Sentences with phrase «element of irony»

For starters, it's basically Cow Clicker with a Final Fantasy skin (except without any element of irony).

However, there's an element of irony in their name, as the main gold reserve was not found on his property, but on the opposite side of the river.

There is surely some element of irony to Gvasalia's work.

Pop art is characterized by impersonal artistic representations and an element of irony.

The fact of increasingly strained relations between Greek and Arab Orthodox in the Holy Land these past 200 years added an element of irony to the meeting between Demetrios and Diodoros.

But surprisingly, while Hartung's video installation does contain elements of irony, it also has a kind of poetic and nostalgic sensibility, created through the use of stop - motion animation, lo - fi video techniques, and the audio narrative, taken from the 1973 BBC documentary of the same name.

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It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

There is a certain irony that a prominent element of the coalition's stuttering constitutional agenda — the unreformed House of Lords — this week has the chance to give the kiss of life to another.

If that sounds a bit like the sort of coverage that the Oscars or Emmys get, the irony isn't lost on him: «There's an element of ridiculing that.»

After creating a hyper - stylized art deco backdrop and playing with a bit of straightforward character development that makes Rogers something resembling a human being before pumping him full of mysterious chemicals that transform him into a super version thereof (The irony of using genetic experimentation to create a race of supermen to fight the Nazis is lost on just about everyone here), the movie gradually loses its design flair and human element for hastily assembled sequences of derring - do.

Irony is the film's intended trade, but the ultimate unexpected element is how the film does reveal a complex sadness to both of these young women.

Understands various elements of the author's craft including word choice, symbolism, figurative language, mood, irony, persuasion techniques, and point of view.

At the heart of the humor of irony and incongruity is another element: surprise.

Fast forward a couple years and Q - Games has spun elements from that game into a new title that plays more like a traditional shooter but, in a small twist of irony, is called PixelJunk SideScroller to set it apart from its less shootery siblings.

While a critic of 1843 saw «a club, a people's bank or a phalanstery» in «this dream of the gardens of Academe,» and noted the unusual amalgamation of Horace's Odes and Plato's dialogues with the steamship and the telegraph, the expendability of these contemporary elements is revealed when L'Artiste announces that Papety, on the basis of critical advice, has replaced his steamboat with a Greek temple, «which,» remarks the anonymous critic, with unconscious irony, «is perhaps more ordinary but also more severe than socialism in painting.»

These dedications, a process that he continued with his works in light, lend elements of humor, irony, and tragedy to the otherwise austerely untitled sculptures.

One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

He added found objects into the work as formal elements, with a great deal of humor, and without the irony of Dada or anti-art gestures.

Dedications lend elements of humor, irony, and tragedy to untitled sculptures.

Often building towering sculptures out of unstable materials, interjected with malleable elements, the works are infused with a sense of subverted ambition, precariousness, irony, and humor.

There is a conceptual expansion of concepts in which humour, irony and play are elements that seem to characterize the works.

Baldessari is undoubtedly one of the leading figures Conceptual art has seen in the last half of a century — John focuses on the perception and interpretation of visual elements and text, while often employing irony to make playful assertions about how meanings are formed.

Their works, often minimalist and sculptural with elements of installation and performance, take a position between tragedy, comedy and irony.

Partial irony didn't reduce the power of the painterly force that overwhelmed and absorbed the heterogeneous elements that their works contained.

The artists in the exhibition are fluent in the language and forms of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and primitivism, and they incorporate sincerity, irony, focus, humor, skepticism, diligence and detachment into their work without considering those elements to be contradictory.

Call it irony, or ambiguity, or metaphor, or «spirit» (as in that which doesn't «kill» but «giveth life»), it's simply a core element of civilization for me, one that connects language to life and makes both possible, or at least, more bearable.

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age continues the Dragon Quest tradition of including a few alluring elements, mostly in form of irony and jokes, but Square Enix intends to preserve the game's content for the western release, as Producer Hokuto Okamoto told DualShockers in a recent interview.

There's an added layer of irony here, of course, since Doogee also steals design elements from Apple's iPhone X, but it's an interesting image nevertheless.