Though deeply ironic, Powers's strategy does not trivialize his subject.

You really don't find someone saying "I am intliigent" in a non-ironic way to be deeply ironic?

Mr. Timbers says the show has a "deeply ironic concept" but does not mock the church.

"It was a deeply ironic reminder of what a falling-off there was in the activist community at Harvard."

"Ah, yes, poverty," said Chatterjee and smiled as if the word had deeply ironic connotations.

His guiding philosophy as editorial director sounds simple, and he has rehearsed its definition; not surprisingly, it also happens to sound deeply ironic.

He deliberately denies an autonomous voice, and the ending is deeply ironic.

As such, the fact that the date of the final photograph is July 4 is meant to be deeply ironic.

It is deeply ironic that no hub gear designed by Sturmey was ever series produced.

In Merriman's hands, the convention is made to take a satirical and deeply ironic twist.