Sentences with phrase «of irony today»

In a twist of irony today, my concerns are still valid today as they were when I first launched buyer personas.

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There is irony that many of the advances made in rocketry that even allow us to reach space today came from the government - controlled projects led by Wernher von Braun.

Acknowledging the great irony that today's aspiring entrepreneurs are doing exactly the opposite of what Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg and all other great entrepreneurs and executives they strive to emulate did to get where they are today, Steve Tobak delivers some truth:

Like I have said — the irony here is that Goatse Coin has a better idea, a stronger brand and a better team than 99 percent of the ICOs out there today.

The irony is painful, though, that the same legal power to defend the rights of former slaves in an attempt to rectify the sin is being used today to justify killing children in their mothers» wombs.

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.

Perhaps the central irony is that already mentioned: the groups that were expected then to lose to the powers of modernity look today like winners.

Though irony is not often used today as a method for theological inquiry and challenge, I would love to see it implemented more, as it makes for great reading while at the same time making powerful and pointed thelogical critiques of one's opponents.

Sontag's celebration of camp, with its fundamentally amoral vision («the victory of «style» over «content,» «aesthetics» over «morality,» «irony» over «tragedy»»), has gone hand - in - hand with the triumph of pop culture, the decay of standards, and the sort of blithe nihilism that dominates much of academia today.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

The irony is that Irish culture is today increasingly a blend of America and Britain.

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.»

6, Philip Yancey, «The Ironies and Impact of PTL,» Christianity Today, September 21, 1979, p. 33.

The irony of celebrating the King James Version is that it was intended to bring the word of God to the masses and yet its vocabulary and syntax are foreign to most English speakers today.

This is the irony of autumn, yesterday I was stewing summer gems like tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini and today I'm making a rich braised beef.

The great irony of vaccine success is that parents today are unfamiliar with the diseases they prevent.

Such theatrical thuggishness may have been effective in the era of backroom shakedowns and party bosses, but today's politics is suffused with irony and live - cast on Twitter — and tough - guy threats are more likely to get mocked than they are to make delegates and congressmen cower in fear.

The irony today, of course, is that many of the gains of that era have unravelled as child poverty has started to move in the wrong direction again.

The marketing of energy drinks as revitalizing, hydrating energy - boosters full of nourishing vitamins is one of the greatest ironies in the food business today, since they actually contain an incredible amount of sugar and are not healthy for your organism on so many levels.

The irony of children's clothes being made by children never ceases to amaze & disgust me so it's with great pleasure that I'm throwing the spotlight on Mayoral today.

And, um... speaking of rain... today's little irony?

The greatest irony, though, is that even in disgrace and defeat, she is far better remembered today than any of her other rivals

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.

In Carl Matheson «s early aughties piece on the humour of TVs The Simpsons, he talks about something he calls hyper - irony: «The flavor of humor offered by today's comedies is colder, based less on a shared sense of humanity than on a sense of world - weary cleverer - than - thou - ness.»

Unusually for what is a conventional Hollywood product (and perhaps for legal reasons) the film often lets the audience fill in blanks with odd narrative ellipses and remarks from characters that inevitably, and with a profoundly sad irony, hint at the state of McDonald's today.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

The irony is that if these districts had used SGPs for just 1 % of their teachers» evaluations after the December of 2014 hearing, their teachers» SGPs would be confidential today.

The irony of this decision is that Apple's actions actually helped to open the e-book market and to reduce Amazon's monopoly from a 90 % market share in 2009 to around 67 % today.

The irony is people don't realize when I review a site today and point of mistakes or issues that the reason I spot them is that I made many of those same mistakes myself in the past.

What we're saying is, is that the value of a company has to do with the current and future profits discounted back at an appropriate rate and then wtih a tone of irony, we are saying hypothetically what would it take for that theory to be wrong and advancing the way that we think some investors are investing today; and we think ultimately this is a temporary phenomenon time to time when value investing gets out of focus, people question, hey, is this ever going to work again... I think over time, this is going to revert and value investing which historically has been a terrific strategy is due at some point for a significant recovery».

Beyond the celebrity, though, the Vick dogs were — and today continue to be — champions for every dog trapped in dogfighting misery who finally gets rescued, only to face the bitter irony of a policy that deems them deserving only death.

Think first of irony, feminism, or theory — with an influence on artists of the male and female gaze like Andrea Fraser and Hannah Starkey today?

Schnabel's work from 1979 and 1980 may once have seemed the ultimate in empty spectacle, in its mix of Neo-Expressionism and irony, but it looks more prescient in the explosion of painting today.

From his text insults before Christopher Wool and Richard Prince to irony as an end in itself, he anticipated much of painting today.

With irony and provocation, Cosima von Bonin thus makes laziness — simultaneously a vice and a dream in today's times in which every minute counts — the leitmotif of an exhibition cycle that has more to do with manic production and hyperactivity than with idleness and indolence.

The title was taken from a piece by featured artist Julia Wachtel — it reflects the larger theme of the show, exploring the irony of art world glamour contrasted with the often isolating experience of being a female artist working today.

The recent paintings are imbued with irony and make vivid the strangeness of being alive today.

There's always an irony or two in the daily news, and today is no exception: Greenland, the world's largest island, is suffering from the effects of global warming at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe (except for Antarctica).

One of today's ironies is that those of us living in democracies too often look to government and the multilateral system to answer the world's problems instead of taking action ourselves.

There's always an irony or two in the daily news, and today is no exception: Greenland, the world's largest island, is suffering from the effects of global warming at about twice the rate of the rest of the globe (except for

In a cruel twist of irony, today, the atonement that Minidoka Monument represents is threatened by a so - called «farm.»

Today, the irony is that the very people who are calling President Trump a tyrant, dictator, and fascist are the same people trying to take away the gun rights of Americans.

I read this press release on the European Parliament website today I was wondering if anyone else appreciated the irony of the Civil Liberties Committee approving a regulation which makes it easier to confiscate assets internationally «even if they are not the direct proceeds of crime», «even if they belong to a third party» and «even if there is no conviction».

The sad irony of native title is that where the dispossession of Indigenous people through colonial and modern development has been most thorough, brutal and systematic, the less likely it is that the traditions and customs practiced today by the descendants of those affected will be recognised and protected as native title rights.

The irony of that is not lost on me, but I'm not letting that deter me from bringing spring into my kitchen today.