Sentences with phrase «noted irony of»

As I drifted off to sleep, I noted the irony of a first class lounge being far less comfortable than my airline seat.

Michael from Go, See, Write noted the irony of TBEX panelists encouraging bloggers to be more professional — because, he felt, the conference itself was disorganized and unprofessional.

It's an oft - noted irony of the confrontation in Chicago that Mayor Rahm Emanuel sends his children to the private, $ 20,000 - a-year University of Chicago Lab School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to reform.

A Spanish - speaking reader noted the irony of this get - together, given the definition of «Abrazo Boricua» is «Puerto Rican embrace,» adding: «I wonder if the two will actually embrace each other tonight.»

He also noted the irony of so many premillenialists, convinced that civilization will steadily decline until the second coming of Christ working for all the world (as it were) like postmillennialists intent on bringing in the kingdom through hard, faithful effort.

Finally, there is the globally noted irony of exhibiting the imported superhit, Gandhi, before segregated audiences.

«Few people have noted the irony of the appeals by the police to parents to «contact their children».

A number of Facebook users noted the irony of the ad, commenting that the app itself was probably created by tech bros (it was) and that the ad likely appeared in the feeds of «techies» on Facebook (it has).

The Sign of Peace is shown to derive from the Lord's «Peace be with you» on Easter night (Stravinskas notes the irony of contemporary disagreements about giving it).

One might also note the irony of using ideas that are undeniably constructs of Western culture» solidarity, anti-imperialism, self - esteem, the universal family of humankind, respect for pluralism» to condemn the influence of Western culture.

A week after the Lions were haunted by a controversial refereeing decision in a game with the Cowboys, they couldn't help but note the irony of the infamous Johnson ruling hurting the Cowboys:

A reader forwarded this photo of Trump Palace, an apartment building on the Upper East Side (69th Street), which is where Blakeman hangs hit hat, noting the irony of the fact that the face is, well, rather light in color.

A reader could not help but noting the irony of this statement from state Democratic Party Chairman Jay Jacobs in response to former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno's conviction on federal corruption charges back in May 2010:

But Fox News host Jeanine Pirro would not be one of those noting the irony of Palin's position.

Indeed, «Creation» drily and darkly notes the irony of Darwin's faith in science, which so clumsily and stupidly dealt with his daughter's condition (not specified, but diagnosed by historians as scarlet fever or tuberculosis).

I couldn't help noting the irony of your recent editorial on the last days of climate - change denial appearing shortly after Mitt Romney announced his decision not to run for the White House in 2016 («Last gasp for climate change denial?»

(Note the irony of E complaining at RC that he is too busy because of his day job to join the discussion at CA).

Ryan discusses the death of Osama Bin Laden; Ryan reviews the economic news of the week; Ryan notices the correlation between increased home sales and interest rate drops; Louis notes we can't expect the housing market to be supported by further decreases in rates as they are already near historic lows; Ryan explains that interest rates change once every four hours; Ryan notes the difference between getting a quote and being locked in to an interest rate; Ryan advises the importance of keeping in touch with your mortgage lender; Louis notes that interest rates change a lot faster than home prices; Ryan notes that the consumer confidence was up, Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's decision to keep interest rates where they are and to continue the $ 600 billion QE2 program; Ryan and Louis discuss the Fed's view that inflation is nascent; Louis notes that not only does the Fed not see inflation that exists but disclaims any responsibility for it; Louis asserts that there is a correlation between oil prices and Fed policy; Louis discusses Ben Bernanke's assertion that the Fed can't control oil prices but that they somehow can control the impact of higher oil prices on the rest of the economy; Louis also remarks on Bernanke's view of the dollar - the claim that a strong dollar can be achieved through the Fed's current policy as it is their belief that they are creating a sound economy and therefore a sound dollar; Louis notes the irony of the Fed chastising Congress» spendthrift ways — if the Fed did not monetize the debt, Congress could» nt spend; Louis noted that as Bernanke spoke the prices of gold and silver rose as it seemed that the Fed has no interest in cutting off the easy money; the current Fed policy will keep interest rates low; Ryan notes that the Fed knows that they can't let interest rates rise because of the housing mess; Louis notes that the Fed has a Hobson's Choice - either keep rates low or let interest rates rise and cut off the recovery.

Not exact matches

As an aside, the irony might be lost on you that, despite the fact that so many atheists here are so quick to note that believers do not have a monopoly on morals, you are essentially proving the point of believers that, from a historical perspective, atheists far more than believers have lacked morals vis - a-vis war and death.

«15 In his «Notes on Virginia» of 1781 Jefferson foresaw a future «total emancipation» but was not insensitive to the irony of a people fighting for its own freedom keeping another in subjection.

