It's no small irony that a man who made a career out of dilating on failure should have ended up a success.

There is just the smallest irony in all of this.

"They even pay us to do it," Willis agreed with no small irony.

It is no small irony, then, that their work became the touchstone of modern market research.

For a technology invented during the cold war to protect the American government in the event of a nuclear attack, that is no small irony.

There is no small irony in all this.

It's no small irony, in the light of subsequent events, that he was Richard Wagner.

There is a small irony in the fact that the Britten estate supported this revival.

There is no small irony in the fact that Moscow should send a rock musical to America.