The phrase
"bitter irony" means a situation where something happens that is both surprising and unfair or unfortunate.
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Sentences with «bitter irony»
- He always took theology seriously, but he sometimes wrote about theologians with bitter irony. (firstthings.com)
- From the beginning the relationship between Nazism and expressionism produced bitter ironies. (religion-online.org)
- That's what Andrew Niccol ostensibly asks in Good Kill — a film we know, after watching a few minutes, is going to spin its impersonal military - speak title into bitter irony. (parallax-view.org)
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