Sentences with phrase «irony in that»

There are a couple of levels of irony in there.

The two friends decide not to go to college just because everyone else is, and they spend their days finding irony in their everyday lives.

There is a certain irony in providing high - level litigation and litigation consulting services.

I have always found great irony in this type of alienation.

The real irony in all this is the possibility that his primary opponent might just win by default.

I've rarely seen a film that used irony in such a lethal way.

It uses irony in the service of revelation, not as armor, which sets it apart from so much independent American cinema.

There is a lot of interesting irony in the script that plays over the three major characters.

There has been a somewhat sad irony in the smartphone market over the past few years.

That said, there's a particular irony in seeing mutual fund companies, of all investors, leading the charge.

It should go without saying that there isn't much place for irony in religious experience, either.

There's an element in irony in a game that allows triangle to show an overhead camera which is totally useless at speeds as it barely shows anything on screen at all.

Not the only example of humorous irony in Slow West.

There's a touch of fun irony in the gameplay that made me smile on more than one occasion.

There is a knowing irony in these opening moments.

There is a deep and unintended irony in this development.

Is this an exercise in parody or are you really this blind to the incredible irony in your words?

There is a bit of irony in your criticism of science while simultaneously using the internet, a computer, electricity, etc. to do so.

Some will surely see irony in Zimba feeling compelled to supplement what his kids learn in school with breakfast - table math lessons — more schadenfreude for Common Core critics — but there is no irony.

It is one of the many ironies in life that many people recently completing post-secondary education have substantial debt levels at a time when, based upon their life experience to date, they might be the least capable of managing this debt simply due to a lack of experience handling their finances and immaturity regarding financial literacy.

There is such irony in what you say.

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

The biggest irony in all this comes from DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg possibly being the first victim of 3 - D pricing; he «Äôs the format «Äôs main booster, and only last month was touting higher 3 - D ticket prices as the tonic for badly sagging DVD sales.

Furthermore, those who believe the Gospel of John to be a true account of who Jesus was and what he was about know that it is the nature of this Gospel to set up an insider / outsider dichotomy among its readers (as Gail O'Day demonstrates in her work on irony in John).

There is an interesting irony in life that I learned as a result of speaking at hundreds of entrepreneurship events...

I was basically creating this world where I'd said from the beginning I love irony in my movies, and the biggest irony of Superman is that it's not ironic!

Opening with archive newsreel footage of Long Beach as a place of fun and hope before juxtaposing the burnt - out crack - house dead wonderland of the Long Beach of just a couple of years ago (a conceit carried out with far more grace in Stacy Peralta's Dogtown and Z - Boys), the picture quickly reveals itself to be infatuated with a certain kind of dramatic irony in which the stock characters are unaware that they are clumsy allegorical pawns in a metaphorical landscape.

Whilst we have mentioned many times on these pages (see links below) many of the environmental initiatives undertaken by IKEA worldwide, there does seem to be a certain delicious irony in having the biggest new household goods retailer, immediately adjacent the largest second - hand goods retailer.

This issue, and the inadequacy of Binx's solution at this point of his journey, is spoken to with subtle irony in relation to the movie «hero,» with implications beyond Binx's understanding.

There is a deep irony in the «global care chains» that capitalism constructs; poor women migrate to wealthy countries in order to provide care for other people's families, and then they send their wages home to ensure the survival of their own loved ones.

And, certainly, there is no small irony in critiquing the creative numbness of the art market with pieces that will be sold on that very same market.

But there's an unspoken irony in calling the film The Florida Project, since the motels Moonee plays in have themselves devolved into housing projects.

There is a slight irony in people rushing to claim that the glacier changes on Mars are a sure sign of global warming, while not being swayed by the much more persuasive analogous phenomena here on Earth...

By Alan Caruba There's a wonderful irony in the fact that, back in the 1970s, the Greens were issuing warnings and even writing books about the coming Ice Age.

Is there irony in the fact that this barren Utah desert, where the story takes place, holds the promise of great wealth from its uranium deposits?

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.

There is so much irony in this statement.

There is nice irony in the showdown coming in Alabama.

Lear marvels that so much of what passes for commentary on Socratic irony in Plato's dialogues has to do exclusively with the question of whether Socrates dissembles, whether he wears a mask of unknowing behind which lurks either certainty about important matters or skepticism, perhaps even nihilism.

Indeed, Mark has used rich irony in the feeding stories and throughout the Gospel.

It is a curious irony in life that meditation — an art in which one is essentially observing the present moment in a process of bare...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — It would be a final irony in a bizarre political year if America had to wait until the wee hours on Wednesday to find out which party will control the Senate because endangered GOP incumbent Kelly Ayotte wrote in Mike Pence for president as she planned.

It's directed to sparkle with cruelty and irony in equal measure by Lucy Bailey, and the production's array of alarming characters is key to its success.

And shouldn't there be a tad more irony in how the so - called idealism of these firebrands resulted in the communism espoused by two of the greatest butchers in history, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong?