Sentences with phrase «ironists as»

• 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.

-- 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

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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.

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.

For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist — or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist — possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher — or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist — cuts a far more equivocal figure.

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.

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!

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...

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

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