Sentences with phrase «levels of irony»

The multiple levels of irony in your statement have had me grinning for two hours.

Over the course of the weekend, Tokyo Drift shifts locations across London, combining the «high and low cultures» and considering them with equal levels of irony and sincerity.

One thing that adds an extra level of irony to the hiring of BuzzFeed's political reporting team is that CNN chief executive Jeff Zucker recently appeared to dismiss BuzzFeed as a journalistic force, implying that it wasn't a «legitimate news organization» and that CNN «crushed» the site with its coverage.

This is just a level of irony, or whatever it is, too deep, and when it comes out, a lot of folks are going to be totally pissed, especially our beautiful film and TV folks.

@Russ — I was being selective with my statement based on the level of irony involved since the GOP considers itself the more christian of our current two major parties.

Certainly there was a level of irony in it - many of these new lounge lizards were pierced and tattooed - but it was a real revival nonetheless.

On Twitter, there is a hashtag for complaints like this: # 21stcenturyproblems, which adds a level of irony to the tweet by acknowledging that a few years ago, noone could have complained about this, and — by the way — most people probably don't give a shit in the first place.

To this many layered show, the historical surroundings of the space add yet another level of irony to Flood's subversion of American pop culture.

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The irony is that many entrepreneurs think that they are upping their company's level of customer service by pursuing a «customer is always right» approach, but they end up doing the opposite, damaging relationships between customers and staff.

«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.»

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?

The irony is that every generation considers their current level of knowledge as the pinnacle of human achievement.

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

The marketing of energy drinks as revitalizing, hydrating energy - boosters full of nourishing vitamins is one of the greatest ironies in the food business today, since they actually contain an incredible amount of sugar and are not healthy for your organism on so many levels.

In a style climate that still champions clunky dad trainers, it's fair to say that menswear has surpassed all levels of comfortable irony by now.

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 original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

For a man who teaches about ethics, there's more irony on the level of unethical acts he's willing to commit for whatever he feels is the highest good.

In one more level of absurd irony, the Adaptation screenplay is co-written by the non-existent Donald, and additionally the film is «dedicated» to Donald.

«Editorial cartoons cover a lot of high - level concepts: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, satire, irony — things that are harder to convey in text,» Peg Cagle told Education World.

The irony is that this approach leads to a loss of professionalism and autonomy, which simply fuels stress levels, reduces motivation and makes it less likely that teachers will have the capacity to improve themselves.

The irony of this amuses me beyond an acceptable level of amusement.

It is one of the many ironies in life that many people recently completing post-secondary education have substantial debt levels at a time when, based upon their life experience to date, they might be the least capable of managing this debt simply due to a lack of experience handling their finances and immaturity regarding financial literacy.

The irony is that in XO, the level of strategy wasn't as deep as in Z but it made you use what little you had quite a bit more.

Completely ignoring the irony that Sonic's primary gameplay mechanic is turning himself into a blue ball, SEGA has taken their love of the ladies to a new level this weekend at the Tokyo Game Show by announcing a partnership with the Hooters restaurant chain to promote the upcoming release of Sonic Forces.

Completely ignoring the irony that Sonic's primary gameplay mechanic is turning himself into a blue ball, SEGA has taken their love of the ladies to a new level this weekend at the...

Pervasive in Stoney's work and concurrent with his level of craft is a subtle humor and irony that results from slight shifts of perspective through juxtaposition and scale in artworks that seduce the eye and incite the imagination.

See my post, The Irony, It Burns for citations, references, and details regarding the lack of any effect of sea level rise on atolls.

Sure enough, temperatures rose to record or near - record levels — even as irony - challenged politicians in certain locales proclaimed the end of global warming.

Does anyone else see the irony of this decision vis - a-vis the battle over competition at the Federal level?