Sentences with phrase «irony of»

So far, nothing much has changed in the attacking / goal - scoring area (the irony of that too!)

Well, I'll take it that this summer was all about strengthening our defensive area (the irony of that), if we manage to get Mustafi.

The irony of that.

Oh the irony of it all!

The irony of him saying that, we put in a solid defensive display that pleased me more than anything because a great defence wins you titles

Tom Colicchio has styled himself as the hashtag - Resistance of the food world, and the man who epitomizes the machismo - industrial - complex — Anthony Bourdain — seems oblivious to the irony of his tweets.

The irony of this post is that it has taken me a Whole Lot Longer to find time (and, you know, 2 hands) to type it than it did to actually make and consume.

This is the irony of autumn, yesterday I was stewing summer gems like tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini and today I'm making a rich braised beef.

The irony of choosing this particular CD is how much it reminds me of being a kid.

I can recognize the irony of needing to make a Big Life Decision when I can't even make a seventeen dollar decision.

It is an irony of their biographies that they were capable of teaching Westerners more about Islam than they imparted Christianity to Muslims.

I often reflected on the irony of the fact that my father, by taking me on his trips and hoping to instill in me a love for our Hebrew homeland, had imprinted in my memory the very landscape he wished to replace.»

The irony of your post Bill is amazing!

The irony of celebrating the King James Version is that it was intended to bring the word of God to the masses and yet its vocabulary and syntax are foreign to most English speakers today.

As for the last named supposition, the self - irony of the Reason, I shall attempt to delineate it merely by a stroke or two, without raising any question of its being historical.

The sweet irony of all this is that the invented gods that man has made over all these years encompass nearly all of his narsacistic, self - aggrandizing traits (hello?

It shines through the irony of Socrates.

The stunning irony of this video is that it comes from North Point Media — which is a function of North Point Church, Andy Stanley's church.

The irony of it all is that the «intelletual,» «open - minded,» «tolerant,» and «liberal» left appears to be anything but.

where Niebuhr so often talked of «the irony of history,» we remember him as an example of it.

In the holy irony of the gospel, the blood of forgiveness lands on the crowds who had spoken, even screamed with bloodlust against the Son of Man.

Here is the irony of the atheist: In order to know their is no God one must have absolute knowledge that no god exists either in this universe or outside this universe.

A personal and an intellectual biography of Reinhold Niebuhr in which the author has employed the research methods of an American historian to dig out and interpret the data: «At Union Seminary, where Niebuhr so often talked of «the irony of history,» we remember him as an example of it.»

Furthermore, from time to time we even feel sated by the offerings of the consumer market and, irony of ironies, wonder if perhaps there is something more to life.

The dark irony of American constitutional democracy is that our judges — whose special responsibility it is to preserve the core democratic principle of equality before the law — are the ones whose edicts have betrayed this principle.

Does anyone else see the irony of a Televangelist developing a Reality TV Show?

In her April «What I Know for Sure» column in her magazine, Oprah writes: «The irony of relationships is that you're not usually ready for one until you can say from the deepest part of yourself, «I will never again give up my power to another person.»»

A nation that spends billions on sophisticated military hardware and computerized weapons only to be rendered impotent by a mob of poor, screaming Islamic students ought to appreciate the irony of how powerless the powerful can be.

He also noted the irony of so many premillenialists, convinced that civilization will steadily decline until the second coming of Christ working for all the world (as it were) like postmillennialists intent on bringing in the kingdom through hard, faithful effort.

We stop for a moment to catch our breath and ponder the irony of it all.

This is the irony of ironies!

There is also the irony of those who are struggling in the night but who are genuinely seeking the dawn, of those who are thirsty but can not say for what.

Reinhold Niebuhr made a more sustained contribution in such works as The Irony of American History.18 Teilhard de Chardin offered a different perspective in The Phenomenon of Man.19 Van Leeuwen develops a rich and fruitful approach in Christianity in World History.20

The real irony of that sermon was that the pastor also did not believe that speaking in tongues is a gift still in operation.

«Painful irony of pro-choice stance of Women's March is that abortion was likely THE issue to tip scales for evangelical women to vote Trump,» said Hannah Anderson, who writes and podcasts about gender and theology for Christ and Pop Culture.

There we hang, gentle reader, awaiting Easter, the dawn, and the most hilarious irony of all.

You believe that if something can not be touched, seen, heard, or measured in some way, then it must not exist, yet you fail to see the irony of your calling Christians «narrow - minded».

That's the irony of this article.

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.

The irony of my climactic moment in the Garden Tomb lies in the fact that the site was not part of our tour's itinerary.

«The irony of the situation is obvious.

No one seems to have noticed the irony of dialoguing with Marxists on the basis of a God whose essence can be known only in the future.

The irony of this allusion is compounded if one knows that in the 1930s and «40s the Nazi Party allocated such tubs for every German home to «insure a minimum standard of hygiene.»

@iamblahblahblah — Do you SEE the irony of your statement «Your dumb»?

One may even sense this kind of sentimentality in the self - congratulatory irony of Twain's Satan, who no doubt enjoys the exercise of his flexible tongue as much as Twain himself did.

The irony of this is the fact that the panel members most strongly opposed to Pawnbroker were most vigorously in favor of Patch.

The irony of the legend is that somehow this terrible history of dispossession didn't destroy the Jews» faith — it established it.

The full import and irony of my ten minutes with the prisoners did not hit me until later.

the irony of anyone telling me «the truth» never escapes me and neither does the catholic / mormon / myan / moon / blood string you have pointed out;).

Yet the irony of the criticism is that I write not simply as an academic but also as the pastor of a church of ca. 160 people in a small town outside Philadelphia.