Sentences with phrase «biggest irony of»

The biggest irony of all: Here are the 2 «signatures» of the person who wrote this articleand a branch manager at that company.

Missing out on cash back rewards become the biggest irony of shunning credit; by going cash only, you're passing up the chance to earn more cash if you incorporated credit into your finances.

Missing out on cash back rewards become the biggest irony of shunning credit; by going cash only, you're passing up the chance to earn more cash if you incorporated credit into your finances.

Perhaps the biggest irony of the film is that Dash (still looking fantastic at 40) and Rudd (in his late 30s), are playing not only younger than they are in their respective roles in the film, but the characters themselves are stars of a TV show that requires them to be high school age.

I was basically creating this world where I'd said from the beginning I love irony in my movies, and the biggest irony of Superman is that it's not ironic!

Death is the biggest irony of God's creation.

Midwifery advocates often cite what they see as the biggest irony of anti-midwife laws like the one in Missouri: that a good Samaritan who helps a woman deliver her baby on the side of a road or in a taxi cab is not subject to prosecution, but that a trained midwife who helps a woman carefully plan her out - of - hospital birth is.

But perhaps the biggest irony of these criticisms is that even with the tax increases brought in by Ms. Notley's NDP, corporate and small business tax rates are still lower than they were when Mr. Day served in Premier Ralph Klein «s cabinet.

The biggest irony of the 2000 bust?

One of the biggest ironies of job searching is how much easier it is to get a job if you don't actually need a job.

Not exact matches

The irony of Facebook's CEO taking out a print ad to apologize for the company's biggest scandal ever also can't be overlooked.

In one of the stranger ironies, what has given real credence to the alt - meat realm is Big Food's arrival on the scene.

While our own government in Ottawa silently condones the plans for further integration with the U.S., and while our provincial governments continue to be completely sound asleep on this vitally important topic, irony of ironies, at this writing 15 U.S. states have expressed concern that the big business sponsored Security and Prosperity Partnership is a process that, wait for it, is a threat to states» rights and to the sovereignty of the United States.

One of the biggest ironies in personal finance is that those who have the greatest need to take out loans are usually those who have the worst credit.

ask him, why are nt the robots also made by your big loud f art??? the irony of course is lost to them!

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.

The irony here is that the church's bigger problem is not with the government but with its own members, many of whom don't buy into the very tenets about family planning that is in the middle of this controversy.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

The biggest irony to me is that the Christians are doing the exact opposite of what they should do.

In an irony of carnal life, a moment of adult generosity toward a little one plays into a system that turns little ones into big spenders themselves.

Of course, god has always been big on irony.

I can recognize the irony of needing to make a Big Life Decision when I can't even make a seventeen dollar decision.

I'd like to also advocate the use of this hashtag for situational irony, whenever someone goofs up big time.

what an irony of life... Tin cup yet the big four will all be happy to win it.

The irony of this humiliation is, Iceland have one star: Sigurdson, who dumped by Spuds during their big overhaul about two years ago.

The irony is that when Sandy finally did make his retirement announcement, he did it in such a way as to give Collier a scoop but also to force Collier into an error, not a big error, but the kind of petty thing that irks a good newspaperman.

And» Big Sam» laughed at the irony, saying how unfortunate his team had been in recent weeks when losing games his players did well in and it was about time they won ugly for a change, as opposed to leaving matches with plenty of respect from the media but absolutely nothing to show for in the points department.

I would like to write you a big fat juicy BlogHer review, but I was off line all weekend (the irony of truly crappy web access at a BlogHer conference) and now my computer's malfunctioning.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

There's too deep an irony at the heart of the big society.

If he was angered by the totalitarian warning of «Big Brother» becoming the moniker of a TV reality show, he could demonstrate the irony that this fulfilled Orwell's prophecy as much as it subverted it, writing in The Guardian that:

The irony however was that the votes of the PFP, which was the bigger of the two, and the UNC, put together, was more than what the PNP got.

The irony here is how Klein is one of the biggest abusers / beneficiaries of play - to - play, and he fully expects his proposal to go nowhere.

The argument at the time, was that New York State needed a system of public financing to take big money out of politics, the irony is not lost on anyone I'm sure.

The great irony is that instead of engaging with the biggest problem facing the country, all three parties have shied away from it.

Perhaps one of the biggest ironies in biology is that microbes, which are the oldest self - replicating organisms on Earth, were among the last to be discovered and have largely been ignored.

And then the big irony is that the blockchain is a giant sucker of energy, consuming almost twice that of the whole company Google.

One of the ironies of these stops is that the biggest threat to a home may not be the tornado itself but the buildings upwind where owners have not built in resiliency.

It is a stinging irony that by far the biggest donor to BORA is the Sime Darby Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Sime Darby Group, based in Kuala Lumpur, one of the world's biggest producers of palm oil, the crop that led to the destruction of much of the rhino's rainforest home.

The biggest irony is the fact that many of these «RDA pushers» are overweight, flabby, out of shape professors, researchers or white lab coat types.

The big irony is that most of the diet programs that claim to help you get rid of excess weight, only end up making it harder for you in the long run because they use harsh metabolism - decreasing diets and not enough exercise (almost never any weight training).

And the irony of it all, is that whilst Sandhurst poses countless mental and physical challenges for Mr SC, it has also inadvertently become my biggest dating obstacle so far.

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

Inject that with a dose of irony, and The Big Lebowski is the Will Hunting of comedies: He's brilliant, but you sure wouldn't guess it by looking at him.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

He even manages most of the material better than Michael Clarke Duncan («The Green Mile,» «The Whole Nine Yards») who is just too much of an actor to deliver the cheesy dialogue with the right mix of sincerity and irony, and Peter Facinelli («Can't Hardly Wait,» «The Big Kahuna»), whose thin - voiced delivery doesn't convey the necessary petulant malevolence.

The director seems as aware as anyone else of the irony that the worlds biggest, most corporate football club are taking a central role in his first film on the subject, but he never lets these opinions interfere with his story and characters.

The biggest irony in all this comes from DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg possibly being the first victim of 3 - D pricing; he «Äôs the format «Äôs main booster, and only last month was touting higher 3 - D ticket prices as the tonic for badly sagging DVD sales.

In the largest of innumerable ironies, the duo is incensed that their underground credibility is being ruined by the production of a big - budget picture and seek to, if not stop the production of the film - within - a-film (to star James Van Der Beek and Jason Biggs), get a piece of the financial pie.

Named after the only book by film critic, painter, and teacher Manny Farber — a 1971 collection reprinted in an expanded edition in 1998 — Petit's video wrestles with American landscape and culture, irony, memory, Las Vegas, the beginning of a new millennium, death, desert, film versus video, J.M.W. Turner's painting, several movies (including Howard Hawks's The Big Sleep, Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past, and Roberto Rossellini's Voyage to Italy), as well as two critics, Farber and Dave Hickey.