Sentences with phrase «irony of what»

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.»

«The irony of what is going on is, here is a woman who makes quite a substantial living on the ability to create schools by pushing thousands of children out of their school buildings, and now she is upset that someone is pushing back on her,» said Michael Mulgrew, the president of the city teachers» union.

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However, comparing the Revised Health Policy and the physical state of healthcare in Nigeria shows that the physical state of healthcare in Nigeria is the irony of what the Revised Health Policy states.

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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.

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

The irony of spending years in high school and college before getting a job is that what employers want most isn't any specific (or even highly specialized) body of knowledge; they want employees who can learn on the job.

Irony is when there's some type of reversal of what was expected.

In one of the stranger ironies, what has given real credence to the alt - meat realm is Big Food's arrival on the scene.

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.

Acknowledging the great irony that today's aspiring entrepreneurs are doing exactly the opposite of what Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg and all other great entrepreneurs and executives they strive to emulate did to get where they are today, Steve Tobak delivers some truth:

I love the irony of all the other types of christians thinking what the mormons believe is wacky but their belief is not.

The IRONY of history, In fact, is that for the first 200 years of what is called «Christianity,» people who wanted to follow Christ CONVERTED to JUDAISM.

What an elegant example of irony.

And that brings us to yet another irony worth contemplating on this fortieth anniversary: what widespread rejection of Humanae Vitae has done to the character of American Catholicism.

What he produces is an anatomy of suffering the major axis of which is the irony that «battles over the value of suffering intensify in the contemporary world precisely at the same time people in ever greater numbers discard the notion that suffering is an inevitable part of human experience.»

What is missed by you is the irony of it.

Let's begin by meditating upon what might be called the first of the secular ironies now evident: Humanae Vitae's specific predictions about what the world would look like if artificial contraception became widespread.

Also, the original post was a cartoon envisioning the words / concepts represented by the Jesus figure, against the background of the Syrian refugees ---- what are your thoughts on the irony, applicability, and / or actions advocated by the Followers of Jesus (past tense) with the Followers of Jesus (present tense).

There's some irony in the title, it seems, because much of what Harris suggests is that she was actually raised wrong, at least in a political sense.

Lastly, there is some irony in a person who accused me of «hiding behind ignorance» in conceding what I didn't know, but then turns around and relies on this very same ignorance as an erroneous form of support for their preferred non sequitur of «God did it.»

The humor of Jesus is probably closer to what we would call wit, satire, and irony.

Once again your se.xual orientation is not my issue, the fact that you preach about how good you are and how true your belief in the buybull is but yet you are being a hypocritew... hope your god delusion sends you to those burning pits (not that either exist but to point out the irony of your hypocrisy and expose you for what you are - a liar; a hypocrite; a poor example of good christard)

Mankind lies on its knees before the opposite of that which was the origin, the meaning, the right of the evangel; in the concept of «church» it has pronounced holy precisely what the «bringer of the glad tidings» felt to be beneath and behind himself — one would look in vain for a greater example of world - historical irony.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

But then I do nt think science means anything to any of the people discussing this even though they are using science to discuss in the form of television, computers and internet what irony or is it hypocrisy?

Furthermore, those who believe the Gospel of John to be a true account of who Jesus was and what he was about know that it is the nature of this Gospel to set up an insider / outsider dichotomy among its readers (as Gail O'Day demonstrates in her work on irony in John).

The irony was striking: In what used to be a bastion of government secrecy, I was casually being shown a document central to the economic structure of the republic.

The irony is that the Sunni countries are generally supported by the United States of America whereas the Shi - te regimes and factions are supported by Russia — go figure what can go wrong!

I suspect that if you took spousal and child abuse statistics in the US (and account at least a little bit for what goes unreported), you'd probably find that the spectrum of our «Christian» nation doesn't exactly have a lot to brag about either (but of course anyone who abuses children or spouse can't POSSIBLY be a «true Christian»... and I hope you see the irony in that remark).

That Schumer's role in introducing AJC material into the political process mirrors what Chenoweth and Craig are accused of doing for the militias is an irony that goes unremarked.

oh the IRONY — the words «In God We Trust» on the back of ever y $ bill is printed right next to what the bible expressly calls an abomination.

His whole emphasis on irony and contingency is meant to protect us against what he calls «the dangers of over-philosophication,» the temptation to think of philosophy as providing anything more than a kind of therapeutic stance.

The irony of Johan's and Marianne's greatly expanded awareness is that they «don't know what to do.»

Case in point: the previous season ended with Barney's surprise romantic Playbook play to win Robin's hand in marriage, resolving months» worth of dramatic irony about what he was doing with her coworker, and serving up the narrative fulfillment we'd all been waiting for.

What is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in educatWhat is even more disappointing is how this attitude of liberal irony seems to downplay what is at stake in educatwhat is at stake in education.

I do not see that having self - appointed experts draw up a list of what every culturally literate American needs to know catches the spirit of liberal irony in the least.

In this realm, those who wave off Kierkegaard do so at the risk of their own intellectual stultification (which is precisely what the Master of Irony expected to happen).

What replaced this flame in the 1970s was the artificial light of skepticism, whimsy, and irony.

The biggest irony to me is that the Christians are doing the exact opposite of what they should do.

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.»

What a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them!

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

We've heard Paul's story before, and we know the sad irony that he persecuted the church of Jesus with what he thought was holy zeal.

Reflective teachers often consider how they might improve their teaching» the sort of assignments they give, for example, and how they lecture» but irony «disrupts my normal self - understanding of what it is to teach (which includes normal reflection on teaching).

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.

Lear marvels that so much of what passes for commentary on Socratic irony in Plato's dialogues has to do exclusively with the question of whether Socrates dissembles, whether he wears a mask of unknowing behind which lurks either certainty about important matters or skepticism, perhaps even nihilism.

From Lear's interpretation of Socratic irony, we learn that the proper response to the insuperable limits of human knowledge, to the perplexities arising in the midst of what we thought we understood, is wonder.