Sentences with phrase «in ironic»

In another ironic twist, JP Morgan has posted a job opening for a Blockchain professional.

In an ironic twist the SAC took advantage from the CCC's ruling which found that such a violation would qualify as a breach of the constitutional right to the lawful judge (another irony lies in the fact that this ruling concerned a violation by the SAC...).

In an ironic twist, the latest Client Advisory from the Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group and Hildebrandt Consulting warns: «Law firms discount or ignore firm culture at their peril.»

In an ironic twist earlier last month, a New Mexico news source reported on a woman who was charged with DUI after arriving to her husband's DUI police stop.

In an ironic twist of fate, Jacobs represents hotels as head of his firm's Global Resort & Tourism Practice.

(Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In an ironic twist to Pakistan's struggles with extreme weather, experts warn that the increasingly frequent and intense flooding in the country could lead to catastrophic water shortages.

In another ironic twist, Giffords was a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment.

In an ironic twist, Think Progress has just reported that a bizarre technicality in U.S. law allowed Exxon Mobil to avoid paying into the federal oil spill fund responsible for cleaning up oil spills like the one in Mayflower.

These days, in an ironic turnabout, some residents of Brig and surrounding alpine communities are quietly praying for the Aletsch to come back.

Isn't that comment in itself ironic, considering that the current «global warming» movement began in probably much similar fashion, with small amounts of data leading to further scrutiny of future recorded data.

In ironic reference to the originals, Graham's paintings are hung upside - down, against the gravitational direction of the flow of paint.

Employed brilliantly by the Situationists, whose great philosopher Guy Debord laid out the socio - aesthetic framework for this practice, détournements twist the terms of mimicry in ironic parody using the a semblance of the easily recognizable to dissemble and redirect the literal meaning of signs so as to construe a more honest picture of their deceptive intentions.

In an ironic, or fitting, twist, Tinguely, whose infamous, self - destroying sculpture «Homage to New York» (1960) hovers like an exterminating angel above the proceedings, was also the guiding spirit behind a small but stunning show in the same room in 2013.

Ybarra likes to play with the idea of the museum, using galleries as spaces in which to assemble personal collections that stand in some ironic relation to the sorts of dioramas and vitrines ordinarily found in ethnographic or natural history exhibits.

These mostly playful experiments deal with interrogations of the «art space», the operations of the «project space» and «exhibiting» often in an ironic manner.

Defined as one of the most representative artists in the Spanish art scene at the moment, Albarracín explores in an ironic and intelligent way the social stereotypes linked to her Andalusian origin and identity, the flamenco and the bullfighting.

Judith Hopf's snake sculptures, however, become petrified in an ironic contrast: while showing their teeth and tongues, built out of printed emails and newspapers, the rest of their usually supple bodies look static and stuck somewhere in a system of endless variables provided by the net and its geometry.

Denny takes on popular entertainment and consumer cultures, creating aquarium - like sculptures, which quote in an ironic - melancholic way the former status object of the television set as an item of furniture and living room altar.

Quite dramatic and painterly, this 1982 homage to the «unknown painter» that the catalogue maintains «casts the concept of genius in an ironic light.»

I've taught a lot of books: I taught Northrop Frye, who is good because he classifies narratives in terms of the protagonist's control over the environment, so you start in the heroic mode where the protagonist has total control and you end up in the ironic mode where the protagonist turns into a beetle.

What Smith calls a «casual anti-art aesthetic that intentionally defies the rules of artistic convention in an ironic and informed manner» I call bad painting.

Through a number of characters, she tackles these topics in an ironic, yet in the manner of loudly truth speaking.

For more recent works, however, Jones has downplayed the camp aspect by showing found footage without soundtrack or splicing in ironic audio alternatives to lend layers of cultural reference to footage rooted firmly in a specific time and place.

But, in an ironic twist, Marshall's huge paintings depict vernacular African American settings such as public housing projects, thereby slyly placing those subjects within the canon of Western art history where they were previously ignored.

«If you were making paintings,» she says, «you'd do it in an ironic way, or you would talk about how it was wrong to make paintings.

Using the female body as a mechanism to explore themes of power, female representation, fetishism and objectification, usually in an ironic and cheerful way, Lichtenstein's work embodies the very paradox she is trying to explore.

Pop's roots in the ironic gestures and disparate juxtapositions of Dada are explored with works by Marcel Duchamp and Robert Rauschenberg.

Subverting these existing modalities of definition and communication, and contesting the desensitizing allure that prevails in mass culture, Liu organizes her content in ironic pairings and peculiar combinations, prompting the viewer to observe closely and ponder curiously.

Breuning's works also tend toward the fantastic or the surreal, depicting subjects in an ironic, bizarre, or illusory manner.

The lyrical abstraction of these paintings is contrasted with smaller geometric abstract paintings, rigid in structure and form, but handmade, with deliberately imperfect and variably weighted lines, in an ironic and humorous way.

And in an ironic twist of fate, that curiosity and thirst for knowledge and adventure would be fulfilled in a most unwelcome way.

From the quotes it could be bad, it could be a game aimed at kids or, it could be in the ironic sense.

The story mode starts you off in the ironic Warehouse stage from the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and goes from there.

In an ironic twist, most Singaporeans have never seen these species as habitat loss means they have gone extinct (though you can still spot wildlife on Pulau Ubin).

Note the quotations around «street dogs»; this statement appears to have been made in an ironic contest.

In an ironic twist, fired managers tended to have higher returns than the managers hired to replaced them.

In an ironic twist, many of these folks, with their love of hard money and distrust of centralized power, could very well see blockchain facilitate big banks» trading of the ultimate hard money, gold.

Well, here's another one to throw on the pile and set alight in an ironic tribute to the fallen despots: Raghad Saddam Hussein — daughter of... eh, let's say George Foreman — is shopping around international publishing rights to Hussein Sr.'s memoirs which, like Bin Laden's letters, are handwritten.

It's in that ironic category where those who love it the most are the ones trying their hardest to replace it.

In this masterful Swedish novel about the Danish revolution of 1768 - 72, a deranged king, his adolescent queen, his doctor - become - prime - minister, and a puritanical professor - turned - bureaucrat are the focal characters — the principal players in an ironic romantic tragedy that inspires horror and pity on every page.

Austen, in an ironic play, exposes Emma's self - absorption and arrogance by naming the novel after her — solely Emma.

His second essay, called «Madison's Vices» in ironic tribute to its author's undoubted virtue, was an incisive catalog of the infirmities of the Articles.

In an ironic twist of fate, it may be less of a burden owning an older sports car now than when they were being made.

Well, in an ironic twist, it's actually Land Rover now doing the reverse engineering, as the Velar is their version of the F - Pace.

While I regret the incident at our TEACH Conference, in an ironic way, it has given me and the AFT the opportunity to promote our belief in working in partnership with anyone who wants to help improve public education.

In an ironic twist, today was also the third day of Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

In an ironic twist, the teachers unions are allowed to charge fee - payers for litigation «specifically related to collective bargaining, contract administration or organizational maintenance.»

In an ironic twist, reforming teacher pension plans would help companies like Vanguard that offer cheap, mass - market index funds, and it would seriously harm hedge funds and private equity firms.

We know from the onset what will happen: the Warlock will kill that character in an ironic way but not before tossing off a clever one - liner.

When the money meant for Cole is stolen by One Two and Mumbles in an ironic twist of fate, however, the deal is forced into limbo.