Sentences with phrase «ironic title of»

«House and Garden» is the ironic title of Bay Area painter Deborah Oropallo's latest show at Wirtz.

«Lucky You» may well have the most ironic title of any of the summer's releases, having found itself from scheduled release date to scheduled release date.

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I should mention how ironic I found it that a title - search for material relating to eschatology in a process - relational mode yielded a plethora of titles dealing with the question of personal immortality, but a relative dearth of material dealing with the eschaton as a new corporate order.

Bishop McQuaid, the curmudgeonly «conservative,» initially opposed the definition of papal infallibility at Vatican I. Archbishop Ireland, the quintessential «liberal,» ruthlessly drove Eastern - rite Catholic emigrants and their married clergy out of the archdiocese of St. Paul and indeed out of the Church (thus earning himself the ironic title, among some wags, of «father of Russian Orthodoxy in America»).

«The letters are titled «Notice of Legal Information Warning», signed using the ironic name «Concerned Citizens for Good Government» and warn that «there is reason to believe that your (petition) signature has been obtained against the law,»» wrote Horacio Gutierrez, Rivera's campaign strategist.

The ironic title, originally bestowed in criticism of the radical policies pursued by local Labour politicians, was in fact happily embraced by those it was intended to denigrate, including Michie, whose lifelong commitment to the pursuit of socialism never wavered.

(Perhaps as an ironic jest, they allowed him to retain the title of «Emperor.»)

Dress: Banana Republic (other color way) / / Wedges: Banana Republic (old, similar) / / Apple Watch The title of this post is a little ironic, because I took these photos on my trip to Wisconsin, but to me this dress is a quintessential southern summer look!

(A bit ironic, given the title of this link party haha!)

The title does not offer a complex structure or a very deep gameplay, but succeed, s with a perfect ironic characterization, in satisfying many of the longtime gamers.

It's a film best valued as an extended surprise, with hilarity greatly enhanced by an atmosphere of the unanticipated, beautified by a soundtrack of goofy, ironic tunes to underscore any and all ludicrousness (though Phillips deserves a bravery medal for a forbidding Danzig opening title track).

Chiara's «Material Puns» use wordplay to weld the title of the painting with the materials placed on canvas, through an ironic reinterpretation of Pop - Art, Dadaism and Ready Made.

The Logan brothers — whose family's streak for misfortune gives the film its ironic title — recruit incarcerated safe - cracker Joe Bang (Craig) for the job, and breaking him out of prison ends up as one more spoke on this plan's spinning wheel.

From the washed - out greys and blues of its visual palette in the very opening moments, and with nary a colour traditionally linked to passion present during its entire runtime, United States of Love might seem like a deliberately ironic English title for Polish director Tomas Wasilewski's latest film.

THE MARTIAN is an ironic title for a movie which pays unabashed tribute to the best and most deeply human in all of us, the will to survive, the scope of our intelligence, the consciousness of ourselves as simultaneously significant and minute in the universe.

The name of Kevin Hart's new movie is ironic, having «Intelligence» in the title, since none of his... Read More

Together, they paint a puckish portrait of the auteur, from Bale's discovery that Malick would often shoot him surreptitiously — at last justifying his Method posturing between takes — to Chief Stephen R. Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe revealing that «Terry» (always «Terry») told him to consider the title ironic after Adkins expressed his displeasure with a 5,000 - year - old civilization being Eurocentrically referred to as «new.»

The title, a modified spelling of a song by and documentary on The Who, isn't ironic; both kids are generally fine, albeit each under the questionable influence of a friend.

Needless to say, neither of the films in question was directed by Michael Haneke, even if his latest picture does bear the (presumably ironic) title «Happy End.»

Despite a game performance from Fanning, Mary Shelley reportedly falls back upon shopworn biopic conventions, transforming a passionate recounting of lively extremes and bold behavior into a mild - mannered narrative, afraid to get daring — ironic when the film's title character is such an irrepressible rule - breaker.

Well, she's more naturally drawn to the bad ones, hence the irony of the title (I guess it's ironic?).

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

You can watch James go to the cage in a ridiculous get up to the theme of POD's «Boom «(which is where the movie gets the title from, ironic because the actual song «Here Comes the Boom» by Nelly is entirely different).

It's vital stuff, this Oldboy, its very title suggesting an ironic superhero alter ego — sketching anti-hero Oh Dae - Su (Choi Min - sik) as a fright - mask of arrested development, a child raging against its prematurely - aged body.

