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«There's ironic distance in the way [Verhoeven] shows things,» she said.
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As we saw in the last chapter, popular poetry juxtaposes Christian language with contemporary analogues and contrasts and does thereby achieve a kind of ironic distance from that language; but direct contact with traditional language and symbols — what Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins achieved — is not easy, if it is even possible in our time.
One such ironic effect of microphones in preaching is the increased distance between preacher and congregation.
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.»
It's ironic when you don't believe that you can really find love in an online Asian dating site or even long distance relationships wouldn't last but then out of nowhere, Mike is now in love with a woman he met on an Asian dating site who lives halfway across the world.
The ironic distancing makes it hard to get emotionally caught up in the sad story of Kenney's self - destruction when the film enters «Leaving Las Vegas» territory.
That ironic undercutting of expectations is a good place to start as Barry introduces us to Josh, a college Everyman fretting over his long - distance relationship with long - term girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), a veterinary student in Austin, Texas.
One hopes in vain for Sutherland, who's turned in some madly fey performances in his time, to contribute some subversively ironic distance from the ongoing embarrassments of Lady Ice, but he manfully pretends to be titillated by O'Neill's nonexistent challenges and lopes gracelessly through his assigned paces as a Columbo of the insurance circuit.
In this age of torture porn, ironic distance and daily real - world outrage, can cinema still offer up an authentically frightening experience?
At first glance, Kippenberger can appear ironic, though he was not ironically distanced from either the form or the content in his work.
Halil Altındere developed the Space Refugee project for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, which in the light of European fears of foreign infiltration and at some ironic distance proposes to use the cosmic space as a haven for refugees.
In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporatIn 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporatIn a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporatin a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.
Increasingly, the art world is in thrall to the triumph of art direction, something which places art in the service of the ironic presentation of forms, our distance from which is the art's message.
In two - dimensional works, as well as in performance and installation pieces, the artist has seemed to circle painting from a somewhat ironic distance; in this exhibition, she gets down to worIn two - dimensional works, as well as in performance and installation pieces, the artist has seemed to circle painting from a somewhat ironic distance; in this exhibition, she gets down to worin performance and installation pieces, the artist has seemed to circle painting from a somewhat ironic distance; in this exhibition, she gets down to worin this exhibition, she gets down to work.