Sentences with phrase «irony of this»

The greatest irony of tough love I've found is that it's only found in relaxing.

And I can't help but laugh at the sad irony of it.

And that is the ultimate irony of this story.

It's a tragic irony of the soul that in the times we most need to worship, we find it most difficult.

Is their bond strong enough to face the cruel irony of time?

Do you really not see the deep irony of you claiming that scientists base their conclusions on some «world view»?

The supreme irony of our national tragedy is that we are uniquely blessed with selfish and vain leaders.

The great irony of looking for employment is that the job search itself is a full - time job.

But here's the amusing irony of the situation.

The great irony of vaccine success is that parents today are unfamiliar with the diseases they prevent.

The double - edged irony of the title is your first hint: this is a clever pitch - black satire that often feels like a cruel joke.

The wonderful, delightful irony of it is that the nostalgia now is for the first time I saw this movie, back in 1991.

There's also a child - size version with its own harness in the back for the little one, further illustrating the massive irony of this build.

The cruel irony of separation anxiety is that the dogs most likely to be affected are often wonderful pets in every other way.

That's the great irony of being overly generous with employees.

And that in a way was the sad irony of the occasion; the man who conceived this project so many years ago had to wait so long for its fruition.

Maybe that's the ultimate irony of the title.

The tragic irony of these reform efforts is based on a 19th century mindset that is intended to prepare students for success in the 21st century!

The deep irony of a year in which data drove the political discourse?

The almost incidental nature of Darwin's task on board the Beagle is one of the great ironies of history - the evidence gathered by Darwin on that mission would ultimately culminate in his theory of evolution by natural selection, which would prove to be one of the most ground - breaking discoveries in all of human history.

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?

Among the many ironies of American history is that the return of the fundamentalists, now called evangelicals, met up with now culturally confident Catholics to form the base constituency of politically potent conservatism.

Finally, there is the globally noted irony of exhibiting the imported superhit, Gandhi, before segregated audiences.

What can we say football is funny, why not get Bogarde on the back of your next Chelsea shirt, fans may appreciate the irony

In this lovely book, Zafris finds power in the slow, mute strangeness of everyday anxiety, the blossoming of hope in a barren desert and the terrible irony of what uranium means to those who seek it.»

One irony of living in a country managed by depraved lunatics is that an exhibition devoted to delirious art risks feeling like a perfectly reasonable — even obvious — idea.

Elsewhere, Matthew Spoke, one of the leaders of Deloitte's Rubix project, an effort aimed at advancing the use of distributed protocols, wrote an opinion piece in which he hinted at the inherent ironies of how blockchain is being positioned as a complementary, cost - cutting technology for financial institutions.

Missing out on cash back rewards become the biggest irony of shunning credit; by going cash only, you're passing up the chance to earn more cash if you incorporated credit into your finances.

This is just one of many ironies of this 28th election in the province that birthed the oil / tarsands (depending on where you stand).

Even with braces and bad hair, Robbie has the look of someone who'd be at home in pageantry, which is one of the central ironies of making Harding's story into a movie, really.

The dialectical textual reality of written discourse (parole) and linguistic code (langue) engenders the great irony of interpretation.

A central irony of COP22 is that people with the most at stake in the negotiations — namely youth, women, indigenous people, people of color, and members of the global South — are largely excluded from negotiation spaces.

One of the great ironies of contemporary Christian - Muslim relations is that some Christians who proclaim as a point of principle that there are many ways to be a Christian act as if there is only way to be a Muslim — the way of nonviolence and interreligious respect.

«The bitter irony of towns once so self - sufficient, which contributed to the bottom line of American industrial empire lay in rust, turned into casinos, or simply left to go forgotten with the exception of the hearty locals that soldier on.

And I mean as the delicious irony of this business, we're worried about what the crop's going to be this year and when it's going to yield and we're already talking about pricing for the spring of» 13.

Their popularity did no decline since the Soviet times, when all time favorite soviet film Irony of Fate with Polish actress Barbara Brylska wearing fox fur boyarka made it a fashionable accessory.

The sad irony of such a discussion is that Nolan's Memento was so remarkable because it represented nearly everything that Insomnia is not.

Aside from the obvious ironies of finding a story about a social media platform on that platform, what struck me the most was that the story mentioned Twitter apps like TweetMarks, Cotweet and Tweetphoto, linked to a blog post by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, and provided a download of the judgment by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Julie Young, CEO of Florida Virtual Schools, recently shared in an article that «it is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of online learning that teachers and students often find it more personal than the classroom experience.»

Ready Player One can't see the deep, inherent irony of its battle lines, the way it pits an evil corporation — complete with branded, uniformed, Stormtrooper gamers — against kids whose entire identities have been shaped by corporate product.

To me, one of the huge ironies of modern society is that so many people spend so much time to accumulate so much Stuff — yet never manage to set aside anything for the future.

The great irony of spending days immersed in a Biennale built on accumulated pools of information is being cut off from the Internet and any other source of English - language news, except notoriously interpretive word - of - mouth.

It is perhaps the greatest irony of Christian history that the affirmation that alone distinguished the first Christians from other Jews may have been after all contrary to Jesus» own intention and belief.