Sentences with phrase «with ironic»

HP's decision to take the Envy name down - market left the company with an ironic problem; it no longer had a true, dedicated premium brand.

Derek Bok, the former Harvard President and Dean of the law school, described the legal marketplace with ironic precision:» There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who can not.»

Japan seems to enjoy making public backsliding announcements with ironic timing.

Plus: Don» t be sparing with ironic in - jokes and dark sarcasm.

Layers of accumulated images mix references to historical paintings (i.e. exotic Gauguin's landscapes or Jasper Johns» maps) together with ironic statements written in graphic letters and pixelated abstractions.

Rauschenberg and John's were already, by the mid-50s, pushing back against the overheated dominance of gestural painting by infusing its tropes with ironic detachment.

Olivia Steele is a conceptual artist that uses neon lighting to «charge spaces with ironic and spiritual meaning».

What united us [by which he meant other «Pop artists» such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, and Tom Wesselmann], you might say, was dread of the drip, the splash, the schmear, combined with an ironic attitude toward the banalities of American consumer culture.

Interested in contrast between words and images, Olivia Steele uses neon to charge spaces with ironic and spiritual meaning.

In Art Fair Paintings he represents the contemporary art market with its ironic and hilarious characters.

Cornelia Parker at Serpentine Gallery, London (1998) Cornelia Parker at Serpentine Gallery, London In the work of Cornelia Parker, unexpected objects come to mind — all with an ironic sense of poetry.

Three visual artists work with this ironic tension through mono prints, photographs and mobiles, making a continuum of movement from implied to actual, or from conceived to expressed.

And yet, after renting a tiny office for seven years in Noah Goldowsky's modest gallery on Madison Avenue, Bellamy finally launched a second gallery in 1980, with the ironic name Oil & Steel (he had originally proposed it for the Green), which opened in Tribeca and later moved to the less trendy Queens.

Playful yet perceptive, Kwan's works address the landscape of contemporary urban life, often with an ironic and witty undertone.

In the work of Cornelia Parker, unexpected objects come to mind — all with an ironic sense of poetry.

The L.A. gallery's booth brings to Milan a solo show of Berlin - based Swedish artist Jonas Lund (1984), featuring works that reference the art market with an ironic take: illuminated digital paintings printed on fluorescent Plexiglas, and video - sculptures with obsolete LED monitors encased in concrete pedestals.

With an ironic reference to conservative historical doctrines Altintzoglou's current work employs the analytical and reflective inter-disciplinary methods of Conceptual art in order to explore the ways by which new technologies can affect the development of art.

Luke's newest body of work continues to riff on his own moral dilemmas of romance, self reliance, and leisure, playing with ironic twists on both tourist culture and American nostalgia.

The room is punctuated with ironic commentaries (printed in vinyl stickers and on t - shirts) criticizing the wider system in which art is made, validated and sold and pointing to the complex political situation in Brazil.

By the 1990s, Ruscha was creating larger paintings of light projected into empty rooms, some with ironic titles such as An Exhibition of Gasoline Powered Engines (1993).

Known for her experimental video performances with contemporary, electronic composers, Angie Eng is ending 2015 with an ironic twist in her solo exhibit, Doom and Gloom at the pioneering abode for downtown artists with a proclivity for new technology, and hybrid forms including sound, moving image and interactivity.

With her ironic, beautiful and at times disturbing Infinity Engine, Leeson incites us to think for ourselves.

Similar in content to the performative work she created in the 1990s — which, today, is included in standard art history textbooks — her painterly practice is infused with an ironic eroticism, often time - based, and pointedly references the male - dominated history of Abstract Expressionism and action painting.

I approach these two exhibitions with the ironic realization that I was schooled in the same male universal aesthetic value system that Schapiro struggled with — both internally and due the external art world — as she sought a feminist practice; it is one of my critical considerations.

Bodies and faces are reconfigured and mechanized with ironic flair in order to dismantle the utopian, technology - driven visions of modernity.

More than simply a cult smash with an ironic fanbase, ICO is a critically acclaimed masterpiece of high quality and beautiful design.

