Sentences with phrase «of ironic humor»

Yesterday was a perfect day, full of fun and even a bit of ironic humor.

Killing Floor: Incursion is a bit more story - driven than the other games in the franchise and happily, all the gore and violence is countered by a sense of ironic humor, largely in the form of the companion voice that guides the player and comments on the action.

It's more of a drama that has elements of ironic humor and thriller elements that feel like they come from the works of Dostoyevsky (indeed, «Crime and Punishment» gets a nod in the course of the film).

The Coens» twisted sense of ironic humor is present throughout Intolerable Cruelty, but it doesn't support anything worthwhile.

The story is familiar but the combination of ironic humor and touching pathos (and a terrific cast) keep us engaged.122 minutes.

There's some cinematic sleight - of - hand that allows Ferrell to sell Megamind's ethically - challenged personality disguised inside Ferrell's signature off - kilter brand of ironic humor.

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I'm a big proponent of humor, but why attempt funny or ironic if no one will get the joke?

The words are neither a salutation nor an attempt at ironic humor, but the fulfillment of a promise.

Unitarian Universalists are not oblivious to the ironic humor of their association.

There is a note of brutal, ironic humor here.

There's even a «Luxus» version («for those very special moments in life»), a prime example of Berlin ironic humor: a whole sausage with a piece of gold leaf draped over the top, surrounded by a pool of Currywurst sauce on a white china plate and accompanied by a glass of Sekt (German sparkling wine).

Besides the fact that most humor comes from some inappropriate pairing of themes («A priest, a rabbi and a prostitute walk into a bar...»), it's always ironic to me to see a group of right - wingers freaking out about some creative endeavor that doesn't bother to take Christianity or some other part of Traditional America seriously, when they also freaked out about Muslims freaking out over cartoons about the Prophet.

Re»... now that it is advanced, it's already Socialist...», there seems to be a rather ironic humor in the fact that China started out backwards and Communist (or nearly so), and sheds aspects of Communism / Socialism as it advances.

The sentimentality, of which there is plenty, is nicely balanced by a humor of ironic pragmatism, as when Ray, having built his baseball field as a monument to human dreams, decides to charge tourists $ 20 a head to visit it.

It really takes someone with visual flair, a love of the medium, and a self - ironic sense of humor.

It certainly has its jokes, including a pointless opening sequence that seems to exist only for a punch line and a horse thief whose sole purpose is to provide ironic humor, but most if not all of this dialogue needs to be delivered with tongue firmly in cheek.

It combines some of the antagonist focus of «Maniac» with the impostor conceit of «Maniac Cop,» but with none of the Freudian depth of the former or the ironic humor of the latter.

It isn't the wry, ironic humor that Kevin Williamson helped make a staple of modern horror, just something to ease (but not break) the tension.

Eventually, the realistic nature of Sweeney's horror and the ironic humor that is coupled with it gets tied in with the traditions of the Grand Guignol.

The ironic humor amid all the bizarre antics of Wheatley's High Rise, was that films only positive.

The result is Murder at Cape Foulweather, a self - published novel with attitude, a twised sense of humor and some ironic twists.

Most of the future story is written in «Mokni (combining cockney slang, text messaging and London cabby slang) which, when read phonetically, is not only easy to comprehend but filled with ironic humor.

Look Mickey is notable for its ironic humor and aesthetic value as well as being the first example of the artist's employment of speech balloons, comic imagery and Ben - Day dots — a system used in mass - circulation printed sources such as comics, newspapers, and billboards — as a source for a painting.

But of course the incontrovertible sensuality of Wesselmann's nudes was constantly accompanied by an ironic guiding thread that was cleat,» revealed in the artist's own words: «Painting, sex, and humor are the most important things in my life» (interview with I. Sandler, 1984).

«Pure Beauty» seems a funny name for a retrospective of an artist who cremated all his paintings in 1970 and voided the photographed faces of dozens of Hollywood starlets with signature colored spots, but of course an unsettlingly ironic humor runs through Baldessari's career.

The pairing of these two artists, instigated by Green Gallery co-owner Jake Palmert, acknowledges that while the artists have, on the surface, a divergent aesthetic they share a deeper kinship in their use of language, humor, color and a shared attraction to (and ironic suspicion of) abstraction.

The artist even created a series of fake abstract expressionist paintings out of decorating fabric to contribute to the ironic humor of the piece.

John Dodds, your simple view of ocean acidification either mocks your inteligence or is your ironic humor at work.

Yes a very ironic sense of humor.