Its main characters toil and scheme, cheat and betray -and are then crushed by a fickle, unavoidable, ironic and tragic fate.

The cold medicine made me groggy, not high, and - oh, ironic fate - all the daytime television was in Spanish.

These titles reveled in a gruesome joie de vivre, with grimly ironic fates meted out to many of the stories' protagonists.

It is almost as if Sartre the philosopher had never existed - an ironic fate for an existentialist.

Eun-young, who does not know of this ironic fate, deeply misses Soo-ho from her childhood.

An ironic fate for those billion-dollar nuggets.

With his only love gone, Jinlong commits suicide in the same way his father did, in a twist of ironic fate.

Getting slaughtered by his own countrymen after escaping the nomads seemed a fate too bitterly ironic to bear.

As he turned 60, Speed found himself threatened by perhaps the most ironic fate that could befall a film critic.

The New York fans react in their usual restrained manner, accepting the ironic fate and showing a Zen-like understanding for the breaks of the game.