Sentences with phrase «hint of irony»

Christians have celebrated the deaths of tyrants from Nero, to Domitian, to Hitler without hint of irony or violation of the golden rule thoughout the centuries!

But at the same time, he steals whole ideas and plotlines outright without the slightest hint of irony, parody or even enthusiasm.

Her collage works aggregate history and science textbooks with fashion magazines and objects of new media, employing hints of irony, humor, and iconography to ask viewers what we as a society worship, and to show viewers the repetitive nature of representation throughout history.

Lastly, and with no small hint of irony, the UK would join the Common Transit Convention, a transit procedure used between the EU and the Efta states which Britain refuses to join for transition.

There is a refreshing hint of irony about the ultimate standard - bearer for Reason placing himself at times beyond reality's reach, and even in his stable moments Darwin believed in «water cure» quackery to treat his feverish mystery illness.

But there are other problems with the film, including the wildly swerving tone from grisly gross - out jokes to absurd wackiness to painful slapstick, but all without the slightest hint of irony or cynicism.

Her collage works aggregate history and science textbooks with fashion magazines and objects of new media, employing hints of irony, humor, and iconography to ask viewers what we as a society worship, and to show viewers the repetitive nature...

The recent corruption purge took on a hint of irony, when it was revealed recently that MBS himself has some extravagant tastes that include a palace in Versailles, France, and the purchase of the most expensive art work in history, Da Vinci's depiction of Jesus, for $ 450 million, among other goodies.

Without a hint of irony, and with his religious advisors...

He tells me with only a hint of irony that one way to begin is by getting into an «influential prayer group.»

It feels really special to have a bejacketed septuagenarian server set down a plate and say, without a hint of irony, «This is the best chicken Parm in all of New York City.

THE VIBE IS: candle wax dripping from long tapers onto the table, chefs wearing toques without a hint of irony, and plush banquettes that you'll sink into like they're a bed of pillows.

How often can you say that without a hint of irony?

The Egyptian's goal was the sucker punch that ended the tie and came with a hint of irony thanks to the winger's loan from Chelsea...

Closer to home, we've seen the unedifying spectacle of Chris Eubank sporting monocle, jodpurs, and cane, prancing around without a hint of irony.

The ambition of the young employees is without question: «My aim is to become CEO» says Jordayne, the newest Willesden apprentice, with barely a hint of irony.

Without a hint of irony, First Lady Melania Trump declared that adults need to embrace «positive habits on social media» to set an example for the next generation.

Without a hint of irony, the same Mayor who has twisted himself into a pretzel, bending over backwards to accommodate developers like Cappelli and Forest City / Ratner, was suddenly a stickler for process and immovable deadlines.

These allegations of human rights abuse against the EFCC's acting Chairman are made without any hint of irony by a DSS that has earned a dismal reputation for respecting only court orders that it likes or in favour of only those it approves of.

Like a glamour shot from the 70s but without a hint of irony,» ranted MyNameIs.

The director, Christopher Cain, brings not a hint of irony to any of this — not even to the Vegas finale in which Dusty is supposed to rescue himself from glitz.

He'd just abandoned post-production of the tele - movie, And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (2003), starring Antonio Banderas as Pancho Villa, leaving it in what he describes (with more than a hint of irony) as «the capable hands of the HBO [Home Box Office] executives».

Trailer Highlight: The line «A man who sells his soul for love has the power to change the world,» delivered — without a hint of irony — by poor old Sam Elliott.

The idea of a renewal of society is common in Hitchcock's work (even The Birds, his most nihilistic piece, finds Melanie eventually supplanting the mother and taking her catatonic place as the broken, passive, utterly domesticated housewife), but in Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the standard sunny resolution to the screwball master plot doesn't land with a hint of irony — the suffering in the picture is the couple's joy.

The movie is straightforward without a hint of irony but also manages to never take itself too seriously by having some mildly campy fun in process.

It's one thing to portray a less tolerant time in a less tolerant place, it's another to wallow with nary a hint of irony or self - awareness.

As in Wishmaster 2, too many of the deaths are arbitrary — there's no hint of irony or poetic justice.

He tells Jim that he «uses hookers» because they're «cheaper» than getting a girlfriend, spikes his weed with crack, and upon presenting Jim with his prized collection of animal skulls announces, without a hint of irony, «They're animal skulls.»

It's been almost ten years since we've had an Advance Wars title from Nintendo, so there's a hint of irony that Sony — who own Tiny Metal's publisher Unties — have actually got a game heavily inspired by Intelligent Systems» better series (don't hate me) onto the Switch first.

The couple are fascinating creatures of habit but written and played without a hint of irony.

I say that without a hint of irony.

One law - enforcement type declares, unequivocally and without a hint of irony, «Any American who visits the site is an accomplice to murder.»

«Truth, compassion, love,» his mother responds angelically, without even a hint of irony.

I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, «No one.»

Of the car, BMW says it represents (with no hint of irony, given it references a car from the 70s) «a clear statement of how pure driving pleasure is defined in 2016».

To be sure, filing bankruptcy is not something that is to be entered into lightly, however, there is more than a hint of irony in the reasons people commonly give for not filing bankruptcy.

Some people complain that they're not getting what they want, and then other people complain twice as loud about the complaints (usually without a hint of irony).

without a hint of irony.

Mostly working with the legacy of improvisation or notions of automatism that was key to some of the exponents of Tachism and Abstract Expressionism, they work without any hint of irony; this kind of intuitive painting flies in the face of much current work that is bland and empty, decorative, derived from graphics and some of it unrepentantly conceptual and / or ironic and «knowing»..

With a hint of irony, it captures the fragmented but hopeful mood of the moment — but also a timelessness, a reflection of the philosophic eternity in which Ting believed art and poetry lay.

Yau writes: «Without any hint of irony, Behnke embraces the legacy of improvisation central to a number of the Abstract Expressionists.

Executed in the style of his Rythm Mastr comics (which inspired the MCA's upcoming exhibition's title), the imagery of the work envisions an Afrofuturist cityscape, where even apartment building water towers (iconic in New York City) have been converted to luxury condos — a hint of irony, given its placement in the rapidly gentrified meatpacking district.

The guy who wasted hundreds of pages — as you remind us, without a hint of irony!

(Into the bargain, you can use your money and influence to advance the political idea that too many people inhabit the planet, and still be called a «philanthropist», without a hint of irony).

Without a hint of irony, FDA maintains several web pages with helpful information for parents and others wishing to avoid BPA, such as: «What You Can Do to Minimize Your Infant's Exposure to BPA.»

With no hint of irony, many of the people using these tactics accuse the mainstream of them.