Sentences with phrase «irony into»

Other exhibition highlights include a selection of animations and a well - known series of photographs featuring discreet interventions that the artist has orchestrated in various landscapes and interiors, injecting comedic irony into otherwise everyday banal imagery.

How long before beauty turns into sentiment and irony into just one more art institution?

You can also stretch this irony into outright unreliability.

A man who wrote irony into his music and who knew, even then, that the irony would be lost on subsequent generations of audiences, but who hoped the music might stand on its own merits.

Along with the peerlessly bitchy Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Robbie Coltrane (smitten with a visiting giantess who looks like an elongated Judith Miller — only nicer), and Michael Gambon (who has found his Dumbledore, injecting a dose of irony into his lines), we get more Gary Oldman (albeit only as a smoke - and - ash face in a fireplace), more Timothy Spall (vermin with a pedigree), and, best of all, more of the delicious Shirley Henderson as Moaning Myrtle (now sneaking peeks at Harry's privates).

Why indeed, as the geniuses at the fledgling network have obviously understood the point of The Hunger Games perfectly and are making a reality show based off of it, apparently unaware of the nightmarish irony into which they are pitting themselves.

He thus succeeds in turning Niebuhr's irony into farce.

Seeing moral education in this larger cultural context brings at least two ironies into relief.

Short machine - gun bursts of words that when isolated, and framed by Kruger's gaze, linger in your mind, forcing you to think twice, thrice about clichés and catchphrases, introducing ironies into cultural idioms and the conventional wisdom they embed in our brains.

Not exact matches

That the emergent Me Too movement has also propelled women into the 2018 arena adds a special irony.

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 dictatorships.

In a quest to get economic activity churning again, the Fed and other growth - hungry central banks are running headlong into a bleak irony — the longer they stick with extraordinary measures, the less extraordinary those measures become.

The irony is, the government is actually saving people who make more than $ 116,000 - $ 131,000 a year from paying more taxes and getting tricked into entering the Borg.

The irony of the U.S. position is that within months of integrating various U.S. mills into their respective operations, Canadian companies have been able to reduce costs materially, while most U.S. producers have historically struggled with this same exercise.

The irony is that even as they bring new cash into the tech world, super angels might actually be helping to deflate an incipient startup bubble.

The irony is it makes no sense for customers to pull insured deposits out of Indymac after it went into receivership.

For the careful reader, foreshadowing creates a particularly effective form of engagement, ultimately moving into the territory of dramatic irony, where the reader knows more than the characters in the story.

I like the postmodern irony, as well as the plausible implication that guys like me were seduced by Strauss into believing Locke is an atheistic individualist.

After 1848, Chateaubriand's impassioned veneration of Christian art devolved into irony.

Paradoxically the more atheists I come into contact with the more strength I find in my belief that they, for lack of a better term, lack a certain gene (yes, I get the irony).

And in a final, terrible irony, the Syrian civil war has bled into Iraq — with swaths of Iraq now, once again, occupied by the successors of al - Qaeda - in - Iraq.

The irony here is that the church's bigger problem is not with the government but with its own members, many of whom don't buy into the very tenets about family planning that is in the middle of this controversy.

Privacy is a forcing ground for truth about the self — a place where we need not perform but can instead put aside our defensive irony, entering into love, friendship, work, parenting, repentance, forgiveness, and worship, with vulnerability and honesty.

That Schumer's role in introducing AJC material into the political process mirrors what Chenoweth and Craig are accused of doing for the militias is an irony that goes unremarked.

On Friday, LifeSiteNews.com made note of the fact that this regional bullfight ban was passed into law just as Spain's new, more liberal abortion law is coming into effect, and that «the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers.»

In a final irony, the retired organ tuner who had serviced the instrument during Dr. Sowerby's tenure was introduced to the audience, looking a bit chagrined as though he would have liked to climb up into the organ chambers and correct a few pitches.

Certainly they are; and he who has understood this (but not, be it noted, in the sense of the first sort of understanding) is initiated into all the secret mysteries of irony.

But a moment's reflection on these things quickly runs into ironies.

Irony is ever present in the writings of St John, and Our Lord's words, though part of divine revelation to all, nevertheless gently point out the fault of the one who will only see Jesus by night: «men have shown they prefer darkness to the light» (Jn 3, 19) and «the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light» (Jn 3, 21).

It must live with regenerative awe and wonder in the midst of the strange turnings that transform victory into defeat and defeat into victory; the humbling ironies and the intractable conditions within both people and nature that shatter the best laid plans and destroy the bridges of our hopes.

Though one might read a bit of irony or even sarcasm here, Paul extends himself into the world of his audience — he even quotes their own poets and philosophers.

And that is the greatest irony: for the spirit of criticism that among so many academics has fossilized into a pose has its origins nowhere but among the Greeks, who were the first to question critically everything from the gods to political power to their very selves, the first to live what Socrates called «the examined life.»

A little more irony about the human might allow more scope for the stance of awe which Dr. Altizer finds passé, but which is so deeply built into the various forms of the response of faith.

And without that moment, we risk lapsing back into Rorty's debased and dreary irony, as eros loses its Platonic character as a desire for wholeness and transcendence.

He tells me with only a hint of irony that one way to begin is by getting into an «influential prayer group.»

Her success in this difficult endeavor reflects the sophistication of her comedy: her sense of humor keeps her from falling into either irony or sentimentality.

Her success in this difficult endeavor reflects the sophistication of her comedy, and her sense of humor keeps her from falling into either irony or sentimentality.

Instead of pursuing this line of inquiry, Lear turns to an examination of the role of irony in psychoanalysis, to the way in which the intrusion of the unconscious self into the awareness of the conscious self involves precisely an ironic disruption of the familiar self by the unfamiliar self.

In an irony of carnal life, a moment of adult generosity toward a little one plays into a system that turns little ones into big spenders themselves.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

A blow that would clear the bleachers at Wrigley Field is transformed into a single by the icy irony of Fenway's left field wall, while a drowsy fly ball earns four bases.

Then with a fine sense of historical irony he describes how the development of a party system, which embodied the very «factionalism» that Washington above all felt would bring down the republic, gave the nation «a mechanism of... self - criticism and self - correction» that, for all its descent into inanity, has somehow served the cause of republicanism well.

He notes the irony that the Confederacy, in order to save republicanism as it had come to understand it, transformed its own government into a more vigorous and more comprehensive agent of control than Washington had ever been when it seemed to threaten so directly the liberties of South Carolina and its sister slaveholding states.

Perhaps the novel's chief irony is that Ivan has turned rightful religious concern for injured innocents into wrongful personal justification of his own hatred and scorn.

In the past year, I have been working towards building spontaneity into the routine (the irony in this arrangement is certainly not lost on me.

THE VIBE IS: candle wax dripping from long tapers onto the table, chefs wearing toques without a hint of irony, and plush banquettes that you'll sink into like they're a bed of pillows.

The irony is that when Sandy finally did make his retirement announcement, he did it in such a way as to give Collier a scoop but also to force Collier into an error, not a big error, but the kind of petty thing that irks a good newspaperman.

«If everyone stays fit we don't need to go into the transfer market» Er, can't you see the irony of that?

The irony is that if Arsenal does not start turning up, we could run into another decade without the BPL.

Toss his # 8m a year into the mix just to reflect on the cost saving irony...