Sentences with phrase «irony of living»

It is the greatest irony of my life that losing my husband helped me find deeper gratitude — gratitude for the kindness of my friends, the love of my family, the laughter of my children.

... change is constant, it is neccessary to ensure the elimination of stagnation in Life... If u can't change something, Hell, u change the way u feel about it [Irony of Life]

what an irony of life... Tin cup yet the big four will all be happy to win it.

Jack has a very arch sense of humor, and he doesn't mind pointing out the ironies of life.

One of the ironies of life is that if you have bad credit, you may have a hard time finding a job.

Wiley is keenly aware of some of the ironies of his life.

It's a waste of money, especially considering I'll never use it - it's one of the great ironies of life - sometimes the things that are most valuable are the things you never use.

Not exact matches

Even so, in some cruel twist of irony, most «productivity enhancers,» like going to the gym every morning, seem to add more effort to our already busy lives.

Therein lies the irony: employers that embrace naps typically already subscribe to the work - life - balance mantra, and their workers are least in need of daytime rest.

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

They have a sense of humor about things and recognize the importance of finding the joy in the irony and comedy of everyday life.

There is no doubt some irony in the son of a near - billionaire entrepreneur calling out someone else for living in his father's shadow.

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

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.

I've never had a car statue — for that matter, here in New York, I don't have a car, which pretty much moots the issue of how much inverted irony my life can stand.

To me, there is a certain irony in the fact that the dogs of old who were punished until they became obedient never entered a cage, roaming free through the house and the yard, while the modern dog is trained through treats, and spends most of his life inside a cage («crate»).

To pile on the ironies, Le Rider carefully demonstrates through a minute examination of the relevant evidence that the real Vienna was in fact nothing like the city that her artists and theorizers felt they were living in.

Life is full of delicious» and sometimes not so delicious» irony.

The best response to secular irony is testimony by current and former students, as well as teachers and officials familiar with such cases, about their experience in the sexualized world of undergraduate life.

I am now dying from the irony of Tony et al.'s ongoing attempts to enshrine the opinions of living white men.

Like Jesus» life and work, our marriages share in the same irony — the full weight and glory of each appears only when death comes to part the bride and groom.

Though Jesus never needed any reminder, I can't miss the irony of Him stopping to heal Blind Bartimaeus on the way to His crucifixion and resurrection (Luke 18:31 - 33), showing us that He never lost His heart for the one, even on the way to give His life for the many.

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 in McCabe's life is that the revolution in religious thought that he called for came to fruition, but not as a result of his efforts.

This is irony as a defense against ethical norms, and against the possibilities of being hurt that come when we take life seriously.

The irony is that there will be no renewal of family life until authentic alternatives to family exist for persons who are not called to that very special and demanding relationship.

The central irony of the moral life is that by simply not taking ourselves so seriously, we may become more serious moral agents and more serious Christians.

I know of no better schema for interpreting this historic cancer in American life rooted in slavery and sectionalism than the classic triad of irony, paradox and fact.

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.

Niebuhr said, «Irony consists of apparently fortuitous incongruities in life which are discovered, upon closer examination, to be not merely fortuitous.»

Thus Niebuhr turned to the pretensions of virtue, wisdom, and power in American life in order to confront America with its ironies and free it of its illusions in the conduct of foreign policy.

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.

Many Soviet parents thought of their children, without irony, as «children of the revolution»; in the West, Communists lived with one foot in society and the other in an incomparably more important world of activism and organization and doctrinal study.

In addition, the literal interpretation of the «joy of life» ignores the irony of Zola's title, since the hero in Joie de Vivre, Pauline, perseveres through great suffering (and little joy) as a kind of Christ - figure, much like the hero in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Jean Valjean.

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.»

As sarcasm and disdain ensued, I suddenly felt overwhelmed and convicted by the irony of the situation: A bunch of straight Christians were sitting together in a living room, engaging in a lengthy and heated conversation about whether other people were sinning.

Not being a watcher of Saturday Night Live, he missed the irony of Bigelow's youth referring to him as «Mr. Bill,» the unseen television figure that macerated a doughboy every week.

In A Case for Irony, the text of his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human Irony, the text of his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered in 2009 at Harvard University, the philosopher Jonathan Lear argues that irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human irony can also provide what Kierkegaard calls an «existential determination» essential to a good human life.

So if Socrates in the crisis of death had remained mute, he would have weakened the impression of his life and awakened a suspicion that the elasticity of irony within him was not a cosmic force but a life - belt which by its buoyancy might serve to hold him up pathetically at the decisive moment.

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.

The funny bit of perhaps - irony is that from the outside, my life even likely affirms those narrow descriptors of «true» womanhood.

The irony of it all is that the central point of the Bible is God's love for sinners like you and me, and these guys teach as if a person is gay, they are beyond the life changing power of God.

Definition of Irony: Believer in Jesus Christ as the literal Son of the Man in the Sky scolds others for living out their fantasies, and in the process attempts to define hers as Real.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

McKnight writes, «there is a troubling irony in this approach, and it concerns whether we Christians are to live under the conditions of the fall or under the conditions of the new creation... Sadly, some think Genesis 3:16 is a prescription for the relationship of women and men for all time.

The result is, not surprisingly, a curious form of 20th - century American idealism, but with a chic twist: now we have a cultured, urbane Yahwist, Master of Irony, secularist sophisticate (one is reminded of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus — the Yahwist lives in New Haven!).

But this is rich in irony, because the Classical age itself was deeply religious at every level of life.

In its pastoral life the church embodies compassion, sustains a gentle sense of irony, and offers a remarkable witness to the possibilities of holiness in everyday life.

With near unbearable irony, the Keeper of Living Waters will say to Roman and Jewish spectators, «I thirst.»