Sentences with phrase «own sense of irony»

Turns out, the sense of irony was intentional.

Hauerwas and Lemert both belong to the liberal left» both judge America with little sense of irony» but they read Niebuhr in opposite ways.

That is the tragedy of Niebuhr's sense of irony.

Had her mother possessed a sense of irony, that could have been a wondrous thing.

Second, Arkes» jurisprudence seems to be lost on Prof. Smolin, for he employs — without any sense of irony — many of the fallacies Arkes surgically dismantles in the very book about which Smolin has offered his opinion.

It is as if, in the end, his sense of irony wins out over his liberal sentiments, and he does not want to get involved.

Indeed, it is not in her scholarly skills that the author seems to reveal a rare lapse, but in her sense of irony and incongruity.

Anyone with a sense of irony has to see how many more nonbelievers than believers post on the Religion Blog.

Judging from his pugnacious introduction, he seems to have lost the sense of irony, humor, and humility he prescribes for the rest of us.

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.

Clearly God's sense of irony is a tad darker than I understood.

In its pastoral life the church embodies compassion, sustains a gentle sense of irony, and offers a remarkable witness to the possibilities of holiness in everyday life.

The implication is that adherence to the Beatitudes results either in comedy or tragedy, depending upon your sense of irony.

And in a strange sense of irony..

The sense of irony won't have been lost on Klopp.

Possessed of a sense of irony, the adviser burst into laughter.

He is a man with a lively sense of humour and a great sense of irony who loves having his family and young children around him.»

I don't love fixed rules about dressing at any age, but I would agree there's a danger in anything that smacks of «wannabe» or of trying too hard — Seems the test, once again, is of a certain integrity at the core of one's style... That integrity, though, might include a seriously honed sense of irony about all things, in which case the «wannabe» aspect might be undercut.

Bahrani renders reading passive without any sense of irony, reducing books to a bland MacGuffin.

Ghost Protocol is solid action cinema that thanks to several thrilling, if over long set pieces, plus a healthy sense of irony is almost on a par with the first film.

Anyway, never let it be said that criminals of the future lack a sense of irony.

Half Magic, Heather Graham's feature debut as a writer / director, is a witty, agreeably low - key comedy about Finding Yourself that benefits from a keen sense of irony about Tinseltown.

And then charity becomes their thing, again with no sense of irony at all.

It's not a great movie (one of the characters actually says, «live dangerously» with no sense of irony), but it's fun enough.

Classmate's a she — cute, smart; killer sense of irony.

The latter is especially interesting as it showcases the film with a sly sense of irony.

Fortunately, a tart sense of irony and a second act plot point spins the film's emotional trajectory into an entirely different place, setting the stage for a conclusion that more than rewards our attention.

One might say his melodically lush, often orchestral soundtracks are joined by a sense of irony and wistfulness, no matter if he's playing inside of John Malkovich's head, gloriously riding a gritty old west or haunting a woeful Hollywood director.

Irony has become a dirty word of late, but Solondz's sense of irony verges on the symphonic.

Lustig returns with producer Andrew Garroni on a second yakker that ups the hilarity mainly by demonstrating that the passage of a few years (and perhaps the experience of working on the distribution side) has increased the distance and, at times, sense of irony both have for the film and for Spinell's performance.

And yet Corbucci, who helped define the the amoral tone of the genre in Django, develops a streak of idealism that builds through the film until it blossoms as a defining theme without any sense of irony or insincerity.

At the same time, their work is often characterised by a postmodernist, self - aware sense of irony that undercuts a mythologised view of «American life», even as it enacts that very mythos.

Asked to be the straight man to a running joke about the essential «fakeness» of its world - weary hipster heroes, Amber instead assumes the position of power by announcing that for all the things they — and we, by extension — have seen, she alone will emerge from this with no sense of irony or mordant humanism.

In her words, «I'm rapidly approaching 50» (Elle's deadpan is matched only by her sense of irony — Tomlin has around rounded her third quarter - century.)

Though only occasionally laugh - out - loud funny, a sense of irony and a decidedly quirky tone ensure that the proceedings are amusing while superb acting and conscious character development render it engaging as well.

Not without a sense of irony, Dillabaugh is a mom.

A real sense of irony, then, that the 21st century S1 appears to be FWD only.

They teach you that military people are scum, trash, the lowest of the low — and then they assign Homer's ILIAD just to develop your sense of irony.

Tucked at one end of the building was a concession stand selling drinks, burgers, fries, and — with no apparent sense of irony — chicken fingers.

Robert Kroese's sense of irony was honed growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan — home of the Amway Corporation and the Gerald R. Ford Museum, and the first city in the United States to fluoridate its water supply.

Coffee and a sense of irony see him through new library polices, and help him deal with bad behavior.

Since I had just received this post on the international book market, I felt a small sense of irony when James Purefoy as Mowbray spoke those famous words protesting his exile from the Sceptered Isle.

This is a slightly more positive review than the RPS one which refers to it (With no apparent sense of irony) as one of the worst games John Walker has ever played...

His sense of irony and satire is on display in a section called Hokum, and the exhibition concludes with works Powell describes as «really hot and intense» from the 1950s and early»60s depicting both Chicago and Mexico.

Rothko's Harvard canvases seem, somehow, more tragic and deeper impregnated with a sense of irony and a desire to break free.

Aesthetically Rainer and Pendleton demonstrate a proclivity for deconstructed and fragmented forms, which mine everyday dimensions of life for artistic material, frequently deployed with a sense of irony, and a preference for minimalist expression.

His very choice of materials helped mark him as a lightweight, as did his sense of irony.

His works, which are permeated with a black humour, a sense of irony and the absurd, transform exhibition spaces into giant containers of images, sounds and objects where numerous screens interact with each other.

The Popism artists in Melbourne in the mid-1980s — including Maria Kozic, Phillip Brophy and Peter Tyndall, among others — owe no obvious visual allegiance to Richter's work, but he was conceptually influential, as was his sense of irony.

In her most characteristic work, she combines popular imagery from everyday urban and domestic scenes, sometimes paired with curt texts, to skew otherwise banal images into anxious scenarios infused with a sense of irony and black humor.