Sentences with phrase «tragic irony of»

The tragic irony of these reform efforts is based on a 19th century mindset that is intended to prepare students for success in the 21st century!

If that weren't bad enough, idealists may want to check out before the closing credits scroll, intercut with some outrageously cynical footage that lacks the tragic irony of Night of the Living Dead's brutal «let's throw him on the fire» denouement.

This, then, is the tragic irony of a century or so of liberal Catholicism.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

Not exact matches

The tragic irony that I tell about my mortal body reflects something of the approach I make to understanding the congregation.

Many stories, however, partook of neighboring categories in the circle, and, possibly in consonance with the tale I came to tell myself, most told me tragic ironies.

The tragic irony is that it is difficult for our current political elites (of either party) to make these prudential arguments against Trump.

What a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them!

It is an irony of history that the needs of the forgotten nation and people of Afghanistan were brought to the world's attention with the tragic event of September 11.

In a tragic bit of irony, Easter Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the school shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.

«It's a tragic irony,» says Andrew Radford, United Kingdom Coordinator of Baby Milk Action (BMA), «that mothers who give up breastfeeding in reaction to scares about dioxin in the breastmilk are actually contributing to the amount of dioxin in the environment as a whole.»

«It is a tragic irony that some people now refer to our state as a civil service enclave where governance has been reduced, virtually, to the payment of salaries, allowances, grants, and subventions.»

As some biology textbooks and studies continue to sidestep the details of the amoeba and other microbes in favor of focusing on larger organisms, Spiegel sees a tragic irony: Amoebas and their ilk can best position budding researchers to explore the costs of sex, its evolution and alternatives to problems it may or may not solve.

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.

This reality, that public sector unions operate at the heart of the corporate and financial elite, that they broker, enable and corrupt corporate and financial power, is the tragic irony that is lost on California's electorate.

Rothko's Harvard canvases seem, somehow, more tragic and deeper impregnated with a sense of irony and a desire to break free.

In a twist of tragic irony, Jack Goldstein, who considered his name so ordinary it might appear 10,000 times in a telephone directory, never found his personal or artistic identity.

Artist Christodoulos Panayiotou presented a new version of his lecture - reading, exploring the hierarchical order of literal, metaphorical and symbolic deaths on the stage, as well as the philological concept of «tragic irony», through readings, videos and dance.

Haiti is an example of this tragic irony.

«The great irony of this tragic spill in Arkansas is that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the US is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund.

The tragic irony being that preservation law, which wasn't enacted in time to save so many irreplaceable buildings of the past, is now in place to save the least loved outputs of High Modernism and urban renewal.

In a bit of tragic irony last week, I finished my post on some of Canada's constitutional documents and hit the publish button and left Slaw to discover that Dalhousie, and indeed, Canada had suffered a terrible loss with the passing of Professor Peter Aucoin.

It is a tragic irony that sentencing judges in the Sixth Circuit are required to give enhanced deference to guidelines which the independent Commission, relied upon so heavily by the Supreme Court in upholding the Guidelines, has now declared flawed and in need of reform.

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