Word: ironicã
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...members of final clubs to be fully honest in their matching ties and manly cavorting. This is not the case in the least. In fact, the males of final clubs are such adept practitioners of irony that even people who pride themselves on their so-called “ironic?? senses of humor cannot catch them in the act I realized this during this autumn’s “punch” process. Politely, I would ask my final club-pursuing friends how the whole thing was going, and they would consistently give me the same...
...serious” grading system, 5 percent of students will receive A’s, and 15 percent will receive A-minuses. But Mansfield won’t share those marks with anyone other than his teaching fellows and students.By contrast, Mansfield’s “ironic?? grade—the only one that will appear on official transcripts—will follow average grade distribution in the College, with about a quarter of students receiving A’s and another quarter receiving A-minues.Last month, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
These were not the kind of smiles I am used to receiving upon telling someone where I’m working this summer. Usually I mumble, or lower my voice, or try hard to make my voice sound somehow ironic??anything to escape the inevitable bemused and condescending look that is often followed by an “Oh really...
...commuters must now pay 25 percent more for every ride they take out of their own pockets. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has invoked a variety of excuses for the fare increase, but those who ride the T to work every day know that the idea is an ironic??if not sinister—redistribution of costs from relatively affluent motorists onto the less well-off regulars of public transportation...
...after a botched take-off; seeing the recent crash of the plane on the way to the Domincan Republic. All the while during this photo-montage, my brain would drone with the whispered line from that Alanis Morissette song—“isn’t it ironic?? that the first-time flight of an aviophobe crashes...