Sentences with phrase «ironies of modern»

To me, one of the huge ironies of modern society is that so many people spend so much time to accumulate so much Stuff — yet never manage to set aside anything for the future.

It's one of the greatest ironies of modern science how the attempt to push an obvious proof of God to the attic was done by a priest, in the name of his commitment to science, and then miscredited.

«The great irony of the modern ground game is it's this meeting of incredibly modern analytics and data married to very old - fashioned delivery devices,» he said.

The disease, closely linked with not eating the right foods and sitting around too much, is beginning to look something like a pandemic as millions of people around the world confront a central irony of the modern world: A lifestyle of abundance can be deadly.

This is the irony of the modern diet.

Not exact matches

To me, there is a certain irony in the fact that the dogs of old who were punished until they became obedient never entered a cage, roaming free through the house and the yard, while the modern dog is trained through treats, and spends most of his life inside a cage («crate»).

Or as Reinhard Hutter observes, «it belongs to the ironies of modernity that exactly those who are most modern increasingly claim postmodernity as modernity's most recent advance.»

In our post-Nietzschean age of AIDS and rampant venereal disease, the remark now carries with it a certain unintentional irony, but one finishes reading Bloom's book not entirely sure why erotic relations nowadays are so dreary: Is it because of the relentless reductionism of Freud and Kinsey or because, as Nietzsche held, Eros and Institution will always be at war — and Christianity, with its rigorous stress on monogamy, now symbolizes for modern society the institution of marriage par excellence?

The irony of the novel is that the late modern world, in which we ask the self to be the sole source of meaning, value and purpose, is a world in which the survival of the self has become problematic.

AND THE IRONY IS THAT 99 % OF YOU UNDERSTAND VERY VERY VERY LITTLE ABOUT MODERN PHYSICS.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

The other kind of metaphor, juxtaposition, is particularly pertinent to the modern consciousness, for, alienated and disbelieving as we are, we respond to the ambiguity, irony, and covert cynicism of metaphorical juxtaposition.

El Guerrouj smiles at this irony, and his mouthful of braces belies an old man's wisdom, especially as regards the machinery of modern celebrity.

«Nothing else truly matters: not the NHS, now in its most severe crisis since its creation; not the real challenge of the modern economy, the new technological revolutions of AI and Big Data; not the upgrade of our education system to prepare people for this new world; not investment in communities left behind by globalisation; not the rising burden of serious crime; or bulging prison populations; or social care; not even, irony of ironies, a genuine policy to control immigration.

Nana Addo usual of him and his cohorts, downplayed all the achievements of the President in the Western Region telling the President rhetorically that he did not see the projects the Chiefs themselves thank the President for.His apostles in their state of Akuffolic hallucination, also started posting pictures of supporters of PDP (Nigeria) on social media platform in an attempt to create fake impression that the President was snubbed by the people of Agona Nkwanta.The irony is that Nana used the newly constructed (Asphalted) road from Agona Nkwanta to Elubo, he saw the modern bridges being constructed on the road so why the mischief.

We'll ignore the ironies that Nixon is modern politics» greatest dirty trickster, that Stone worked for Nixon, and that the fulcrum of Frost / Nixon is a (fictional) bizarre late - night phone call.

This is very clearly a product of Kevin Williamson, his irony - heavy postmodern style full of references to modern fiction (Independence Day, Men in Black, «The X-Files», etc.).

A harsh coming - of - age story set in a dreamlike, re-imagined, post-modern wild west, McLean's film manages to sidestep the arid ironies of most modern westerns on its way to far more interesting territory.

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they know what kind of story this is.

The irony of holding everybody's favorite auto show in a town that epitomizes modern urban congestion is not lost on us, especially during the 45 - minute evening rush hour drive from the auto show to our hotel.

If Mr. Fowler, often regarded as the final arbiter of modern English, is correct, then I am pretty sure I have captured the ultimate irony — or at least the automotive version of it — when I opine that the mainstream automaker most likely to carry on the ages - old tradition of powering its luxury sedans with a naturally aspirated V8 is going to be... Hyundai.

