Sentences with phrase «irony about»

We pointed out previously that there is an irony about David Roberts and a network of activists complaining about misinformation and distortion spread through a network of activists operating on the blogosphere on the... erm... blogosphere.

Another irony about Wahl and Ammann — which Hans is well aware of — is that the Wahl and Ammann emulation and our emulation of MBH98 coincided to 5 9's using apples and apples, while neither of us was able to fully replicate MBH results.

There is a lovely irony about the climate discourse in here, and a yawning dilemma for the alarmist narrative.

She talks frequently and without irony about her soul.

«Because I work in a largely camera-less way, there's a kind of irony about creating not only the subject matter but the photographer as well,» Hammond muses.

The irony about the Ferguson cops is that their equipment is leftover equipment from all the wars that the United States has had.

He managed to invent pop art, conceptual art and minimalism all in one go when he started to make an American flag out of waxy paint layered over newspaper collage in 1954 and has been meditating with the same serious irony about objects and their meanings ever since.

An irony about investing is that the very people who can most afford to take risk (the very wealthy) have the lowest utility of risk, and therefore the least need to take it.

The biggest irony about Best Laid Plans is Nick's occupation of working at a recycling plant, since the plot is basically nothing but recycled bits of much better films.

Half Magic, Heather Graham's feature debut as a writer / director, is a witty, agreeably low - key comedy about Finding Yourself that benefits from a keen sense of irony about Tinseltown.

There is a refreshing hint of irony about the ultimate standard - bearer for Reason placing himself at times beyond reality's reach, and even in his stable moments Darwin believed in «water cure» quackery to treat his feverish mystery illness.

I don't love fixed rules about dressing at any age, but I would agree there's a danger in anything that smacks of «wannabe» or of trying too hard — Seems the test, once again, is of a certain integrity at the core of one's style... That integrity, though, might include a seriously honed sense of irony about all things, in which case the «wannabe» aspect might be undercut.

«There is a gentle irony about that,» he says now.

The irony about this little coffee party, for me, is that I don't normally drink coffee!

A little more irony about the human might allow more scope for the stance of awe which Dr. Altizer finds passé, but which is so deeply built into the various forms of the response of faith.

Case in point: the previous season ended with Barney's surprise romantic Playbook play to win Robin's hand in marriage, resolving months» worth of dramatic irony about what he was doing with her coworker, and serving up the narrative fulfillment we'd all been waiting for.

the irony about this whole childish presentation is that muslims are a whopping 20 % of the world population, but if you total up ALL THEIR KILLING, MASSACRES, GENOCIDES over the last 100 years, the number does not even add up to ONE PERCENT of the WORLD»S total killings, massacres and genocides!!

One of the ironies about being a leader is that you sometimes wield a lot less power than people think.

: One of the bigger ironies about enviro - activists demanding full disclosure from skeptic climate scientists is the manner in which the enviros do not fully disclose information about their own people.

The fact that climate change is likely to deal its harshest blows to less developed nations is one of the cruel ironies about this issue — considering that it was largely the rich, industrialized world that emitted the greenhouse gases that caused the problem in the first place.

Not exact matches

The irony of having fewer highway patrol officers will be that just about anyone's driverless car will likely be subject to being stopped and searched.

They have a sense of humor about things and recognize the importance of finding the joy in the irony and comedy of everyday life.

And I mean as the delicious irony of this business, we're worried about what the crop's going to be this year and when it's going to yield and we're already talking about pricing for the spring of» 13.

The irony is that when we first started talking about inflation targeting, it was our insistence on that very flexibility that made people think we weren't serious.

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

«The irony is, since many of their clients frantically call about news events, advisors still have to grapple with some things they should be able to ignore.»

And that is one of the ironies of the debate about NAFTA in the United States.

Although the central bank has played down its impact on the market, the irony is that the Fed has itself complained about high stock prices.

«The irony is that it's all about yoga,» said Duke Stump, exec - VP of brand and community at Lululemon.

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.

Let's begin by meditating upon what might be called the first of the secular ironies now evident: Humanae Vitae's specific predictions about what the world would look like if artificial contraception became widespread.

Note the irony in the posting about «choosing his love», then saying that they will «smile» upon others suffering.

I'm still p ssed I missed out on being the first one to point to the irony of CNN asking about the «Profit» being illiterate, so I'm not going to participate in this thread in a fit of pique!

Persecutinggays on a thread about persecuted Christians is indeed irony.

If that is the case, talk about the irony of your criticisms.

The supreme irony, of course, is that we're talking about redistributive taxation: eliminating the tax breaks for the rich colleges and transferring some of their money to the poor schools.

Even in this regard, however, one can not help but wonder about the longevity of the Viennese irony.

The irony here is that those who are truly in need and who are really struggling with life are those who are not complaining about «adulting.»

A bane because there is so much lousy thinking out there, for people who misuse their minds and don't «think» about the issues, or don't use their noodles effectively (the irony is that someone like yourself would say your brain is «god given»... in my opinion, this god would smack you upside the head for not using it as he intended).

Ah, the irony, this woman writes an article about people leaving the church and it appeases the elders!!

The best response to secular irony is testimony by current and former students, as well as teachers and officials familiar with such cases, about their experience in the sexualized world of undergraduate life.

The irony, in Obama's case, is that despite his orthodox utterances - there's «something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective,» he said at this year's Easter breakfast - polls continue to show widespread confusion about his faith.

When angry boomers and their «greatest generation» elders talked about my generation, they'd always accuse us of caustic irony and cynicism — it seems we had ushered in a golden age of sarcasm.

The Sign of Peace is shown to derive from the Lord's «Peace be with you» on Easter night (Stravinskas notes the irony of contemporary disagreements about giving it).

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

Once again your se.xual orientation is not my issue, the fact that you preach about how good you are and how true your belief in the buybull is but yet you are being a hypocritew... hope your god delusion sends you to those burning pits (not that either exist but to point out the irony of your hypocrisy and expose you for what you are - a liar; a hypocrite; a poor example of good christard)

You cessationists (based on the language you used I'm assuming that's the position you hold) love to talk about a «completed Bible», but here's the irony, if you profess to have such a strong faith in this Bible, you must walk it out.

This came as an irony to me later, because our wanderlust culture impressed upon me that travel should teach you that life is not ultimately about you; and yet, I traveled for me.

The irony here is that the church's bigger problem is not with the government but with its own members, many of whom don't buy into the very tenets about family planning that is in the middle of this controversy.

She asked why that was the case, and they talked about the problems of combining marriage, motherhood, and training in medicine (which she had experienced personally), the resentment of women that many doctors have, and the irony that a profession dedicated to caring for people was so overwhelmingly composed of men.