Sentences with phrase «used irony»

Neo-conceptualists used irony and pastiche to subvert and comment upon structural issues of the time; they drew from Conceptual Art to create paintings and sculptures that operated as a set of pictorial signs referencing artists and moments in postwar art history.

Pop Art used irony to that end, while a Minimalist might have relied more on formalism, but both tactics were present from the first Cubist collages.

Instead, Dante uses irony to undercut the alluring words of sinners who present themselves as victims rather than as perpetrators of outrage in the eyes of God.

Paul has been blessing his readers all the way throughout, while using irony, sarcasm, humor, and even sexual innuendos to point out the error of their ways.

Using irony, satire, and humor, Jeremy Myers writes Adventures in Fishing (for Men) as an allegorical story about a man's quest to become a successful and world - famous fisherman — without ever catching any fish.

The «right direction» comment is using irony.

It uses irony in the service of revelation, not as armor, which sets it apart from so much independent American cinema.

Although Burwell likes to use irony in many of his scores, there's no distancing effect here.

Using irony and wit, Greengrass directs as if this was a detective thriller made up of a single action sequence.

This bundle contains 5 ready - to - use irony worksheets that are perfect to test student knowledge and understanding of what irony is and how it can be used.

You can use these irony worksheets in the classroom with students, or with home schooled children as well.

In «Harrison Bergeron,» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. uses irony to illustrate how enforcing absolute equality would require a ridicul...

How does the author use irony as a form of humor?

Canadian art collective BGL makes art that is playful and provocative, using irony and parodic inter...

She started by producing a series of artist's books and multiples exploring the dynamics of visual instructions and devices used in cigarette advertising from the 40s through to the 60s using irony and humour.

Using irony and references to festivals and folklore, Albarracín examines these typical images that are known all over the world to critique the way in which certain clichés persist in the collective imaginary.

She uses irony and re his iconic works by removing his signature Ben - Day dots.

I feel Victor the Troll is unwittingly using irony to demonstrate that multiple ridiculousnesses can exist within a single person.

Not exact matches

And to complete the cure, everyone who uses social media must embrace life's ironies, zigzags, contradictions and incompleteness.

The fact that companies that make products like Marlboro and Camel cigarettes are now paying for campaigns discouraging their use may seem like karmic irony.

It is an irony of history that Trump, who often grumbled about scientific research, used a highly scientific approach in his campaign.

Success, likely is a speaking point of proponents of open markets in the US, despite the clear implications of such (that is why the always use moral groundings, which points back to the irony, and social models discourse).

It is the ultimate irony to listen to black / hispanic religious leaders use «the Bible» to justify discrimination, the same book that was used to justify slavery and ban intraracial marriage.

As it turns out, White has a personal connection to the place — his mother used work as an usher there, so there's a nice bit of irony in the fact that the owners of the place renamed it the «Jack White Theater» and spilled the beans on White's «anonymous» donation.

* I love the irony of that verse being in a letter to and from the same people as the main proof text used for exclusion of females.

It is still you, my friend, who appear to be ignorant of the irony of your citing this quote, and now you reference the use of «emotionally laced words»!

A bane because there is so much lousy thinking out there, for people who misuse their minds and don't «think» about the issues, or don't use their noodles effectively (the irony is that someone like yourself would say your brain is «god given»... in my opinion, this god would smack you upside the head for not using it as he intended).

Does anyone else see the irony of using «Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words» on a medium that solely uses text to communicate?

And, while Jesus, Paul and the biblical authors used effective irony, cutting sarcasm is rarely — if ever — used.

YOU SAID: ``... or don't use their noodles effectively (the irony is that someone like yourself would say your brain is «god given»... in my opinion, this god would smack you upside the head for not using it as he intended).

The great irony is that some religious fundies use the Bible to keep gay people away from their «table», and feasts, using the very texts that the Bible intended to teach hospitality, to do the opposite.

It is one of those splendid ironies that it was the hard - rapping, chainsaw - wielding Eminem — more Uruk Hai or orc than elf — whose use of a sample from «Thank you» in his masterpiece «Stan» propelled her onto the global music stage.

Quotation marks can be used to indicate a different meaning of a word or phrase other than the one typically associated with it and are often used to express irony.

You cessationists (based on the language you used I'm assuming that's the position you hold) love to talk about a «completed Bible», but here's the irony, if you profess to have such a strong faith in this Bible, you must walk it out.

The irony: the university is using a rule intended to protect and to include religious groups to exclude religious groups because they want their leaders to be representatives of that religion.

«The irony is that her name has been used to raise money for Southern Baptist mission efforts while the denomination's leaders have maintained a policy of women being subservient to men.

But then I do nt think science means anything to any of the people discussing this even though they are using science to discuss in the form of television, computers and internet what irony or is it hypocrisy?

We thought negative theology was a topic for medievalists or a clever way to outbid the irony of postmodernism, and we were more interested in Rahner's use of Heidegger than his Thomism.

The irony was striking: In what used to be a bastion of government secrecy, I was casually being shown a document central to the economic structure of the republic.

The great irony of Piper using the book of Job to support his theology is that the story of Job stands as an ancient indictment on those who would respond to tragedy by blaming the victim.

One might also note the irony of using ideas that are undeniably constructs of Western culture» solidarity, anti-imperialism, self - esteem, the universal family of humankind, respect for pluralism» to condemn the influence of Western culture.

Satire is a literary device intended to be a constructive form of social commentary, using wit, strong irony and sarcasm.

The irony is painful, though, that the same legal power to defend the rights of former slaves in an attempt to rectify the sin is being used today to justify killing children in their mothers» wombs.

While admitting that irony seems to be inherently a private matter and of little public use, he nonetheless contends that we should develop a kind of «liberal irony» of the sort adopted by the pragmatists, particularly Dewey.

Do nt you see the irony of using your tolerance to defend their intolerance.

I love the irony of the Biblical experts using glaring known errors in translation to identify one of the earliest and most widely distributed English examples of the supposedly infallible «Word of God.»

We are dealing with a religion that is intolerant does anyone else see the irony of using our tolerance to defend their intolerance.

The best the Catholic author can do, then, writing in an overwhelmingly indifferent age, is first sow the seed of doubt in the mind of the skeptic, and secondly, through the use of irony, mock the moral complacency of the politically correct.

The irony is that the use of so narrow a basis, proving unsuccessful, feeds the very skepticism it was supposed to contain.

Oh, and one more quick comment: anyone see the irony in the fact that an ancient tool of execution, upon which thousands of innocent people were tortured to death, is now used to decorate, and show devotion?