Swicord's reworking is a deliciously ironic example of how too many revisions can spoil a good thing.

How deliciously ironic.

How deliciously ironic, that the very night he dies, one of his daughters strikes the other dumb with a blow to the throat.

It is deliciously ironic that last week's threat to the euro came from the prospect of a vote - and in the very country that introduced democracy to the world.

"I think it's deliciously ironic that Craig now works for Francis," said one public project scientist, who spoke on the condition he not be identified.

For this kind of history, Lot like Giry thought charters of fundamental importance, and he "encumbered his footnotes" (his own deliciously ironic phrase!) with charter-analyses.

It felt a bit sad to come up with such a deliciously ironic name as Spock and have no opportunity to share the humor of it with anyone.

It's a deliciously ironic proposal.

In those deliciously ironic words purported to be a Chinese proverb: "To prophesy is extremely difficult--especially with respect to the future."

So for that particular book to be awarded this prize in particular seems deliciously ironic.