Sentences with phrase «as ironic»

As ironic as it sounds — Decor Steals also calls this cow Bessie... or Flossie.

I chased them, I'm getting older, but I started chasing them, I identified who I was and as ironic as it may seem, they ran right towards my trailer.

As ironic as it is that Motor City has the highest rates in America, Laura Adams, senior insurance analysis for InsuranceQuotes.com says that, «There are quite a few reasons for that,» and that Detroit isn't an island of price - gouging in a sea of otherwise standard prices.

In what some may view as an ironic coincidence, Judge Kozinski is scheduled to appear this Saturday on a breakout panel titled «Rights in Conflict: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Religious Liberty» at the American Constitution Society National Convention in Washington, D.C. (see page 4 of this PDF file).

I don't know whether the criticism counts as ironic, insofar as I see some of the adoring praise for some of his recent decisions as having more to do with their values and outcomes than the actual «reasons.»

While I wrote about the death of the billable hour but not the end of recording hours, it struck me as ironic that I was abandoning the task list approach that underpins time recording.

(As an ironic aside, the American distributor of these British made WaterVend machines is a subsidiary of a company that makes water bottling plants.

It could be seen as ironic to note that the price drop of these french wines occurs simultaneously with what we could call the new oil crash.

As an ironic footnote to our earlier controversy, AR5 now cites McKitrick et al 2010 and concedes that the discrepancy between models and observations in the tropical troposphere is unresolved.

Focusing on his structural devices his balancing and counterbalancing of line and shape and color, we could see him as an ironic formalist - an abstract painter who chooses, for some reason, to work with representational imagery.

He regarded this as an ironic acknowledgment of the self - help technique of burning items to separate oneself from an emotional attachment to material possessions.

His series «Walking Objects» (2011) and «Toilet Paradiso» (2011) comprised string and golden necklaces with pendants made out of various commonplace items or foods — objects meant as ironic visual puns, to stand in for cultural talismans.

Intended as a playful tag suggesting the inconvenience caused by ongoing construction as being an experience worth enduring, the slogan struck Gaillard as ironic.

The latter used abstraction as an ironic paraphrase, commenting on the veracity of the brush stroke as a mark of the artistic self.

His paintings and sculptures borrow widely from art - historical techniques and styles; although often seen as ironic, Koons insists his practice is earnest and optimistic.

The campaign was masterminded by K - HOLE, an art collective and «trend forecasting group,» which — like the ad campaign itself and similar to the mentality of DIS — exists simultaneously as an ironic commentary on and earnest participant in the very ideas it criticizes.

In the central monumental piece of the show the artist has recreated a ready - to consume iceberg made of found - recyclable materials as an ironic way to depict how easily we can reduce the manifestation of centuries of life into a packages digestible visual concept.

Later in the century, it was adapted as a battle hymn by suffragettes and abolitionists, who used the song's title and opening line — «My country ’ t is of thee, / sweet land of liberty» — as an ironic jab at the nation's hypocrisies.

The painting, with a title taken from an American popular song, acts as an ironic commentary on the racial violence of her time.

Katz identifies Cage's silence as an ironic position, one that negated any authentic, unmediated forms of expression and reframed both composing and listening to music as self - conscious acts.

The exhibition title «+ «has to be understood as an ironic reference to the rich exhibition history about swiss art at home and abroad (Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Swiss Made - Präzison und Wahnsinn, Beispiel: Schweiz, Saus und Braus etc.).

Officially known as metamechanics, Tinguely's sculptures appear light - hearted and fun, yet the dangerously spiked tail of the mobile and the metallic grinding — even self - eroding — structure serve as an ironic and satirical metaphor for commercial machines, overproduction and consumerism.

On the first floor, Ceal Floyer's wall of speakers blaring the engaged signal of a failed telephone call, Line Busy (UK)(2011), is both a minimal work of art and a note of restrained humour; Cory Arcangel's hacked computer game screens, MIG 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds (2005), could be either political statement or benign dreamscape; while Allora & Calzadilla's Solar Catastrophe (2012) is a hard - edged abstraction made from solar panels, as well as an ironic admission of the wreckage left behind by this renewable energy source.

