The manipulations of fate often contain a strange irony.

"There's a strange irony to this whole affair," Laurie said, shaking her head.

In a strange irony, Ali doesn't know that he has a son by Nazar.

Don Juan commented on the strange irony that had always marked his benefactor's life.

The man with the flat voice talked on, without heeding him, of the strange irony of Butteridge's death.

And - strange irony - the mutinies were not to be wished away.

She understood the strange, crude, hilarious irony of being in the public's imagination.

But, he said yesterday, "in a strange irony of life," he was now a threat to that majority.

Magazines now confront a strange irony: they belong to an enormous media apparatus that includes the Internet, television magazine programs, 24-hour cable news.

A strange irony, she who had never seen weather as a child was now having to deal with weather at its wildest.