Sentences with phrase «strange irony»

On the other hand, in a somewhat strange irony, JetBue is simultaneously letting cyclists bring bikes this month for free!)

It's a strange irony of the «climate change» campaign that its advocates are the ones who deny the existence of climate change — or at least, they deny the existence of climate change in the past.

The strange irony is that teachers who convince many of their students to opt - out are likely to help achieve Cuomo's goal of increasing the share of teachers judged to be low - performing.

It's that strange irony of being surrounded by thousands of people, yet failing to actually connect - everyone seems to be either too busy to break their routines or too stuck in their existing social circles to meet fresh new faces.

There is a strange irony they are now seeking the support of Labour councillors.

There is some really strange irony going in this paragraph.

In one of the stranger ironies, what has given real credence to the alt - meat realm is Big Food's arrival on the scene.

One of the stranger ironies to be found in Hollywood these days is that some of its most resourceful directors use high - tech wizardry and state - of - the - art movie technology to make films that rail against the tyranny of science.

She said she thought of the I - 10 as «a public amphitheater,» which, in one of the stranger ironies of this place, is basically true: despite the stream of blight accumulated over the decades by the freeway's construction, the locals have more or less reclaimed the space, painting murals on the concrete columns, making do with what's there.

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It must live with regenerative awe and wonder in the midst of the strange turnings that transform victory into defeat and defeat into victory; the humbling ironies and the intractable conditions within both people and nature that shatter the best laid plans and destroy the bridges of our hopes.

Fourthly, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, through all the ironies and strange turnings of the human spirit there persists the ineradicable dialectical condition wherein every advance makes possible greater destructiveness, and every gain brings new opportunities and larger temptations.

Irony besets every action of that strange creature man, and we can only wonder that the ecclesiastical Christian should have ceased to speak about damnation in a century in which guilt and damnation have become an overwhelming motif in so many of the most creative expressions of consciousness and experience.

But in the ironies of history (or the strange ways of divine providence) the Ukraine crisis, in which Kirill has been duplicitous and Hilarion mendacious, just might initiate a break in this historic pattern of Orthodoxy playing lap dog to authoritarian power among the eastern Slavs.

And in a strange sense of irony..

In the cruelest irony, the brain damage has given rise to a strange symptom: One of Brady's hands sometimes locks into a clenched fist, physically unable to let go of whatever he's holding onto.

The original film turned suspense levels to 11 by playing with dramatic irony, showing the audience the location of the three strangers far more often than the characters are aware of it.

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.

Like his Doctor Strange, seen here in the Marvel movie «Avengers: Infinity War,» Mr. Cumberbatch's Patrick Melrose is an unusually intelligent man making his way through a dark world of moral peril — albeit armed with vicious wit, bulletproof irony and lots of deadening pharmaceuticals rather than magical orbs.

There is a strange, two - part irony that my most anticipated Assassin's Creed DLC is both free and educational.