Joining Battlefield 1 in the freemium - chomping money grubbing is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, a game in a series that has the overextension of corporations as an ironic central theme.

Writing a post-mortem about Rainbow Six Siege can very much be seen as an ironic exercise, since Ubisoft's tactical shooter couldn't be more alive and kicking.

I don't know if the humor was meant to come off as ironic or not but I can't believe someone wrote the dialog in this game thinking it was funny.

I guess this is a consequence of both their monolithic stature in the technology sector and world at large, as well as an ironic after - effect of how devices such as the iPhone have opened up how connected and informed the general public is in the present day.

As ironic as it sounds, Floyd Lowery never had a drink in his life!

Your Bank Account - As ironic as it sounds, it is actually fairly expensive to file for bankruptcy.

So, after realizing all of this many years ago, I finally figured out that as ironic as it seemed, simple, raw and stripped - down price action trading was about the most non-status-quo trading approach I could find, and it also made the most sense.

When we approach trading from this mindset of being OK with losing, we put ourselves in the best position to win, as ironic as that may sound to you.

As ironic as it is, I learned a ton from creating my own course and have Bradley's perspective.

Just as Anam uses the reconstruction of the whale fossil to explore Zubaida's attempt to put together her own past, she uses the ship - breaking and reconstructing of the luxury liner Grace as an ironic tragedy; to show that our human attempts to put pieces together and solve mysteries often, unfortunately, fail to succeed.

The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

It's not clear, and arguably never clear, that Shellburn's purple musing is meant as ironic (though the film's ending makes it so), meaning the impact of the voiceover is painfully earnest.

The licence may be aimed at the kind of eighties schoolkids who'd buy a Madballs character on eBay as an ironic student mantlepiece ornament, but the underlying game is built for those who love games regardless of their licence.

Though it's possible to take the subtitle as ironic seeing as the titular main character is guilty in the first chapter (an incident related in the film as a flashback) of an act that is at the very least heinous, both novel and film are earnest in exploring the sticky gradations of morality without value judgment.

As one character is obsessed with Elvis, it strikes as ironic that Elvis's blue - eyed soul reflects a lot of the same marketing success as The Commitments outrageously popular soundtrack album — making one character's line about the Irish being Europe's black folks interesting for more than just the realization that Parker is taking another oblique shot across the bow at America's race record.

The mistake is in seeing some of Tarantino's casting choices as ironic: what's wrong with the careers of the world's Travoltas and Pam Griers and even De Niros is that they started cashing in on the ironic value of their brand.

And as far as ironic hipster kitsch appeal goes, Stand Up and Cheer!

It's interesting that the studio appears to have embraced the idea that this is an auteurist Star Wars, however — those same fans might see it as Disney passing the buck and take it as ironic validation.

And Cannavale provides a cool spark of comic relief as well as an ironic counterpoint to the central plot.

In June 1996, the LAPD arrested the actor (who had already spent time in three rehabilitation facilities between 1987 and 1996) on counts including drug use, driving under the influence, possession of a concealed weapon, and possession of illegal substances, a development which struck many as ironic, given his star - making performance years prior in Less than Zero.

when Fortune used the phrasetrophy husband, it was meant as ironic.

As ironic as this is, my reaction is pretty mild after I started some dairy again (post-vegan).

Described as an ironic shade of pink, millennial pink represents contemporary feminism at its best — shamelessly female and sophisticatedly pretty without the negative stereotypes associated with bubble gum pink of the past.

(Perhaps as an ironic jest, they allowed him to retain the title of «Emperor.»)

Treating social phobia without personal contact between patient and therapist — or without any therapist involvement at all — could be viewed as ironic, but two recent studies suggest that it works.

«More research is needed before we reach that point though, but as ironic as it may seem, we are using the yellow fever virus, once arguably the most feared pestilence in the Western Hemisphere, to help us defeat the Zika virus and quite possibly others as well.»

As an ironic side note, back when US was created, people were actually idealistic enough to actually try and avoid factionalism (as partisanship was known back then) in politics.