Sentences with phrase «ironies of american»

«One of the ironies of the American produce consumer is that 20 to 30 percent of the produce that we buy never gets consumed,» psychologist Underhill says.

Niebuhr continued to prick American illusions and point out the ironies of American history in two other books he jointly authored, one with Alan Heimert (A Nation So Conceived, 1963) and the other with Paul E. Sigmund (The Democratic Experience, 1969).

Among the many ironies of American history is that the return of the fundamentalists, now called evangelicals, met up with now culturally confident Catholics to form the base constituency of politically potent conservatism.

The main reason for the Niebuhr revival, as demonstrated by Charles Lemert's new book, Why Niebuhr Matters, is that liberals started rereading The Irony of American History during the Gulf Wars.

The great irony of American higher education is that in pursuing diversity, colleges and universities have come to look more or less alike.

But this is The Irony of American History (1952) without the irony.

Niebuhr, the author of classics such as «The Irony of American History,» died in 1971 after a lifetime of political activism.

One was a withering blast on White House religion («The King's Chapel and the King's Court») and another on presidential despotism in Vietnam («The Presidency and the Irony of American History»).

The dark irony of American constitutional democracy is that our judges» whose special responsibility it is to preserve the core democratic principle of equality before the law» are the ones whose edicts have betrayed this principle.

Andrew J. Bacevich's «The Irony of American Power» (March) is very instructive about the United States» foreign policy both past and present.

We can get at the ironic flaw in this volume as it stands on its own if we compare it with Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History, from which Marty borrows his theme.

Reinhold Niebuhr made a more sustained contribution in such works as The Irony of American History.18 Teilhard de Chardin offered a different perspective in The Phenomenon of Man.19 Van Leeuwen develops a rich and fruitful approach in Christianity in World History.20

The dark irony of American constitutional democracy is that our judges — whose special responsibility it is to preserve the core democratic principle of equality before the law — are the ones whose edicts have betrayed this principle.

Juvenile provocation for provocation's sake, Hard Candy delights in its stylishly deviant material — in which squishy - sounding mutilation and garbage disposal testicle - grinding occurs in an icy, claustrophobic apartment characterized by sharp architectural angles and symbolic primary colors — while both pulling its ghastly punches and failing to exhibit the devilish irony of an American Psycho or the meta accusations of a Funny Games.

Compared with the confrontational bluster, angst and irony of American art in the decades that followed, each of these artists feels a bit precious.

Not exact matches

While there are 7.5 million unemployed Americans as of December 31, 2016, the irony is that there are 5.5 million jobs unfilled, many due to a lack of skilled workers.

The irony is that while millions of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, companies which want to manufacture high value products in the U.S. have a hard time finding workers with the math and computer skills needed to operate factory equipment.

Automakers and their American consumers will bear the brunt caused by raising prices of two metals essential to the production of cars and trucks in the U.S. «The President's pending decision on tariffs and quotas for steel and aluminum trade highlights several unfortunate ironies,» said John Bozzella, President and CEO of Global Automakers.

The Irony of Virtue: Ethics and American Power.

And that brings us to yet another irony worth contemplating on this fortieth anniversary: what widespread rejection of Humanae Vitae has done to the character of American Catholicism.

It has indeed caused «severe embarrassment» to the nation, as he laments, for the Senate investigation has laid before the public the elements of a terrible irony: that acts which are illegal and unethical for citizens to engage in at home are condoned, even aggressively pursued, by American law - enforcement officers and secret agents both at home and abroad.

The irony lies in the fact that some 45 years ago, CUA was the centre of a very different sort of youth rally supported by a very different generation of young American Catholics.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

There is an irony to all of this, in that often the very same people who decry American exceptionalism as a political conceit seem to embrace that conceit when it comes to American Catholicism.

All this comes without irony from a man who serves on the Board of Directors of the Saudi - funded Americans for Middle East Understanding, an organization that has promoted anti-Israel propaganda in the U.S. for decades.

I do not see that having self - appointed experts draw up a list of what every culturally literate American needs to know catches the spirit of liberal irony in the least.