Readers should always be at the front of your mind — while marketing, pricing, editing, designing covers, being available online — with the ironic exception of when you're writing.

Most of the future story is written in «Mokni (combining cockney slang, text messaging and London cabby slang) which, when read phonetically, is not only easy to comprehend but filled with ironic humor.

In their obsession with making a «70s - era film and filling it with ironic song choices (ahem, John Denver), this was a loophole that they forgot to close.

Shot in wide - screen black and white, the movie was like a 1960s psychological drama with ironic self - awareness.

Intent on making definitive, album - length statements, spurred on by his obsessive competitiveness with The Beatles («Rubber Soul» predates «Pet Sounds», and though Paul McCartney cited «Pet Sounds» as a primary influence on «Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band», the release of that album is often blamed for Brian Wilson's nervous breakdown), and sensing the opportunity in 1966 of being at the vanguard of the psychedelic movement with a follow - up album (the never - completed «Smile»), the story of The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson is as operatic and tinged with ironic destiny as an Aeschylean tragedy.

The eponymous character in Juno, a pregnant 16 - year - old played with impressive verbal dexterity and heart by Ellen Page, speaks in quips and geeky references, and surrounds herself with ironic accessories like a hamburger phone and a plastic pipe.

The sense of earth - shattering importance in Dwight's vendetta is dispelled at the end with ironic knowing insouciance — a little sign - off to show that our hero has stormed his way to hell, brought damnation upon himself and everyone else in sight, and that all there is to show for it is a postcard that we'd forgotten about, finally reaching its destination too late.

Particularly when compared to Keenan Ivory Wayans's Scary Movie, with its ironic celebration of misogyny in its «breast implant» gag, Student Bodies feels toothless.

Roger is the sort of fast - talking hustler who ends his bravura performances with an ironic flourish: «Thank you, I love you people.»

Scripted by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, Arturo Ripstein's feature debut is an absorbing revenge western with an ironic, literary twist

Hirsch, his eyes darting wildly as he shuffles with a nervous tic, throws himself into the role of cartoon villain — but he's second fiddle to Plaza, whose typical eye - rolling antics sync with the ironic tone.

Jammed with fragments of rock and pop songs, many of them used with ironic intent, The Hangover tries to simulate the sensation of being hopelessly confused and still a bit groggy.

Thinking of wearing your favourite t - shirt with the ironic but offensive slogan?

Forget all those hipsters with their ironic handlebar moustaches and their rejection of mainstream coffee and beer while somehow justifying purchasing every product that Steve Jobs ever created; when you date a nerd, you can relax.

«I'm the champion for having lasted so long,» he says with an ironic laugh.

Despite the promise a constitutional convention holds, opponents are emerging — a puzzling collection of narrow interests that have banded together out of fear — with the ironic argument that special interests will co-opt the convention.

However, the fact the England U20 World Cup winner failed to score his first Liverpool goal was the biggest of small problems for Klopp, who embraced the young forward with an ironic grin as they made their way off the pitch.

He finally did this against Aston Villa in April with his introduction met with ironic cheers from Chelsea fans who chanted «give the ball to Pato» at every opportunity in a desperate attempt to get some value for money.

In the context of this sentence «small matter» is a colloquial term with an ironic twist meaning «important».

The Welshman was another of Liverpool's star performers in the Potteries, laying on the assist for Ibe with a no - look pass which has sent the internet crazy with ironic comparison disorder.

It sketches its city — or, in this case, its crossroads hamlet — in ideal terms with ironic intent.

Producers of literature, when they are not themselves wracked with doubts or preoccupied with taking a postmodern revenge on traditional expectations of order, speak out of a prescientific discipline of expectation — a school of faith that models the need to bracket with ironic reservation that information which, if not bracketed, would insist simplistically that life is only a bracket - defying tale told by an idiot.

Marty does not say it has not, but he does tell us that, having asked himself the question regarding the three future volumes, «Am I ready to «go» with this ironic vision?»

John Goodman, a man with an ironic name and the spirit of a true Christian, sent me an email shortly after I arrived home from church.