Sentences with phrase «bitter irony of»

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.

«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.

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 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 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.

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The history states it very simply: «an evil spirit from Yahweh tormented him» (16:1 4b) And tragedy is compounded for Saul, although he does not yet know it, in this bitter irony: the man to whom the charismatic quality has been transferred, the one to whom the kingdom is to be given — this same son of Jesse alone has gifts to soothe Saul's tormented spirit.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.»

Is it not also a bitter irony that this power should be struck to the heart of its security and self - confidence by an action that was utterly improbable according to every logic of risk, when suicide terrorists succeeded in turning commercial passenger aircraft into rockets, which destroyed symbols of American world power?

The bitter varieties of this risk irony are virtually endless; among them is the fact, that, in order to protect their populations from the danger of terrorism, states increasingly limit civil rights and liberties, with the result that in the end the open, free society may be abolished, but the terrorist threat is by no means averted.

This compounding effect is more than bitter irony: it demands a just response, specific reparation and the maximum protection of Australia's residual native title estate.