Gallagher is too pointedly an ironist to point out an irony so obvious, so she gets at it another way.

Burns uses biblical language to convey the obvious irony present in the idea that Holy Willie is a 'chosen sample'.

The obvious irony is that after Nazism's defeat, Jews became its foremost witnesses.

I can see myself in a boring Swedish movie, slow to react to painfully obvious ironies.

She was usually bright enough to understand such an obvious irony as that.

One of the obvious ironies in all this is that couples are not asking for anything radical.

"Aside from the obvious irony," Pattie said, "how does that help us?"

I shrugged at the obvious irony; I didn't want to get into a fight.

(Immelman remarked in an interview on the obvious irony of the size of the lesion).

"I know you have urgent business of your own," Sharbaraz said, again without obvious irony.