Sentences with phrase «ironic sense of»

Yes a very ironic sense of humor.

Cornelia Parker at Serpentine Gallery, London (1998) Cornelia Parker at Serpentine Gallery, London In the work of Cornelia Parker, unexpected objects come to mind — all with an ironic sense of poetry.

In the work of Cornelia Parker, unexpected objects come to mind — all with an ironic sense of poetry.

«MacConnel's achievement is to have taken the attitudes of modernism and redrawn them in his own style, presenting his images in the incongruous, purportedly light - hearted manner of the decorative in order to convey a distinctly ironic sense of our preeminently militaristic, industrial landscape.»

It really takes someone with visual flair, a love of the medium, and a self - ironic sense of humor.

In his more recent writings, he even attempts to combine an ironic sense of the radical contingency of our language, desires, and beliefs, with a strong commitment to liberal political values, such as the need to fight against pain and suffering and the importance of achieving solidarity as members of a community.

Not exact matches

In one sense this is ironic: Part of the bitcoin ethos is its libertarianism, and some of that raffish libertarian charm will be lost if bitcoin transactions are regulated much more strictly than dollar transactions.

What gives life in the ironic north is not cosmic certainty but a sense of common unheroic humanity.

If you can read Galatians with the idea that Paul was writing with a somewhat sarcastic, or ironic, tone of voice, the letter will make a whole lot more sense to you.

He did have a profound sense of the tragic and the ironic in human affairs.

Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility is a nonentity in this regard, and one fears that Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey is too detached and ironic to be much of a pastor, though he provides both intellectual and moral training for the heroine, Catherine Morland.

With all due respect that seems to me to be thin skinned in the sense of an argument not being able to stand on it's own merit and it being ironic about you alleging that in me.

I see my frivolity as ironic, and it exists alongside my sense of the profound.

It's kind of funny, in an ironic sense, that George Pataki is getting more media awareness and publicity (albeit on social media platforms like Twitter he's being ridiculed for being «irrelevant» in the first place) after announcing the suspension of his campaign than he ever did while running for the highest office in the «democratic» free world.

(The science is ironic in the sense that it should not be considered a literal statement of fact.)

It makes sense though, you can't go around wearing an ironic pair of sweatpants, or acid washed high - waist jeans with a sleek pair of Stan Smiths or a pair of Louboutins, you have to commit to the look!

For all of its carefully executed, cool style, soundtracked to a retro synth score and ironic music cuts, «Revenge» is intensely raw, a violent and hallucinatory acid trip for the senses that asserts a feminist perspective in this historically exploitative and misogynistic genre.

it all boils down to common sense, still the movie had pretty visuals, and was informative, but it became ironic that most of what you see is junk food advertising.

She is lovely, but not plastic, with a superb sense of comedy, and a range from righteous indignation to ironic detachment to vulnerable heartbreak is sublime.

And while I am primarily concerned with who wins best picture or best screenplay, for some reason, I always paid attention to costume design (which is ironic, as anyone who knows me will tell you my fashion sense consists primarily of jeans, converse and out of date band t - shirts).

For a film about a woman who enjoys the the act of sex without actually being able to achieve orgasm, it's fittingly ironic how The Oh in Ohio manages to make us sense amusement without actually getting us to laugh out loud.

The sense of earth - shattering importance in Dwight's vendetta is dispelled at the end with ironic knowing insouciance — a little sign - off to show that our hero has stormed his way to hell, brought damnation upon himself and everyone else in sight, and that all there is to show for it is a postcard that we'd forgotten about, finally reaching its destination too late.

The trysts and twists are handled with a Coenesque sense of ironic melancholy.

In essence, it is ironic the film is about insomnia when at its heart it's almost like a dream — lots of fanciful things going on but when it's over there's not a whole lot of sense we can make out of it.

Intent on making definitive, album - length statements, spurred on by his obsessive competitiveness with The Beatles («Rubber Soul» predates «Pet Sounds», and though Paul McCartney cited «Pet Sounds» as a primary influence on «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band», the release of that album is often blamed for Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown), and sensing the opportunity in 1966 of being at the vanguard of the psychedelic movement with a follow - up album (the never - completed «Smile»), the story of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson is as operatic and tinged with ironic destiny as an Aeschylean tragedy.

The Coens» twisted sense of ironic humor is present throughout Intolerable Cruelty, but it doesn't support anything worthwhile.

The word «comically» applies here in the loosest, most darkly ironic sense, because while there is an element of farce about the heist itself, the consequences for both men are grave.

Partly ironic in the sense that African Americans were on the receiving end of racism, the question was nonetheless profound in extrapolating what life is like when you are perceived to be a problem within the audacious assumptions of American democracy.

The result is Murder at Cape Foulweather, a self - published novel with attitude, a twised sense of humor and some ironic twists.

Klara writes with a strong sense of the ironic, and he is careful to point out that more substantive world events were going on under Truman's watch.

So, after realizing all of this many years ago, I finally figured out that as ironic as it seemed, simple, raw and stripped - down price action trading was about the most non-status-quo trading approach I could find, and it also made the most sense.

When he finally got out, he felt a sense of relief — which is somewhat ironic since he had just lost 70 percent of his money.

And given it was at the same time as the video game violence controversies in the US, it's almost kind of ironic in a certain sense too.

Killing Floor: Incursion is a bit more story - driven than the other games in the franchise and happily, all the gore and violence is countered by a sense of ironic humor, largely in the form of the companion voice that guides the player and comments on the action.

Born in 1954, Mr. Oehlen, one of the best artists of Germany's postwar period, is known for his supposedly ironic and insincere approach to painting, but in recent years, especially, his work has conveyed a sublime sense of abandon and freedom — which he has identified as «my subject matter.»

Exuding an ironic and somewhat discerning sense of obscurity, the subject matter is not always clarified.

Through it all the work begs the viewer to step in and form a relationship with or ponder the many cryptic and ironic layers of meaning — simultaneously seducing and repulsing with images and objects that make us aware of our selves as we make sense of them.

This work's playful image and ironic text immediately disrupt our traditional sense of meaning, placing us in an uncanny world where we can't rely on what we know.

Stingel's ironic attempts to codify his own methodology in his Instructions is certainly redolent of Warhol's aspirations towards formalized factory - style reproduction; yet, in Untitled, the unique formations, rivulets and conglomerations of paint re-inscribe a sense of the lyrical upon the pictorial surface.

The current exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art reveals Georges Rouault's keen sense of disjunction, unintended consequences, and ironic reversals.

In a sense, he interrogates the whole idea of mark - making in work that is poetic, ironic, humorous, lyrical, rich in reference and texture and yet still fundamentally mysterious and enigmatic.

Ironic, witty, curious, their aesthetic and post-production confirm Polke's sense of humour and thirst for experimentation.

But emigre that he was, with a Northern sense of colour and ironic view of life perhaps inherited from his homeland, de Kooning brought a New World brash sensitivity to bear on his personal development from Picasso and Soutine, and perfected a richly hectic sense of colour that does a great deal to accelerate and to assuage the rush to our nerve - endings that the finest painting by de Kooning always detonates.

In this context the idea that Indigenous people told their stories in some endeavour to inflict a sense of guilt on non-Indigenous people becomes distinctly ironic.