Sentences with phrase «ironic way»

In an unintended and sadly ironic way, the mass shootings actually contribute to the industry's financial success.

FROM OUR BLOG / Nasher student intern Kristie Landing writes, «Rather than movie - stars on red carpets, Burk Uzzle documents the «ordinary» Americans that escape media attention, often in ironic ways.

But looking back, the Abu Dhabi crash was a pretty ironic way for his career to have come to an end.

A hit at the Toronto International Film Festival and picked up by A24 for an awards season release (12/1 — limited, 12/8 — wide), The Disaster Artist is poised to crash the Oscar race in the best and most ironic way possible.

Many of them struggled to address social and political issues exclusively, describing through signs, symbols and process, their conceptions of anti-art, and anti-form, in a detached, impersonal and often ironic way.

In a weirdly ironic way, when times are tough, many businesses actually stop servicing their existing and loyal customer.

It is somewhat ironic the way Luke begins his account here because from the outset, it appears that God has not kept one of His promises.

Yet God's word to the woman in Genesis 3:16, which revolves around the power of procreation and its now painful good, is fulfilled in a deeply ironic way in the subsequent narrative in Genesis.

The Spring Breakers honorary award for achievement in utilizing catchy, modern tracks in extremely ironic ways goes to American Honey this year.

Even the soundtrack of Deadpool can only appreciate music in a post-modern ironic way.

A few snips here and there, and a reduction in running time of at least twenty minutes, may benefit I Saw The Light's overall feel, because, as it stands, the film, in a very ironic way, is the complete opposite of the subject matter it is trying to portray.

It's Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) against the world, and in the tradition of the writing / directing team of Joel and Ethan Coen, the world, in its wickedly ironic ways, isn't going to let him forget his most prominent foible.

Where the first 1969 film contrasted the lonesome blues of a hopeful Texan gigolo with the period psychedelia of NYC, «Locusts» was steeped in 1930's jazz, all the better to convey moral collapse in a romantically ironic way.

I didn't cover it for The Speaker - Sentinel, because I was at the funeral for my own reasons, but I helped one of our young staff members who did, the high school intern who arrived underdressed in her own ironic way and probably had no idea of half the personages she was looking at.

For better or worse, the work fits right in with 47 Canal's stable of artists (Josh Kline, Ajay Kurian, and Anicka Yi); like those artists, BFFA3AE manipulates and combines generic products (like mylar balloons with Disney Characters, soap dispensers, and seaweed snack packs) in witty, slightly ironic ways.

This tightly conceived show engages in subversive, mostly ironic ways with gender politics and notions of national allegiance.

It's a common enough defense that unravels in rather ironic ways.

The top - down action game coerces its players to take life in the quickest, ugliest and most ironic ways.

But then, God's purpose often seems to fail in the world, only to be realized in ironic ways.

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

It is actually quite funny in an ironic way that the fundamentalist right who have been notably intolerant are now endorsing a Mormon.

Dunham has presented the young with images of an ironic way of life — a way of life that ultimately will prove inadequate.

Look around the world and see them laugh at us everytime this happens (in an ironic way, not jovial) Most countries of the world, people DO NOT NEED weapons, they feel that firearms make you less of a person, less macho to own and use weapons.

He is pointing out, in an ironic way, our often delusional obsession with particular players and quick - fix answers to whatever problem AFC may be experiencing at any one time.

So the overall look screams «I'm purposely not matching in an ironic way!!»

You might want to use the Jonas Brothers, because Zach was talking about [them], you might want to use that and what it associates with, in an ironic way or not, so it just depends.

Its a moment which not only raises an important point about romantic conventions in film, it also serves as an ironic way of illustrating what makes this film such a unique proposition.

It's the ironic way the zombie thriller — a cleverly high - minded horror hoot — shows how carefully the actor is working his way through the treacherous terrain of the middle - aged movie star.

We know from the onset what will happen: the Warlock will kill that character in an ironic way but not before tossing off a clever one - liner.

While I regret the incident at our TEACH Conference, in an ironic way, it has given me and the AFT the opportunity to promote our belief in working in partnership with anyone who wants to help improve public education.

They all look like a bunch of edgy brawlers, but in an ironic way because they're just too cute for that.

In a kind of ironic way, being drawn to good - old fashioned painting on canvas gave her a lot of space, a lot of freedom to explore ideas,» said Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney Museum's chief curator and organizing curator of this exhibition.

Deconstructing the usual chain reaction of actions and facts, and judging and analysing it in a playful and ironic way, Cvijanovic and Moudov underline the ambiguity of the real, and the inadequacy of our instruments of interpretation.

«If you were making paintings,» she says, «you'd do it in an ironic way, or you would talk about how it was wrong to make paintings.

In the central monumental piece of the show the artist has recreated a ready - to consume iceberg made of found - recyclable materials as an ironic way to depict how easily we can reduce the manifestation of centuries of life into a packages digestible visual concept.

According to curator Vicente Torres, the title of the exhibition is an ironic way to say that that being labeled isn't a concern for these artists, that you can label them if you need to, but the labels won't change the nature of the work.

They are without a doubt an ironic way of commenting on his childhood experience of violence and absurdity and the civil war in Mozambique that isolated his country for a long period.

In his latest body of work that will soon be on view at Die Kunstagentin, Jim Avignon deals with the internet in a cheeky and ironic way.

«In his three years in California — 1970 - 1973 — Wegman became part of a group that also included Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Vija Celmins and Allen Ruppersberg, all of whom were poking holes in the stuffier, more academic, East Coast version of conceptualism by using paint, video and photography in ironic ways that turned didactic formalism on its head.»

An ironic way of being an anarchist.