This has to be one of the greatest ironies in modern automotive history: General Motors, the company that destroyed the reputation of the diesel engine, now builds one of the world's best.

In his fourth novel, Hari Kunzru confronts head - on the quandaries of modern life while walking a fine line between irony and authentic emotion, between seriousness and lightheartedness, without missing a step.

Think about the irony: The CREATOR of Modern Portfolio theory didn't have confidence in his own models when investing his own money.

The sad irony is that most of their games will tank anyway, and the sad fact is that modern gamers are not even allowed to know what they are missing.

The critique goes back to a time, to when the Museum of Modern Art could and did define the canon, with the added irony that Ad Reinhardt mocked the connections before anyone else.

After visiting a number of different galleries last week, I was struck by a few young artists whose paintings would indicate that they are responding to early modern art but not with irony.

The irony of the inappropriate laughter signals defiance to what Deleuze describes as a modern conception of «the law,» which «defines a realm of transgression where one is already guilty, and where one oversteps the bounds without knowing what they are... Even guilt and punishment do not tell

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Icons, Plataforma 91, São Paulo, Brazil 2016 Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, California 2015 POP, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 The British Are Coming, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2015 Pelé: Art, Life, Football, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 Heroes and Villains, Halcyon Gallery, London 2014 Lost Angels, Mead Carney Fine Art, London 2014 POP - FICTION, 212 Gallery, London 2014 Giant, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2014 The Shock of the New, Mead Carney Fine Art, Porto Montenegro 2014 Marilyn, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2014 Kunst, Vertes Modern, Zurich 2014 Grafix 14, Vertes Modern, Zurich 2013 Rethinking the American Dream, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2013 Works on Paper, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 David Bowie, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2013 Icons and Irony, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2013 Rock, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2013 The Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, California 2012 The Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rocking the Art World: a Celebration of The Rolling Stones, The Broome Street Gallery and Symbolic London, New York 2012 The Image is One Thing, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2012 Summer Exhibition, Scream Gallery, London 2012 Marilyn: 50 Years, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles 2012 Marilyn, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2011 POP and Contemporary American Art, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2011 New York, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2011 Arts for a Better World, Tagliatella Gallery, Miami 2011 It's A Wonderful Life, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2011 Pop Pop, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2011 Scream Now, Scream Gallery, London 2011 Hueless, Mallick Williams Gallery, New York 2011 Works on Paper, Whisper Fine Art, London 2011 Heaven Gala, Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, California 2011 Printer Proofs, Bertrand Delacroix Gallerym New York 2010 Diamonds Are Forever, Scream Gallery, London 2010 The Art of Giving, The Saatchi Gallery London 2009 Christmas Show, Scream Gallery, London 2009 Urban Legends, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2009 Pop, Liberty, The Sims Reed Gallery at Liberty of London 2009 Works on Paper, Sims Reed Gallery, New York 2008 Ink, Sims Reed Gallery, Miami 2008 ICONS, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate, Yorkshire 2007 Pop!

You have to love the irony: Modern art's very genesis sprang from its rejection of academic realist painting, and now it's the modernists who have become the blinded establishment and the realist painters a transgressive force for change.

Motley's modern perspective, brilliant use of color, and sense of humor and irony are recurring themes.

That exhibition theorized that she is part of a distinct contemporary moment by oscillating between modern and postmodern tendencies - expressing both humor and seriousness, enthusiasm and irony, play and discipline.

There is a certain irony in the fact that some of the best biking in the U.S. is in an area where people have rejected the modern world — including bikes (for those of the Old Order).

We were greeted by a crisp modern building that embraces the irony of its location and hums with the excitement of the company's impending commercial launch in 2011.

Without apparent irony, the opening sentence of the Opinion of the Advocate General in the well - publicised case of Kaltoft v the Municipality of Billund C354 / 13, 17 July 2014, notes that «obesity is a growing problem in modern society».

The sad irony of native title is that where the dispossession of Indigenous people through colonial and modern development has been most thorough, brutal and systematic, the less likely it is that the traditions and customs practiced today by the descendants of those affected will be recognised and protected as native title rights.