Sentences with phrase «making ironic»

OPN concludes that the defendant should have a «strong argument that by recreating the Tyson tattoo on Ed Helms's face, they were making an ironic or comic reference to Tyson's appearance in the original movie.»

All these things are part of me now and they inform each painting I do... I try and stay with the intensity and the emotion, the feeling, without making it ironic... Every square inch has to mean something.

In fact, the story attains a certain gravitas because of the music — The Decemberists aren't making an ironic homage to Jethro Tull and Yes, they're trying to one - up those bands.

But Pyott would make an ironic choice to run Valeant, given he was one of the most vehement critics of the company and Ackman in 2014, when Valeant teamed up with the hedge fund manager in an unsuccessful hostile takeover attempt of Allergan.

And then you make the ironic comment of «What's wrong with people that can't see beyond their own nose and their own faults?»

That Murdoch can not find a way to accept this God who sees and seeks (who redeems), but instead embraces an impersonal and probably fictional Good, makes it ironic - perhaps contradictory would not be too strong a word - that she would conclude her book with these words from Psalm 139 (in the Authorized Version, of course):

So he now makes the ironic and pun - filled statement that we have a choice between anathema and maranatha.

At the same time, turn - of - the - century pinks (Paris Hilton Juicy sweat suits, fuzzy Clueless pens) and tacky design tropes of the»80s (Pepto couches) have made an ironic comeback.

He starred in 2002's Mummy spinoff The Scorpion King, which makes this an ironic casting choice.

Oh and how dare Sakurai make an ironic move like adding in Lucina when Chrom was too similar for laughs and jokes!

Also interested in exhaustion as a mechanism, Raul De Lara makes sculptures out of wood and, through hard - carving, transforms the material to make ironic, eerie, or funny social - political commentaries.

Roy Lichtenstein's Brushstrokes illustrates how the commercial technique of screenprinting was well adopted for pop's vivid imagery, which here makes an ironic nod to Abstract Expressionism.

As a proclamation of something new that refused to ignore modernist art history (or make it ironic), it was a built and painted thing that was itself made of built and painted things, and, moreover, all of it was resolutely formal without throwing content under the bus (it even had underpants stuffed with newspaper).

In another case involving 110 charges, a magistrate makes an ironic comment at the start:

Not exact matches

Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.

That's not at all a concern for me since I can't remember the last time I've gone back to play a game from a previous generation, but it is going to make a lot of people frothing mad, which is ironic given that these are the same people who have actually held on to older games and not traded them in.

It is ironic, according to Conrad, that a government agency designed to protect consumers would use its power to make small businesses pay for a free service.

It's ironic that a team that was billed as an investing dream team with deep contacts in every facet of media and technology may be saved by a deal that required no contacts and little deal making or company building expertise.

What is ironic is that it was the need for war financing that promoted democracy, forming a symbiotic trinity between war making, credit and parliamentary democracy in an epoch when money was still the sinews of war.

The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long - gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest - dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back - to - nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology - driven picture.

Ironic as it may seem, being a workaholic will make it less likely that you will be able to work beyond a normal retirement age.

Canada wants to preserve auto - sector manufacturing jobs in Ontario by ensuring that Chinese - made parts in Japanese cars do not displace Canadian parts, but it is ironic that both Korean and European manufacturers are enjoying a phase - out of Canadian auto tariffs while Japanese companies, which have invested in Canada, still face a tariff barrier.

Ironic: yes you can its one of your freedoms, but then I am just as free to make fun of your silly beliefs

but what makes it so ironic, this country thinks of herself as greatest among others, but it's not!

The ironic part of the «Christians being persecuted by evil» argument is that the Evangelical's that often make this claim are some of the most wicked and vile people that walk the face of the earth.

Ironic that you should make that claim after referring to Adam and Eve, a couple that any persomn with a third grade education knows were mythical..

@ GFreas... how ironic that at the very time the RCC is making a great effort to woo the Episcopalians back into the RCC, they're doing their best to create a new schism in the American church.

It makes me sad for them, how boring their lives must be to put all of their faith (as ironic as my gene comment) in science.

It would be ironic if the «outsiders» among us made that move and we who are God's own people resisted.

The ironic tragedy is that God willed us precisely to become co-sharers of the Divine Nature through the Word made flesh.

So I will end on a somewhat ironic note of contrast: in 1970 I wrote of a «post-traditional world»; today I believe that only living traditions make it possible to have a world at all.

SeanNJ It's ironic that a Christian would argue that Jesus had to be dead dead and then risen when so much is made of «near death» experiences where people so appear quite dead only to wake up again.

It's ironic to me how people that don't believe in Christianity hate having the views of christianity pushed on them, but are so quick to not only push atheism on others, but also to make fun of people who do believe, and make fun of Christianity as a whole.

Think that maybe a fully grown man shouldn't be wearing ironic movie quotes on shirts but, whatever, life is short, wear whatever makes you happy?

If you can read Galatians with the idea that Paul was writing with a somewhat sarcastic, or ironic, tone of voice, the letter will make a whole lot more sense to you.

I always find it ironic that many of our churches have the word «community» plastered on the side of the building, but few churches actually make the building available to the community.

How ironic that such a peaceful mantra would actually serve to cause even more grief and suffering (let me point at the middle east for example, KKK, slavery in the U.S. (to some extent), Holocaust and other forms of religious persecution, and finally the manipulation of peasants to fill up the coffers of child molesting Popes... which makes modern politicians of this day look like a Saint).

Nah:» * yawn * Yes, yes, because a substantive rebuttal showing (1) the fallacy being used, (2) why it's fallacious, and (3) demonstrating how and why that makes «Colin's» argument a failure is «stupid» and «ironic» while avoiding being «logical».

* yawn * Yes, yes, because a substantive rebuttal showing (1) the fallacy being used, (2) why it's fallacious, and (3) demonstrating how and why that makes «Colin's» argument a failure is «stupid» and «ironic» while avoiding being «logical».

One of the most destructive mistakes we Christians make is to prioritize shared beliefs over shared relationship, which is deeply ironic considering we worship a God who would rather die than lose relationship with us.

oh great make a blog where the point is to show how ironic the belief system of the christian fundamentalist is by praising gay people and making fun of fat people!

In chapter two «Faith Church» struggles to discover the world views of its members by making use of categories (comic, romantic, tragic, and ironic) laid out by Carroll and Hopewell.

It's good to ask lots of questions and to talk with close friends but theological legalists (ironic since that term has been used by aforementioned organisation for its own ends) inevitably exist who will make life difficult for people who don't fall into line.

In fact, what is killing the Consti.tution today (and this is somewhat ironic if you think about it) is that politically we are paralyzed to make amendments to it any longer, so it stays in a stasis until it starts to get irrelevant.

It's interesting (and somewhat ironic) that you make a comment about denial (below), and all responses are denials.

This «ironic choice» for Mary and for all women - that the better choice is not to see oneself as female — is reinforced by the words of Jesus in the gnostic Gospel of Thomas: «For every female (element) that makes itself male will enter the kingdom of heaven.»

That makes all of this ironic whenever religious believers are involved in any way.

Such disruption makes possible a recovery of a deeper and more adequate understanding, which is in turn susceptible to further episodes of ironic disruption.

isn't it ironic, how vision can make you blind?!

It would be ironic and just, however, if the door did not open at once to our fists, if we Christians were made to wander a little longer.