Sentences with phrase «being ironic»

With all due respect that seems to me to be thin skinned in the sense of an argument not being able to stand on it's own merit and it being ironic about you alleging that in me.

Not being aithiest, I wasn't being ironic.

Not that something being ironic is somehow bad or something.

By focusing solely on the historical Plato, we'll miss other important questions: Where is Plato being ironic?

I know you'd like everyone to believe you were just being sarcastic, but considering your typical comments I'd say you were actually being ironic.

Based on my research and others» extensive research prior, General Mills most likely uses «funny honey,» commercially - produced, compromised honey that's heated and dead, not raw and nourishing, so this whole do - good campaign is ironic.»

The Priv's differentiating features — the keyboard, the Hub and DTek — may be the ironic hindrance here, since customizing Android to work with them likely required more time for BlackBerry engineers.

«It's ironic, because if you look at his proposed tax plan, he is in effect leaving the AMT system in place,» said Marianela Collado, CPA and CFP with Tobias Financial Advisors.

Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.

«It's ironic in that you now have a dictatorial decree to move to a democracy,» he said, «but it's actually the smoothest, most powerful path to get there.

What's ironic is that while YouTube started purely as a repository for user - generated content, the company has recognized that it needs higher quality videos to draw the kinds of advertisers it wants — which sounds a lot like television's model.

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy you appreciate more.

It's ironic that now I'm in the game, I never play it ever.

Given Estonia's history, the invention of Skype in this country was ironic.

What's ironic, however, is that Hollywood's nervousness over showing Putin on film seems at odds with its current Russian obsession, with studios searching high and low for scripts that can best capture the current political climate in all its fraught intrigue.

Though it's ironic, Cuban believes technology will eventually kill tech jobs themselves.

(This is all ironic, since I'm using a place of higher education as an example.)

It's thought to be an ironic way for a speaker to say two things at once.

«That's ironic, because you're applying because you can't work.»

That sounds a lot like what Microsoft used to be, which is ironic given that a representative from the software giant appeared on Apple's stage on Wednesday to show off some new app functionality.

It's ironic that the same company involved in IBM's computer spinoff nearly a decade ago — China's Lenovo — is the latest potential dance partner to be attached to this idea.

In what turns out to be an ironic twist, we've recently found this consensus view rests on a subtle - but crucial - misconception regarding the behavior of random sequences.

It would be ironic if an Indian engineer, rejected by an H - 1B program designed to safeguard American jobs, helped build the next Google in Bangalore and created 10,000 new jobs there instead.

That's not at all a concern for me since I can't remember the last time I've gone back to play a game from a previous generation, but it is going to make a lot of people frothing mad, which is ironic given that these are the same people who have actually held on to older games and not traded them in.

The journey to the doors of huge tech firms has been ironic for Powers and Walker, since both of them knew so little of Silicon Valley during their student days.

If Jim referred you to his dentist, and the dentist has terrible teeth, that's ironic.

It is ironic, according to Conrad, that a government agency designed to protect consumers would use its power to make small businesses pay for a free service.

«It's ironic that people who hate Trump the most are responsible for Trump winning the White House.»

My personal example is an ironic one: I struggle to write.

What's ironic is that in order to compete for professional jobs in this economy, a B.A. is usually required, yet when everyone has one, it's hard to stand out.

What's ironic about the earnings conference call, which took place on Wednesday after the market closed, is that it was Musk's idea to extend the time for analyst Q&A.

It is ironic that the larger the organization, the further away from this effective system the selection process moves.

This is ironic given it was the Harper government that promoted an independent PBO during the 2006 election.

It's ironic that after my careful explanations of why the Fed's «open market operations» are irrelevant, we find ourselves in the one circumstance where the Fed actually matters.

It's ironic b / c when the housing market falls, more people seem to want to rent, keeping rent prices high until things really start falling apart.

It's ironic that a team that was billed as an investing dream team with deep contacts in every facet of media and technology may be saved by a deal that required no contacts and little deal making or company building expertise.

What is ironic is that it was the need for war financing that promoted democracy, forming a symbiotic trinity between war making, credit and parliamentary democracy in an epoch when money was still the sinews of war.

It's ironic that, in an era of big data, that's no longer a matter of guesswork, intuition, and hunches, we still don't have a great answer to this question.

I was doing some research today on FB likes and it's ironic that I've now found your post on it.

It's ironic that so many people are worried about rising rates when all rates continue to do is fall.

«It's ironic that the Committee report should come out in the midst of today's court hearings into the Site C dam, a megaproject approved by the federal and province governments over the objections of First Nations and despite a highly critical environmental assessment.»

Butcher said it was still a mystery why the BC Liberals paid Bonney - hired ethnic outreach worker Sarrafpour through Bonney's numbered company and he agreed with St. Pierre that it was ironic for Bonney to work in a ministry that included the words «open government» on its shingle.

«It's ironic as many of these companies complained to the US Justice Department four years ago that Google's Flight Search feature would undermine competition — a claim that's clearly not borne out by the facts.

It is ironic SMM that most people like to buy things when they are less expensive.

In one sense this is ironic: Part of the bitcoin ethos is its libertarianism, and some of that raffish libertarian charm will be lost if bitcoin transactions are regulated much more strictly than dollar transactions.

It's ironic that it's the town in America that, per capita, relies most on foreign trade for its well - being.

It's ironic that VC firms position themselves as supporters, financers, and even instigators of innovation, yet the industry itself has been devoid of innovation for the past 20 years.

«It's ironic — with a group of professionals who have such high credentials,» in terms of graduate and undergraduate degrees and test scores and career ambition, «you would think the odds would be stacked in their favor for success and advancement,» said co-author and Georgetown University professor Laura Morgan Roberts.

It is ironic that rivals of China now talk about a Clash of Civilizations.

It is ironic that the idea for Uber was conceived in Paris, France, where free markets and capitalism are under tremendous pressure.