Sentences with phrase «irony of such»

I'm still not planning to incorporate more of this colour into my wardrobe, but I will enjoy the irony of such a sedate colour feeling like a drastic change to me!

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The irony of protected sectors — wine in the 1980s or dairy and poultry now — is that such protection does nothing for the long - term efficiency of an industry.

Success, likely is a speaking point of proponents of open markets in the US, despite the clear implications of such (that is why the always use moral groundings, which points back to the irony, and social models discourse).

The irony continues with the feting of Okotoks as the greenest community in Canada by such pundits as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and CBC's Peter Mansbridge at the same time the «rurban» community sits in the chosen provincial riding of Wildrose leader Danielle Smith — a right wing student of the climate - change - denying Fraser Institute and cheerful avower that global warming science is «not settled.»

Of course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the tablOf course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the tablof the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the table.

Of course, this would be a rather unfortunate irony: higher education is supposed to enhance a nation's growth, but with such an enormous debt burden, graduates might not be able to spend and invest enough to allow that growth to occur.

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.

«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.»

The recurring image of the caput mortuum, the death's head, that, for example, appears with such sarcasm and irony in the treatment of phrenology in the Phenomenology of Spirit, is Hegel's metaphor for the lifeless rigidity of subject - predicate thinking.

Moreover, those engaged in such conflicts do well to cultivate habits of irony and intellectual humility.

Such cautions in fact come naturally to those of us who came of intellectual age in the middle - to - late 1950s — that brief, golden era of consensus, with its prevailing moods of irony, ambiguity, and paradox.

Surely it is one of the sharpest ironies of this particular divine comedy that by telling the truth in such a way, he will come in later years to be thought of as a forger of old paintings — a counterfeiter of truth.

The great irony is that actually the Liberal Democrats have, excuse the pun, religiously stuck to the priorities we put on the front page of our manifesto last time, such as delivering a # 10,000 tax free allowance, which we did.

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

There is irony in that fact, surely, given the legendary southern disposition to recall the past, and in view of the profound «God acts in history» tone of the biblical narrative which had (and has) such general and devoted following in the southern population.

Of course, my personal favorite bit of Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thoughOf course, my personal favorite bit of Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thoughof Irony is the Baptist Church was founded by Roger Williams in his attempt to ensure that there was separatation between Church and State, unlike in Massachusetts Colony, that kicked him out for spreading such heretical thought.

Niebuhr, the author of classics such as «The Irony of American History,» died in 1971 after a lifetime of political activism.

The irony of the South, of course, is that it could give the nation such different Baptist preachers as Martin Luther King Jr. and Jerry Falwell.

In the dispute over «speech codes» on campuses, to take but one example, there was the irony of conservatives, in their opposition to such codes, sounding like moral libertarians, while liberals were determined to impose moral standards.

Surely all the usual associations of the word «religion» would have to be stripped away if such a systematic parti pris of irony were also to be denoted by the name.

While Lear does not explicitly accept such an account, without a link between image and exemplar, we could not easily sustain the second moment in irony he describes so well, the moment beyond detachment, the moment of attachment to a more robust ideal.

Marty also justifies using the theme of irony for the early 20th century because of the unusual pretensions of the establishment leadership of that era, but he wants to avoid even vestigial versions of such pretensions that would keep mainline Protestants on center stage, as they are in traditional American religious histories.

The result of such evenhandedness is that the theme of irony loses much of its unitive potential.

Irony abounds in such a name, for in the litter of shattered windows lies more than bits of glass.

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.»

That having been said, there is a bit of irony in all of this - if indeed one accepts that God created the heavens and the earth, then prior to the finalization of that creation, there was no such thing as a «day» or an «hour».

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

It is a frequently observed irony that the church of the crucified Christ should have risen to such dominance in Western history — and yet it should not be too surprising.

I should also point out the irony to atheists and agnostics (such as myself) of seeing a religious person insult people from another religious persuasion about being a cult.

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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.

Such theatrical thuggishness may have been effective in the era of backroom shakedowns and party bosses, but today's politics is suffused with irony and live - cast on Twitter — and tough - guy threats are more likely to get mocked than they are to make delegates and congressmen cower in fear.

The poetic irony of the Silver verdict was that a jury of mostly blacks and Latinos, and mostly women, convicted a man with such an ignominious history on race and harassment issues.

Malliotakis described the «irony of Mayor de Blasio» as simultaneously seeking to decriminalize or legalize behaviors they see as worth punishing, such as public urination, but «want [ing] to punish the punitive (sic) hardworking person that's just trying to drive to work in the morning.»

Cook called it «a dichotomy» and «an irony» that the Republicans opposed the Jackson bill with its job - creation guarantees, while they favored the much - more - expensive jobs bill that did not carry any such guarantees of increased employment.

Such is the irony of history and politics.

That so peaceful a place should depend on such a killer is one of nature's great ironies.

The sick irony to this is that lowering one's cholesterol artificially is directly linked to declining cognitive health and diseases such as Alzheimer's, since 25 % of one's total cholesterol is located in the brain.

This would be her passel of mostly anonymous children and a coterie of other contesters, the Affadaisies, organized by Dortha (Laura Dern) and including an always beaming lady in an iron lung painted happy - yellow (such irony, while perverse, gives the movie an occasional welcome edge).

It may not rise to the level of such a classic, but tonally it's reminiscent of Young Frankenstein, a work that at once parodied the Shelley story in broad comic terms while also being supremely in awe of the James Whale film, right down to using original set pieces and compositions to mirror without any form of irony the source material.

The irony in the loss of Season Mode is that such an emphasis for the series has been put on providing the ability for games to be played faster in the past few years.

Still, its ironies are redolent of John le Carré — Yousef had to be imprisoned so he wouldn't appear to be an informant — and the stakes of his deception are such that the film deserves to be remade with actors, Hollywood style.

We know almost nothing about their respective histories but, through their codependent relationship (The irony that such an unhealthy bond is formed out of an ambition to uncover the secrets of mental health is inescapable), come to learn practically everything of significance about them, save for perhaps the most important question: Which of them needs the other more?

The irony is, forcing the most stubborn of women into marriage so he can break her down and finally claim her isn't even what Marnie really explores (although Marnie does manage to hold the mirror is mental illness up toward him), but the duality of the union between controlling male and mercurial female (not dissimilar from Shakespeare's «Taming of the Shrew») is what ultimately make Marnie such a subtly complex work.

Life imitating art while art imitates life — one couldn't possibly ask for more irony surrounding a film full of such realistic artifice, and artificial realism.

• It's an irony worthy of such master ironists as the Coens that their fifth film, The Hudsucker Proxy, was intended to be their most mainstream and commercial to date.

I was also wondering such things as how director O'Connor could have thought it a good idea to have Keanu Reeves maniacally pitching a sexually - charged hot dog commercial to a boardroom of incredulous hot dog executives and, later, croon a horrific love song to poor, incredulous Sara without a hint of self - knowledge or irony.

Such a sad irony that a film about the birth of punk rock should feel so remote, superficial and safe.

Also, to think about it - Lightning would be nice choice (but only for SCV, not potentially upcoming SCVI), because of irony - FF13LR is nice game, but terrible FF, while SCV is nice SC (best fighting system so far and awesome online), but terrible game (5 years ago, when I wasn't really into fighting games - didn't care about balance, haven't played online - I wouldn't buy such a barebones of a game.

With the characteristic irony of stories about such themes, it's the relatively good man who is made to experience his world falling apart, when the more profoundly corrupt survive, protected by the degree of their complicity with the status quo.