"Ah, well, heroes are hard to come by these days," said the Iceman with fine irony.

It was a fine irony, she thought, that she should have this time to prepare for his coming.

Which for Connecticut, in particular, is a fine irony.

"Say, rather, that she never left," Dalamar corrected with fine irony.

A fine irony; even on stage we could not be ourselves.

If so," she added with fine irony, "the blast was extremely selective.

"No, my business tonight is not quite finished," Lachley said with fine irony.

And if he were party to Angus's death, then the fine irony of this was only one more element to compound the tragedy.

Such a fine irony: sorcerers doing the work of the Goddess.

It would be fine irony to go all the way to Mars and back and then drown.