Sentences with phrase «deeply ironic»

It would be deeply ironic if no one believed numbnut any more because the world doesn't warm — only to have climate shift dramatically.

is a deeply ironic blog title, given your evident example of deep irony.

It's also deeply ironic.

The fact that it came at the very end of his life is deeply ironic, because he was clearly going places with this work.»

My writing is peripatetic, mimics other forms, and can be deeply ironic, as my work is.

Elizabeth Stuckey - French is a highly regarded author of literary fiction whose short stories have been shortlisted for PEN / O» Henry Prize and Narrative honors, but she's written a darkly funny, deeply ironic book that deserves to become a wildly popular novel (and will become that if Amazon figures out the book's potential and prices it to sell.)

I do find it deeply ironic that the books, whose biggest selling point appears to have been erotic stuff for women, have been adapted into a movie so full of the male gaze and with a lot more female than male nudity.

One deeply ironic result is that we have now narrowed our own options at a time when climate fluctuation appears to be increasing.

It is deeply ironic that the impetus for such a rapid and party - led process should be the independence referendum itself.

This is deeply ironic.

It is deeply ironic that the Reformation should have been accompanied by the virtually prophetic painting of the North, and yet the iconoclastic tendency implicit in the very motto Sola Scriptura would close out the era of great Protestant painting before the middle of the 16th century.

One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.

[What] I found deeply ironic, is that if there was anyone on the planet who would understand the role of the Church and nationalism and where that could go, I would say that I could be right in the group of top people who ought to understand that fairly well, because I'm a Christian and I wrote a book on Bonhoeffer and because I saw what happened to the Nazified German church.

Not exact matches

We find this appeal to Newman somewhat ironic since we showed in some detail why the cardinal's case for doctrinal development is deeply confused.

By fixating on the hidden meanings in one picture (ironic for a newspaper that prints a deeply disturbing picture of a half - naked 20 year old every day) it is guilty of trivialising political debate and directly ensuring more politicians will be too terrified to engage with controversial issues.

Perhaps intended as loving homage, «The Better Angels» instead borders deeply on self - serious parody, virtually utilizing a checklist of every stylistic trope Edwards» cinematic maharishi uses — hushed ponderous voice - over about the nature of life; that gliding camera; dancing wide - angle shots; jump cuts; dancing in fields; a spiritual connection to nature — and one by one employing them all without a trace of ironic self - awareness.

THE MARTIAN is an ironic title for a movie which pays unabashed tribute to the best and most deeply human in all of us, the will to survive, the scope of our intelligence, the consciousness of ourselves as simultaneously significant and minute in the universe.

Two scenes in particular, are as overwhelming as the opening to the film: the hand - to - hand combat between a German soldier and Private Mellish (played by Adam Goldberg) and the deeply emotional and ironic injuries of T - 4 Medic Wade (played by Giovanni Ribisi).

that culminated in a bravura payoff, gonzo ironic and deeply sincere all at once.

It was an ironic story line for a program that was deeply funded, painstakingly researched, and endlessly promoted in an attempt to right the company.

One might even describe it as postmodern: The book is ironic, intertextual, meta - fictional and deeply weird.

Celebrated for his endurance - based performances and video installations, Ragnar Kjartansson incorporates all of the arts — musical, theatrical, literary, filmic, and plastic — into his opulent, ironic, and deeply human works.

Disarmingly frank and often deeply confessional, Emin's art is also animated by her playful and ironic wit, as this new survey monograph indicates.