Sentences with phrase «ironies of making»

Other highlights include reflections on the intricacies and ironies of making a cheap - looking»50s TV show on expensive state - of - the - art computers as well as observations of hidden gags and cinematic homages that the animators slipped in.

Even with braces and bad hair, Robbie has the look of someone who'd be at home in pageantry, which is one of the central ironies of making Harding's story into a movie, really.

Not exact matches

The irony lies in what is a now - accepted principle of digital goods: that when they are made easily available at a reasonable price, people usually end up willing to pay for them.

It is no small irony that for a company which makes a sizeable portion of its fortunes by finding and exposing scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is surprisingly bad at crisis management.

There is irony that many of the advances made in rocketry that even allow us to reach space today came from the government - controlled projects led by Wernher von Braun.

Of course, the irony is that employees do want to learn new tools and techniques that will make them more effective.

The irony was that most of Mrs. Thatcher's friends and heroes were businessmen — manufacturers who made or dealt in products, not financial manipulators.

Indeed, that was always the irony with Gundotra's attack on Apple: Google has always been anything but open when it came to its proprietary technology or its money - making ad apparatus (of which user data plays an important part).

It is a remarkable irony that professionals who are so self - interested and focused on their own compensation make their living supposedly acting on behalf of the interests of their clients.

The irony is it makes no sense for customers to pull insured deposits out of Indymac after it went into receivership.

For instance, while we commonly see «made in China» logos stamped onto sports gear, the irony is that China imports most of its sports equipment from overseas.

Rachel Notley put it best: «Only in Alberta would the government not get the irony of that,» Then to make it even more ridiculous, Taylor said the public people should give him a year's grace before judging the effectiveness of the new Agency.

«The irony of this case is that Cindy has enough assets to make her a millionaire yet she feels broke,» Moran explains.

ask him, why are nt the robots also made by your big loud f art??? the irony of course is lost to them!

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.

I think the irony here is that you have to compare the actions of believers who supposedly seek to do God's will to those of godless atheists to make believers» atrocities sound less atrocious.

The tragic irony that I tell about my mortal body reflects something of the approach I make to understanding the congregation.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

The tragic irony is that it is difficult for our current political elites (of either party) to make these prudential arguments against Trump.

In his Stages on Life's Way (SLW), Kierkegaard speaks of irony as the means by which persons make the transition between aesthetic and ethical awareness, and humor as the means for making the transition between ethical and religious awareness.

The irony here is that one of the conscious aims of that statement had been to make welcome room for the evangelicals within the inclusive Methodist theological enterprise — even while it was also trying to wall off the extreme dogmatists from the «right» and the barn - burners from the «left.»

On Friday, LifeSiteNews.com made note of the fact that this regional bullfight ban was passed into law just as Spain's new, more liberal abortion law is coming into effect, and that «the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers.»

The absolute irony of you labeling this as pseudoscience made me spit out my cornflakes.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

Oh the irony of atheists seeking out religious articles and then making comments about being «oppressed» or having religion shoved down their throat.

Mom had identified the stunning irony of a roomful of professional, educated women critiquing the very movement that made their careers, their choices, and perhaps even this conference possible.

Irony, Wallace pointed out, is «almost exclusively negative» — useful, on occasion, for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

It is often pointed out that of all of Austen's heroines, Fanny is one of only two (Anne Elliot is the other) who is not treated with irony, who does not make any serious misjudgment, whose behavior is always supported by the narrator.

Fourthly, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, through all the ironies and strange turnings of the human spirit there persists the ineradicable dialectical condition wherein every advance makes possible greater destructiveness, and every gain brings new opportunities and larger temptations.

After settling down a bit I was able to see in the comment made by His Honor, the Judger of Motives, the black humor of blind irony.

And there is heavy irony in the fact that the charges have been launched just when the publication of Gutiérrez's new book makes them even less accurate than they were before.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

These are often made lower and cruder yet through the contempt involved, with disastrous cultural results given the majority of fans who do not get the irony.

The irony is that only those who are fairly well off are able to make use of charitable giving on their taxes — you have to be able to exceed the standard deduction to get any benefit.

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.

Walter Brueggemann makes the adventurous proposal that this is a piece of irony on the part of the historian.

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

Though irony is not often used today as a method for theological inquiry and challenge, I would love to see it implemented more, as it makes for great reading while at the same time making powerful and pointed thelogical critiques of one's opponents.

This creed is not designed to win friends in positions of power, and Malcolm's caustic, witty tongue and pen commanded an irony that will always make potentates aware of just how threadbare their garments of intelligence and integrity really are.

Our age of irony has its dangers — irony can be useful for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

Why indeed, as the geniuses at the fledgling network have obviously understood the point of The Hunger Games perfectly and are making a reality show based off of it, apparently unaware of the nightmarish irony into which they are pitting themselves.

The irony is that, by knowingly, repeatedly resorting to lies, this would - be champion of a religious right version of history reveals his fears that the real facts fall short of making his case.

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 ambiguities and ironies emphasize Greene's theme of human love as a destructive and redeeming force which clouds all moral issues and makes the world an even more dangerous place.

The sweet irony of all this is that the invented gods that man has made over all these years encompass nearly all of his narsacistic, self - aggrandizing traits (hello?

Keller thinks that what makes Redeemer Presbyterian different is its love of «irony, charity, and humility.»

The ultimate irony is that since they make no comment they are accused of alledgedly supporting the wealthy.

I can recognize the irony of needing to make a Big Life Decision when I can't even make a seventeen dollar decision.

This is the irony of autumn, yesterday I was stewing summer gems like tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini and today I'm making a rich braised beef.

The irony of this post is that it has taken me a Whole Lot Longer to find time (and, you know, 2 hands) to type it than it did to actually make and consume.