Sentences with phrase «irony as»

(Said with heavy irony as he HATED the woman who did the baking, but secretly wanted to shag her... isn't that always the way?)

There's another irony as well, and that's a delay in the day when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can be taken out of conservatorship and possibly replaced, paving the way for the development of a fully private mortgage market, which both the federal government and industry participants say they want.

Given the show notes, apparently these couples are blind to irony as well.

Meanwhile, the bitcoin community gorged on schadenfreude and irony as it emerged that

Meanwhile, the bitcoin community gorged on schadenfreude and irony as it emerged that JP Morgan had been fined for money laundering, Jamie Dimon was pondering bitcoin futures, and a gold fund was buying bitcoin.

More irony as funding a properly structured participating whole life insurance policy would (1) provide supplemental retirement income, (2) will help pay for long term care and (3) medical expenses, as well as (4) provide a tax free life insurance death benefit.

It's as thick an irony as saying that racists are genetically inferior.

It's not without irony as the Esker Foundation is supported largely by private oil money.

Using humor and irony as subtle vehicles of communication, Christie manipulates a previous take on minimalism with a re-creation of the work, Pink Painting 2009 — a full - scale car crushed to the point of two - dimensionality.

They are mock - heroic exercises as loaded with irony as any painting of the current moment, even as they seduce formally (though their lusciousness of color and detail) and narratively (with references to landscape and the forces of nature).

His practice explores a broad range of cultural and art historical references, often using humour and irony as subtle vehicles of communication.

Gilbert & George shy away from performance art's earnestness and irony as well.

The echoes of the body that follow never evoke as pungent an irony as his famous images of women.

From his text insults before Christopher Wool and Richard Prince to irony as an end in itself, he anticipated much of painting today.

Digging through generational layers of visual culture tropes has led Verkade to use humor and irony as an entry into the stickiness of subjectivity.

That show, acknowledging the strain photography and mass media had placed on painting, posited artifice and irony as the only acceptable strategies for figurative painting to avoid being outmoded.

How does the author use irony as a form of humor?

The unseasonable release date was appropriate for a film as unlikely and drenched in irony as Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Emma Thompson is the essence of irony as the blind - as - a - bat seer, while Thewlis fulfills his objective to protect Harry while hiding a secret of his own.

Jason Segal has a savvy irony as the paunchy gym teacher who sees Elizabeth for the human wreckage that she is, but still won't take no for an answer from her when he can't resist her.

Marc Shaiman's score may make clever period choices (backing eyelash flutters with a plonk of the xylophone, for instance), but almost every line of dialogue is tainted with as much irony as charm, transforming the film's script into a self - conscious anachronism.

The film ends in perfect irony as it provides one answer to these questions.

No doubt, Igbobi, as the hospital has simply come to be known, symbolises this irony as the hospital is widely reputed for its proficiency in orthopaedics, a branch of medical science mostly associated with pains, agonies and sadness as losing of limbs by amputation is a common feature.

Parker's brilliance in midfield was the definition of footballing irony as Wenger passed up the opportunity to bring last season's player of the year to the Emirates, only for him to sign for Spurs on transfer deadline day.

An irony as I don't have my driver's license yet.

This movement, however, is as properly a movement of irony as is any other which has its ground in the fact that subjectivity is higher than reality.

So Socrates is not so much a perpetrator of irony as its willing victim.

In the next volume, «conflict replaces irony as the major theme.»

This is irony as a defense against ethical norms, and against the possibilities of being hurt that come when we take life seriously.

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 cases become more subtle and more heavily laden with irony as Gregory reveals the inner stresses of specific situations of counsel.

The Phelps family (a better description than a «Baptist church,» though even that is filled with tragic irony as they self destruct), protested at my former church.

There are other ironies as well.

@TGM — I think I get the point, I think the cartoon wasn't as good at pointing out certain ironies as some of his others are.

It helps that the experiences of Mireles provide him with a storyline as full of reversals and ironies as that of any fictional thriller.

Not exact matches

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

«The irony of this letter is breathtaking,» the NYT cited Schneiderman's spokesman Eric Soufer as saying.

The other irony is the «revolutionary» forces which I fully expect to take power in many African nations by 2015 will expropriate Chinese properties just as they will expropriate any other colonial powers» «property.»

Known as the «Far From Finished» tour, a name that now seems rife with irony, dates had already begun to disappear from the itinerary in late November, including engagements in Las Vegas and Yakima, Washington.

By an accidental irony, the vote as President Donald Trump nears a decision on whether to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord.

And now the irony: the U.S. and the international banking community, which could learn a few lessons from us, are developing stringent new banking regulations to which our banks have to adhere, and that will make it much harder for them to remain as profitable.

As irony will have it, good communication is often the sacrifice when we leap from tab to tab, juggling the work we're meant to complete on our monitors along with the many, needy little windows imploring for our attention.

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

(O'Connell describes the blind bidding, apparently without irony, as Tesla's «attempt to be forthright and transparent.»)

As with so many other environmental ironies lately, the backdrop is America's sudden, fracking - induced energy self - sufficiency.

While there are 7.5 million unemployed Americans as of December 31, 2016, the irony is that there are 5.5 million jobs unfilled, many due to a lack of skilled workers.

That shows it understands the irony of the situation and is as embarrassed as you can imagine it to be.

Earlier this week, Donald Trump tested the bounds of America's capacity for irony (as he is wont to do).

One thing that adds an extra level of irony to the hiring of BuzzFeed's political reporting team is that CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker recently appeared to dismiss BuzzFeed as a journalistic force, implying that it wasn't a «legitimate news organization» and that CNN «crushed» the site with its coverage.