Sentences with phrase «often ironic»

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

Martial Raysse increasingly used the vocabulary of pop commercial graphics with often ironic subjects from classical painting.

James Young, in his book At Memory's Edge, describes these changes as «a metamorphosis of the monument from the heroic, self - aggrandizing figurative icons of the late nineteenth century celebrating national ideals and triumphs to the anti-heroic, often ironic, and self - effacing conceptual installations.»

An explosion of colours, stories and characters that, thanks to the brilliant and often ironic visual language of Rementer, immerses us in lively and surreal imagery.

Characterised by wit and an often ironic sensibility, Bruce McLean's work has employed a range of media since the late 1960s.

Revitalizing the traditional genre of still life, Janet Fish creates impressive pieces that reveal the formal and conceptual potentials of the unexpected and often ironic blend of different common objects seen in changing lights.

Many of them struggled to address social and political issues exclusively, describing through signs, symbols and process, their conceptions of anti-art, and anti-form, in a detached, impersonal and often ironic way.

I found the moody interludes between acts — smoky jazz numbers, often ironic in context, sung by Diana Reeves — a mite self - conscious.

Carver's stories are equally low - key: Typically, some random occurrence leads the protagonist not, as in James Joyce, to a hifalutin existential epiphany, but rather to a bittersweet moment of often ironic clarity.

* 2 a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on * bitter, caustic, * and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual.»

Technologies have unintended, undesired, and often ironic effects.

Its heightened, often ironic attention to the past has served to impress upon society the importance of having a retrospective view of things.

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That's a necessary function, since asking such questions is to the benefit of everyone, but the ironic downside of it is that the questions themselves can often shape expectations.

The first person to go home for the day often received ironic applause.

The ironic part of the «Christians being persecuted by evil» argument is that the Evangelical's that often make this claim are some of the most wicked and vile people that walk the face of the earth.

But what is ironic about the sovereignty of God is that while God's people often pay lip service to His sovereignty, we just as often live as if God was not sovereign.

What an ironic stmt to hear from someone that represents the side that too often equates the character of a person with the kind of church they attend and how often they are in the pew.

It's the battle cry of our generation, often expressed publicly with ironic clothing and accessories, or more privately with heart - to - heart conversations over coffee and other things we love.

It's a bit ironic because the best of christianity is often seen in rebels like Martin Luther, Menno Simons who were leaders in the reformation.

I think it's ironic how Christians often imply, isn't it wonderful that grace is based on faith, not works?

The situation is especially ironic because AMIA often uses invocations of the Rwandan genocide to its advantage.

Hi Sam, as to the «dashboard»... I always thought it ironic that over the years people have sustained injuries, often to an eye, when they have a car accident and get stabbed by Jesus or Mary on their dash.

One must, surely, chuckle with delight at the wonderfully ironic thought of the physical overlap of all those deliberately liturgically impoverished South coast dioceses with all those currently Anglo - Catholic parishes, soon to be safely in the Catholic Church but barricaded against the local Catholic bishop within their ordinariate, South coast parishes so renowned for reverent, sumptuous and utterly numinous liturgy, often with wonderful music sung by professional choirs, and glorious antique vestments, saved from the scrap heap as they were thrown out ofCatholic churches by the Spirit - of - Vatican - ll.

Perhaps it is not so ironic as I once thought that, that which can be too hard to do we often find so easy to judge.

His verse was brilliant, ironic, often funny, wide - ranging in its reference — equally at home in the worlds of Anglo - Saxon heroic poetry and the technology of mining — and sometimes....

Umm, isn't that a little ironic since xanthan gum is often the primary binder in gluten free (wheat free) baking?

I'm kidding, but only kind of, which is the best way to kid, because I can both inform you about WWE Fastlane as planned while also hiding behind ironic detachment as often as I have to.

Isn't it ironic that when a striker moves from being a big player at a small club, they more often than not become a small player at a big club?

He is pointing out, in an ironic way, our often delusional obsession with particular players and quick - fix answers to whatever problem AFC may be experiencing at any one time.

The announcement comes the same day that the Chelsea front office gave Mourinho the dreaded «public vote of confidence» — an ironic public statement that more often than not has spelled the end for many elite manager's tenures.

It is somewhat ironic that the two most important things in a father's life (his health and his families) are also the two things he most often takes for granted, neglecting them and then regretting it later on.

During my subsequent pregnancies I have often felt like «I should» being doing this or «I should» be feeling that, which I find ironic.

(Isn't it ironic that a material that lasts forever in the environment is so often made into single - use disposable products?)

The Tribunal was full of ironic observations on politics and the war, while the absurdity of government decisions often made it easy for them.

I don't think there should be any subjects that, I know, religion tends to be kind of the elephant in the room very often, and when you start debating those kinds of things, but I'm always up for a conversation; which I think is the most important thing to remember, when you're having a discussion — with gigantic ironic quotes around it, a «conversation with someone» — is to make it a conversation, not falling into the trap of thinking the person you're talking to is an idiot, because they might believe something idiotic.

It's ironic that my cover for these more philosophical interests was cosmology, a field that has often been seen as flaky as well.

Because sci - fi authors are often dismissed as unrealistic romantic dreamers, I find it ironic that most sci - fi and scientific writing about space settlement now appears too pessimistic in the light of AI.

In many cases, the ironic cause of these type of heartburn or gastroesophageal reflux disorder (GERD) issues is inadequate HCl production (also known hypochlorhydria)-- often combined with bacterial overgrowth, lack of digestive enzymes and carbohydrate.

It's an ironic association, since hypothyroidism is often linked to iodine deficiency,

It's ironic that looking for weight loss information on - line involves sitting in front of a computer, and sitting in front of computer involves expending very little energy and (more often than not) it also involves some amount of passive eating.

Cultured, super photographed and ironic (said laughing as often is mistaken for Anna Wintour), Linda Fargo loves fur.

It's ironic, but because of cheap fabrication and construction, apparel from those chains tend to often require hand washing (which is so obnoxious); although with proper care even items that cost $ 9.99 from Forever 21 can keep for a long time!

There's nothing very clever about the staging, and the whole killers - in - ironic - smiling - masks thing has been done so often that it has lost just about all its nightmare creep value.

It's often very funny, but periodically Deadpool 2 has to drop the ironic facade and shoot for real emotion, and here it stumbles.

Festival organiser Michael Eavis is a constant ironic presence, his beard in various states of disarray depending on the year.Although the soundtrack is superb, the film is too long and the lack of factual context often makes you wonder just what you are watching and when.

It is slightly ironic, but persistence often meets great reward.

The mockumentary format is at least an attempt to do something fresh in the animated film world, but mockumentaries are only really funny because they mirror real life in an ironic, satirical fashion, often featuring comedians employing a naturalistic ad - lib delivery.

Although demonstrably dark in tone, there is enough to lighten the mood with often self - aware and intentionally ironic humour within that provides counterpoint to the tragi - heroic events in which Ray and Ken are caught up.

She talks often in «Insurgent» about how coincidental and ironic it is that Tris (Shailene Woodley) is, once again, the main Divergent making her life miserable.

Too often, indie film is defined either by a jaded, ironic sensibility or an impenetrable, intellectualized alienation, and there was plenty of both on display in Park City.