Sentences with phrase «irony free»

«I, Tonya» At turns hilarious and heart - breaking, this gonzo retelling of the circumstances leading up to the 1994 attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan opens with the claim, «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» suggesting a toxic kind of irreverence toward the scandal it depicts.

The picture painted, based on the «irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Harding and ex-husband Jeff Gillooly,» posits that Harding (played impeccably by Margot Robbie) was simply a product of a cruel environment.

I, Tonya, an unconventional biopic about the unconventional, embattled yet iconic»90s figure skater, is based on «irony free, wildly contradictory and totally true» interviews with Tonya Harding and her one - time husband, Jeff Gillooly.

Rogers combined both stories into a fast - moving meta - narrative «based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» as the I, Tonya title card puts it.

The opening credits include the following «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.»

(It's worth noting that the film wears its subjectivity on its sleeve, and begins with a disclaimer: «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and [ex-husband] Jeff Gillooly.»)

«I, Tonya,» written by Steven Rogers, is introduced as: «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.»

Rogers title - pages his screenplay as «based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly.»

The excitable adverbs in the film's opening text set the desperate, straining tone: «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» the latter the skater's ex-husband, who would serve jail time for his plotting of the Kerrigan leg - clubbing.

From the outset the opening title card speaks of «irony free» interviews done by the original characters at the heart of one of the most covered sports scandals of all time.

The story, which the opening inter title tells us is based on «irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews», is told in flashbacks and flash forwards.

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If that irony was too painful, the case for art was represented in an equally packed session with irony - free Pharrell Williams.

The irony of President Trump's position is that economists from both sides of the aisle almost universally agree that free trade is good.

To me, there is a certain irony in the fact that the dogs of old who were punished until they became obedient never entered a cage, roaming free through the house and the yard, while the modern dog is trained through treats, and spends most of his life inside a cage («crate»).

Over time, the irony that set my generation free became its own prison.

The great irony is that actually the Liberal Democrats have, excuse the pun, religiously stuck to the priorities we put on the front page of our manifesto last time, such as delivering a # 10,000 tax free allowance, which we did.

Thus Niebuhr turned to the pretensions of virtue, wisdom, and power in American life in order to confront America with its ironies and free it of its illusions in the conduct of foreign policy.

One irony, of course, is this sort of postnational dedication to the common values of liberty and dignity erodes the political institutions required for free citizens actually to govern themselves.

Likewise he appears earnestly oblivious to the irony of presenting Robert McNamara as the «capitalist par excellence,» not least given the general disdain that most free market organs and institutes have for both the World Bank and Mr. McNamara's tenure there.

Lear reads Plato's dialogues as attempts to explain, by the articulation of a psychology, how irony is possible: «why it is that we are creatures who, for the most part, do not grasp the real situation we are in; and how it is that on occasion an individual is able to break free of appearances and engage in genuine acts of pretense - transcending aspiring.»

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The irony, however, is that most gluten - free versions of traditional wheat - based foods are actually junk food.

Especially since I have become gluten free (trust me bread is my favorite all time food ever, and the fact that I am the GM of the pizza restaurant... well lets just say the irony is not lost on me).

The Rams» decision to pursue free agency is rife with irony.

We often think about the irony of a website about parenting screen - free and this post is here to address the insanity.

As Greg Noth pointed out on Think Progress, one of the ironies here is that the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act actually expands access to food for economically disadvantaged kids through a variety of programs.

It is not without irony that the country which spends the most on defence, namely the USA, is the one which does not have a universal free public health care system.

The film also brings home the irony that it took a foreigner (Guevara was Argentinian) to help free Cuba from Batista's rule.

The irony is that in the midst of the abhorrence and condemnation of these incidences by Ghanaians, the EC will look into the eyes of Ghanaians, and declare the election results as free, fair and transparent with the usual saying «the security incidence did not affect the elections» creating the impression that the violence is permissible.

The economies of scale sank British shop - owners and the government did precisely nothing to come to their aid, citing, with a total lack of irony, the free market.

It also produced this irony - free gem from the redoubtable Rahman, following Secretary of State for Local Government Eric Pickles» blistering attack on him in the Commons:

The irony is that the Western - sourced technology that enabled a flowering of open discourse is now at the service of conservative theocrats, who are poised to drive Arab society squarely away from Western notions of liberty and free speech.

What irony, then, that the search for scientific truth seemed to kill free will.

It is an irony that the development of secular art, which had begun to free aesthetic value from religious restraints, should find itself being turned to quasi religious imagery as in Thomas Moran's paintings, which are the basis of Joni Louise Kinsey's book, Thomas Moran and the Surveying of the American West.

The irony, however, is that most gluten - free versions of traditional wheat - based foods are actually junk food.

«The irony is in why so many people find Jessica Sporty's behavior distasteful just because she has succeeded in turning the tables around by baiting men into giving her free dinners with the lure of sex.»

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Directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Steve Rogers, the film is based on what we are told, via on - screen titles, were a series of «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true» interviews that Rogers conducted with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (masterfully rendered here by Margot Robbie and Sebastian Stan, in period - perfect makeup, hair and clothes).

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

In those interviews, Tonya, LaVona, Diane, Jeff, and other characters tell the story their way; text at the beginning of the film explains that it's «based on irony - free, totally contradictory» interviews with Tonya and Jeff.

Filmgoers lucky enough to have seen James Marsh's deeply moving 2008 documentary «Man On Wire» may see «The Walk» as that film's shallower, less elegiac cousin — even if both Marsh and Zemeckis note the grim irony that Petit's free run of the towers would never be possible in the post-9 / 11 security state.

You have to laugh a little at its audaciousness, but it's so completely irony - free that to deride it would only be cheap.

It's called «Dead Sex,» it has a premise that's completely exploitive, and David Spade is the irony - free star of it.

Backed with an irony - free soundtrack that spans the 2002 - 2003 school year, this was the first film of the year that really won me over and had me running back to see it for the second time.

Netflix's 13 - episode revival of the old ABC sitcom «Full House» is less an update than an irony - free pantomime of the past.

The screenplay by the novelist Susan Minot, from a story by Mr. Bertolucci, is filled with similar irony - free effusions that fall terribly flat when delivered aloud, though they may conceivably have had more texture on the page.

After tussling briefly over the orb, all four find themselves in a vast intergalactic prison, where they eventually ally themselves with an immense and irony - free bruiser named Drax (wrestler Dave Bautista).

Their relationship has a standard, familiar arc, but it's repeatedly elevated by Brolin and Connelly's irony - free commitment to performances and roles that treat their real - life counterparts with respect and reverence.

I was recently chased by Tom O'Neil's resurrected Gold Derby site for my NYFCC and LAFCA predictions, and while I'm as game as anyone for a spot of light - hearted, consequence - free punting, the irony of the exercise still nagged away at me: the day I predict either group's set of winners accurately is the day they'll cease to matter to me.

Why does the movie call itself «irony - free?»