Sentences with phrase «kind of irony»

«Because I work in a largely camera-less way, there's a kind of irony about creating not only the subject matter but the photographer as well,» Hammond muses.

Artists Assemble at the Museum of Latin American Art Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects «There's a certain Mexican way of telling a joke, a really dramatic kind of irony,» said Felipe Flores, founder of Trabajo Press.

That's just the kind of irony that gets attention, isn't it?

As if in dying she'd learned a whole new kind of irony, a contempt for what she'd left behind.

When news like that of the Petraeus affair breaks, it is always sharp and stinging because it is built on the harshest kind of irony.

It's kind of the irony isn't it?

Not exact matches

Adding insult to injury — and an instance of unplannable irony — O'Reilly's latest book, Old School, released earlier this month, a kind of manifesto on «old school» character — and, yes, chivalry.

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.

While admitting that irony seems to be inherently a private matter and of little public use, he nonetheless contends that we should develop a kind of «liberal irony» of the sort adopted by the pragmatists, particularly Dewey.

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.

Irony - hounds might even ask whether that hints at some kind of reversal being the true message.

The irony is that far from amounting to a kind of neo-Gnosticism, Jung's thought — together with that of Barfield and the later Heidegger — could help prevent Altizer from producing, malgré lui, a dialectic of regression.23

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.

You know, the irony is that this kind of secular humanist attitude is exactly what got Jesus nailed to the Cross.

The other kind of metaphor, juxtaposition, is particularly pertinent to the modern consciousness, for, alienated and disbelieving as we are, we respond to the ambiguity, irony, and covert cynicism of metaphorical juxtaposition.

And by old school, we mean the kinds of places where the chef's tattoos are from 20th - century wars, there's likely a «chops and steaks» section on the menu, and waiters wear red tuxedos without irony.

The irony is that several of our players actually do have the kind of back story that a Philly crowd could get behind, but they can't see past the name on the front of the jersey to get to know the name on the back.

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.

There's some irony (or something) in writing about a kind of simple living that sometimes you're unable to actually live, because you're too busy writing about it.

The irony here is that for once, Corbyn is far more in touch with the public and with the kind of voters Labour needs to win back than his parliamentary party is (the most recent ICM poll, for example, suggests that the voters Labour's lost since 2015 break about 4:3 for Leave).

It was a good idea, but the irony is that the state, through the DEC and its over-aggressive regulatory policy, is hindering the implementation of the kind of economic development Gov. Cuomo rightfully promotes.

Perhaps in a week the irony might occur to you — that you are chastising me for how I «talk to people» in this way, with this kind of comment, with these words.

The groan - worthy dialogue, usually spoken in a monotone by alien and human alike, is rarely credible and lacks the kind of self - aware irony that might make this enjoyable.

The Sarah Silverman Program is a welcome outlet for Silverman's brand of outlandishness, blessedly stingy with its desire to breach mores, and much more concerned with decorating its late - night comedy turf so that it can welcome any kind of unexpected laugh: shock, parody, irony, insult humor or absurdity.

The girl who binge eats like a hot dog eating contestant, records SportsCenter, and can still shimmy into her size 4 nightgown becomes a different kind of pornographic fantasy when you need a quick reminder of who has a real penis and who just has a gun — think There's Something About Mary without the irony.

The bittersweet irony is that while Tarantino's stock routinely commands the kind of budget that allows him to take his pick of the industry's best technicians, staging the bulk of the action at close quarters in a single interior setting means he ends up restricting most of the really good stuff to the periphery.

The Life Aquatic continues this progression toward a kind of languid irony, its soundtrack consisting largely of acoustic versions of David Bowie songs, sung in Portuguese by Brazilian musician Seu Jorge.

Rodriguez winks and tries maybe too hard; Tarantino, being the sui generis of a very specific kind of film, proceeds to create something that resembles Vanishing Point and Two - Lane Blacktop while steering clear of irony, self - indulgence, and post-modernism in its reverence.

He combines sense of life and humor and irony and compassion with versatility - he can do all kinds of things.

