Sentences with phrase «cruel irony of»

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

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

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.

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.

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Even so, in some cruel twist of irony, most «productivity enhancers,» like going to the gym every morning, seem to add more effort to our already busy lives.

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

Her pregnancy encapsulated nine months of cruel irony.

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.

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.»

Most seniors are unaware of the cruel irony — cholesterol lowering does not help you live longer.

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.

I'd like to think that he would appreciate our film's intention to capture forever, in Koni's words, «the sort of everyday life that is accessible to everyone and understood in its cruel internal irony by almost no one.

And in one of many cruel ironies, some in the supposed refuge of Germany face threats from a growing anti-refugee, xenophobic militancy demanding that foreigners be tossed out.

I don't think they fancy themselves heroes, but perhaps missionaries of a very particular faith, and so the irony of the tortures endured by a parade of pleasure - seeking pilgrims (all of them opening a now - iconic — and stripped of all meaning — puzzle box) was cruel and double - edged.

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.

The picture painted, based on the «irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Harding and ex-husband Jeff Gillooly,» posits that Harding (played impeccably by Margot Robbie) was simply a product of a cruel environment.

Some of the pair's juxtapositions have a cruel before - and - after irony, as when an early mirror shot of Mrs. Kennedy applying her makeup is itself mirrored by another shot of her wiping blood and tears off her face, later the same fateful day.

«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.

«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 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.

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.

The irony of this task wasn't lost on Hornaday: «Under different circumstances,» he wrote, «nothing could have induced me to engage in such a mean, cruel, and utterly heartless enterprise.»

In a cruel bit of irony, it was announced earlier this week that no charges would be filed against the owner of the dog whose fatal attack spurred Montreal's pit bull regulations.

Irony is a cruel mistress however, so as an answer to our naivety, Mario Golf World Tour was released on the 3DS a couple of weeks later.

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.

The fact that climate change is likely to deal its harshest blows to less developed nations is one of the cruel ironies about this issue — considering that it was largely the rich, industrialized world that emitted the greenhouse gases that caused the problem in the first place.

In a cruel twist of irony, today, the atonement that Minidoka Monument represents is threatened by a so - called «farm.»