The play's final moments provide a layer of grim irony that seems eminently suitable to Twain.

It would be a grim and foolish irony to have to kill himself now, after living through the battle of Morina.

It's about the grim ironies of reproductive technology - boutique programming indeed.

With grim irony, it turned out to be Lyme, a disease foreign to urban life.

Such was the grim irony that blocked The Shadow's course.

And from this grew one of the war's grim ironies.

Suddenly very still, the man smiled in grim irony.

If so, what followed has a grim irony - since, save for the panic of this thing, the second thing might never have happened.

Then he repeats the line, with grim irony, presumably to show that the men who dropped the bomb recognized the tragic nature of their mission.

The grim irony isn't lost on either of us.