Sentences with phrase «finding irony»

The two friends decide not to go to college just because everyone else is, and they spend their days finding irony in their everyday lives.

I'm trying to salvage your Cameron Diaz dig by finding irony in your statement, but I can't find it.

So I find some irony in your attempt to «school» me in the concept of infinity and can't take anything you say seriously.

But of course you would find irony in that because you can't understand that democrats don't own the franchise on love for others.

Does anyone else find irony that Thompson is trying to tell these Tea Party groups what to do, when their raison d'etre is all about not having political insiders tell them what to do.

Asked if he found irony in LaCorte's juxtaposition of proposing ethics rules a day after getting outed for spying, Schoenberger said,» I don't think irony is the right word to describe it.

Meaning I have the ability to laugh at myself, as well as find the irony in alot of situations.

(The title comes from Disney's in - house name for the Orlando resort and theme park, but it finds some irony in the fact that the motels are basically housing projects.)

The film finds irony in how Chuck, posing as a sexual liberator and a romantic, became Linda's cruelest jailer.

From DFW, I learned not to be afraid of expressing complex ideas in my writing, and to find the irony in all situations.

Welch appears to find some irony in this outcome.

Another space - loving Buzz, Jesse «Buzz» Londin, writing at her blog Space Law Probe, finds irony in the meeting, commenting, «Some folks remain convinced ever - cool Buzz Aldrin went all the way to the moon to get away from lawyers.»

«Military mistakenly recruits gays; Some find irony in ads on website»: This front page article appears today in USA Today.

I find the tone to be unnecessarily dismissive, and also find irony in his ideologically based assertions that such findings are not neutral.

I always found the irony of this whole situtation is the government put in strict regulations and requirements of Realtors because the public felt they were getting taken advantage of.

Not exact matches

It is no small irony that for a company which makes a sizeable portion of its fortunes by finding and exposing scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is surprisingly bad at crisis management.

It is the greatest irony of my life that losing my husband helped me find deeper gratitude — gratitude for the kindness of my friends, the love of my family, the laughter of my children.

Except instead of creating subservient chickens for Burger King and filing fake «taste infringement» lawsuits for Coke Zero, the team is finding ways to work its irony - soaked magic for smaller brands committed to U.S. manufacturing.

«We didn't find him, but loved the irony,» she says.

They have a sense of humor about things and recognize the importance of finding the joy in the irony and comedy of everyday life.

The sad irony is that the news organizations with the wherewithal to find out are the very same outfits that increasingly depend on Facebook for their survival.

The irony is that I now find myself in the far more left - leaning Silicon Valley area.

The irony is that while millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, companies which want to manufacture high value products in the U.S. have a hard time finding workers with the math and computer skills needed to operate factory equipment.

apart from the Shroud of Turin being proven false, I do love the delicious irony that had it been authenticated and the real blood of jesus was found there, we would be able to clone except, OOPS!

Irony here is that percentage wise there has been no change in the number of «gay» scouts since the organization was founded.

I find great irony in the annual financial torture we all endure when our forefathers revolted at a mere 10 percent tax.

Paradoxically the more atheists I come into contact with the more strength I find in my belief that they, for lack of a better term, lack a certain gene (yes, I get the irony).

(The greatest irony of tough love I've found is that it's only found in relaxing.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

But there is an irony here: Reading on, I found that this very love of dogma eventually led Newman away from the evangelicalism with which I then identified, first to Tractarianism and then to Rome.

I suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).

I find this is carrying irony a bit too far.

I also find Rorty's notion of irony a refreshing antidote to some of the moral fervor that accompanies so many proposals that we go back to the basics.

Of course, my personal favorite bit of Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thought.

Those riddles one finds in Machiavelli, those ambiguities and ironies» they mark the points where, the soul having been cut away, we are troubled with the illusion that «something» is still there.

Klaus describes this perception as one of the ironies of retirement: the reward for work is to stop working — unless we can find a way to be meaningfully active in the absence of «a regular remunerative position.»

A little more irony about the human might allow more scope for the stance of awe which Dr. Altizer finds passé, but which is so deeply built into the various forms of the response of faith.

The greatest irony of tough love I've found is that it's only found in relaxing.

We would not today found an interchurch organization of Protestant and Orthodox churches and call it the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America — at least, not without a certain sense of irony.

This Mass was begun five years ago at the initiative of a young priest returning from studies in Rome, who noted with no small amount of irony that it seems the only Mass one can not find anywhere is the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite as it is envisioned by the current Missale Romanum.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

(«The irony stems from the claim common among postmodernists — particularly those engaged in literary criticism — to have moved beyond the romantic view of the self as finding «truth» through its own pure powers of imagination and the romantic understanding of literature as the expression of that imagination.)

His work ranks with the finest classical Hebrew prose to be found anywhere in the Old Testament, displaying a phenomenal verbal / literary technique in the use of humor and irony, in subtle, sensitive character portrayal, and in effective, varied appeal to human emotion.

The irony of this post is that it has taken me a Whole Lot Longer to find time (and, you know, 2 hands) to type it than it did to actually make and consume.

It was one of the greatest ironies in the historic career at Highbury of Herbert Chapman that while he tried for years and failed to find his ideal centre - forward, that within months of his death in 1934, Ted Drake should arrive from Southampton, scoring 42 goals the following season.

I'd laugh at the irony of it if I could find a chuckle, I promise.

I find such irony in the phrase «sleeping like a baby» because if you are a mom, you know babys really don't sleep all that well:) Just let her tire herself out.

I found that one of the small zippered coolers that was part of the formula swag bag I received in the hospital after delivery is the perfect size to hold 2 - 3 of the tall, skinny storage bottles I mentioned (catch the irony here?).

As Cash brings out, the final irony was that Bright found himself on the same side as Lord Salisbury who had been the most vigorous of his opponents in the great cause of his life, namely the enfranchisement of the British working class.

The irony is that just as they have found a valuable ideological role, outflanking Labour on the radical wing, they appear to be in trouble.