Sentences with phrase «irony between»

The Tudors, Season 3, Episode 1: Michael Hirst discusses the irony between Henry's domestic and political life in season 3 of The Tudors.

I think it would have worked better if there was more irony between us and all the characters where we know more about what's going on then they do.

Santa Fe - based photographer Jo Whaley's series «Natura Morta» draws from 17th Century Vanitas still - lifes to craft scenes that expose ironies between urban culture and nature.

Not exact matches

The irony is that many entrepreneurs think that they are upping their company's level of customer service by pursuing a «customer is always right» approach, but they end up doing the opposite, damaging relationships between customers and staff.

One general problem with interpreting facetious remarks is to distinguish between things said in irony and things said at face value.

It is a fitting historical tribute (or irony) that All Souls» Day and Reformation Day occur within two days of one another with All Saints» Day sandwiched in between.

Contrary to many reports, he did not make any connection between «the pill» and this population disaster, but the irony was not lost on many commentators, who began - perhaps unfairly - to brand his article a «confession.»

The fact of increasingly strained relations between Greek and Arab Orthodox in the Holy Land these past 200 years added an element of irony to the meeting between Demetrios and Diodoros.

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.

Through irony persons realize that they can not settle the tension between possibility and necessity, but must live with the tension.

One of the ironies of history is that, given a choice between siding with humanists or with scientists, most Christians tend to choose the former.

The irony of the irrepressible conflict has been noted again and again by students of the War Between the States and its aftermath (which is hardly over in 1976).

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

Oh, the irony... putting a cross on the site is exactly what the islamic fundamentalists want: a war between the muslims and the christians.

Of course, my personal favorite bit of Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thought.

Niebuhr continued in this book to reveal to Americans the ironies in our history, to point up the incongruities between America's myths and America's realities.

It is not without irony that, in the name of promoting an open dialogue between Christians and Jews, Prof. Novak has displayed a imperious intolerance of genuine dialogue within the Jewish scholarly community.

While Lear does not explicitly accept such an account, without a link between image and exemplar, we could not easily sustain the second moment in irony he describes so well, the moment beyond detachment, the moment of attachment to a more robust ideal.

If there is a connection between religious observance and humanities curriculum, then humanities professors who bemoan their lot have to face an irony in their plight.

Few tourists rushing between Pearl Harbor and Waikiki realize the deep irony that flag symbolizes.

From the beginning the relationship between Nazism and expressionism produced bitter ironies.

Scripture even teaches irony, as when God sarcastically addresses Jonah, who is complaining about the collapse of his bean vine: «Should I not spare Nineveh, this great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that can not discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?»

Its funny how there is a direct link between general ability... in terms of how much faster and stronger his got and physical apperance, also the irony being during the earlier days of bales tottenham career he and walcott had virtually similar time stints spent on the treatment table.

The irony would be that Sam Allardyce selects McCarthy for this trip to Upton Park and he scores, but the pair have fallen out and a deal appears to be on the cards between the two clubs.

The irony, he says, is that the $ 17.5 billion ITER collaboration grew out of efforts in the 1980s to improve scientific ties between the Soviet Union and the West.

Hence the irony in Bob Carter's conclusion «The close relationship between ENSO and global temperature leaves little room for any warming driven by human carbon dioxide emissions».

«Happiness» occupies the emerging genre of the New Geek Cinema, films that occupy the shadowland between tragedy and irony.

Selznick served John Huston — the right man for this picture — his walking papers early on for correctly identifying the love story in Hemingway's novel as just a metaphor for the tragedy and irony of WWI's carnage, subbing Huston with second - stringer Charles Vidor, who meekly agreed to amplify the alleged love between Lt. Henry and Cat while pushing all manner of hysterical spectacle to the wings of the proscenium.

With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.

The chief problem of the film lies in a confusion between irony and idolization; Glyn's arch narration, superfluous as it is, provides the film its only cattiness, the staid Agatha Christie parlour game functioning as its unusually disinteresting MacGuffin — its «meow.»

