Sentences with phrase «edged irony of»

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Moreover, Mary's worldliness, her sense of being on the cutting edge of social evolution, is undercut here with sharp irony.

This would be her passel of mostly anonymous children and a coterie of other contesters, the Affadaisies, organized by Dortha (Laura Dern) and including an always beaming lady in an iron lung painted happy - yellow (such irony, while perverse, gives the movie an occasional welcome edge).

When his family finally does push him over the edge, during the film's cathartic standout scene of a strained charades game, characters and viewers alike immediately realize the irony of the title and see the heroism within the destructive force it refers to.

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.

It would be an amazing irony if the Coens, who have been on the cutting edge for most of their career, become the safe harbor for artistic conservatism this time around.

Eisenberg's choices in playing Mike without a trace of irony works in the film's favor, as does Stewart's grittiness and edge as a woman who refuses to take it lying down when the world is trying to kill the man she loves, or when he starts cracking up about the possibility that he might be a robot and not a human being.

You know there's a dearth of creative thinking in education when an article trumpeting cutting - edge teaching quotes somebody, without irony, saying the following:

Thus the reverent irony that attends Ligon's double - edged treatment of the figure of Richard Pryor.

When a large mix of celebrities and art - world - insiders flooded the Museum for the opening reception — attendees included Cyndi Lauper, U2's the Edge, and collectors Don and Mera Rubell — the irony of placing the ritzy collection in a museum that was once championed for its promotion of the underdog was only exaggerated.

Jerry Saltz's quick estimation of James Rosenquist's importance as a painter tries to capture the «double - edged finger - in - your - face and finger - in - the - pie irony» of American Pop art.

While not a movement in the strict sense, the term Capitalist Realism, with its double - edged irony, became a bracket label for a constellation of artists, including Polke, Richter, and some of the pioneers of German and European Pop Art.

The Age of Irony seemingly began at the same time Seinfeld did, slipping into living rooms and intoxicating Americans with its self - consciously cynical pose just as the 1980s edged toward their close.

The irony, of course, is that almost all of them have been more expensive than the OnePlus 3, which classically should have allowed the phone to hold on its rather significant edge over the competition.