Sentences with phrase «cruel irony»

That these agencies publicly claim to care about their dogs is one more cruel irony inflicted by self - servers onto helpless dogs.

From the envy of their neighbors to the mandates of the government, from the fanaticism of a religious order called the Sisters of the Rose to the everyday difficulties of staying close as husband and wife, mother and child - all these forces led to a horrifying crime: the death of their seven - year - old grandson, drowned with cruel irony in one of the few ponds left in the countryside.

Anyone who does not sign up to these arguments, anyone who refuses to give up thinking about and sympathising with immigrants is written off, with cruel irony, as an «elitist».

It may seem like cruel irony that parents of multiples, who are already busier than singleton parents, are also more likely to have kids who need extra attention.

Further cruel irony comes in the inspiration Gerda derives from her domestic situation, with Lili both the source of her agony and her muse; as her reputation as an artist soars, she watches the man she loves slowly disappear.

A bit of cruel irony struck days before the new shoes came in, however, and one of the existing ones picked up a nail, adding $ 20 to the tab for the patch job.

As Marshall notes in his post, this looks like a billionaire using his financial muscle to push a lawsuit that was intended to destroy a media outlet completely, and that has some fairly fundamental implications for democracy and free speech (to add an extra level of cruel irony, Thiel has been a prominent funder of the Committee to Protect Journalists).

For some, it's a cruel irony that unemployment benefits are taxable.

The cruel irony, of course, is that right when we need to feel our best, we often feel our worst.

But the cruel irony is that any improvement in demand and output conditions in these three countries will partly leak out and benefit the euro area countries with large trade surpluses because their economies are running on exports rather than domestic demand.

Following Sunday's tragedy and the unsurprising response out of Washington, Twitter users were quick to point out the cruel irony of the tired statement: the victims of this latest act of domestic terrorism were in church, literally engaged in prayer, when they were viciously attacked by a white man wielding a legal gun.

In cruel irony, it specialized in holding Christian believers.

It is a cruel irony that an author so self - consciously devoted to truth - telling in the church is sometimes himself so free with the truth.

By a cruel irony, Jesus will be put to death because he brought Lazarus back to life.

So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.

Her pregnancy encapsulated nine months of cruel irony.

Even if Syndergaard were scheduled to pitch, the cruel irony is that the game is in Kansas City, where he could have hid behind the DH.

The cruel irony of the prime minister welcoming the president of China just as steel jobs are cut - partly due to Chinese steel dumping - will not be lost on the UK's steelworkers and their families.

It must have been a cruel irony to women trying to become bishops that they were rejected by people playing the martyr.

According to an analysis by Norman Oder, over 12,000 applicants to the Pacific Park lotteries earn too little to actually get an affordable housing apartment, a cruel irony for many.

But the residents in the LeFrak affordable housing complex — which is comprised of mostly black and Latino people — say the cruel irony is that the new site will result in less elderly and disabled people being able to vote.

In a cruel irony I think the frequency of the exposure has actually assisted us in getting prepared and I think we've done everything that we need to do.»

So it was a cruel irony that all express buses couldn't fully utilize the HOV lane once that became a reality last month,» Matteo said in a statement.

Losing your home is bad enough - but losing it to a bank part - run by the state and therefore part - paid for by you would be a cruel irony - and electorally lethal.

The cruel irony was that these dogs were Labrador retrievers bred to become guide dogs -LSB-...]

It is a cruel irony that is particularly problematic for pediatric cancer patients.

The cruel irony is that the solution seems to be at odds with the season's sedentary rituals.

The downbeat conclusion is treated as a natural consequence, as opposed to the workings of fate or cruel irony.

In the cruelest irony, the brain damage has given rise to a strange symptom: One of Brady's hands sometimes locks into a clenched fist, physically unable to let go of whatever he's holding onto.

Is their bond strong enough to face the cruel irony of time?

There's a cruel irony that runs through «Godard Mon Amour», the latest nostalgia - tinged effort from Michel Hazanavicius.

This movie is, first and foremost, an indulgent black comedy, reveling in bad taste and cruel irony.

It's perhaps a cruel irony that a movie about deafness is most ennobled by what we hear.

«The cruel irony is much of the work school staff are doing is not making them better teachers or improving children's education, it is photocopying, preparing resources and data analysis.

A cruel irony exists in that while policy makers in the U.S. increasingly acknowledge the importance of PLCs, the average time for teachers to engage in such activities has decreased in the last few years (Darling - Hammond, 2013).

«The cruel irony is much of the work school staff are doing is not making them better teachers or improving children's education — it is photocopying, preparing resources and data analysis.

As respected investing authority and Winning the Loser's Game author Charles Ellis has written: «The cruel irony is that so many active managers are so skillful, hardworking, and capable that they collectively dominate the market and thus few, if any, can beat the crowd.»

In a cruel irony for abandoned ITT students, those who have the ambition and the ability to transfer to another school to complete the same degree are not eligible to have their federal student loans forgiven under a closed - school discharge.

The cruel irony of separation anxiety is that the dogs most likely to be affected are often wonderful pets in every other way.

The cruel irony if the booking will become evident as I explain booking this trip in detail.

For this reason, under some cruel irony, Runesage's most fun aspect is simultaneously its biggest flaw.

There's a cruel irony in the fact that PS3 owners have had to wait for so long to see this time - bending, small - budget, big - ideas puzzler on PSN.

There's a cruel irony, or maybe a last - ditch flame of hope, to the title of the current show at Inverleith House, «I still believe in miracles», which celebrates 30 years of the gallery and features works by a diverse roster of artists who have previously exhibited there, including Jim Lambie, Isa Genzken, Lucy McKenzie and Lawrence Weiner.

The IPCC reports underscore the cruel irony implicit in climate change — that the overwhelming environmental costs of climate change will be felt in those countries least responsible for the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and least able to deal with the consequences.