21.   This is, I suppose, the ultimate irony.

22.   To Roland Hjorth, dean of the UW Law School, the prospect of SU becoming the more diverse school is the ultimate irony.

23.   Yet in the ultimate irony of the case, the question of guilt or innocence came to seem irrelevant, transcended by the larger issues the affair represented.

24.   In the ultimate irony, they have acquired anthromorphic qualities as savvy mimics of the rapacious ways of humans.

25.   The ultimate irony is that seven centuries after Europe discovered Sri Lanka as the mother lode of gems, this country is becoming an importer.

26.   In the ultimate irony, it was his rescuers, the Russian security forces, who almost killed him -- repeatedly.