Sentences with phrase «most ironic ways»

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To me the most ironic of all are the ones who think God wanted a human blood sacrifice, and the only possible way to get on God's good side is to acknowledge that.

Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.

Most ironic part of all of this is that the group (young adults) that appear to have come out in force to get him re-elected, are the ones that will be paying for this decision (in more ways than one) for the rest of their lives...

It is ironic, in this way, that the two most pronounced promoters of community in Harvard's life in the «Golden Age» of Harvard philosophy were both loners.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

«It's ironic that a budget that in many other ways was the most transparent for decades seems to have failed to consider and publish its impact on half the population,» chief executive Ceri Goddard said.

This unwillingness to let computers override the terrible decisions of terrible drivers is rather ironic, says Brad Templeton, an influential Internet entrepreneur and expert on civil rights in the digital age; accident avoidance is one of the most appropriate ways to have computers intrude into our lives.

It's ironic in a way: Some of the things that give us the most pleasure are really the most ancient.»

Even Julian Casablancas, a singer I absolutely loathe with every fiber of my being, pulls off perhaps one of his most convincing vocal deliveries ever on Instant Crush, though it is a tad ironic considering he's auto - tuned the whole way through.

Maybe what most marks Beau travail as a film by a woman is the way Denis uses African women to subtly impose an ironic frame around the story; from beginning to end, they figure implicitly and unobtrusively as a kind of mainly mute Greek chorus — whether they're dancing in the disco, speaking in the market, appearing briefly as the girlfriends of some legionnaires (including Galoup), or serving as witnesses to portions of the action.

: For all of the body parts that Stephen King has torn asunder in his numerous books and film adaptations, it's ironic that two of the most beloved movies ever about male bonding come from his book «Different Seasons» — a «Body» that spawned the CSI Our Gang of «Stand By Me,» and the prison breakout that lay behind «Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,» Wisely shortened to the last three titles by writer - filmmaker Frank Darabont, this 1994 classic of an unbreakable man slowly chiseling his way out of a Maine hellhole over the course of decades stands as not only the most soulful film in an understandably macho prison break genre, but also as a film that many rightfully consider to be one of the best movies ever made.

And in an ironic twist of fate, that curiosity and thirst for knowledge and adventure would be fulfilled in a most unwelcome way.

However, his ironic self - portraits posed in a Mao suit in front of American landmarks found their way to Communist China and were profoundly influential for China ‟ s avant - garde, including conceptual artists Song Dong and Zhang Huan, who were exposed to Tseng ‟ s images through western magazines smuggled into the country in the 1980 ‟ s. Tseng ‟ s photographs not only satirized relations between the United States and its emerging rival, China, but also broadcasted his freedom of movement - a privilege denied most Chinese artists at the time.

Defined as one of the most representative artists in the Spanish art scene at the moment, Albarracín explores in an ironic and intelligent way the social stereotypes linked to her Andalusian origin and identity, the flamenco and the bullfighting.

While this new work continues Lum's interest in overlooked characters, the mood is distinctly bitter and ironic: the obituaries describe pathetic or banal deaths, and the busts include those of people most famous for the brutal way their lives ended.

Hannah Greely's Molly and Johnny may provide the show's most ironic moment, and Greely wields irony in the most precise, Webster's appropriate way.

More, it's an argument that these companies — most notably Facebook with its historic, ironic insistence on «real identity» — were blinded by growth in a way that made them fail to consider the future consequences of building the most colossal, most efficient global information delivery system of the present day.