Sentences with phrase «irony does»

Separately, comedian Will Ferrell published a post on Facebook — yes, the irony doesn't escape us — that he's leaving Facebook in 72 hours after his fans had a chance to view the announcement.
The irony doesn't stop there.
The irony does not appear intentional.
The irony doesn't escape me.
And no, the irony does not escape me.
Tragic stories detect an underlying purpose in our setting; the ironies do not.
The bones and tissues of the woman over 80 are in better condition than her daughter's, an irony they do not discuss.
The fact that the only black acting winner that year was Octavia Spencer, who took the award for playing a sassy maid in a movie called «The Help», is an irony we don't even want to touch.
Commenting critically on painting's role as both commercial enterprise and intimate act, he imbued his work with — in the words of art critic Carlo McCormick — «a devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity.»
Partial irony didn't reduce the power of the painterly force that overwhelmed and absorbed the heterogeneous elements that their works contained.
The Telegraph goes on to quote climate scientist Myles Allen, «The irony didn't escape everybody.

Not exact matches

The irony is that many of those touting the idea of the blockchain without bitcoin don't realize that one needs the other to exist: the reward of bitcoins motivates miners to add bitcoin transactions to the blockchain.
This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.
For the sake of irony, I'll offer my own «immutable law»: no set of rules or laws can ever do the marketing for you.
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.
Of course, the irony is that employees do want to learn new tools and techniques that will make them more effective.
But the irony contained in the film's very marketable title is that the truth of the Bush story didn't really matter in the end.
The irony is that the photo also included the caption, «If you don't like it, help us right it.»
The irony, of course, is that this type of justification doesn't protect the employer at all, in the end.
«We didn't find him, but loved the irony,» she says.
Earlier this week, Donald Trump tested the bounds of America's capacity for irony (as he is wont to do).
«The irony is that it appears that the company itself doesn't qualify for the investment product that the girl statue is promoting,» Krawcheck wrote in a post on LinkedIn.
The irony is that while technology has given customers voice, the average company does not have the capability to listen.
«The irony is, we did create a national conversation — not how we intended, but you learn from mistakes,» Schultz says.
Acknowledging the great irony that today's aspiring entrepreneurs are doing exactly the opposite of what Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg and all other great entrepreneurs and executives they strive to emulate did to get where they are today, Steve Tobak delivers some truth:
The irony of protected sectors — wine in the 1980s or dairy and poultry now — is that such protection does nothing for the long - term efficiency of an industry.
This is the irony of empowerment, and yet there is very little else we can do within our conventional operating system other than try our best to be conscious, empowering leaders.
There is great irony when both groups claim victory (and get bonuses), but the business doesn't get what it expects.
The irony of this approach is that while we don't «build links» directly for SEO, the attraction based approach we take typically results in links that are very high value and sustainable that many overt link building tactics.
Having finally engaged an accountant to do the dreaded thing for my own affairs, this irony isn't lost on me!
The irony here is that, historically, REITs haven't done badly when interest rates have increased.
The ultimate irony is that the companies that did spend heavily on share repurchases when capital was super-abundant may not have enough firepower to purchase shares when another bear market ensues.
Of course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the table.
It'd be a fitting irony if a cable network were the one to do the disrupting.
apart from the Shroud of Turin being proven false, I do love the delicious irony that had it been authenticated and the real blood of jesus was found there, we would be able to clone except, OOPS!
In one response you have referred to me as silly, accused me of being unable to reconcile my beliefs to scripture, accused me of stalling, rambling on and on, (love the irony in this one... grin), likened me to a tween, insinuated I do not know or rightly divide scripture, referred to me as sensitive, and implied my post was immature.
The irony being that he was threatened by the church for going against the whole «god did it» argument, which is what this guy was trying to claim, and has nothing to do with «real science»
And the irony is that those with religion think that atheists are evil — even though atheists don't need the fear of hell or reward of heaven to be good people.
I've never had a car statue — for that matter, here in New York, I don't have a car, which pretty much moots the issue of how much inverted irony my life can stand.
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!!
Don't miss the irony.
And that brings us to yet another irony worth contemplating on this fortieth anniversary: what widespread rejection of Humanae Vitae has done to the character of American Catholicism.
The tragedy is compounded, moreover, on the reading that I have proposed, by the irony of the fact that in material theological terms the Luther of 1519 arguably did greater justice to the core convictions of the catholic tradition than did the Luther of 1517.
Do you really not see the deep irony of you claiming that scientists base their conclusions on some «world view»?
I just got done reading the article and saw and I also saw the «irony» in the spelling of the word....
I don't think you catch the irony.
And don't give me that «The Problem with Irony» thing on this.
I think the irony here is that you have to compare the actions of believers who supposedly seek to do God's will to those of godless atheists to make believers» atrocities sound less atrocious.
As an aside, the irony might be lost on you that, despite the fact that so many atheists here are so quick to note that believers do not have a monopoly on morals, you are essentially proving the point of believers that, from a historical perspective, atheists far more than believers have lacked morals vis - a-vis war and death.
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).
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