Sentences with phrase «irony makes»

Through the irony she makes use of, she is close to contemporary artists like John Currin, and German painters in the Leipzig school, but she suggests a re-think of the macho conventions of the predominant iconography thanks to her objects with powerful sexual connotations, which release a merry vulgarity.

And if the irony makes you ready to move on, be sure first to look down, where Rosen has left paint cans.

The movie's irony makes it clear: Unless you're vigilant, the devil will be right there, ready to take your order.

Not exact matches

The irony lies in what is a now - accepted principle of digital goods: that when they are made easily available at a reasonable price, people usually end up willing to pay for them.

The irony is, that makes us miserable.

It is no small irony that for a company which makes a sizeable portion of its fortunes by finding and exposing scandal, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is surprisingly bad at crisis management.

And now the irony: the U.S. and the international banking community, which could learn a few lessons from us, are developing stringent new banking regulations to which our banks have to adhere, and that will make it much harder for them to remain as profitable.

There is irony that many of the advances made in rocketry that even allow us to reach space today came from the government - controlled projects led by Wernher von Braun.

Of course, the irony is that employees do want to learn new tools and techniques that will make them more effective.

The fact that companies that make products like Marlboro and Camel cigarettes are now paying for campaigns discouraging their use may seem like karmic irony.

The irony was that most of Mrs. Thatcher's friends and heroes were businessmen — manufacturers who made or dealt in products, not financial manipulators.

The irony is that when we first started talking about inflation targeting, it was our insistence on that very flexibility that made people think we weren't serious.

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 is that while Russia is being told that taking this advice will help make it an American - style economy, Republican congressmen in the United States have been denouncing the IMF and its austerity programs.

Indeed, that was always the irony with Gundotra's attack on Apple: Google has always been anything but open when it came to its proprietary technology or its money - making ad apparatus (of which user data plays an important part).

It is a remarkable irony that professionals who are so self - interested and focused on their own compensation make their living supposedly acting on behalf of the interests of their clients.

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.

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

For instance, while we commonly see «made in China» logos stamped onto sports gear, the irony is that China imports most of its sports equipment from overseas.

Rachel Notley put it best: «Only in Alberta would the government not get the irony of that,» Then to make it even more ridiculous, Taylor said the public people should give him a year's grace before judging the effectiveness of the new Agency.

«The irony of this case is that Cindy has enough assets to make her a millionaire yet she feels broke,» Moran explains.

ask him, why are nt the robots also made by your big loud f art??? the irony of course is lost to them!

The harsh irony is that murderers and rapists are being released early to make room for low - level offenders — people charged with fraud, forgery, shoplifting, minor drug offenses.

Forty years later, there are more than enough ironies, both secular and religious, to make one swear there's a humorist in heaven.

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.

I think the irony here is that you have to compare the actions of believers who supposedly seek to do God's will to those of godless atheists to make believers» atrocities sound less atrocious.

The tragic irony that I tell about my mortal body reflects something of the approach I make to understanding the congregation.

«The assumptions often made are that Scripture should have no tensions and that any such tensions are not real but introduced from the outside, namely, by scholarship hostile to Christianity... It is a great irony that both the critical and evangelical options (as distinct from the Jewish model) take part in the same assumption: God's word and diversity at the level of factual content and theological messages are incompatible.»

LOL the one who says not to pay attention to me makes a screen name that references me... lol the irony.

Contrary to many reports, he did not make any connection between «the pill» and this population disaster, but the irony was not lost on many commentators, who began - perhaps unfairly - to brand his article a «confession.»

The tragic irony is that it is difficult for our current political elites (of either party) to make these prudential arguments against Trump.

In his Stages on Life's Way (SLW), Kierkegaard speaks of irony as the means by which persons make the transition between aesthetic and ethical awareness, and humor as the means for making the transition between ethical and religious awareness.

The irony here is that one of the conscious aims of that statement had been to make welcome room for the evangelicals within the inclusive Methodist theological enterprise — even while it was also trying to wall off the extreme dogmatists from the «right» and the barn - burners from the «left.»

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.»

The absolute irony of you labeling this as pseudoscience made me spit out my cornflakes.

These publicists are aware of the irony of their position — that their own «upward social mobility was, in large part, made possible by the struggles of those in the civil rights movement and the more radical black activists they now scorn.

Oh the irony of atheists seeking out religious articles and then making comments about being «oppressed» or having religion shoved down their throat.

Mom had identified the stunning irony of a roomful of professional, educated women critiquing the very movement that made their careers, their choices, and perhaps even this conference possible.

Irony, Wallace pointed out, is «almost exclusively negative» — useful, on occasion, for stripping away nonsense, but not for making sense of things.

Yeats, who wrote the original line, was relatively untroubled by irony, and if that sometimes meant he sounded absurd, it also made possible his many unforgettable lines.

It is often pointed out that of all of Austen's heroines, Fanny is one of only two (Anne Elliot is the other) who is not treated with irony, who does not make any serious misjudgment, whose behavior is always supported by the narrator.

In the final analysis: If God made me (or you, or my dad, or anyone else) a curious, questioning, restless, cynical, depressive agnostic (irony meter BUSTED!

Fourthly, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, through all the ironies and strange turnings of the human spirit there persists the ineradicable dialectical condition wherein every advance makes possible greater destructiveness, and every gain brings new opportunities and larger temptations.

After settling down a bit I was able to see in the comment made by His Honor, the Judger of Motives, the black humor of blind irony.

And there is heavy irony in the fact that the charges have been launched just when the publication of Gutiérrez's new book makes them even less accurate than they were before.

It turned out that the decision was not so much rooted in the Constitution as in the doctrine of precedent and» ironies begin to pile up at this point» in the Justices» perception that a contrary decision would undermine the Court's legitimacy by making it appear to be an institution influenced by politics.

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.

For example, he continues, with the cutesy irony that has made him rich and famous, consider Syriac Orthodox Christians.

The irony is that only those who are fairly well off are able to make use of charitable giving on their taxes — you have to be able to exceed the standard deduction to get any benefit.

One irony of recent American politics is that the exodus of wage - earning whites from the Democratic party has tended to make the rump of white Democratic voters more affluent, better educated, and more doctrinaire leftist.