Sentences with phrase «with ironic distance»

Stewart and Colbert were groundbreakers, but even they tempered their political edge with ironic distance and a concern for balance.

Not exact matches

As we saw in the last chapter, popular poetry juxtaposes Christian language with contemporary analogues and contrasts and does thereby achieve a kind of ironic distance from that language; but direct contact with traditional language and symbols — what Donne, Herbert, and Hopkins achieved — is not easy, if it is even possible in our time.

He saw that an effective way of dealing with the «anxious self - scrutiny» so prevalent in modern life (and today infinitely heightened by social media) was to establish an ironic distance from «the deadly routine of everyday life.»

It's ironic when you don't believe that you can really find love in an online Asian dating site or even long distance relationships wouldn't last but then out of nowhere, Mike is now in love with a woman he met on an Asian dating site who lives halfway across the world.

That ironic undercutting of expectations is a good place to start as Barry introduces us to Josh, a college Everyman fretting over his long - distance relationship with long - term girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), a veterinary student in Austin, Texas.

«The evolution of his direct, subjective engagement with the aesthetic of the sublime — conducted without the fear of stereotypical taboos — oscillates between appropriation and homage, yet Förg does so without ironic quotations or other such cheap distancing techniques.

In 2007, film critic Jonathan Romney described Starr's new silent film Theda: «In a 40 - minute black - and - white film Theda British artist Georgina Starr, best known for her series of works inspired by the 1965 thriller Bunny Lake is Missing, pays tribute to this stormiest of divas and undertakes an archeology of gestural art of the silent - era actress (Theda Bara), drawing on the styles of several other now forgotten grande - dames, such as Barbara La Marr and Maud Allan... the film is divided into three parts «prelude», «act» and «epilogue»... but «prelude» is the real coup: in a long single take, Starr runs through the codified expressive repertoire of the Theda - era performer with such precision that any ironic distance evaporate.

These qualities can be viewed for their own sake, or taken with a certain amount of ironic distance.