Sentences with phrase «historical irony»

The circuitous travels of the Fischer - Tropsch process, a chemical technique to convert natural gas and coal into liquid fuels, provide an object lesson in historical irony.

To daub Britain in the colours of the US for doing the precise opposite, for respecting people's self - determination, is a historical irony of extraordinary cruelty.

Then with a fine sense of historical irony he describes how the development of a party system, which embodied the very «factionalism» that Washington above all felt would bring down the republic, gave the nation «a mechanism of... self - criticism and self - correction» that, for all its descent into inanity, has somehow served the cause of republicanism well.

Throughout the author utilizes Reinhold Niebuhr's theme of historical irony, frequently to good effect, as in his observation that Dorothy Day and her following represent a Catholic cooptation of a very Protestant form of protest associated with the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau.

Historical irony?

Here we are struck by a bit of historical irony.

Mankind lies on its knees before the opposite of that which was the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel; in the concept of «church» it has pronounced holy precisely what the «bringer of the glad tidings» felt to be beneath and behind himself — one would look in vain for a greater example of world - historical irony.

A historical irony is that had Speaker Zwozdesky, who was first elected as a Liberal in 1993, not crossed the floor to the Progressive Conservatives in 1998, he would now own this new record.

For a slightly different approach to this project, we can turn to AOL, where the historical ironies become almost rich.

Among other historical ironies that Wood's juxtaposition creates, it captures the moment when Iowa, once a radical state dedicated to the fight against slavery (an all - but forgotten history that is the subject of Marilynne Robinson's 2004 Pulitzer Prizewinning novel Gilead), had become a byword for white rural conservatism.

Not exact matches

One could point out layers and types of irony, offer historical context, and notate thematic counterpoint.

As an aside, the irony might be lost on you that, despite the fact that so many atheists here are so quick to note that believers do not have a monopoly on morals, you are essentially proving the point of believers that, from a historical perspective, atheists far more than believers have lacked morals vis - a-vis war and death.

It is a fitting historical tribute (or irony) that All Souls» Day and Reformation Day occur within two days of one another with All Saints» Day sandwiched in between.

This situation could constitute a rather grim illustration of Niebuhrian irony in that our very creativity may have resulted in the appearance of destructive historical forces too intractable for our capacities to manage or transform.

Sure there is irony in the Guy Fawkes mask use as of late HOWEVER it seems fairly clear to me as well that the historical relevance of this symbolism is nowhere near as important as the shear numbers using it to represent their collective frustration against what they believe is a system not working for but instead against them.

The result is, not surprisingly, a curious form of 20th - century American idealism, but with a chic twist: now we have a cultured, urbane Yahwist, Master of Irony, secularist sophisticate (one is reminded of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus — the Yahwist lives in New Haven!).

As for the last named supposition, the self - irony of the Reason, I shall attempt to delineate it merely by a stroke or two, without raising any question of its being historical.

The film is a rare case of a historical film not looking back on its source through the legacy it may have developed over time (usually peppered with winking irony), but is presented straight, immersed in the present of the period depicted where the prospect of Nixon resigning is all but preposterous.

The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, involving progressively more challenging tasks in which students: - Portray their understanding of witches and witchcraft; - Learn more about witches in a historical context through a fun «true or false» game; - Define, identify, and understand dramatic irony; - Read sections of Macbeth and complete tasks to demonstrate their understanding; - Answer key questions about the witches that test their knowledge in relation to each of the English assessment outcomes; - Evaluate a modelled example of an analytical paragraph in relation to the witches; - Analyse the witches» characteristics in their own responses; - Evaluate each others» analytical responses.

Harriet recounts these events forty - five years later, writing as an old woman in her London flat, a memoir very deliberately entered into the historical record of a minor painter («It would appear that I am to be the first to write a book on Gillespie») and quite self - conscious in its address to its audience («The astute reader will, of course, realize that I was employing irony»).

As Boyle told me during an interview at the Nashville Public Library, this is a historical novel entirely without comedy or irony.

His artworks are frequently presented as models, architectural mock - ups or theatrical sets, provisional and imperfect, alluding with subtle irony to important political or historical and artistic issues.

There are other binaries that she also bridges, all of them said to be of historical importance: the relationship between abstraction and figuration, and between sincerity and irony, for example.

«Using juxtaposition, redirection, irony and his own idiosyncratic brand of humor, he confronted viewers with powerful symbolic uses of historical artifacts that put them in entirely new contexts,» the historical society's librarians wrote in a 2013 article about the exhibition.

The blazing colors in Beverly Fishman's Untitled (Anxiety)[Zanax Bar] are sensuously arousing — they give a kind of knockout punch to the eye — and the four squares that form the rectangular bar seem to allude to Albers's Homage (s) to the Square even as they acknowledge Frank Stella's Protractor paintings by way of the curves of the two end squares, but all that art historical referencing seems beside the point of the irony built into the work, for Zanax is an anti-anxiety pill.

Shahar Marcus views the history of his country with tenderness laced with irony, reflecting on his own legacy, the natural environment and on how historical narratives are created.

Germany and its discontents produced many postwar artists who could have been predicted - Anselm Kiefer with his scorching historical pictures, Georg Baselitz with his angry upside - down figuration, Gerhard Richter with his cool, shape - shifting ironies — and one wild card: the offhand, inconsistent, messy trickster Sigmar Polke.

His practice explores a broad range of cultural and art historical references, often using humour and irony as subtle vehicles of communication.

The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short career; his development of a unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture; as well as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.

FLAR has continued appropriating commercial and art - historical images with irony, challenging commonly held notions of how feminism is embodied and expressed.

Whatever the facts, Blachly and Shaw's roles as the delusional guardians of an almost certainly nonexistent archive have allowed them to employ a dizzying array of often contradictory strategies, layering irony, and apparent incompetence on sincere historical inquiry and emotion to create disorienting and comical experiences that leave viewers tantalizingly unsure as to the meaning or ultimate purpose of the Chadwicks» often Herculean efforts.

In the essay «Other Criteria» (1972), the American scholar and critic Leo Steinberg criticized Greenberg from an art - historical point of view, stating that in Greenberg's «formalist ethic, the ideal critic remains unmoved by the artist's expressive intention, uninfluenced by his culture, deaf to his irony or iconography, and so proceeds undistracted, programmed like an Orpheus making his way out of Hell.»

To this many layered show, the historical surroundings of the space add yet another level of irony to Flood's subversion of American pop culture.

Eclecticism, craftsmanship and irony typify their work, which shows extremely diverse fascinations for, for example, south German folklore, pop star Michael Jackson, historical costumes, sport and traditional Japanese dress.

Agar, who died in 1991, is due a revision: her strong sense of irony and lyrical use of colour undermine the historical view of her simply as a surrealist.

Define irony: Using words and phrases like «brutalize», «vicious», «long history of brutal oppression», «ethnic cleansing» and «island of European colonizers» then turning around and accuse your debating opponent of «omit [ting] historical context».