Perhaps there is some irony in asking this, but in what context did you see this phrase?

Che sees these as the words of a desperate man... " I mean no one has managed to wield a hoe to the rhythm of the sun And no one has yet reaped grain with love and grace..." These sentences both contrast the hard truths

"to make sense" means to be logical, intelligible or reasonable. Your example should be "People sometimes make sense". As a complete sentence, this is a slightly unusual thing to say because experience shows that most people

Hi, if you are asked a question and you answer it and the party asking says i know, is it sarcastic to ask why the question was asked at all It's impossible to know if sarcasm is involved without knowing things like the context,

Smallville's finally getting a close-up. Getting seen by the world? In this context, yes. a single-theater town to shoot... The irony is they picked their single-theater town? The irony is that a large expensive movie would be shot in a town

Dear Friends, My corpus-based search has found matces for both but would you natives use 'the' in the following: D iscourse irony involves processing the more salient (though contextually incompatible) literal meaning initially , which is

Hi, Anon, thanks for the additional context. As far as I can see, it confirms my position. (Perhaps you're not familiar with the 7-year locust cycle. The critters go into some kind of world-wide hibernation for seven years, and then all come

Not just intonation, but also context. Leaving intonation entirely out of it, here are some examples: "Quite good" = pretty good, but by no means perfect. "Quite" in this case "qualifies downwards". In this sense

They serve Young's in the Member's Bar at Lord's - absolutely delicious, especially when Strauss and Hussain were in. Perhaps you are indulging in postmodern irony, and I am missing the joke, but you would appear to have got yourself

On 1 Jun 2004 04:52:14 GMT, CyberCypher So you maintain that "shovel the focus" and "you look even worse than your ineptitude" are examples of complex grammar? The complete paragraph (You insist on taking things out of context