I know of no better schema for interpreting this historic cancer in American life rooted in slavery and sectionalism than the classic triad of irony, paradox and fact.

Thus Niebuhr turned to the pretensions of virtue, wisdom, and power in American life in order to confront America with its ironies and free it of its illusions in the conduct of foreign policy.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.

Thus a fortuitous irony awaits those congregations whose white, American, middle - class representatives are most likely to buy this book and employ some of its methods.

1): The Irony of It All: 1893 - 1919 (University of Chicago Press, 385 pp., $ 24.95) In this first volume of a projected four - volume history of American religion in the 20th century (the legend has already arisen that the last volume will be completed on the day he retires), Marty looks at the impact of modernity on a breathtaking variety of American religious groups and individuals.

Marty also justifies using the theme of irony for the early 20th century because of the unusual pretensions of the establishment leadership of that era, but he wants to avoid even vestigial versions of such pretensions that would keep mainline Protestants on center stage, as they are in traditional American religious histories.

Sara The irony is that Thanksgiving is the story of how the presence of Native Americans proved to be what saved the European settlers whereas the arrival of the European settlers resulted in the downfall of the Native Americans.

As Christianity Today notes, there was one large piece of irony in the research: A higher percentage of white evangelicals agreed with this question than American Muslims: «It is often or sometimes justified to target and kill civilians in order to further a political, social, or religious cause.»

The result is, not surprisingly, a curious form of 20th - century American idealism, but with a chic twist: now we have a cultured, urbane Yahwist, Master of Irony, secularist sophisticate (one is reminded of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus — the Yahwist lives in New Haven!).

American Thanksgiving irony: Conservatives blow their tops at the thought of the president saying that they couldn't have had their successes without support from others & gov «t, but then they sit down at Thanksgiving to humbly thank an invisible sky being for providing their successes.

Hard Christian pacifism is perhaps an answer for some (for the pacifistic Stanley Hauerwas, for instance, who, in something of an irony, was named «America's best theologian» by Time magazine only two days before the events of September 11 massively raised the stakes of American pacifism).

They are victims of «the unrelenting language of American uplift» in contrast to the «European virtues of irony and stoicism.»

A personal and an intellectual biography of Reinhold Niebuhr in which the author has employed the research methods of an American historian to dig out and interpret the data: «At Union Seminary, where Niebuhr so often talked of «the irony of history,» we remember him as an example of it.»

Actually originally conservatives were Democrats who were against slavery during the American revolution, so if you think slavery was a good part of history then i guess your right, again irony is a female dog

If you take Democrats out of your sentence it reads «Actually originally «conservatives» were those who were against slavery during the American revolution, so if you think slavery was a good part of history then i guess your right, again irony is a female dog

If Ahab is the paradigm of the new American, we will not have the tolerance for the ambiguity, the irony, the hopelessness, and the meaninglessness of the historic eras that dawn ahead of us.

Nor do I see any awareness among American Jews of the irony inherent in religiously identifiable groups arguing against the place of religion in public life.

It would be a uniquely American irony if Alex P. Keaton, who taught a generation of young Republicans how to knot a tie, flipped Congress to the Democrats.

It is an irony that the development of secular art, which had begun to free aesthetic value from religious restraints, should find itself being turned to quasi religious imagery as in Thomas Moran's paintings, which are the basis of Joni Louise Kinsey's book, Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West.

It uses irony in the service of revelation, not as armor, which sets it apart from so much independent American cinema.

It bets the house on them, gambling on the possibility that an old - fashioned morality play asking Big Questions about faith, activism, and the futility of trying to save the world will pay off in a moment when even serious American cinema — i.e. films unconcerned with Skywalkers or Infinity Stones — comes at least partially steeped in irony.

It's a delicious irony that the year's best romantic comedy, centering on a Pakistani - American Muslim comedian falling for a Southern - bred white girl, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the day of Donald Trump's inauguration.

With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.

«American Beauty» not as the rose varietal, but as the smug irony attached to a repugnant diatribe) in more than mere year of release, with digital video coming of age in 1999 as the vehicle of Truth.