Sentences with phrase «degree of irony»

It was perhaps with a degree of irony that I happened to turn on my television on the 4th July to be confronted with a controversial news story regarding independent experts or, to be more precise, potentially «tainted» independent experts.

It was perhaps with a degree of irony that I happened to turn on my television on the 4th July to be confronted...

Raymond attributes some degree of irony to the timing of Citi's decision, based on the substantial decrease in the size of summer classes as compared to previous programs.

If we couldn't see the world with some degree of irony, we might as well just kill ourselves now.

There's a certain degree of irony here, given that Senate Republicans backed a minimum wage hike in 2004 in order to help then - Sen.

You might care to think of who he works for before seeing a degree of irony in the whole sorry saga.

Two motifs predominate in Ross McElwee's 25 - plus years of autobiographical filmmaking: the search for identity in the face of handed - down ideas about family, love, and work; and the undertaking of journeys fueled by desire, curiosity, and varying degrees of irony.

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The great irony of the robotics revolution may be the unexpected resurgence of the long - derided bachelors of arts degree — you still can't automate creativity.

They irony is that people like Donald Trump and Roy Moore — who often seem to pay little attention to public affairs — have proven more capable of learning than those with fancy degrees and Washington experience.

With the characteristic irony of stories about such themes, it's the relatively good man who is made to experience his world falling apart, when the more profoundly corrupt survive, protected by the degree of their complicity with the status quo.

Therein lies much of the film's rich irony: On the one hand, the filmmakers recognize that the demands of a mammoth budgeted, international co-production entail a degree of artistic compromise, and on the other they invite the possibility of textual experimentation.

That said, one of the biggest ironies I noted was how much of the book's techniques may be, to varying degrees, irrelevant for the jobs of teachers in the future, as online learning continues to grow in blended - learning settings and remakes the learning environments in schools.

The game is perfectly well made for what it is, and I had plenty of fun playing it in short bursts here and there, but at this point the series» by - the - numbers design philosophy is starting to lend the name «New Super Mario Bros.» a degree of unintentional irony.

Subversiveness, irony, and tongue - in - cheek humor come through to some degree in each of these works and are amplified as the sculptures are situated in contrast to the formal grounds and historic Italianate villa of the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria.