Sentences with phrase «ironies of history»

One of the great ironies of the history of software is that the waterfall diagram that was cited by many later papers as some kind of ideal was given as an example of how not to build software systems in the original.

Then there is the Middle East itself, where, in one of the exquisite ironies of history, radical Muslims view the State of Israel as the forward salient of Christendom and make no secret of their determination to drive it into the sea.

Here is one of the supreme ironies of history: for thousands of years in the Christian West, homosexuals have been the victims of inhospitable treatment — the true crime of Sodom - in the name of a mistaken understanding of Sodom's crime.

To the extent that is the case, it is among the more notable ironies of history.

While the running time can weigh heavily on some of the sub-plots, the overall effect is as strong as Hui intended and the title underlines the bitter irony of the history involved.

That the Cape of Good Hope wasn't named something else sixty years earlier by a Chinese admiral, Zheng He, is one of the major ironies of history.

It is one of the rich ironies of history that the U.S., a country founded upon republican principles, should have become so hierarchical and status - conscious, while Canada, which remains a monarchy, should be so relatively egalitarian.

The great irony of the history, in my view, is that accepting Churchill's critique of the appeasement policy of the 1930s was very explicitly a choice that our interests were inextricably linked with what happened in Europe (there is an argument, made by Paul Kennedy and others, that this can be said of much English and British history back to 1066) and that this inevitably meant speeding the decline of Empire and global power status.

By Graham Duncan Reaching for your smartphone has become our default action By Tadas Viskanta The irony of history is that it's mostly the...

It is an irony of history that Trump, who often grumbled about scientific research, used a highly scientific approach in his campaign.

The IRONY of history, In fact, is that for the first 200 years of what is called «Christianity,» people who wanted to follow Christ CONVERTED to JUDAISM.

It is one of the ironies of history that Christianity, which was born in Asia, has become «alien» in its own home.

If this is correct, it is one of the ironies of history that the title by which Jesus was unwilling to be known became very soon the one most commonly applied to him, even ceasing to be recognized as a title and being used practically as a surname.

Indeed, as John McNeill has observed, the use of the Sodom story in the Christian West may be another of those ironies of history.

But in the ironies of history (or the strange ways of divine providence) the Ukraine crisis, in which Kirill has been duplicitous and Hilarion mendacious, just might initiate a break in this historic pattern of Orthodoxy playing lap dog to authoritarian power among the eastern Slavs.

It is one of the ironies of history that Christianity, which was born in Asia, has become alien in its place of birth.

What we are experiencing in Vietnam is a sense of limit, defeat, and the ironies of history.

Such is the irony of history and politics.

The almost incidental nature of Darwin's task on board the Beagle is one of the great ironies of history - the evidence gathered by Darwin on that mission would ultimately culminate in his theory of evolution by natural selection, which would prove to be one of the most ground - breaking discoveries in all of human history.

It is one of the ironies of history that Flinders, who returned to the area in 1802 on his historic circumnavigation of the Australia, did not locate the Fraser Island Straits on either of his voyages.

@Girard: disqus The irony of the history of the Mario games is that the reason we got the Super Mario Bros. 2 that we did was partially because Nintendo's American office felt that the actual Super Mario Bros. 2 was too similar to its predecessor.

While I find virtually all the photography in this history extremely important and inspiring, I fear significant work has been overlooked, in particular that which addresses the materiality of the photograph.3 One of the ironies of history is that while Heinecken is credited with giving birth to the postmodern episteme, postmodernism and the art world have, for the most part, ignored the questions of process and material specificity that underlie Heinecken's work.

I can envisage an irony of history where climatology enters a period of crisis and loses its central place in public discourse about climate change, thus opening up discursive spaces for pragmatic options to deal with the problem.

There is an irony of history that we always seem to figure out a way to do things at the last minute, and we are at that last moment in terms of certain consequences.