Sentences with phrase «irony involved»

No irony involved.

The dialectic begins with the sentiment that art is crucial — something important to do and attend to — but the irony involved is both a corrective and sustenance.

There is a great deal of irony involved with me reviewing this game.

(The irony involved reminded me Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.)

@Russ — I was being selective with my statement based on the level of irony involved since the GOP considers itself the more christian of our current two major parties.

There was also an irony involved: The boys with their toys thought that assembling the hardware was the most important task, and thus a man's job.

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It is as if, in the end, his sense of irony wins out over his liberal sentiments, and he does not want to get involved.

Irony is involved because it appears to be the case that the office of Bishop among Episcopalians has become increasingly separated from that authority by which some are given the right and duty to teach and uphold the church's rule of faith and forms of life.

These are often made lower and cruder yet through the contempt involved, with disastrous cultural results given the majority of fans who do not get the irony.

Lear's own compelling phenomenology of irony fits, I think, rather nicely with Plato's insight that knowing involves the hierarchical logic of image and exemplar, described most famously in the Analogy of the Divided Line and the Allegory of the Cave.

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.

Much of this development involves considerable irony: functionally illiterate but very proficient in high tech students are taught by very literate but mechanically inept and computer illiterate instructors.

It produces the funniest postures and scenes, to be enjoyed by any and all who can... for however long, distance self from the stage of ego, and take a seat in the audience of loving acceptance, and thereby appreciate the irony, the satire, the drama, and all else involved in an a frantic and frenzied ego production, brought to you by the people at Self Interest Bloated and Perverted Inc...

The irony is not lost on the scientists involved.

I realize the irony of what I'm about to say, given I wrote this article for a website, but it's no secret that men spend far too much time online Stop - scammers Offers anti scam guide about known scammers involved in dating fraud with Anti scam program.

It represents a shooter inspired exponent of the genre, with a slight irony that lies underneath and involves the player.

Perhaps the most salient point in Rob White's auteur study of Todd Haynes comes within his discussion of B. Ruby Rich and her statement that Poison (1991), a pioneering film of New Queer Cinema, is «homo - pomo,» which involves appropriation, pastiche, and irony, among others.

Since then, he and his best friends Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have spent every Christmas Eve together in a drunken stupor (The irony is apparently missed by all involved).

The greater irony of this movie is that everyone involved in the film from the principles to the cameos are convinced that the movie is not about them.

The lesson follows a clear and logical learning journey, involving progressively more challenging tasks in which students: - Portray their understanding of witches and witchcraft; - Learn more about witches in a historical context through a fun «true or false» game; - Define, identify, and understand dramatic irony; - Read sections of Macbeth and complete tasks to demonstrate their understanding; - Answer key questions about the witches that test their knowledge in relation to each of the English assessment outcomes; - Evaluate a modelled example of an analytical paragraph in relation to the witches; - Analyse the witches» characteristics in their own responses; - Evaluate each others» analytical responses.

And the irony is that the first story («The Cave Robbber») involves a spider!

The talk involved several exchanges along these lines: Ellison asking semi-facetious questions presumably meant to expose cultural expectations directed at women, and the panelists — earnest, hyper - articulate types — answering without irony.

Arte povera means literally «poor art», a term that involves a certain irony.

And there's more than a tinge of delicious irony that he was involved with the Obama administration.

The farcical irony of this scenario seemed to be missed by the Guardian reporter and Meirion Jones, one of the journalists involved.

One irony is that I think that most folks involved would like that in a deeper sense, even though many find it so difficult to embody that approach.

The more mobile ones are also involved in various international societies and coalitions (and yet they fail to see the irony of this in light of their zeal to prevent international goverment forming); for example they are members or contributors to the Marshal Institute, or the Climate Coalition (or is it the Coalition of Climate Scientists, or something similar), or IceCaps — see the website, or SEPP, and on it goes.

While undoubtedly a coincidence of timing, there is an irony to the outcome of the appeal, which involved the flagrant excessive force by one police officer, as contrasted with the calm restraint of another.

The absence of the kind of democratic goodwill that would be associated with any real CREA general membership involvement was a feature leading up to the vote on the Consent Agreement in St. Johns Nfld and there is a particular irony to this because the matter involved a Federal Government entity, namely, the Competition Bureau of Canada.