Sentences with phrase «little sense of irony»

Hauerwas and Lemert both belong to the liberal left» both judge America with little sense of irony» but they read Niebuhr in opposite ways.

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Most audiences won't endure the irony because most of us want a little more sense out of our films.

All of which means that underneath the plainness of True Grit are currents of satire and the wryest sense of extratextual irony — its major departures from the source material (speaking of the novel, not of the novel John Wayne film) are almost exclusively in the reductions of its male icons in favour of the plucky little girl.

They understand why recent Marvel adaptations for the big screen have worked and recent DC adaptations have not: Superheroes need to have a sense of humor — ideally, leavened with a little irony — about life in general and occasionally about themselves.