1.   Tears streaking down her face, she acknowledged the irony of it.

2.   A stunned Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson acknowledged the irony of the Iowa comeback.

3.   Daly chooses not to acknowledge the irony.

4.   Facing months of hospitalization, Bearing wrestles with the grinding passage of the minutes and hours, while acknowledging the irony that her time grows short.

5.   At a late-morning fund-raiser at a private home on Long Island, Gore acknowledged the irony in raising money and preaching reform at the same time.