The music also adds apparently unintended ironies.

"A Communist Party has to be allowed," says hard-liner Robert Ribanszky with unintended irony.

With unintended irony they talk of themselves as "natives."

With unintended irony, his editorial work inversely mirrors the ancient redactors whom he so deplores.

There are some unintended ironies.

"That's one of the unintended ironies here."

His words twang with unintended ironies and double-entendres.

But the solemnity of Robert Falls's direction lends it an unintended irony.

Both sides also agreed that the 20th-anniversary date of opening arguments and testimony was, in Mr. Kuby's words, "unintended irony."

Nightingale suppressed a smile at the unintended irony.