Sentences with phrase «sense of irony when»

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.

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It's not just the title of Martin Scorsese's brilliant, excruciating tale of artistic delusion, The King of Comedy, that retrospectively takes on a sense of tragic irony when viewed in the context of its star's career.

That makes for tricky territory, particularly when the script has been written by two experts in irony, masters of the put - down, the snigger and the snub, RG and his partner (in, I'm pretty sure, the non-sexual sense) Stephen Merchant, now graduated from co-writing The Office to be an actor as Andy Millman's agent.

All of it is written — overly peppered with her unique insertion of pop - culture references and strange slang — by Cody with a sense of detached irony that feels dishonest, especially when director Karyn Kusama tries to inject subtle bits of humanity into it, which in turn feel dishonest because of the overall tone.

The film's wittier bits indicate Anna's sense of situational irony, like when she misleads a woman at Kate's party by giving her morbidly incorrect details about her sitcom's new season.

A common error amongst simple minded ideologues, whose sense of irony deserts them when attempting social analysis.