, in order to protect their populations from the danger of terrorism, states increasingly limit civil rights and liberties, with the result that in the end the open, free society may be abolished, but the terrorist threat is by no means averted.
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