Sentences with phrase «almost ironic»

It's almost ironic to think that there are so many reports about the next iPhone and its AMOLED display component while there is a very real new pair of iPhones that will be releasing in just a few months.

Bose has quietly launched a new pair of earbuds with noise canceling technology with an almost ironic mission.

It just feels almost ironic that Project Ara, which traces its roots back to Motorola, would be shut down by the man who once headed that company.

It is almost ironic that we regularly update our phones and, soon, our homes to the latest technologies but our minds and behaviors are still firmly rooted in pre-Facebook days.

«It's almost ironic and funny that some of the rules and procedures we want to get rid of are almost exactly the rules we want in place to [protect] a major client,» says Hu Liang, a former State Street exec who left in August to start a cryptocurrency trading platform for institutional investors.

And so it's almost ironic that it turned out to be the least significant.

The creators of Peles opposed any current design trend by establishing an almost ironic representation of the «ideal» castle.

The paper seems to be giving a nod to its origin as an almost ironic choice of material.

It's almost ironic, since one of Google's great strengths has been rethinking how users approach organization, such as with conversations in Gmail.

Given the design - related lawsuits between Apple and Samsung, it is almost ironic that Samsung has a bit of a copycat in Huawei.

The word «color» in this question is almost ironic because of the description the drought and its effects on the land, natural environment, and the inhabitants of the Kiewarra area invoke - at least in my mind's eye - images of very bland color.

The Aviator's Wife made sense as a title because it totally fit the book - Charles Lindbergh was much more famous than his wife, and I think the title is almost ironic, as the pages are so clearly filled with Anne's own story, very much setting her apart from her husband (and details what an unfaithful & difficult husband he was - yikes!).

It was almost ironic that David and I had discussed our favorite 90's movies (mine is the Secret Garden, his is Far from home), before getting to the hotel and it basically being a recreation of Richy Rich meets Dunston checks in.

«Let me start by saying what a strange, almost ironic, surreal feeling this is.

He certainly has a bit of a collection all the same, considering his size and his style of play, it's almost ironic or something looking at the best of his collectors items.

Considering the history of Thanksgiving and how starvation and lack of food played such a big role, it's almost ironic how many Thanksgiving leftovers we now waste.

Almost ironic.

Not exact matches

This is somewhat ironic given almost the exact same thing happened with bond markets thanks to QE and the Fed's balance sheet expansion.

We are so accustomed to Luke's ironic reversals that his tag line is almost lost on us.

I think it is somewhat ironic that part of the tithe Israel brought in was intended for widows, and in that story we find a widow who had only two mites, worth almost nothing.

In truth, if he could speak to us today as clearly as he did to earlier generations, it would not be in the amiable tones of someone familiar to us but in a distant, almost prophetic voice, full of ironic moral reproach.

Slightly ironic that the majority here seem to be almost solely focused on the discussion as to whether religion is evil and the world would be better off without it, while nukes are getting a free pass!

It's ironic that the Wade left the Miami Heat, who will almost certainly be better than the Bulls now next season, but if he ends up on another playoff team with those $ 24 million then he's a winner in multiple ways.

Which kind of itself is ironic since we paid Diaby wages for almost a decade for sitting around in the medical room.

It's sort of ironic you're asking me for advice on which advice to take, but that's really the crux of the issue, for you and almost everyone heading off to college: You want to make the best decision possible so you talk to as many people as possible, but after a while, it's easy to fall into the paralysis - from - analysis trap — but then again, maybe the next person you talk to will give you the key to unlocking the best decision.

All the loose speculation provoked by roborats is ironic considering that the experiment was just a small - scale replay of a major media event that occurred almost 45 years ago.

It is «also a little ironic or paradoxical» that the new road map has been approved as a boost to Spain's economy «at the same time when the situation that is being lived... in the universities and research centers is almost dramatic, and a matter of survival,» says Carlos Andradas Heranz, a mathematician at the Complutense University of Madrid and president of the Confederation of Spanish Scientific Societies.

At one point I thought double denim should only be reserved for Justin and Britney, and even then it was in an ironic almost comical manor, and then the resurgence of double denim hit Fashion Week in AW14 and my opinion started to shift.

In a parallel, more ironic universe, you could almost picture them in a Jean Paul Gaultier collection.

I saw this on TV and it felt very choppy, almost certainly having had some horse - falls cut out of it; ironic for a film which preaches kindness to and respect for animals, amongst other things.

Add trademark ironic line deliveries by Murray and Wilson, and the chances of actually getting into the story and caring about any character become almost nil.

Until now, the brutal - yet - ironic combatants in his darkly comic theater of cruelty had been almost exclusively male.

It manages the improbable feat of being simultaneously ironic and ingenuous, an accomplishment that makes the film almost impossible to engage with on any level other than the theoretical.

Just based on his work with Scorsese alone, Ballhaus could have earned a place in the pantheon of the great cinematographers of all time — «Goodfellas» has so many classic visual moments in it that it almost feels like a greatest hits reel of his work at times (ironic, considering that Ballhaus has admitted to having had misgivings about working on the film because of his aversion to screen violence).

In essence, it is ironic the film is about insomnia when at its heart it's almost like a dream — lots of fanciful things going on but when it's over there's not a whole lot of sense we can make out of it.

A horrible fate, ironic as Wrench and Numbers almost did the same to him earlier.

In fact, almost the entire RSD — which was already approx 90 percent charters — qualifies as a district of «failing» schools according to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's definition of «failing»... Ironic how the predominately - charter RSD has the greatest concentration of such «failing» schools in the entire state of Louisiana.»

It's ironic that what I've seen / learned about the publishing world in the past year and a half almost killed my ability to write anything, anywhere.

In our narrow lane, the giant books painted on the side of the van almost touched the shop window, making me feel the size of a Borrower, which was ironic, because I'd never borrowed any of its books.

And given it was at the same time as the video game violence controversies in the US, it's almost kind of ironic in a certain sense too.

Confronted with an almost unprecedented banquet of racing sims, it's suitably ironic that I would end up investing most of my racing time into this delightful little sports management game from last year.

We are almost certain this is a different character, though he appears to be sporting the classic Watch Dog ironic bandana.

It's into these fissures created by an ironic, almost violent dissociation between Metal Gear Solid «s fiction and paratext, that we find our entry point as players.

Instead of showing Modernism's stifling blocks or Postmodernism's ironic, commercial side, it leaves Rem Koolhaus and Andreas Gorski as fantasies of play, almost like science fiction.

«But, almost twenty years later, the older artist additionally explained, ``... it was partly a title perversely ironic... Only later did I learn that in «English» «homely» means «homebody,» which also happens to be true of me... But at the time I named it I was referring to the American idiomatic use of being «not beautiful,» not attractive... which I felt more about the picture than myself.»

One of the products of the almost universal dismissal of modernism by contemporary artists has been the development of a new historicism, ironic and detached, which has spawned a number of artistic «neoisms.»

It seems almost odd, even ironic that an artist of such radical modesty and avowed economy should be the subject of so many superlatives.

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

And thus, Pop artists decided to put a spotlight on the familiar, and make it even more so, in vivid, saturated, ironic, almost aggressive ways.

It is ironic, therefore, that the feedback that I have received on the J. Hydrol paper has been almost exclusively with the findings on «extreme events».