Sentences with phrase «ironic for»

I'd pick the Kelley in wheat (is it ironic for a celiac to choose WHEAT of all colors?

Ive and Cook place great importance on employees being physically together at work — ironic for a company that has created devices that enable people to work from a distance.

This is ironic for me, because if I were an iPhone 6 owner, I would get the iPhone 7 — that waterproof feature alone is worth the price of admission.

It is actually easy to unscrew from its mounting, which seems pretty ironic for a security camera.

It's a good - looking face, and the step counter is pretty ironic for a face that looks like a speedometer.

Somewhat ironic for a phone making its name around external plug - in modules, but it's still true that LG gives G5 users flexibility that others lack.

It's a bit ironic for Samsung to target the problems of OLED panels as it is the largest supplier of mobile OLED panels in the market.

At 2 am everything was still vibrant with life, which was pretty ironic for us.

Seems ironic for Apple, right?

Kind of ironic for you to mention creationist scientists, because that is actually where you are apparently casting your lot.

Don't get me wrong, I love Smack Mellon as much as the next guy, but isn't it a little ironic for an organization that cleaves toward site specific installations, and has little interest in contemporary painting, to rely on painters for fundraising?

A wheel or chain may seem to anchor the work in real space, ironic for sculpture that obviously is not going to get up and go anywhere anytime soon.

I know it's ironic for these games to be so inviting despite blatantly being about the horrible effects of monopolization and greed.

Aonuma: I heard that hardcore players love «The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (LOZMM)» more, so it's kind of ironic for me.

Crash standards also took their toll — ironic for a company that had long traded on the safety of its cars («Safety Fast»).

In her recent ad campaign linking failing education to a flabby American Olympian, Michelle Rhee insults American students everywhere, which is, of course, ironic for an organization known as Students First.

An offbeat coming of age story that wears its heart on its sleeve more than you initially expect it to, I think it's actually reminiscent of David Gordon Green's early work, which is ironic for the column this week.

The script occasionally feels a bit too witty or ironic for its own good, once again showing the movie's audience - pleasing tendencies, and the soundtrack underscoring most of the film, comprised of multiple pop songs, just emphasizes the simplistic development of character and theme.

well thats kinda ironic for it to NOT come on a nintendo platform... or is that some other SC..

As one anonymous poster points out, it's a bit ironic for a series that parodies the game industry and its practices.

I saw this on TV and it felt very choppy, almost certainly having had some horse - falls cut out of it; ironic for a film which preaches kindness to and respect for animals, amongst other things.

I hope I just compliment a very beautiful women it's ironic for I seem to have been unsuccessful at perhaps an Intolerable criteria ladies if you're super fine and you should be worshipped like god let idolize such a rare uniqueness hard.

This was ironic for me because I felt like the best playwrights had some kind of political message, some kind of reason to communicate with their stories through entertainment.

So ironic for this nature girl who LOVES to be outside yet the misery of allergies can force me inside.

«It would be ironic for democratically elected MPs to restrict their constituents» ability to exercise their legal and constitutional rights.

By fixating on the hidden meanings in one picture (ironic for a newspaper that prints a deeply disturbing picture of a half - naked 20 year old every day) it is guilty of trivialising political debate and directly ensuring more politicians will be too terrified to engage with controversial issues.

«There's something archly ironic for someone working on a campaign with Peter Mandelson to complain about others working in the shadows, but there you go.

This weekend, Shafran will be making his final push to concentrate the Jewish voting bloc by emphasizing his Jewish heritage — sort of ironic for a man who graduated St. Francis Prep and was married in a Catholic church, but I digress.

Ironic for the kid of a mom who is all about cloth diapers!

This decision however is nothing but ironic for two different reasons:

I may just have a thing about chips, which is ironic for a person who generally avoids processed / packaged foods when possible.

It's kind of ironic for me to be sharing a beet smoothie bowl considering what I wrote in my fails post last year.

First of all I find it ironic for you to be commenting on such for as far as you are concerned there is no such thing as God as believers would talk of, but just an «imaginary friend» in the alleigance to Hawardism, a United Nations of Spiritualiy and the goddess Sophia.

«It is ironic for someone to claim they are being targeted by the measures we have taken to prevent unauthorized submissions for baptism,» Purdy said.

«I find that extraordinarily ironic for a discipline that prides itself on spirited debate about fundamental issues,» Jones said.

I know, it's very ironic for a lie to protect liars, but «a house divided against itself can not stand», so that's how Satan (who rules the world) is protected by the Church as well.

Going around displaying a complete lack of concern over personal appearance is the provence of the mentally ill, no doubt doubly ironic for a psychology grad student.

Butcher said it was still a mystery why the BC Liberals paid Bonney - hired ethnic outreach worker Sarrafpour through Bonney's numbered company and he agreed with St. Pierre that it was ironic for Bonney to work in a ministry that included the words «open government» on its shingle.

The journey to the doors of huge tech firms has been ironic for Powers and Walker, since both of them knew so little of Silicon Valley during their student days.

But the news is particularly ironic for Bitstamp, which gained popularity after the collapse of another exchange called Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy last year after losing approximately $ 650 million in a cyber attack.

Not exact matches

The Priv's differentiating features — the keyboard, the Hub and DTek — may be the ironic hindrance here, since customizing Android to work with them likely required more time for BlackBerry engineers.

What's ironic is that while YouTube started purely as a repository for user - generated content, the company has recognized that it needs higher quality videos to draw the kinds of advertisers it wants — which sounds a lot like television's model.

It's doubly ironic given that Apple (aapl) has used images and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. in its commercials for more than a decade.

What's ironic, however, is that Hollywood's nervousness over showing Putin on film seems at odds with its current Russian obsession, with studios searching high and low for scripts that can best capture the current political climate in all its fraught intrigue.

Even with conscious avoidance over the past few weeks, I still couldn't help but find out that major characters get killed and raped in the first few episodes of the new season (my ironic apologies for that minor spoiler, though I unfortunately know exactly which characters are involved).

Stewart and Colbert were groundbreakers, but even they tempered their political edge with ironic distance and a concern for balance.

It's thought to be an ironic way for a speaker to say two things at once.

What I've found ironic is that our band, which has been around for a long time now, is doing better than ever.

Here's Jason Fried, founder of 37signals, for example, telling a Fast Company reporter (yes, it's a little bit ironic) why he's grown his highly successful company at a slower pace than its maximum potential:

It is a huge, ironic twist for a boy coming from a region that seems to despise such elites.