Sentences with word «ironist»

But ABC's Kimmel — Letterman's heir as the laid - back ironist of late - night — has weighed in with some surprisingly strong political bits, most notably a parody of The Producers last February in which Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick are gobsmacked when their «sure loser» candidate Trump turns into the front runner.

• It's an irony worthy of such master ironists as the Coens that their fifth film, The Hudsucker Proxy, was intended to be their most mainstream and commercial to date.

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

He is either a hero sent to confound and dismay blue America by doing the most wildly red - state things possible, or a budding ironist who will soon be planking, owling, and hunkering.

In praising the unique skills of its secular author, Bloom has demoted the author's chief subject matter to the lowliest estate, «less mature and sophisticated than the aristocratic ironist J.» It is an odd day when the Bible is commended as a readable classic — on par with Shakespeare!

«The easiest way of doing this,» he continues, «is to read books, and so ironists spend more of their time placing books than in placing real live people» (CIS 80).

She favors such ironists and insiders as Richard Prince and Andy Warhol.

The narcissism of the contemporary ironist is utterly inappropriate in all the real crises of life.

He has a great deal of fun suggesting that public rhetoric should not be ironist even in «the ideal liberal society.»

It's cheeky, sincere, and nostalgic all at once — which is perhaps why the earnest ironist Wes Anderson bathed the entirety of The Grand Budapest Hotel in the color — filling us with a bright, wide - eyed wonder and even, for at least a moment, keeping us calm.

Since this isn't Spielberg's The War of the Worlds, and ironists don't weep over billions of corpses, Ford and Arthur don't fuss over the apocalypse.

After the tenderhearted Gen X ironists comes the darkly serious Millennial.

Just as the old Saturday Evening Post warned, «Pop art / Op art / Soon will / Stop art,» Picasso and America Art implies that Picasso's influence, as well as twentieth - century American painting, died with Warhol and his fellow ironists.

«What a talented post-conceptual ironist Richard Prince is...» No, it doesn't sound right.

With 2000's La rivoluzione siamo noi (We Are the Revolution), the Italian, New York — based ironist Maurizio Cattelan hung an effigy of himself in a Joseph Beuys — style suit of gray felt — he calls it his «mini-me» — from a metal coatrack.

As a committed ironist, I meant to start with a sexist metaphor, honest.

He paints a picture of the British contemporary art world split down the middle between real artists and mere ironists.

They include everything from copies of The Black Panther magazine to the witty, deadpan self - portraits of 1970s ironist Barkley Hendricks.

His message to liberal ironists is to carry on with the project of continual redescription «to make the best selves for ourselves that we can» (CIS 80); and he insists that this be done through words, not deeds, using persuasion, not force.

Ever the ironist, Hume must have delighted in the incongruities.

The ironists, in turn, had least patience with the miracles of the romantics.

And there are other passages that might perhaps — and then only if one were desperate to justify their inclusion in this volume — be described as «wry,» such as one long and splendid (though not really humorous) portrayal of the boredom that afflicts the ironist.

This is not to say that ironists are mere relativists or «flabby pluralists,» unable to take a stand on anything because one opinion is just as good as the other.

Rorty would have us become «liberal ironists,» people who are sufficiently nominalist and historicist to appreciate their own fallibility and the radical contingency of their fundamental beliefs and desires, and yet who «include among these ungroundable desires their own hope that suffering will be diminished, that the humiliation of human beings by other human beings may cease» (CIS xv).

Rorty defines an «ironist» as someone who fulfills three conditions:» (1) She has radical and continuing doubts about the final vocabulary she currently uses...; (2) she realizes that arguments phrased in her present vocabulary can neither underwrite nor dissolve these doubts; (3)... she does not think that her vocabulary is closer to reality than others, that it is in touch with a power not herself» (CIS 73).

(If there is a meta - irony in Mansfield Park, it is not that Austen secretly mocks Fanny; it is rather that Austen, the ironist, the realist, the literalist, is in the end Bunyan's blood - sister.)

That is conceivable, for the hero of faith had in fact a striking resemblance to it — for that hero of faith was not so much an ironist or a humorist, but something far higher.

We live in a curious age when the way the Bible gains fresh currency is by casting some new ironic light on its anthropological dimension, in this case with an ironist woman who possesses the literary skills of Shakespeare and the theological vision of Nietszche.

Rorty says he is an ironist, and irony implies two audiences, those in the know and those who take things at face value.

(He's not an ironist, someone who would recognize his own behavior in the caricature.)

Owen Wilson plays the Generation X wise guy Luke, but the last thing this kind of movie needs is an ironist.

From the July / August 1978 issue: the ironist of Hollywood melodrama talks with James Harvey about Marx, Fassbinder, and Lana Turner

DOUGLAS SIRK The ironist of Hollywood melodrama talks with James Harvey about Marx, Fassbinder, and Lana Turner.

Throughout his multi-faceted career in stand - up comedy, music, film and television, Mull has become well known as an ironist and satirist, however, the comedic quality of his paintings is contradicted by an equal amount of sorrow - he has moved beyond irony and satire to successfully achieve depth and meaning...

Although she appeared in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, she is still more a reporter and less an ironist or visual artist than Jenny Holzer on censorship or Walid Raad on terrorism and war.

Gajah Gallery (Singapore) parted with Ashley Bickerton's mixed - media «Anyone with the Heretical Gall to Ask an Ironist What He Actually Stands For» (2014) for SG$ 220,000.

-- Tania David & Randee Silv Red Bird — Dark River: Agnes Martin / John Zorn — Steve Dalachinsky Visual Kerouac — John Greiner The Ironist as Nihilist: Francis Picabia — Daniel Barbiero Max Beckmann Poems — Yuko Otomo The Underside of the Leaf — Arteidolia