Sentences with phrase «in ironic ways»

It is actually quite funny in an ironic way that the fundamentalist right who have been notably intolerant are now endorsing a Mormon.

He is pointing out, in an ironic way, our often delusional obsession with particular players and quick - fix answers to whatever problem AFC may be experiencing at any one time.

You might want to use the Jonas Brothers, because Zach was talking about [them], you might want to use that and what it associates with, in an ironic way or not, so it just depends.

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.

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.

«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.

Not exact matches

It's more than a little ironic that Facebook (fb), which has become a powerful media entity, is controlled in much the same way through multiple - voting shares owned by Mark Zuckerberg and his family.

The ad was meant «to elicit reactions on the global travesty of child labour in an ironic, humorous way.»

In an unintended and sadly ironic way, the mass shootings actually contribute to the industry's financial success.

The pope himself offers little in the way of encouragement to resist a convenient fusion of Catholic and bourgeois life, an ironic but predictable outcome given the tenor of his papacy so far.

This person obviously thinks this bumper - sticker nibblet of thought is in some way ironic, intelligent, biting, whatever...

That Murdoch can not find a way to accept this God who sees and seeks (who redeems), but instead embraces an impersonal and probably fictional Good, makes it ironic - perhaps contradictory would not be too strong a word - that she would conclude her book with these words from Psalm 139 (in the Authorized Version, of course):

Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

Most ironic part of all of this is that the group (young adults) that appear to have come out in force to get him re-elected, are the ones that will be paying for this decision (in more ways than one) for the rest of their lives...

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

It is ironic, in this way, that the two most pronounced promoters of community in Harvard's life in the «Golden Age» of Harvard philosophy were both loners.

They can shape their fiction any way they want, we won't be paying any attention to it — and it's really ironic that the GOP wants us to forget Bush2, so he ain't to be seen, and they want us to forget the thousands of Americans left to suffer and die in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina — and another hurricane is looming again due to hit poor New Orleans.

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And what's ironic is that I'm so bothered because Jesus actually challenges me to not only care for the souls of all humanity, but to feed the hungry, aid the sick, regard the stranger, visit the prisoner, and love my neighbor in tangible ways.»

Instead of pursuing this line of inquiry, Lear turns to an examination of the role of irony in psychoanalysis, to the way in which the intrusion of the unconscious self into the awareness of the conscious self involves precisely an ironic disruption of the familiar self by the unfamiliar self.

That makes all of this ironic whenever religious believers are involved in any way.

What is ironic here is that Christian missionaries were in a way responsible for creating this ferment in Kerala.

And where more than in Hamlet, set in a particular place and time with a limited cast of characters interrelated in quite specific ways, do we experience the mysterious and ironic disproportion between mere spatial dimension and the immensely more extensive structural and thematic dimension that characterizes the fractal that figures so prominently in chaos theory?

It is somewhat ironic that the authors should set out to rescue from neglect this highly placed and vastly talented lady, versed in the ways of the world, entre deux ages, at a time when the documentary hypothesis can no longer be taken for granted, when the extent, the date, and even the existence of J as an independent, continuous narrative are being widely questioned.

It is in some ways ironic that incarnational theology should have become Christian «orthodoxy.»

So funny (ironic) that your recipe was right next to Milky Way Bites Ice Cream by A Family Feast in my blog feed.

It's ironic that the Wade left the Miami Heat, who will almost certainly be better than the Bulls now next season, but if he ends up on another playoff team with those $ 24 million then he's a winner in multiple ways.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

This would be great news for Arsenal FC and would give us Arsenal fans some great ammunition to fire at our counterparts on the red half of Merseyside in the banter wars over the summer and into next season, especially as it would be the second time in a couple of seasons that it happened and after the way they took the mickey about our transfer bid for Luis Suarez it would be ironic to say the least.

And, in a rather ironic kind of way, it has been the lack of draws which has griped on Bolton manager Owen Coyle.

And when I say ironic I don't mean in a way douche bags like this would find totally awesome.

The ironic thing about baby sleeping positions is that newborns will sleep just about anywhere, any way, and there's really one perfect option: on his back in a crib with a fitted mattress and nothing else in it.

«It's ironic that a budget that in many other ways was the most transparent for decades seems to have failed to consider and publish its impact on half the population,» chief executive Ceri Goddard said.

«It is ironic that they're accusing me of supporting indecency in relation to children when they themselves are not above producing photographs of very young girls, titivating photographs in bikinis, so, you know, I stand by what I was doing at NCCL and I stand by what I was doing all the way through,» she said on Newsnight.

How ironic that in a city that prides itself on diversity, one parade is singled out because it wishes to celebrate its individual values in its own way, just as the Gay Pride Parade in June does.

Reform must also be made of the ways and means of candidate selection in order to reduce the power of the political parties - it is ironic that it was not so long ago that party membership was not given on election ballot papers.

This unwillingness to let computers override the terrible decisions of terrible drivers is rather ironic, says Brad Templeton, an influential Internet entrepreneur and expert on civil rights in the digital age; accident avoidance is one of the most appropriate ways to have computers intrude into our lives.

And in an ironic twist, the work could yield a new way to treat common ailments such as heart disease and cancer with gene therapies.

It's ironic in a way: Some of the things that give us the most pleasure are really the most ancient.»

I think of the whole outfit as kind of ironic / homage to preppy, in a way.

Heels have become my strange way of feeling somewhat like myself, which is kind of ironic considering I didn't love heels all that much in the first place.

In 1999, Naomi Klein captured the anti-corporate feeling of the decade in «No Logo», but equally observed a generation who are «now finding ways to express their disdain for mass culture not by opting out of it but by abandoning themselves to it entirely — but with a sly ironic twist.&raquIn 1999, Naomi Klein captured the anti-corporate feeling of the decade in «No Logo», but equally observed a generation who are «now finding ways to express their disdain for mass culture not by opting out of it but by abandoning themselves to it entirely — but with a sly ironic twist.&raquin «No Logo», but equally observed a generation who are «now finding ways to express their disdain for mass culture not by opting out of it but by abandoning themselves to it entirely — but with a sly ironic twist.»

An ironic sort of vanity piece in that it tries to be such an anti-vanity piece — bluntly intimate, rather than a peek behind the curtain — but it feels honest all the way.

The Spring Breakers honorary award for achievement in utilizing catchy, modern tracks in extremely ironic ways goes to American Honey this year.

«There's ironic distance in the way [Verhoeven] shows things,» she said.

«But the ironic choice can also work in an unironic, very earnest way.

Denis uses the tune in both an ironic and hopeful way.

He's someone whose status as a great artist has allowed him to have total control over his life and surroundings, with everything flowing with grace and ease around him; it's ironic, then, that Alma (Vicky Krieps) catches his eye by being out of place and uncertain in her movements, causing him to beam warmly in a way that gives a totally different energy than his polite smiles toward his clients.

Johansson is also excellent; it's ironic in a way that arguably the best performance of a woman who is so well known for her physical characteristics is the one where she is never actually on screen, but her voice work is just as necessary to believe there is something real to the relationship, and the subtle verbal tics she uses are mightily effective.