It is a curious irony that Europe's last two great colonies will give a vivid demonstration of the world's new, and highly significant, power.

What curious irony this was; to be served, bathed and waited on by Ronald Cameron's daughter.

There was a curious irony to being left behind here, even if the very thought of it made Laura break into a sweat.

"There is a curious irony to our situation."

They had caught a curious irony in Dort's laugh.

Here, by curious irony, the one danger that Barcomb had encountered when scurrying back to the dining room now could be used to support his statement.

Once I saw that his eyes were fixed on Blanche Stroeve, and there was in them a curious irony.

Being boiled in their own cooking-pot must have been a curious irony.

As others have pointed out a curious irony that he leaves the same time as the US withdraws from Iraq.

There is a curious irony about all this.