Such theatrical thuggishness may have been effective in the era of backroom shakedowns and party bosses, but today's politics is
suffused with irony and live - cast on Twitter — and tough - guy threats are more likely to get mocked than they are to make delegates and congressmen cower in fear.
Not exact matches
A melodrama so
suffused with emotion, so ripe
with sincerity and
irony, so bountiful in color and design that it was remade beautifully not only by Fassbinder but also by Todd Haynes.
This group's thirst for nonconformist epistemologies is
suffused with an appetite for
irony quite capable of accepting the adoption of questionable tendencies, like white supremacy, as instances of banal posturing or jaded affectation.