Sentences with phrase «tone of irony»

What we're saying is, is that the value of a company has to do with the current and future profits discounted back at an appropriate rate and then wtih a tone of irony, we are saying hypothetically what would it take for that theory to be wrong and advancing the way that we think some investors are investing today; and we think ultimately this is a temporary phenomenon time to time when value investing gets out of focus, people question, hey, is this ever going to work again... I think over time, this is going to revert and value investing which historically has been a terrific strategy is due at some point for a significant recovery».

«I hate sororities and I hate you,» Jamie Lee Curtis says without a tone of irony in her voice.

In this last example it is impossible to miss the tone of irony, and this is something which is often present — more often than the casual reader might suppose.

The New Sincerity features Florian Baudrexel, Colby Bird, Rosy Keyser, Roy McMakin, Julia Rommel, and Fabrice Samyn, artists whose work «assumes tones of both irony and sincerity in the same breath.»

The New Sincerity and Frank Selby: Candles and Games The New Sincerity features Florian Baudrexel, Colby Bird, Rosy Keyser, Roy McMakin, Julia Rommel, and Fabrice Samyn, artists whose work «assumes tones of both irony and sincerity in the same breath.»

Not exact matches

There is irony in that fact, surely, given the legendary southern disposition to recall the past, and in view of the profound «God acts in history» tone of the biblical narrative which had (and has) such general and devoted following in the southern population.

With a sense of distance and irony, the novel's personal and retrospective narrative takes the tone of a regretful eulogy and / or apology.

The casual manner in which Nazis kill Jews, the semi-documentary tone, the horrors and ironies of the war itself and the gradual manner in which the audience comes to see Schindler as a man whose baser instincts slowly give way to compassion.

It's as if the film is trying too hard to sell its dramatic kick, and the harder it tries, as irony would have it, the harder it is to get a grip on the weight of a dramatic narrative concept that feels a tad thin, what with all of the fluff that is consistent in cheese, yet not even consistent in tone.

Most of us understand that she's no longer the woman she was ten years ago, and maybe she's grown up a lot and now she's a woman singing, but I missed the irony in the lyrics, the depth of the emotion and the simplicity of the album tone.

The excitable adverbs in the film's opening text set the desperate, straining tone: «Based on irony free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews with Tonya Harding and Jeff Gillooly,» the latter the skater's ex-husband, who would serve jail time for his plotting of the Kerrigan leg - clubbing.

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.

For all of its flaws, Lord of War is certainly ambitious, and occasionally taps into certain ironies that almost make it nearly work as a satire (the machine gun chiming like a cash register with every bullet fired is memorable), but never carries the momentum long before the tone changes into a lazy comedy, stagnant drama, or mild farce.

But there are other problems with the film, including the wildly swerving tone from grisly gross - out jokes to absurd wackiness to painful slapstick, but all without the slightest hint of irony or cynicism.

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.

This device emphasizes the film's perfectly tongue - in - cheek tone, introducing heavy doses of post-modern irony without feeling like the movie is cheating.

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.

She captured a tone of quirky, low - key irony that was perfect for the character of Constance, as a real - life no - nonsense woman of fortitude.

Nikolas Butler writes this in the reader's guide in the back of his novel Shotgun Lovesongs: «I think [my readers], like me, are quite tired of novels dripping with sarcasm and irony, and are just in search of books with another kind of emotional or intellectual tone.»

The tone of the exchange ranges from irony, satire and self - serving opportunism to homage.

With control of tone, saturation and temperature, colors glow in rich combinations that soften irony.