Sentences with phrase «central irony of»

The disease, closely linked with not eating the right foods and sitting around too much, is beginning to look something like a pandemic as millions of people around the world confront a central irony of the modern world: A lifestyle of abundance can be deadly.

A central irony of the mayoral control fight is that Senate Republicans and their allies in the education reform and charter school sectors are natural allies of the clear lines of authority that mayoral control guarantees.

A central irony of the debate is that the charter groups, which despise de Blasio, are strong supporters of mayoral control, while de Blasio's usual allies in the UFT have been notably absent from the mayor's push for a multi-year extension.

The central irony of the moral life is that by simply not taking ourselves so seriously, we may become more serious moral agents and more serious Christians.

Even with braces and bad hair, Robbie has the look of someone who'd be at home in pageantry, which is one of the central ironies of making Harding's story into a movie, really.

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OPINION: With a touch of irony, the central bank governor fires a warning shot in mortgage - stressed WA that rates will rise.

The irony was striking: In what used to be a bastion of government secrecy, I was casually being shown a document central to the economic structure of the republic.

The irony is that the central message of Christianity, treating others as you would like to be treated, is completely overshadowed by the obsession with the rules of the trivial behavior mentioned above.

Perhaps the central irony is that already mentioned: the groups that were expected then to lose to the powers of modernity look today like winners.

The irony of it all is that the central point of the Bible is God's love for sinners like you and me, and these guys teach as if a person is gay, they are beyond the life changing power of God.

Above all, we see the irony which contributes so forcefully to the central theme of Moses - Hebrew versus Pharaoh - Egypt, the fascinating «accident» by which all of Egypt's richest gifts and endowments are lavished upon him who is to conduct the campaign ending in Egypt's abysmal frustration.

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 films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.

Bold, brash, and free from overt irony, Jack the Giant Slayer proves to be a lot of fun, at times playing more like the central tale in The Princess Bride without any of the trappings of self - reflexivity.

Summary: The central theme of Aaron Guzikowski's script is retribution, in particular the irony of the way ordinary people are blinded by rage and in times of grief become as immoral as the initial perpetrators

The central theme of Aaron Guzikowski's script is retribution, in particular the irony of the way ordinary people are blinded by rage and in times of grief become as immoral as the initial perpetrators.

The different types of perplexities can be recognised as dilemmas or ironies or paradoxes all of which can be managed as a central component of professional development and training — simple solutions are not always the answer, rather it is working through the dilemmas that is of significance;

David Cantor, in this profile of Trenton's educational inadequacies, notes the irony that «four minutes from the monumental government buildings where deals were formalized, 48 percent of students at Trenton Central High School — West were chronically absent.

The interior also contains the H1's sharpest irony: despite the vehicle's hugeness, anyone big enough to climb up into the cabin likely will be cramped once inside because of the massive central tunnel.

Six stories set in Central Asia, one of them a Pushcart Prize winner, written with deadpan irony and packing quite a punch.

Yau writes: «Without any hint of irony, Behnke embraces the legacy of improvisation central to a number of the Abstract Expressionists.

Irony and self - reflectivity are central strategies of her work, which touches upon feminist issues and patterns of micro history, and is furthermore socially engaged, whilst it can be political and escapist all at once.

In that sense, the work encapsulates the irony of a glitzy trade show unfolding as protesters staged a die - in in Grand Central Station and blocked traffic on several New York bridges.

«This exclusionary principle ended up forming the backbone of the conservation movement and led to its central irony: The wild had to be kept as free of people as possible — until the right kind of white man needed to go hunting.»

The dark irony here is that, while very general risk - induced doubts in the benevolence of the promises of governments to protect their citizens lead to criticisms of the inefficiency of scholarly and state authorities, critics are blind to the possibilities of erecting (or expanding) the authoritarian state on this very inefficiency... Central, however, are not, as with Huntington, traditional religiously grounded «civilizations», but opposing risk belief religions.

And perhaps the biggest irony central to this current battle is that the complaint mongering and litigation that has brought about this industry maelstrom was not instigated by a throng of irate «Joe Consumers», but rather a couple of frustrated entrepreneurs who were told that if they didn't follow long established rules of conduct and professional obligation they couldn't reap the rewards they were demanding.