It's a deceptively complex morality tale wrapped in a western milieu — a tough - talking ransom intrigue of the kind favoured by Leonard given resonance through a very fine (and somewhat risky) performance by Newman and a screenplay full of caustic ironies and harsher truths.

First, the script tames some of the more egregious proclivities of late, telling a story free from the buckets of irony and sarcasm that are usually employed as a form of distancing, allowing a modern audience to enjoy such an overt tale confident that they know what kind of story this is.

It's cutesy, the kind of thing Jim Jarmusch pulls off with irony and smarts in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, falling flat here as a paternalistic burlesque.

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«I, Tonya» At turns hilarious and heart - breaking, this gonzo retelling of the circumstances leading up to the 1994 attack on Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan opens with the claim, «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» suggesting a toxic kind of irreverence toward the scandal it depicts.

The gently rounded rear end is reminiscent of one of those Rolls - Royce Silver Spirits that they started building the 1980s and forgot to complete production, the kind now driven by hairy Venice Beach irony traffickers and Rodney Dangerfield's villains.

McEwan presents the reader with a delicious irony when Serena tells us she distrusts any kind of fictional trick, something of which McEwan is a master.

Nikolas Butler writes this in the reader's guide in the back of his novel Shotgun Lovesongs: «I think [my readers], like me, are quite tired of novels dripping with sarcasm and irony, and are just in search of books with another kind of emotional or intellectual tone.»

His paintings are heavy with irony, heavy with exposing with how certain kinds of images of women warp our sensibilities and our idea of beauty, of glamor.

Taaffe can boast at once of irony and tradition, like a kind of John Currin for abstraction.

But surprisingly, while Hartung's video installation does contain elements of irony, it also has a kind of poetic and nostalgic sensibility, created through the use of stop - motion animation, lo - fi video techniques, and the audio narrative, taken from the 1973 BBC documentary of the same name.

In these earlyworks there is a lyricism, a tenderness of touch, of surface, and content, while the more recent work of the same subject matter is tougher, sharper, bolder and more imposing materially, thus proposing another kind of youthfulness in older age though the return to landscape or nature as a thematic seems to bracket the period of cooler irony of Artschwager's most noted works, emerging in the era of Pop Art and continuing through the era of appropriation art.

Something as seemingly pedestrian as a cheeseburger or French fries or an old - school jar of Vaseline are imbued with irony and whimsy and are, as Walter Robinson, the creator of these colorful images, observes, a kind of «visual hymn to the hydrogenated consumer utopia of 21st - century America.»

The blazing colors in Beverly Fishman's Untitled (Anxiety)[Zanax Bar] are sensuously arousing — they give a kind of knockout punch to the eye — and the four squares that form the rectangular bar seem to allude to Albers's Homage (s) to the Square even as they acknowledge Frank Stella's Protractor paintings by way of the curves of the two end squares, but all that art historical referencing seems beside the point of the irony built into the work, for Zanax is an anti-anxiety pill.

What kinds of «we's» do empathy, intimacy, irony, and anger assemble, and how do they determine which «first person plurals» someone is part of?

Alexandre alters the meaning and functionality of these well - known images through sophisticated poetic operations and fine irony, not paying attention to any kind of categorization or hierarchy that might be associated to the objects that he carefully selects as his raw - material.

Unmoored from structures of decodable reference and brought to the brink of meaninglessness, a chill of melancholy irony may fall over the work; the blank speech - bubble of Mingus in Mexico might bespeak a kind of mute bewilderment.

Among the ironies of her career is that while friends describe her as forceful, fiercely disciplined and even calculating, Frankenthaler specializes in a kind of painting that depends to a large extent on accident and improvisation.

I am kind of disappointed that the Prince of Irony hasn't stopped by to show us pictures of the Denver People's Climate March in their 8 inches of snow.

«This exclusionary principle ended up forming the backbone of the conservation movement and led to its central irony: The wild had to be kept as free of people as possible — until the right kind of white man needed to go hunting.»

After last week's post on Volvo's plans for a second carbon - neutral factory, someone was kind enough to point out the irony of a CO2 - free truck plant that still makes conventional trucks.