Sentences with phrase «greatest irony»

The greatest irony of this is that it fosters a passive system of policy development and service delivery while at the same time criticising Indigenous peoples for being passive recipients of government services!

It's maybe the greatest irony of wearable tech: many of the products are rolled out in big splashes and bold claims, when, really, the whole point of well - designed wearable tech is that you should be able to forget about it entirely.

Today, the greatest irony is that the UN and the media's climate hysteria grows louder as the case for alarmism fades away.

The greatest irony is that the American and PAL versions of Super Metroid sold well as a result of aggressive marketing by Nintendo that was spurred on by the game's poor sales in Japan.

Perhaps the greatest irony surrounding achievement - gap mania is that, for a reform approach ultimately rooted in a moral claim, its moral philosophy is not all that compelling.

The greatest irony of Fede Alvarez's otherwise laudably straightforward reboot of Sam Raimi's Spam - in - a-cabin classic The Evil Dead is that the moments where it references its primogenitor are actually the movie's weakest.

The greatest irony of the piece is that what the film has lost is a lot of the spry rebellion and feeling of loose improvisation that defined the television series: «cowboy,» no question; «bebop,» another matter altogether.

(The fact that it has been well over thirty years since anyone has set foot on another world is perhaps the greatest irony of our high - tech, know - it - all 21st century lives.)

The greatest irony, though, is that even in disgrace and defeat, she is far better remembered today than any of her other rivals

The greatest irony of all?

ALBANY — Branding himself the most successful governor in modern times, Gov. Cuomo on Tuesday defended his focus on New York City issues while calling new federal involvement in the city's public housing «the greatest embarrassment and the greatest irony.»

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

And that is the greatest irony: for the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called «the examined life.»

It's simply the greatest irony really, you condemn, hope, wish for people depending on their actions to their respective places in the afterlife, yet you restrain yourself and others on behalf of an abstract thought.

But the greatest irony is that the symbolic richness and power — the religious meaning — of creation are largely lost in the cloud of geological and paleontological dust stirred up in the confusion.

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

It is perhaps the greatest irony of Christian history that the affirmation that alone distinguished the first Christians from other Jews may have been after all contrary to Jesus» own intention and belief.

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.

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.

It's a shift in how business communication has always worked, and the great irony here is that the Millennials are way ahead of us.

Acknowledging the great irony that today's aspiring entrepreneurs are doing exactly the opposite of what Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg and all other great entrepreneurs and executives they strive to emulate did to get where they are today, Steve Tobak delivers some truth:

The great irony is a radical leftist will now have to impose all the reforms that were never passed before, neo-liberal measures that he has always opposed.»

There is great irony when both groups claim victory (and get bonuses), but the business doesn't get what it expects.

In a twist of great irony, the reason so many of us embrace the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is because from a psychological standpoint, it preserves our immediate to short - term feeling of well - being by disassociating ourselves from reality and encouraging inaction, even though from a long - term perspective, it is very likely to destroy our self - preservation abilities.

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

One of the great ironies of the Obama presidency is that it has been a disaster for the young people who form the core of his political coalition.

The great irony is that some religious fundies use the Bible to keep gay people away from their «table», and feasts, using the very texts that the Bible intended to teach hospitality, to do the opposite.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

Yes, it is a indeed great irony.

I just realized the great irony of this article's ti - tle «9 myths about Hinduism - debunked».

The great irony of Piper using the book of Job to support his theology is that the story of Job stands as an ancient indictment on those who would respond to tragedy by blaming the victim.

The great irony is that actually the Liberal Democrats have, excuse the pun, religiously stuck to the priorities we put on the front page of our manifesto last time, such as delivering a # 10,000 tax free allowance, which we did.

The great irony of American higher education is that in pursuing diversity, colleges and universities have come to look more or less alike.

It's one of the greatest ironies of modern science how the attempt to push an obvious proof of God to the attic was done by a priest, in the name of his commitment to science, and then miscredited.

The great irony of the Cold War, considering that communism lost, was that it was, in the main, fought on Hegelian / Marxist «inspired grounds.

The resulting formalism is too enfeebled to support the objects and methods of twentieth century mainstream mathematics, and the great irony of Macfarlane's criticism becomes this: the failure of Universal Algebra lies not in relentless, arbitrary abstraction and formalization but in the narrowness of its extensive base.

There is a greater irony here in viewing these beams as a sign — In the construction of the WTC's, along with thousands of other buildings, beams are joined just like the one in the picture... so really there were thousands of cross-sections holding up the WTC's... yet they still collapsed.

The dialectical textual reality of written discourse (parole) and linguistic code (langue) engenders the great irony of interpretation.

D — Again the great irony is that the Nazis did the same exact thing in the Warsaw Ghetto.

This, to me, is one of the greatest ironies of the complementarian / egalitarian debate.Complementarians often accuse egalitarians of allowing cultural norms to shape their views of gender roles.

Therein lies a great irony.

An even greater irony is that this new secular orthodoxy is much more like the old Catholic orthodoxy than it might care to think.

The great Irony here is that once you remove the possibility of god or afterlife, our actions in the now become infinitely more important.

That's the great irony, just imagine we get rolled over at OT and Villa pull off a spirited win in the Final.....

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.

The great irony here being their cries of, «We don't feel safe!»

The greater irony here is you jumping in to defend a poorly written rant loosely disguised as a so - called skeptical blog post against actual articles published in actual scientific journals, however questionable they might be.

The great irony of vaccine success is that parents today are unfamiliar with the diseases they prevent.

The great irony of the natural childbirth and homebirth movements is that advocates think they are «educated.»

«The great irony of the modern ground game is it's this meeting of incredibly modern analytics and data married to very old - fashioned delivery devices,» he said.