Sentences with phrase «ironic twist of»

In an ironic twist of fate, Jacobs represents hotels as head of his firm's Global Resort & Tourism Practice.

And in an ironic twist of fate, that curiosity and thirst for knowledge and adventure would be fulfilled in a most unwelcome way.

In an ironic twist of fate, it may be less of a burden owning an older sports car now than when they were being made.

When the money meant for Cole is stolen by One Two and Mumbles in an ironic twist of fate, however, the deal is forced into limbo.

The two men brawled over the woman in which led Vincennes to confront Bracken and hit her in an ironic twist of which his very own mother use to get physically abused by his father.

However, it is possible the Human Rights Act could protect newspapers against the damages — an ironic twist of fate for an industry which routinely attacks the legislation.

Jonas elaborates on this ironic twist of problematics:

In an ironic twist of fate, those early sceptics give us plenty of good reasons today to be confident in the Gospel accounts of Jesus.

The plot is simple and I kept waiting for the ironic twists of a Cohen Brothers film.

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It was a bit of an ironic twist since Bill Belichick has been critical of the very rules that helped his team win the Super Bowl.

And in an ironic twist, teens who try vaping are at a far higher risk of becoming smokers compared with teens who don't.

In what turns out to be an ironic twist, we've recently found this consensus view rests on a subtle - but crucial - misconception regarding the behavior of random sequences.

In an ironic twist, part of the campus of the Catholic University of America (CUA), namely the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, has become the focal point for a generation of young American Catholics who are passionately committed to speaking out in defence of the right to life for the unborn.

Views like Kinzer's represent another ironic twist in which one mainline commitment — renunciation of supersessionism — is taken up by Messianic Jews to support their own practice.

In a beautifully ironic twist for a natural chemical falsely accused of causing stomach cancer, capsaicin has been shown to be «absolutely effective» in alleviating the pain from oral stomatitis, mouth sores caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to Dr. Ann M. Berger of Yale University's Pain Management Center.

The passion of the home crowd was the fatal flaw, an unexpectedly ironic twist.

I said: «I'm rarely wrong AND WHEN I AM I OPENLY ADMIT IT»... That's the opposite of arrogance but you hate me so you have to twist that into «ironic arrogance».

But there's an ironic twist to all of this.

In the context of this sentence «small matter» is a colloquial term with an ironic twist meaning «important».

Dr. Suzanne Gilberg - Lenz, the OB - GYN expert on momlogic.com, finds the whole thing an ironic twist on America's history of breastfeeding, which includes black wet nurses forced to breastfeed the slave owners» children during slavery and Victorian - era women who paid other women to nurse their children so they didn't have to be stuck at home.

In an ironic twist, he was succeeded by Angela Wozniak, who had a scandal of her own.

His Republican challenger, Bob Antonacci, will — something of an ironic twist given the GOP opposition to the issue.

«It is ironic that much of the state's brief passionately spews sanctimonious verbiage on the separation of powers in the governmental branches, and clear arm - twisting by the Executive on the Legislative permeates this entire process,» Judge Robert Wiggins wrote.

In another ironic twist, the Department of Buildings itself has had trouble maintaining its own headquarters at 280 Broadway.

«It is ironic that much of the state's brief passionately spews sanctimonious verbiage on the separation of powers in the governmental branches,» Justice Wiggins wrote, «and clear arm - twisting by the Executive on the Legislative permeates this entire process.»

In an ironic twist, one of the first consequences of the formation of a massive star is that it starts to destroy the cloud from which it was born.

In an ironic twist, the current president is a woman: Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, who discovered the molecular nature of telomeres and who co-discovered telomerase, was hired in November 2015 and began work in January 2016.

But after we had publicly heralded a trial of the device at Orlando International, George Zarur found something in the technology that, in an ironic twist, our much - maligned overly bureaucratic process had missed during the ShoeScanner's expedited review.

In an apparent ironic twist to this year's prize, the quarry claimed by countless hours of sleepless toil is itself fundamental to a good night's sleep: the molecular basis of circadian rhythms — those genes and proteins whose interactions underlie the ability of us living organisms to keep our internal body clocks entrained to a 24 - hour cycle.

People who have a tendency to accumulate a greater amount of fat are, in a somewhat ironic twist, the same people who are at their peak physical condition right now.

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.»

Well, let's put an ironic twist on our narrative and continue with Ashley Madison — a highly profitable dating site and social network catering specifically to the needs of people who want to date outside their established relationships.

In a more ironic and satisfying twist of fate, Kinnear was then hired back by E! to host Talk Soup, the network's new talk show.

Director Arthur Penn, at his peak, turned the movie into an ironic blend of twisted love story, dark comedy, caustic social portrait and breezy romantic crime thriller, with Bonnie and Clyde as a pair of deadly innocents, caught up in the poverty of the Depression and the turbulence of the»30s gangster period.

In an ironic twist, and perhaps some may think of this as poetic justice, the studio decided to cut out a Rebecca Romijn - Stamos (X-Men) nude scene and some shots of excessive violence and gore.

The film tosses in a late - developing twist, which may genuinely pique the interest of those who haven't given up on caring about these characters, but it's merely there in order to try to have some sort of ironic ending to what amounts to a nearly two - hour long episode of a TV horror anthology.

Klezmer music, twisting the sound of traditional instruments to modern rock with even more joy, while also capturing the ironic melancholy of a life of crime.

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

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

In an ironic twist, today was also the third day of Judge Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearing.

Well, in an ironic twist, it's actually Land Rover now doing the reverse engineering, as the Velar is their version of the F - Pace.

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

The first graphic novel ever nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the 2007 Printz Award, its twisting narrative, ironic tone, classical page composition, and deep, human insights stand alone but could also make an excellent contrast for the straight narrative, epic sweep, experimental art, and deep, human insights of another graphic novel that explores themes of immigration, Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2007).

In the most ironic twist to this new law, the president of Bolivia simply hates to read.

I don't know if this is an ironic twist, but I actually read Weinberger's defense of the web in an old - fashioned printed book.

And a slight ironic twist, one stock I'm thinking of is Hennessy (HNNA), which is a mutual fund manager with $ 900 AUM and trades at less than 1 % EV / AUM, which is low.

In an ironic twist, many of these folks, with their love of hard money and distrust of centralized power, could very well see blockchain facilitate big banks» trading of the ultimate hard money, gold.

Still, as a love letter to the kitchy mid -»90s FMV games to which Twisted Pixel, and The Gunstringer in particular, owes a good deal of its ironic flair, The Wavy Tube Man Chronicles is unmatched in its reverence.

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!

Born within a year of Barlow, American artist Barbara Kruger has since the 1960s made collages and installations based on advertising posters, in which famous phrases are twisted to expose the emptiness o f consumer culture — «I shop therefore I am» — or where bold slogans, such as «Don't Shoot», reveal an ironic wit.