Sentences with phrase «bitter irony»

He always took theology seriously, but he sometimes wrote about theologians with bitter irony.

From the beginning the relationship between Nazism and expressionism produced bitter ironies.

That's what Andrew Niccol ostensibly asks in Good Kill — a film we know, after watching a few minutes, is going to spin its impersonal military - speak title into bitter irony.

The fact that Volvo's new Chinese owners have a stellar premium mid-size car to sell while the company that invested in its development has nothing to compete with it is an incredibly bitter irony.

What bitter irony this antitheist has bought in hook line and sinker into the cultist Church Of Global Warming.

And here is perhaps the bitterest irony: As these extreme technologies are deployed to form families, many children without homes yearn in vain to be adopted — even as the adoption process has become increasingly difficult, due to the many bureaucratic hurdles here and tightening restrictions overseas.

The bitter irony is that Protestant clergy are the least churched members of their churches although they are always in church.

Also have to appreciate the bitter irony that the one thing we spent all season worried about (starting pitching) has been mostly fine.

The bitter irony of the situation is not lost on West Ham fans, who have been frustrated with the way both Slaven Bilic and David Moyes have handled Hernandez this season.

Yet, the bitter irony is that he and younger brother Tony, a defender with Rangers and Cardiff City, never featured in the World Cup finals.

In a bitter irony, soldiers from that battalion returned to Shorncliffe on Sunday 19 April, 10 days ago — just five days before the Government made their announcement — from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

The bitter irony of the statement «this country will never, a trillion trillion times never, be a colony again» will be missed by few as the country continues to suffer from uncontrollable inflation.

«The bitter irony is that some of the same heroes are being threatened.»

Having once dismissed Gordon Brown's pre-election promise of an AV referendum as doomed by association with him, there is a bitter irony here.

It is a bitter irony that Miliband's introduction of a voting system widely applauded by Blairites threatens an outcome that will drastically curtail the influence of this part of the party, potentially via means that imperil the integrity of the whole process.

The bitter irony is that the party has the right diagnosis.

Yet, the real tragedy in Nigeria is the bitter irony embedded in this subject.

The bitter irony is that there may be no viable homeland to which they can return.

In a bitter irony, before construction at Fukushima Daiichi began, the site was excavated by more than 20 metres.

But in «a bitter irony», they said, research on the impact of the pollutants on the Faroese themselves has shown that mercury, especially, causes lasting damage.

For the very small start - up, the bitter irony is that it is extremely poor, often teetering on the edge of existence.

Back in the days when better living through chemistry was a promise, not a bitter irony, nylon stockings replaced silk, refrigerators edged out iceboxes, and Americans became increasingly dependent on man - made materials.

«It's a bitter irony that western conservation scientists who are working on providing the information needed to protect tropical forests have a much greater personal carbon footprint than almost anyone they will meet abroad,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

For groups striving to improve people's lives while protecting biodiversity, there is a bitter irony: in some cases, their efforts can escalate transmission of HIV.

It's a bitter irony that, for those in the global health community contending with viral outbreaks, many of the barriers to mounting an effective response are man - made.

While the running time can weigh heavily on some of the sub-plots, the overall effect is as strong as Hui intended and the title underlines the bitter irony of the history involved.

Each is mother to an interchangeable iPad - obsessed brood of varying sizes, and each longs to be known as more than just somebody's mom, lending a bitter irony to the shallowness of their characterizations.

But everything about this part of the film is beautifully done, from the gritty realism of the gladiatorial school, to the touch of bitter irony in the gladiators catering to the crowd's thirst for blood, to the build - up as the story takes us all the way to Rome and the Colosseum.

Sand Castle ends, having come full circle, with Ocre muttering the phrase «beautiful goddamn day,» his voice full of bitter irony.

So it makes some kind of poetic sense that, 37 years and over 80 movies after his film debut in Heaven's Gate, the revered actor returned to his artistic origin by teaming with experimental filmmaker Sean Baker (Tangerine) on The Florida Project — the indie set at a rundown motel that is within spitting distance of Disney World yet, in a stroke of bitter irony, is called the Magic Castle.

Knowing the skill of Haneke's scalpel, is there hope in the title or bitter irony?

It's a bitter irony, then, that Sir Ridley and his vast array of technical wizards spend the next two hours committing an act of plodding and ponderous recreation.

«In one of life's bitter ironies, our stress response — which has done so much to keep us alive — now threatens to drastically reduce the quality of our lives.»

«The bitter irony is throwing out due process will make it harder to attract and keep great teachers,» she said.

Beyond the celebrity, though, the Vick dogs were — and today continue to be — champions for every dog trapped in dogfighting misery who finally gets rescued, only to face the bitter irony of a policy that deems them deserving only death.

The older artists could not have anticipated the bubble, and their bitter irony could not deflate it.

«The bitter irony of towns once so self - sufficient, which contributed to the bottom line of American industrial empire lay in rust, turned into casinos, or simply left to go forgotten with the exception of the hearty locals that soldier on.

Using multi-colored shoelaces, the palette suggests that despite the bitter irony of this constitutional quotation in the face of rampant corporate interests, we are, nonetheless, a rainbow nation of individual human beings.

HENIE ONSTAD ART CENTER * May 23 - September 1 * Curated by Milena Hogsberg * There is surely some bitter irony to the fact that an exhibition about the changing conditions of labor is taking place...

There is a bitter irony to the idea that a storm, strengthened by human - caused climate change, carries the potential to destroy the very oil infrastructure that has contributed so much warming to our world.»

«It is a bitter irony that the single most deliberately destructive act against crop diversity could be about to happen in the country that invented the modern seed bank,» said Cary Fowler, of the Global Crop Diversity Trust.

... I also want to tell you, I don't know why lawyers do this, and there's a lot of them in the room so take heed, all of you, language like failures are staggering, violations of this magnitude rarely occur, stunning display of incompetence, bitter irony, breathtaking dereliction of duty are not only unpersuasive, they're somewhat annoying.