Sentences with phrase «greatest irony of»

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.

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 of all?

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

(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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

The great irony of this crisis is that it underlines the impotence of Parliament in the face of an overpowerful executive.

The great irony of the history, in my view, is that accepting Churchill's critique of the appeasement policy of the 1930s was very explicitly a choice that our interests were inextricably linked with what happened in Europe (there is an argument, made by Paul Kennedy and others, that this can be said of much English and British history back to 1066) and that this inevitably meant speeding the decline of Empire and global power status.

In one of the great ironies of the space age, Skylab — the first manned U.S. spacecraft to observe the sun — was dragged to Earth prematurely by this effect.

One of the great ironies of those historic housing patterns in Miami is that for decades under Jim Crow, laws and zoning restricted black people to parts of the urban core, an older part of the community that sits on relatively higher ground along a limestone ridge that runs like a topographic stripe down the eastern coast of South Florida.

It is one of the great ironies of biochemistry: life on Earth could not have begun without water; yet water stymies some chemical reactions necessary for life itself.

From Health magazine One of the greatest ironies of a successful diet: You should eat more often.

It's one of the great ironies of Infinity War that a movie jam - packed with good guys and gals finds its true focus in a supremely interesting baddie.

With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.

The great irony of The Thing - quel is that, as an imitation itself, it's a uniquely unconvincing simulacrum of the thing it's trying to ape.

The greater irony of this movie is that everyone involved in the film from the principles to the cameos are convinced that the movie is not about them.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

Julie Young, CEO of Florida Virtual Schools, recently shared in an article that «it is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of online learning that teachers and students often find it more personal than the classroom experience.»

I've said this numerous times in numerous places, but the great irony of the stigma of self - publishing is that self - publishing will be the force that brings about positive change for all writers.

Doug Hoyes: Well, and that's one of the great ironies of it.

The great irony of spending days immersed in a Biennale built on accumulated pools of information is being cut off from the Internet and any other source of English - language news, except notoriously interpretive word - of - mouth.

The great irony of simplification is economically undeveloped areas have little change to make compared to economically abusive nations.

It remains one of the greatest ironies of the environmental movement that those most concerned with global warming, like Ms. Collard, are opposed to nuclear energy, the only non-greenhouse gas - emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels while satisfying Canada's growing demand for energy.

«The great irony of this tragic spill in Arkansas is that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the US is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

Given that Denniston has covered the Supreme Court since 1958, one of the great ironies of his tenure at SCOTUSblog was that the blog could never get press credentials, although Denniston was able individually to get credentialed.

It has always struck me as one of the great ironies of Canadian copyright law that the one clear allowance made for education in the Copyright Act is «reproduction for examination,» as if that was the very best setting in which to encounter great writing that one would seek to experience again and again.

«It's one of the great ironies of everything that's gone on at Ashurst,» says one former partner of the firm.

It's a waste of money, especially considering I'll never use it - it's one of the great ironies of life - sometimes the things that are most valuable are the things you never use.

The great irony of looking for employment is that the job search itself is a full - time job.

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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:

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.

One of the biggest ironies in personal finance is that those who have the greatest need to take out loans are usually those who have the worst credit.