Sentences with phrase «sense of irony»

Sometimes the phrase «Christian love» has an unintended sense of irony about it.

«It seemed like a passing craze», he tells me, with no small sense of irony.

Anyone else with a less advanced sense of irony should however avoid it.

«A battle between good and evil, an attempt to fight against the dark side» he wrote with a tragic sense of irony.

So did Foot's successor, Neil Kinnock, who, later, without any apparent sense of irony, served as a European Commissioner (the graveyard of failed politicians), amassing six pensions.

The sweet dress - up clothes, toys, and more at My Princess Closet remind us that every child likes to feel special and magical — there will be plenty of time to cultivate a jaded sense of irony at graduate school.

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.

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.

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.

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

Having a well developed sense of irony, I spent yesterday afternoon dosed up on Codral (yes, I have a coldy thing now), lying on the couch, watching He's Just Not That Into You and fretting about my cervix.

The artist brings to the fore grotesque and paradoxical traits through a sharp yet melancholic sense of humour coupled with a strong sense of irony.

If you had a better sense of irony you would have named your blog «Zeus» Eagle», not let on to what the reference was, and merrily gone on pecking at the livers of those whose research falisified your opinions.

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

Peter Berger, with his Viennese sense of irony, did not run for office.

Not to be lost in this attempt at continual redescription of ourselves is an abiding sense of irony that our starting - point in language is largely the result of historical factors and our feelings of solidarity have no basis beyond that of our own subjective experience.

And this made it all the more striking (and perhaps indicative of the divine sense of irony) that the collapse of totalitarianism as a plausible political model came in 1989, two hundred years after the Jacobin fire had first melted men's minds and consciences in the name of a false idea of freedom....

Kiefer is a salient example of the way in which modern culture has generally lost its sense of sin and thus has fallen prey either to a Kieferesque self - consuming sense of irony and pessimism, on the one hand, or, on the other, to the shallow bourgeois denial of tragedy which Kiefer set himself to puncture.

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.»

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.

Americans are chastised, often wrongly, for possessing a scant sense of irony, so I mean it as no criticism whatsoever of The Kids Are All Right to point out that the title of Lisa Cholodenko's wonderful film is altogether un-ironic.

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

There's a poetic sense of irony there, being murdered by weapon he used to murder others.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

In his painted and sculpted saga, Two Feathers invites viewers through tales of woe and into bloody battles, introduces them to traitorous heroes and lost loves, and amuses them with his wit, humor, and biting sense of irony.

The same year Penguin published a monograph on his work by the critic Christopher Finch, whose description of Caulfield as a «Romantic disarmed by his own sense of irony» was never bettered.

Commenting critically on painting's role as both commercial enterprise and intimate act, he imbued his work with — in the words of art critic Carlo McCormick — «a devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity.»

«The sculptures invite admiration with their solid presence, their clearly defined forms, their naturally styled decorative features, their exquisitely finished surfaces, their total command of the medium, and indeed their ability to convey the artist's subtle sense of irony.»

Kippenberger, on the other hand, has this fantastic sense of irony where you are never quite sure if he is being sincere or really toying with you.

With Johns, it's important to remember that his elegant sense of irony is an essential element in his artistic identity — offsetting the portentousness of the Abstract Expressionists who preceded him.

YBA is the world's most vibrant artistic movement, characterised by an unmatched sense of irony.

Colescott's work addresses racial tensions usually with a wry sense of irony.

Taken primarily from the 1970s and»80s, the works in the exhibition offer a portrait of the artist: an adventurer with an idiosyncratic vision, a quick sense of irony, and a populist approach to artistic practice.

AxelD, It really is a pity that you don't have a sufficient sense of irony to see how ridiculous it is for you to proclaim science to be damaged over a medium that exists precisely because science works.

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

Bradley is a master story teller in the tradition of the Ashinaabe trickster Naanabozho; guided by his astute powers of observation and a keen sense of irony he creates vividly detailed paintings of delight and wonder.

His work is also inherently autobiographical, balanced by a sly sense of irony and humor, which allows the viewer to identify with his imagery.

Agar, who died in 1991, is due a revision: her strong sense of irony and lyrical use of colour undermine the historical view of her simply as a surrealist.

Turns out, the sense of irony was intentional.

Humor requires some distance, some sense of irony, some sense even that we may be mistaken.