Sentences with phrase «irony in how»

How does no one seem to see the irony in how hard everyone is trying to «defend» video games as a first amendment right while also blasting people trying to defend a second amendment right?

The film finds irony in how Chuck, posing as a sexual liberator and a romantic, became Linda's cruelest jailer.

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It's a shift in how business communication has always worked, and the great irony here is that the Millennials are way ahead of us.

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.

There was some irony in these over-the-top celebrations: In the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorshipin these over-the-top celebrations: In the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorshipIn the course of heralding the ideological underpinnings of Soviet - allied regimes, those governments only demonstrated how rapidly communist regimes had morphed into brutal military dictatorships.

The irony is that because this site is established now, it has probably a top tier credibility level in teaching people how to make money with a website.

Patterns in beasts» acts are the sole witness to a design by irony inspired: when scientists mapped how the neurons fired in the cortex of the brain when learning, on - screen a melody was coldly burning.

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.

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)

It's one of the greatest ironies of modern science how the attempt to push an obvious proof of God to the attic was done by a priest, in the name of his commitment to science, and then miscredited.

What is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in education.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in someone named Borg teaching us how to «speak» Christian?

Much is said in our age about irony and humor, especially by people who have never been capable of engaging in the practice of these arts, but who nevertheless know how to explain everything.

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.»

This creed is not designed to win friends in positions of power, and Malcolm's caustic, witty tongue and pen commanded an irony that will always make potentates aware of just how threadbare their garments of intelligence and integrity really are.

Sara The irony is that Thanksgiving is the story of how the presence of Native Americans proved to be what saved the European settlers whereas the arrival of the European settlers resulted in the downfall of the Native Americans.

I know u do luv sarcasm and irony a lot, and I'm sure you do know that I'm not really a Wenger fan (my old Arsene seems to be coming back though), but I like Wenger for one thing: he's very mindful of how much he spends (in most cases).

The thing that makes me laugh is the fact that, some Arsenal fans will call Chelsea's and Man United and City Fan's plastic or refer to them as «rent boys», because they celebrate success that in all honesty have just been bought, but the irony in that sentiment is those very same people will moan about how «we don't spend enough» and grow impatient over Arsenal spending policies....

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.

And» Big Sam» laughed at the irony, saying how unfortunate his team had been in recent weeks when losing games his players did well in and it was about time they won ugly for a change, as opposed to leaving matches with plenty of respect from the media but absolutely nothing to show for in the points department.

It's funny how many people don't see the irony in trying to use the «I'm entitled to express my opinion» line as a means to avoid criticism.

Acknowledging the «irony» of how a business practice that's illegal in New York State helped keep the Buffalo Bills in Western New York, billionaire Terry Pegula defended the controversial gas drilling method better known as hydro - fracking.

How deep the irony that invocation of Aneurin Bevan is all too often little more than a gesture of contentless radicalism, much in the manner of a faded Che Guevara poster ironically adorning the walls of an undergraduate hipster's bedsit.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

«The irony is that all the things that everybody teased me about are what have gotten me so far in my career today... and it's important to be honest and do things like this and talk about how we are not perfect and how we have insecurities and are just like everybody else.»

This was my story a few years ago — I became borderline obsessive about keeping my diet «perfect» in order to heal my skin, and the irony was that no matter how «clean» I tried to eat, my acne remained painful, cystic, and embarrassing.

Perhaps in a week the irony might occur to you — that you are chastising me for how I «talk to people» in this way, with this kind of comment, with these words.

If we set aside the yellow flags that this is a scammer, and take it that he is a regular guy, how can someone really not see the irony in claiming that honesty is the best policy then lying about one's name?

The irony is you always say what you mean, but the real meaning doesn't lie in what you say but how you say it.

Irony isn't new in literature (in fact it's as omnipresent as background radiation, the problem these days being how to escape it) but for John McTiernan, directing a script by Shane Black and David Arnott, it's still a new toy.

Jonathan Mostow: If you're referring to the chase with Bruce and Radha, here's a great irony — that sequence was one of the few not shot in Boston — in fact, it was shot almost entirely on the Paramount backlot (to my knowledge, it's the largest and most complex chase scene ever shot on their backlot — which, if you saw it, you'd realize how tiny an amount of real estate it is — and so puling off a chase of that scope was quite a tricky bit of business).

The irony in «Jobs,» about the late Apple Computers co-founder Steve Jobs, is not how a man could be so beloved and yet be such a bastard.

