“What a beautiful view,” he said, his voice dripping with 'irony', as he looked out the window at the alley.
The (awful/bitter) 'irony' is that in trying to forget her, he thought of her even more.
It was a tragic 'irony' that he made himself sick by worrying so much about his health.
(..) Check out the environmental controls. It's a little warm in here. Isn't it amazing? This ship used to be a nuclear missile. An historical irony. Using an instrument of mass destruction to inaugurate an era of peace. A boyhood fantasy. I've seen this ship in the Smithsonian, (..)1996 Star Trek: First Contact