The second of these stories has a sense of tragic irony.

The Penguin goes on to wonder if this is tragic irony or poetic justice.

We didn't understand the tragic irony that our power is also our weakness.

In a tragic irony, the same political leaders who want abortion to be illegal also support policies that make it more necessary.

Campbell's narrative work is characterized by the extensive use of tragic irony.

It was a tragic irony that they found the cause of the disease and its treatment too late to save themselves.

The tragic irony is that some of them will die within a day or so of their arrival.

I had never heard anyone mention tragic irony before.

Yet the recent documentary also reveals a tragic irony.

In an example of tragic irony, Behm was the only one who did not want to enter the war.