The irony is, forcing the most stubborn of women into marriage so he can break her down and finally claim her isn't even what Marnie really explores (although Marnie does manage to hold the mirror is mental illness up toward him), but the duality of the union between controlling male and mercurial female (not dissimilar from Shakespeare's «Taming of the Shrew») is what ultimately make Marnie such a subtly complex work.

The film's juxtaposition of pop culture and indie culture and the fine line between them makes for humorous irony.

When Albert and Hubert have an outing together in lady's clothes and take a stroll on the beach that turns into a tampon commercial, I was pulled between continuing to try to figure this shit out and simply accepting that one day I'll see this programmed into a Midnight Special series, leaden with camp irony, at the local arthouse.

This vinegar - sharp satire about a society dame torn between two equally appealing suitors is steeped in Old - Hollywood elegance and fiery, proto feminist irony.

For a few moments it seems like there might be a spark between Frances and Benji, an aspiring «SNL» writer, but that passes and he soon dubs her, in a bit of teasing irony, «undateable.»

by Walter Chaw Walking a fine line between nostalgia and regret, irony and earnestness, Philip Noyce's The Quiet American, adapted from the novel by Graham Greene, is a lovely film that captures, like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the delicate balance between romance in the immediate foreground and the backdrop of war and politics.

The films he made between these animated efforts — Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)-- were among his better works, as the former evinced a real sense of poignant feeling that sometimes gets lost in his penchant for irony and pastiche, while the latter was a marvelous screwball farce with a fantastic central performance by Ralph Fiennes.

Between del Toro, James Gray and many other unabashed classicists practicing at high levels, perhaps the pendulum can swing back away from the pervasive irony in which our culture is currently steeped.

Between Welles and Efron is about six trillion miles of talent, but Linklater simply chooses to ignore this irony, which suggests that Me and Orson Welles would probably never have been bankrolled without Efron.

And the unresolved romantic and sexual tension between Black Widow and Hulk creates a weird driving force to the narrative: even the absurdity is somehow recirculated into the film's internal economy as comedy and irony and the cast - of - thousands effect never seems to split the focus: Andy Serkis plays metal trader Ulysses Klaw and Julie Delpy has a blink - and - you'll - miss - it cameo as Black Widow's sinister former controller.

There isn't anything new that Swimming Pool delivers that hasn't been done before, playing in the same creative pool as neo-Hitchcockian auteurs have frequently done, with fine lines drawn between fiction and fact that is summed up in an ending of irony that leaves you unsettled as to what was going on all along.

Robespierre's script addresses the millennial struggle between irony and sincerity with a deft but light touch.

But while Mike Myers found rich humor in the gap between a chauvinistic past and politically correct present, much of the labored comedy in Mortdecai relies on dated stereotypes unredeemed by any hint of post-modern irony.

Generally these principles relate to chance encounters and mysterious connections — most often missed connections, as in the relationship between Ross and Singer — coupled with the conviction that life is grossly unfair and dishes out brutal ironies at regular intervals.

It may be the most significant irony in our history that racism, by dividing the two races, has made them not separate but in a fundamental way inseparable, not independent but dependent on each other, incomplete without each other, each needing desperately to understand and make use of the experience of the other... we are one body, and the division between us is the disease of one body, not of two.

The irony is that in promoting the Common Core in its high - profile federal initiatives, the Obama administration may have blurred the line between where the state development ends and federal involvement begins and given some state leaders pause about adopting the very standards that were the goal in the first place.»

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.

While this could make for heavy going, the dialogue between the characters, the family dynamics and some moments of delicious irony provide a comic relief that lifts the story.

Coben writes with wit and irony, and his flair for exposing the frail balance point between order and chaos in our lives has never been stronger than in this suspenseful outing.»

He is 20, a junior at American University, and paging through a thick history of Israel between classes, he is evidence of a peculiar irony of the Internet age: Digital natives prefer reading in print.