Sentences with phrase «not without irony»

It's not without irony as the Esker Foundation is supported largely by private oil money.

Scotland's art colleges throw up Turner Prize winners and nominees as predictably as the yearly pooh - poohing of the prize (see here for my review last year), and none more so than the prestigious Glasgow school, so it's not without some irony that this year's host city won't be celebrating with a homecoming.

Raedecker's sense of questioning is open, relaxed, and serious, but not without irony and a suspicion of pre-packaged answers.

The label is not without irony.

It is not without irony that the country which spends the most on defence, namely the USA, is the one which does not have a universal free public health care system.

It is not without irony that, in the name of promoting an open dialogue between Christians and Jews, Prof. Novak has displayed a imperious intolerance of genuine dialogue within the Jewish scholarly community.

It is a good story, told well and not without irony.

It's a riveting story steeped in Cold War intrigue and personal tragedy but also not without its ironies.

Not exact matches

That irony points to what I see as an inescapable conclusion: The world probably can't solve climate change without nuclear power.

The irony is that many of those touting the idea of the blockchain without bitcoin don't realize that one needs the other to exist: the reward of bitcoins motivates miners to add bitcoin transactions to the blockchain.

In one astonishing interview, dressed in his trademark dark suit and skinny tie, Miller told CBS's John Dickerson, without irony, «Our opponents, the media and the whole world, will soon see, as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.»

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?

They do it without rage or pity, though not always without irony, for establishment Protestantism's loss of ability to run the show is ironic.

There a healthy dose of religious tolerance, but not a lot of tolerance of intolerance (without a lot of acknowledgement of the irony of that position either:)-RRB-.

While Lear does not explicitly accept such an account, without a link between image and exemplar, we could not easily sustain the second moment in irony he describes so well, the moment beyond detachment, the moment of attachment to a more robust ideal.

We would not today found an interchurch organization of Protestant and Orthodox churches and call it the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America — at least, not without a certain sense of irony.

One consequence of Lear's conception of irony is that its paradigmatic case is not as a rhetorical device deployed by someone with superior knowledge in order to block the access, or mock the misunderstanding, of someone without it.

With deep irony Kierkegaard says of a bishop of Denmark: «Without doubt, he would not hesitate to die for Christ, in the case of necessity, but he takes care that the case of necessity does not occur.»

American Thanksgiving irony: Conservatives blow their tops at the thought of the president saying that they couldn't have had their successes without support from others & gov «t, but then they sit down at Thanksgiving to humbly thank an invisible sky being for providing their successes.

It was without rancour, though not without deliberate irony; and it had all the disarming qualities of Luther at his best — it was factual, honest, logical, while clothed in the fairly strong language of current fashion.

The irony is that if Arsenal does not start turning up, we could run into another decade without the BPL.

It wasn't without a touch of irony that Chelsea FC's frailties were exposed by Jose Mourinho, the architect of its greatest run of success.

There is a spectacular irony to anyone criticising Venezuela's sales of arms to Syria without having made equal noise complaining about our own sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, but that is not an excuse.

Twenty - seven minutes of people predominantly without disabilities discussing what they feel is best for people with disabilities and not even noticing the irony.

Although he described Espaillat as «a great guy», Powell noted that Espaillat has lost twice in seeking the seat and offered (without any apparent irony) that «I don't think he wants to go out with three strikes.»

It is one of the great ironies of biochemistry: life on Earth could not have begun without water; yet water stymies some chemical reactions necessary for life itself.

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.

Effectively remaking his earlier 1940s - set romp The Rocketeer, Joe Johnston directs Captain America not as a brooding exploration of human frailty, as today's superhero movies tend to be, but as a ripping yarn, one which has its share of funny lines, but without any irony to undermine the Boy's Own heroics.

The ultimate irony comes when you realize that by Brooks's frustration in not finding comedy in a land without comedians is only further compounded by the fact that he didn't really bring along enough choice comedy of his own.

«Time Out of Mind» conveys the maddening ironies of his situation - medical and financial assistance require a social security number that he can't remember, a birth certificate he can not obtain without it.

His pictures always non-traditional (even Beverly Hills Cop is surprisingly stately in its development and resolution), Brest is at his best in presenting the broad, the theatrical, even the melancholy through his word jumble (Walken can say «absconded» without irony; Lopez can't even read in the film without moving her lips), and at his worst when trying to justify surprise moments of spontaneous lovemaking and unlikely romance (see also: Meet Joe Black).

Eisenberg's choices in playing Mike without a trace of irony works in the film's favor, as does Stewart's grittiness and edge as a woman who refuses to take it lying down when the world is trying to kill the man she loves, or when he starts cracking up about the possibility that he might be a robot and not a human being.

It may be the most significant irony in our history that racism, by dividing the two races, has made them not separate but in a fundamental way inseparable, not independent but dependent on each other, incomplete without each other, each needing desperately to understand and make use of the experience of the other... we are one body, and the division between us is the disease of one body, not of two.

Not without a sense of irony, Dillabaugh is a mom.

You certainly don't own the data file, as Amazon made abundantly clear when it remotely deleted every copy it had accidentally sold without the right to do so of George Orwell's 1984 (yes, the irony is rich) from every Kindle without the permission or even advance notification to the owners of those Kindles.

The irony is that this actually stagnates opportunities for the younger generations as well, since the older can't dislodge themselves from their current jobs without retiring.

Though the pastiches of Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline aren't unappreciative, Mr. Rauschenberg has never displayed an affinity for oil paint — he can't pick up a brush without swaddling it in irony.

While this drawing is a cutting and satirical look at the art world, it is not without humor and irony.

They may seem flippant, childish, and just plain stoned, but without a trace of irony, not the least mockery of the icons of America.

Not without a certain irony, the artist demonstrates the tragedy of eternal return.

But can't there be a painting that is expressive and personal without ego, and without self - detracting irony and whimsy?

The irony of the inappropriate laughter signals defiance to what Deleuze describes as a modern conception of «the law,» which «defines a realm of transgression where one is already guilty, and where one oversteps the bounds without knowing what they are... Even guilt and punishment do not tell

We do not let pass without notice the deep irony of calling free education shortsighted while the average trade of financial equity brokers lasts a matter of microseconds.

Not without a touch of irony, the title alludes to the famous pop song by the British group Queen and underscores how very important performativity is in contemporary art.

Though Second Nature may slip out from under the Age of Irony's canopy, the show is still full of witty surprises and inexplicable diversions — without these, the exhibition wouldn't be human.

It's a bitter irony that Bush's «pro-market» stance on this isn't really pro-markets at all; it only gives one industry a license to work without accountability at its own expense and at everyone else's too.

Ann Althouse thinks the issue is now most appropriately between Congress and the president — an irony she duly notes, since some Democrats in Congress knew of the administration's decision to spy on Americans without a warrant and didn't do a thing.

Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.»

As one CMO put it to me without irony, «Success in a large law firm is all about credibility, which means accepting that we don't often do things the right way, we do them our partners» way, but after about a year of serving their needs you should have built up enough credibility to gently make suggestions, most of which they'll discard, but to survive you can't try to do too much too quickly.»

The irony here is we have advanced from Apes to people who can not live without Apps.