Sentences with phrase «own ironic way»

It's thought to be an ironic way for a speaker to say two things at once.

In an unintended and sadly ironic way, the mass shootings actually contribute to the industry's financial success.

It is actually quite funny in an ironic way that the fundamentalist right who have been notably intolerant are now endorsing a Mormon.

Dunham has presented the young with images of an ironic way of life — a way of life that ultimately will prove inadequate.

It is somewhat ironic the way Luke begins his account here because from the outset, it appears that God has not kept one of His promises.

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.

But looking back, the Abu Dhabi crash was a pretty ironic way for his career to have come to an end.

The Spring Breakers honorary award for achievement in utilizing catchy, modern tracks in extremely ironic ways goes to American Honey this year.

You might want to use the Jonas Brothers, because Zach was talking about [them], you might want to use that and what it associates with, in an ironic way or not, so it just depends.

Even the soundtrack of Deadpool can only appreciate music in a post-modern ironic way.

A few snips here and there, and a reduction in running time of at least twenty minutes, may benefit I Saw The Light's overall feel, because, as it stands, the film, in a very ironic way, is the complete opposite of the subject matter it is trying to portray.

We know from the onset what will happen: the Warlock will kill that character in an ironic way but not before tossing off a clever one - liner.

Where the first 1969 film contrasted the lonesome blues of a hopeful Texan gigolo with the period psychedelia of NYC, «Locusts» was steeped in 1930's jazz, all the better to convey moral collapse in a romantically ironic way.

While I regret the incident at our TEACH Conference, in an ironic way, it has given me and the AFT the opportunity to promote our belief in working in partnership with anyone who wants to help improve public education.

I didn't cover it for The Speaker - Sentinel, because I was at the funeral for my own reasons, but I helped one of our young staff members who did, the high school intern who arrived underdressed in her own ironic way and probably had no idea of half the personages she was looking at.

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.

In a kind of ironic way, being drawn to good - old fashioned painting on canvas gave her a lot of space, a lot of freedom to explore ideas,» said Scott Rothkopf, the Whitney Museum's chief curator and organizing curator of this exhibition.

Deconstructing the usual chain reaction of actions and facts, and judging and analysing it in a playful and ironic way, Cvijanovic and Moudov underline the ambiguity of the real, and the inadequacy of our instruments of interpretation.

For better or worse, the work fits right in with 47 Canal's stable of artists (Josh Kline, Ajay Kurian, and Anicka Yi); like those artists, BFFA3AE manipulates and combines generic products (like mylar balloons with Disney Characters, soap dispensers, and seaweed snack packs) in witty, slightly ironic ways.

«If you were making paintings,» she says, «you'd do it in an ironic way, or you would talk about how it was wrong to make paintings.

In the central monumental piece of the show the artist has recreated a ready - to consume iceberg made of found - recyclable materials as an ironic way to depict how easily we can reduce the manifestation of centuries of life into a packages digestible visual concept.

This tightly conceived show engages in subversive, mostly ironic ways with gender politics and notions of national allegiance.

In his latest body of work that will soon be on view at Die Kunstagentin, Jim Avignon deals with the internet in a cheeky and ironic way.

For their second exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Allora & Calzadilla have developed a group of works that address «figures of speech» in literal, metaphorical and ironic ways.

It's a common enough defense that unravels in rather ironic ways.

Not exact matches

It's more than a little ironic that Facebook (fb), which has become a powerful media entity, is controlled in much the same way through multiple - voting shares owned by Mark Zuckerberg and his family.

The ad was meant «to elicit reactions on the global travesty of child labour in an ironic, humorous way.»

I do find it a bit ironic that you would tell me to «Let people deal with their problems their way,» and yet you tell me how to deal with my problem of opinionation.

The pope himself offers little in the way of encouragement to resist a convenient fusion of Catholic and bourgeois life, an ironic but predictable outcome given the tenor of his papacy so far.

By the way, take a trip down South; EVERY OTHER billboard is either a direct quote from the Bible or an advertisement for a local church (that last one sure is ironic, isn't it?).

This person obviously thinks this bumper - sticker nibblet of thought is in some way ironic, intelligent, biting, whatever...

The media led the way with the error, which was really ironic considering we were talking about a generation that was now even deprived of the label created to describe it.

To me the most ironic of all are the ones who think God wanted a human blood sacrifice, and the only possible way to get on God's good side is to acknowledge that.

I am suspicious of the way an ironic outlook lyricizes the dull, given matter of life.

Ironic how such a smart mind goes to the simpler way of thinking.

That Murdoch can not find a way to accept this God who sees and seeks (who redeems), but instead embraces an impersonal and probably fictional Good, makes it ironic - perhaps contradictory would not be too strong a word - that she would conclude her book with these words from Psalm 139 (in the Authorized Version, of course):

Our problem, he says, is not that we have become urbanized but that we have built our cities in such a way as to sacrifice our relation to nature for the sake of urban values; and the ironic result is that for most of their inhabitants our cities no longer provide even urban values.

Coming closest to that outlook is probably someone like Walter Cronkite, who, with good heart and human fellowship, displayed the world's anomalies — starving children, wars, and crimes — and then concluded his show with ironic summary: «That's the way it is.»

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

Ironic that they stick with no Sunday games to support the (presumably) majority Christian schools, but with all the talk about Judeo - Christian heritage, they can't find a way to compromise for this team.

Most ironic part of all of this is that the group (young adults) that appear to have come out in force to get him re-elected, are the ones that will be paying for this decision (in more ways than one) for the rest of their lives...

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

And can we finally kill the juvenile, ironic, and way over-used «Seriously?»

Kind or ironic when people who think the universe was designed for the sole purpose of God planning to have a relationship with them accuse people of being arrogant because they claim science is a better way to understand the natural world.

It is ironic, in this way, that the two most pronounced promoters of community in Harvard's life in the «Golden Age» of Harvard philosophy were both loners.

Unless we are to suspect Austen of a hyper - ironic stance where Austen's lack of irony toward Fanny is a way of reinforcing irony, then we should accept at face value that Austen considers Fanny morally and intellectually exemplary.

They can shape their fiction any way they want, we won't be paying any attention to it — and it's really ironic that the GOP wants us to forget Bush2, so he ain't to be seen, and they want us to forget the thousands of Americans left to suffer and die in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina — and another hurricane is looming again due to hit poor New Orleans.

How ironic that atheism defends itself for not having done anything out of hate and yet millions of sheep condemn people's choices and ways of living with a set of beliefs.

In some contemporary painters, these profoundly religious themes may now be expressed in ironic and convoluted ways.

And what's ironic is that I'm so bothered because Jesus actually challenges me to not only care for the souls of all humanity, but to feed the hungry, aid the sick, regard the stranger, visit the prisoner, and love my neighbor in tangible ways.»