The irony is, a film that points out how people are conned with misdirection can't keep you from noticing the ridiculous age difference in the romantic leads.

A storm of problems The irony is that this is happening as China, South Korea and other South East Asian countries are visiting the UK to learn how D&T is taught in schools here.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

So it seems that we are faced with a remarkable irony: that in an age of increasing artificiality, children first need to sink their hands deeply into what is real; that in an age of light - speed communication, it is crucial that children take the time to develop their own inner voice; that in an age of incredibly powerful machines we must first teach our children how to use the incredible powers that lie deep within themselves.

That said, one of the biggest ironies I noted was how much of the book's techniques may be, to varying degrees, irrelevant for the jobs of teachers in the future, as online learning continues to grow in blended - learning settings and remakes the learning environments in schools.

In particular, students learn how key features such as dramatic irony, dramatic tension, pauses, hesitations, and stage directions can aid the creation of original and engaging playscripts.

In «Harrison Bergeron,» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. uses irony to illustrate how enforcing absolute equality would require a ridicul...

The turn to whiteness, which is now in full swing only two decades after the initial works, perhaps asks Whites the same question without the implicit irony: «How does it feel to be the problem?»

There's the matter of legal ethics, whereby a sleepwalker who killed his father - in - law was acquitted of wrongdoing; the irony of sleeping pills whose effectiveness stems from their inducing short - term amnesia, thus helping you forget how much you actually tossed and turned all night; or the inventor of a highly successful treatment for sleep apnea, now patiently waiting for the Westernization of China to manifest itself in a king's ransom of obesity - related sleep disorders.

As much as it's a bit disconcerting to get a reminder once again that the local book store you can just walk into whenever you want may soon be a memory, there's a certain amount of irony in the reminder when you consider how recently people lamented the failure of the locally - owned book store in the face of big name megastores springing up all over the country.

Sorry I mean't to add one other thought, if the card holder is carrying a high balance and their interest rates increase like the banks have been raising in recent months, this could backfire on the banks themselves, I mean since the banks give a 45 notification of the increase and the consumer is already maxed out and can barely make the payments as it is, the increased interest rates because of how the congress requires at least all the monthly interest and some of the principle to be paid on the cards, done so that consumers could reduce the amount of time to illiminate their debts, this may spawn many card holders whoms payments will increase much like those adjustable rate mortgages that people walked away from to go wild with their remaining balances on the card and then default, the whole irony is that the consumer may very well use the card thats damaging them to pay for bankruptcy proceedings lol!

Traders who learn to love the process of Forex trading are the ones who succeed long - term, those who view the process of trading as something they can skim over or don't really enjoy, are simply in the markets to try and get rich quick, and the irony is that because their focus is continually on the end result they forget about how to get to the end result and thus never achieve it.

The irony in this article is unbelievable the writer complaining about how Sony is getting the timed exclusives when Microsoft have had so many timed exclusives in the past with Call of Duty etc..

writer NAVID KERMANI discovers the continent's enthusiasm at its farthest edges; historian TONY JUDT tells how the West was an accident; writer KODWO ESHUN and photographer JUERGEN TELLER portray architect DAVID ADJAYE; artist collective SLAVS & TATARS redeem the East in Eastern Europe; artist / musician LINDER STERLING makes irony yield to the mythic again; artist MATTHEW BARNEY explores the sexual transmission between man and machine; writer DIETMAR DATH provokes the culture industry's center with drastic arts;

Exploring the apparent increasing similarity between mediated reality and reality itself, the artists in the exhibition use humor, irony and subversion to investigate how our reality is constructed by media, advertisements and the products we consume, as well as the repercussions these may have on the construction of the self and identity.

Not without a touch of irony, the title alludes to the famous pop song by the British group Queen and underscores how very important performativity is in contemporary art.

Baldessari is undoubtedly one of the leading figures Conceptual art has seen in the last half of a century — John focuses on the perception and interpretation of visual elements and text, while often employing irony to make playful assertions about how meanings are formed.

ISBN 978 - 0262521802 [24] As quoted by Daniel Birnbaum in «Pictures Eating Pictures: Notes for Wade Guyton» from Parkett, vol 83, 2008, in reference to the essay by Scott Rothkopf «Modern Pictures» in Wade Guyton, Color, Power and Style, Exhibition Catalogue - Cologne: Walter Koenig, 2007 [25] Christy Wampole, «How to Live Without Irony», The New York Times, November 11, 2012 (first published on the «Opinionator Blog» then reprinted in «The Sunday Review» [26] ibid.