Sentences with phrase «where irony»

She considers her atelier as a place to explore various methodologies where irony goes hand in hand with spirituality and scientific approaches are confronted with poetic layers.

To me, though, this honesty seems refreshingly reckless in an art world where irony and detachment remain the dominant modes of expression.

And most of that tragedy happens in places where irony is grounds for imprisonment, the same way that doubt is.

However, there is a new and radical approach to this subject matter, where irony, acceptance, and affirmation are equally mixed.

That's where the irony is — have great credit and you can obtain cheaper loans; have terrible credit and you pay through your nose.

Not exact matches

In fact, the irony is that there is a broad consensus in favor of a carbon tax everywhere but on Capitol Hill, where the «T» word is anathema.»

There are many ironies: Germany, which so frightened Europe for nearly a century, as it had in late Roman times, is now being beseeched virtually to take economic suzerainty over chunks of the continent where the physical German occupiers in bygone days were violently unwelcome.

Acknowledging the great irony that today's aspiring entrepreneurs are doing exactly the opposite of what Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg and all other great entrepreneurs and executives they strive to emulate did to get where they are today, Steve Tobak delivers some truth:

This is just one of many ironies of this 28th election in the province that birthed the oil / tarsands (depending on where you stand).

For the careful reader, foreshadowing creates a particularly effective form of engagement, ultimately moving into the territory of dramatic irony, where the reader knows more than the characters in the story.

where god's words go beyond man's understanding ----- Entertaining irony alert.

Not that I blame you at all; given that we're living in a fallen world where capitalism is necessary; but I note the irony.

The irony is that we bear the message of grace, where Jesus says that no perfect people are allowed.

The irony of being «Christlike» means to not be judgemental and yet there is a «judgement day» where those simply not believing in him will be suffering eternal hellfire.

Privacy is a forcing ground for truth about the self — a place where we need not perform but can instead put aside our defensive irony, entering into love, friendship, work, parenting, repentance, forgiveness, and worship, with vulnerability and honesty.

We have centuries of deep irony where god - speculators («theologians») decry, label and try to minimalize speculators & lovers of wisdom («philosophers»: lovers of Sophia).

Challenge us and ask us about the differences between Yahwistic vs. Elohimistic traditions in Old Testament canon), but this shows the tragedy — or perhaps the irony — of faith: in America, if not elsewhere, the concept of faith is kept at such a simplistic level that most people just plain «believe» without having any form of knowledge (in spite of the Bible stating, «Where is the wise man?

The irony is that Billy G isn't going to get to go to Willard's «heaven,» i.e., the Celestial Kingdom where God and Jesus walk around.

Those riddles one finds in Machiavelli, those ambiguities and ironies» they mark the points where, the soul having been cut away, we are troubled with the illusion that «something» is still there.

If the Onion was satirizing Christians for being «brainwashed idiots» who happen to be serving the poor, where's the irony?

Unless we are to suspect Austen of a hyper - ironic stance where Austen's lack of irony toward Fanny is a way of reinforcing irony, then we should accept at face value that Austen considers Fanny morally and intellectually exemplary.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

In a terrible irony, she lay at the very hospital where David had been a chaplain.

A personal and an intellectual biography of Reinhold Niebuhr in which the author has employed the research methods of an American historian to dig out and interpret the data: «At Union Seminary, where Niebuhr so often talked of «the irony of history,» we remember him as an example of it.»

where Niebuhr so often talked of «the irony of history,» we remember him as an example of it.

And by old school, we mean the kinds of places where the chef's tattoos are from 20th - century wars, there's likely a «chops and steaks» section on the menu, and waiters wear red tuxedos without irony.

Even if Syndergaard were scheduled to pitch, the cruel irony is that the game is in Kansas City, where he could have hid behind the DH.

That's where unquestionable irony sinks in.

Whar an irony that this is being done in the state where the American Dietetic Association has its national headquarters.

The irony was that whereas the PDP claimed the primaries where shifted to Abuja because the capitals of Taraba, Borno and Adamawa States where not safe for primary elections, the PDP held Presidential campaigns in the same capitals of the affected states (Jalingo, Taraba State, Maiduguri, Borno State and Yola, Adamawa State).

«There's a bit of an irony here, a little bit of hypocrisy here, and I can't predict where it's going to go right now,» he said.

A reader forwarded this photo of Trump Palace, an apartment building on the Upper East Side (69th Street), which is where Blakeman hangs hit hat, noting the irony of the fact that the face is, well, rather light in color.

Clearly the upper - classes have reached a post-racist nirvana where such jokes are in fact covered in wondrous irony..

The irony of Corbyn's ascension (to the point where an increasing number ask whether he could win), one source said, is that «He doesn't want to be leader, he was very open about just wanting to influence the debate.

«The terrible irony is that we could end up in a terrible situation where the reason we don't get an in or out referendum is because of that division in the vote.

«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.»

«The irony is that Governor Emmanuel made these comments at an event where Senator Godswill Akpabio, one of Dino Melaye's contemporaries in the Senate, empowered his own people with 4 tractors, over 800 power - generating sets, grain - grinding machines, and block molding machines.

One of the ironies of these stops is that the biggest threat to a home may not be the tornado itself but the buildings upwind where owners have not built in resiliency.

For a slightly different approach to this project, we can turn to AOL, where the historical ironies become almost rich.

One hot sec to mention the irony here — I'm currently in San Antonio, Texas, where the weather is 80 degrees.

The irony of my position is that I met and married my husband when I Dear Grace, My daughter is at an age where she wants to start dating.

I think it would have worked better if there was more irony between us and all the characters where we know more about what's going on then they do.

The film is a rare case of a historical film not looking back on its source through the legacy it may have developed over time (usually peppered with winking irony), but is presented straight, immersed in the present of the period depicted where the prospect of Nixon resigning is all but preposterous.

There is a certain irony to kids everywhere dreaming of being Christopher Robin from the novel, while the real Christopher Robin would rather disappear off to a foreign country where no one has heard of him.

What emerges is a film tinged with irony and filled with many a fourth wall — breaking moment where characters, including Harding's mother (played by Allison Janney), comment on the liberties being taken with this rags - to - near - riches story.

Everything from grand, sweeping shots of undeveloped forest to gorgeous lens flares in fields of rich yellow hues, to the visual irony of seeing the boys pop out of the thicket and right back into civilized society, adjacent a restaurant where they'd be foraging for roasted chicken.

If there is anything that both Jarmusch and Murray are known for, it's their laid - back approach to comedy, utilizing self - ironies and an irreverent dry wit that makes you hang on their every word and inference, as their straight - faced approach requires diligent attention to find the point where they get that glint in their eyes that says, «We're just pulling your leg».

Franco also directed the film, imbuing his docu - dramedy with an interesting bit of irony by directing himself in a very good movie where he plays the real life director (at least according to the credits) of a famously bad movie.

There's a poeticism to some of Cody's writing that may go unnoticed if you don't already know where the film is headed, thematically — which is maybe an accidental irony, that this movie partly about nostalgia should be that much more affecting in a revisiting.

As it is, the stilted claims at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempt.