Sentences with phrase «ultimate irony of»

The ultimate irony of Heat is that his prescription is probably the only one that can save this planet from the scourge of global warming, but that, as simple, direct and painless as it is, this prescription has about the same likelihood of actually coming about as a snowball's chance in hell.

The ultimate irony of the Montreal Protocol is that the new refrigerant is the most potent among greenhouse gases blacklisted under the Kyoto Protocol, and moreover is explosion - prone.

Every time you stopped to appreciate the ultimate irony of Gustav Klimt's Death and Life (1908 - 16) or profound social commentary of Banksy's Rage Flower Thrower (2003), according to formalism doctrine you are missing the point.

Maybe that's the ultimate irony of the title.

The ultimate irony of this situation is that Cllr Abbas is here accused of the very things of which he accused Lutfur Rahman.

«The ultimate irony of the investment business is that there is no question that an obstetrician can deliver babies better than the husband or wife.

And that is the ultimate irony of this story.

In what is another of the ultimate ironies of nonprofit charitable credit counseling, it appears that at least two trade associations feel nonprofit credit counselors should not have to participate in any national registration of debt relief...

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For the philosopher Richard Rorty, in the opposite camp, irony offers the proper detachment from ultimate aims and fundamental commitments or principles when we believe that everything is «a product of time and chance.»

It is perhaps with some irony that those who criticize Christianity the most may play the largest part in the ultimate evolution and survival of Christianity and those who discourage criticism may be the ones that contribute the most to the possibility that Christianity may ultimately become extinct among the world's religions.

The ultimate irony is that since they make no comment they are accused of alledgedly supporting the wealthy.

It is perhaps the ultimate irony that advocates of attachment parenting who reject vaccination because of fear of autism have ignored the possibility that it is attachment parenting itself that causes autism.

Perhaps it's the ultimate expression of irony, the perfect parenting stance for Generation X. Confessional parents see their badness as a way of striving to be good: less overstressed, overscheduled, and fixated on perfection than the boomer parents who came before them.

The ultimate irony is that Gisele is busily criticizing women who don't breastfeed as if breastfeeding is a matter of life and death.

Isn't the ultimate irony that this Party of political geeks, special advisers and Westminster Village bubblers - Ed Balls, the brothers Miliband, Andy Burnham, James Purnell, Liam Byrne, Yvette Cooper... all actually have the temerity to claim to be on the side of [Labour speak coming up here] «hard working families».

After all, notes primatologist John Robinson of the Wildlife Conservation Society, «it would be the ultimate irony to lose a species this unique so soon after we have discovered it.»

As a public health advocate who has devoted her career to preventing cancer, it feels like the ultimate irony for Dr. Toni Yancey to receive a diagnosis of lung cancer.

There is a refreshing hint of irony about the ultimate standard - bearer for Reason placing himself at times beyond reality's reach, and even in his stable moments Darwin believed in «water cure» quackery to treat his feverish mystery illness.

An inspired flight of fancy, an oddly poignant examination of the creative process, a rumination on adaptation (orchids to their environment, books to the screen and misfits like Charlie to life) and, in its ultimate irony, a story in which our hero learns a life - altering lesson.

The ultimate irony comes when you realize that by Brooks's frustration in not finding comedy in a land without comedians is only further compounded by the fact that he didn't really bring along enough choice comedy of his own.

Irony is the film's intended trade, but the ultimate unexpected element is how the film does reveal a complex sadness to both of these young women.

The irony is that the act of learning in itself releases dopamine, the brain's ultimate feel - good chemical.

If Mr. Fowler, often regarded as the final arbiter of modern English, is correct, then I am pretty sure I have captured the ultimate irony — or at least the automotive version of it — when I opine that the mainstream automaker most likely to carry on the ages - old tradition of powering its luxury sedans with a naturally aspirated V8 is going to be... Hyundai.

The ultimate irony is that some of these publishers screaming about Amazon and the gloom and doom it brings will survive.

The ultimate irony, of course, was that the leaks of those images that ended the PDFs program were clearly not from the PDFs, since they were scans of printed materials.

Andrew Katzman recognizes that his story — debt collector ends up paying a bill — is one of life's ultimate ironies.

[The ultimate irony in business & government is that people quickly learn (insane) confidence is the best way to get ahead, while ignoring it can also lead to the most spectacular of downfalls!].

In what I find as the ultimate irony, the Bad Rap website shows a picture of Sgt. Stubby, next to the full war poster, which depicts a Boston Terrier, a Pit Bull Terrier, and an English Bulldog.

Schnabel's work from 1979 and 1980 may once have seemed the ultimate in empty spectacle, in its mix of Neo-Expressionism and irony, but it looks more prescient in the explosion of painting today.

There is always this humour in the work, in fact, Claire Fontaine's use of irony is all the more compelling when marked against the sincerity of her statements to the viewer, and in her ultimate message.

It may be the ultimate irony that in a story about Jasper Johns's Regrets series making their debut straight from the studio to MoMA, the octogenarian artist is unwilling to open up about any of his past connections.

Whatever the facts, Blachly and Shaw's roles as the delusional guardians of an almost certainly nonexistent archive have allowed them to employ a dizzying array of often contradictory strategies, layering irony, and apparent incompetence on sincere historical inquiry and emotion to create disorienting and comical experiences that leave viewers tantalizingly unsure as to the meaning or ultimate purpose of the Chadwicks» often Herculean efforts.

In the ultimate irony, our love for the playful dolphin created the multi-billion dollar dolphin captivity industry which in turn created the largest slaughter of dolphins in the world.

For instance, it might just be possible that the ready availability — indeed, the omnipresence — of judgments from every court in the land will lead to their ultimate (relative) irrelevance and that we will find ourselves developing a civilian system in which code — there's a verbal irony!