On Friday, LifeSiteNews.com made note of the fact that this regional bullfight ban was passed into law just as Spain's new, more liberal abortion law is coming into effect, and that «the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers.»

It might be noted that there is an excruciating irony to Jesus, the most popular personality of all - time, saying, «that which is highly esteemed by men, is an abomination in the sight of God.»

The irony of the irrepressible conflict has been noted again and again by students of the War Between the States and its aftermath (which is hardly over in 1976).

Certainly they are; and he who has understood this (but not, be it noted, in the sense of the first sort of understanding) is initiated into all the secret mysteries of irony.

Jesus» reply has a note of irony.

He said he would immediately lose his job, and went on to say as far as he's concerned, everyone is welcome at our church, and noted the irony in the church motto in light of current events.

The women's silence leaves us on the note of irony, summing up the whole story.

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

This Mass was begun five years ago at the initiative of a young priest returning from studies in Rome, who noted with no small amount of irony that it seems the only Mass one can not find anywhere is the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite as it is envisioned by the current Missale Romanum.

As Christianity Today notes, there was one large piece of irony in the research: A higher percentage of white evangelicals agreed with this question than American Muslims: «It is often or sometimes justified to target and kill civilians in order to further a political, social, or religious cause.»

He notes the irony that the Confederacy, in order to save republicanism as it had come to understand it, transformed its own government into a more vigorous and more comprehensive agent of control than Washington had ever been when it seemed to threaten so directly the liberties of South Carolina and its sister slaveholding states.

I just want to note the irony that the only place I think I've ever heard of adding heavy cream to an egg scramble came from a healthy - themed Mexican cookbook... and let's not forget the deep fried tortilla strips.

Thorn said those estimates don't include the National Guard, which he says adds a note of irony to Trump signing the ban on the day Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas.

It is a sad irony that at the same time as Zaraska notes the value of urban trees in dealing with pollutants, a council contractor in Sheffield, UK, is busy cutting down hundreds of trees in the city streets.

He's long noted the irony that while trackers have deep knowledge of animals and ecology, many are excluded from science because they can not read or write.

After all, notes primatologist John Robinson of the Wildlife Conservation Society, «it would be the ultimate irony to lose a species this unique so soon after we have discovered it.»

«I had a hilarious back and forth with one of the Norwegian conference participants who noted that the region is now the arch-conservative religious stronghold in Norway, and he appreciated the irony of my demon - conjurer class.»

One of his friends, who did not want to be named in this article, noted the terrible irony of this: that the man responsible for bringing so many together could have left the world so alone.

Filmgoers lucky enough to have seen James Marsh's deeply moving 2008 documentary «Man On Wire» may see «The Walk» as that film's shallower, less elegiac cousin — even if both Marsh and Zemeckis note the grim irony that Petit's free run of the towers would never be possible in the post-9 / 11 security state.

The intentionally unrealistic satire Chinese Roulette takes a scalpel to marriage with a definite intent, however only the final guessing game, which gives the film its name, hits the right note of cruelty, irony and truthfulness.

It's all about the pay - off though, ending as it does on a note of unusually bleak and unexpected despair and irony.

«One of the ironies that I love about this whole thing is that Tommy's acting heroes are my heroes,» Franco notes.

Michael Small's sparse music score nicely reflects this irony in its use of a quick series of falling notes for solo trumpet.

She began her remarks at HGSE by noting the irony that being honored for her teaching has taken her out of her classroom.

That said, one of the biggest ironies I noted was how much of the book's techniques may be, to varying degrees, irrelevant for the jobs of teachers in the future, as online learning continues to grow in blended - learning settings and remakes the learning environments in schools.

Wilhoit noted some irony in the against the Common Core State Standards in some state revolves around the mistaken notion that it is part of a federal takeover of education when CCSSO and the National Governors Association started the common core as a reaction to what was seen as a federal overreach in education based in the No Child Left Behind Act and other federal actions.

Secretary Clinton absolutely did not mean that we should seek to close nearly half the schools in the country, as was almost gleefully reported in a variety of right wing media outlets (who in their normal daily business, it should be noted for irony's sake, are all too happy to bash public schools full of unionized teachers).

David Cantor, in this profile of Trenton's educational inadequacies, notes the irony that «four minutes from the monumental government buildings where deals were formalized, 48 percent of students at Trenton Central High School — West were chronically absent.

On a related note, see this blog post below discussing the irony in Duncan's threatened punishment of California over AB 484 given the Obama Administration's total backtracking on teacher equity.

Noting the irony that I'd wasted most of my battery looking for somewhere to charge up, I set the navigation for CNET's garage to plug into a wall outlet for the night.