Amidst the sea of near indistinguishable first - and third - person shooters, MMOs and MMO shooters at PAX East, I found it somewhat ironic that two particular titles that stood out to me where both remakes of classic games: XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Double Dragon Neon.

Ironic here is that they, immediately thereafter, insert their Figure D (p. v titled Figure 3 below), that they explicitly title «Connecting the Dots,» to illustrate all of the punitive consequences already at play across the nation (giving Delaware, Florida, and Louisiana (dis) honorable mentions for leading the nation when it comes to their policy efforts to connect the dots).

I was tempted to recommend them during Valentines week but thought it best not to lest some unsuspecting soul rushed out to buy Valentines for their loved one without taking a closer look; the title is ironic, these stories are not of warm and nurturing relationships but of angst - ridden emotionally damaged people brought down by a moment of poor judgment in the past or present.

susiej, I like the idea of a sarcastic or ironic reading of the title.

Explain the meaning of the novel's title, giving special attention to the ironic connotations of the word «good.»

Her latest novel, Second Honeymoon (an ironic title), opens with the somewhat histrionic Edie surveying the empty room of her son, the last of her children to leave home, taking his mother's identity with him.

Two weeks ago, in an amusingly ironic moment, Jeff Bezos and company deleted all copies of both 1984 and Animal Farm from citizen Kindles after the rights holder complained the titles had been sold without its permission.

Among the most popular for those interested in big numbers is the first line from David Jessup's ironically titled 2004 paper «The welfare of feral cats and wildlife» (ironic because his «concerns» for the welfare of these cats are so plainly disingenuous): «There are an estimated 60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats in the United States.»

hell hey even kicked Valve's ass at a game of TF2 (which i found kinda ironic:P) so it seems to me they like Valve's titles a lot.

Not entirely ironic odes to African American culture, such as James Brown's Sacrifice to Apollo, co-exist with Dance the Orange — a quote from the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, on the transformation of one art or sensation into another, that also supplies a title for the show.

The painting, with a title taken from an American popular song, acts as an ironic commentary on the racial violence of her time.

Later in the century, it was adapted as a battle hymn by suffragettes and abolitionists, who used the song's title and opening line — «My country ’ t is of thee, / sweet land of liberty» — as an ironic jab at the nation's hypocrisies.

Since the African - American women Thomas portrays in her paintings are in control and decidedly done up — dressed to the nines and posed in studio spaces full of busy fabrics — there's clearly an ironic twist in the exhibition title, She's Come Undone!

The Confrontation of 1978 has an ironic title given the surrounding white oval, like a barrier to car bombs.

By the 1990s, Ruscha was creating larger paintings of light projected into empty rooms, some with ironic titles such as An Exhibition of Gasoline Powered Engines (1993).

«But, almost twenty years later, the older artist additionally explained, ``... it was partly a title perversely ironic... Only later did I learn that in «English» «homely» means «homebody,» which also happens to be true of me... But at the time I named it I was referring to the American idiomatic use of being «not beautiful,» not attractive... which I felt more about the picture than myself.»

The title The Krautcho Club / In and out of Place combines an ironic reference to a well known London media / art world members club with the process of contextualisation launched in a «forgotten» German bar.

The latest Metro Pictures exhibition, «Bad Conscience,» may seem to have an ironic title, given that the exhibition's curator, the artist and writer John Miller, has organized a show of his friends, associates, and collaborators.

Foremost among these issues is the school's management of one of its greatest assets, the land beneath the Chrysler Building and the tower itself, which, as of 2009, brought in $ 7 million annually, according to another WSJ article whose title, «One College Sidesteps the Crisis,» now seems bitterly ironic.

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

In 1988, decades before the ironic listicle became ubiquitous, a street poster titled «The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist» hit the art world by storm.

The title The Krautcho Club / In and out of Place combines an ironic reference to a well known London media / art world members club with the process of contextualization launched in a «forgotten» German bar.

The titles of the artworks, which often refer to the artist as the «Negress,» stress her ironic position, exaggerating the stereotypical expectations thrust upon minority artists.

The ironic, somehow bitter titles (Pizzerie Gargamella, Pazzo Pappagallo, La Taverna Azzurra, Il Cimitero dei Rotoli, Il Parchetto dei drogati) counterbalance the elegance of the results.

I am thinking of proposing a web blog award for the most ironic blog title — tammy would win hand's down.

is a deeply ironic blog title, given your evident example of deep irony.