Sentences with phrase «deep irony»
"Deep irony" means a situation where something happens in a way that is unexpectedly opposite to what was expected or intended, usually resulting in a humorous or sarcastic outcome. It's when there's an ironic twist that goes beyond just a simple coincidence. Full definition
There's too deep an irony at the heart of the big society.
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We have centuries of deep irony where god - speculators («theologians») decry, label and try to minimalize speculators & lovers of wisdom («philosophers»: lovers of Sophia).
With deep irony Kierkegaard says of a bishop of Denmark: «Without doubt, he would not hesitate to die for Christ, in the case of necessity, but he takes care that the case of necessity does not occur.»
How deep the irony that invocation of Aneurin Bevan is all too often little more than a gesture of contentless radicalism, much in the manner of a faded Che Guevara poster ironically adorning the walls of an undergraduate hipster's bedsit.
Do you really not see the deep irony of you claiming that scientists base their conclusions on some «world view»?
There is a deep irony in the «global care chains» that capitalism constructs; poor women migrate to wealthy countries in order to provide care for other people's families, and then they send their wages home to ensure the survival of their own loved ones.
There is a deep irony here.
Few tourists rushing between Pearl Harbor and Waikiki realize the deep irony that flag symbolizes.
There is a deep irony in this situation because the law is inescapably the definer of our surrogate morality rather than of our morality itself.
With great wit and deep irony, Jon Birch draws cartoons about the church, Jesus, theology, and mission.
The deep irony of this entire situation is all of this is happening while Kaepernick himself is unemployed, and owners who refused to give him a chance because of his protest, now stand, arms linked, in protest to Trump saying that protesters should be fired.
It is a deep irony that the Great Recession is unfolding among some of the richest societies the world has ever known.
«At precisely the time we are celebrating the successes of A-level students in their exams it is a deep irony that their prospects have been put at risk by ministers who have got their sums spectacularly wrong and failed to think through the devastating impact of their policies.»
The deep irony of a year in which data drove the political discourse?
The deep irony is that in the last General Election we hurt Ed Miliband and the Labour Party more than the Tories.
And the deepest irony is that we were filming when the Brexit vote happened.
Ultimately, Cumberbatch holds this convoluted true tale together and is able to sustain a persona that connects the deeper ironies and cruelties within the «just» world we'd like to think we inhabit.
There is a deep irony here, considering the Walton Family's track record with regards to civil rights.
He fits in a plug for the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival scheduled for early September in Morgan City, La., * and includes the festival's promotional line describing «the unique way in which these two seemingly different industries work hand - in - hand culturally and environmentally» — with no hint of the deep irony, of course.
The deepest irony here is that those Justices who have embraced broad individual gun rights in Heller seem to be the same Justices untroubled by police having broad power to search individuals for guns.