Sentences with phrase «with ironic titles»

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).

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I should mention how ironic I found it that a title - search for material relating to eschatology in a process - relational mode yielded a plethora of titles dealing with the question of personal immortality, but a relative dearth of material dealing with the eschaton as a new corporate order.

The title does not offer a complex structure or a very deep gameplay, but succeed, s with a perfect ironic characterization, in satisfying many of the longtime gamers.

It's a film best valued as an extended surprise, with hilarity greatly enhanced by an atmosphere of the unanticipated, beautified by a soundtrack of goofy, ironic tunes to underscore any and all ludicrousness (though Phillips deserves a bravery medal for a forbidding Danzig opening title track).

Chiara's «Material Puns» use wordplay to weld the title of the painting with the materials placed on canvas, through an ironic reinterpretation of Pop - Art, Dadaism and Ready Made.

The title clearly wins this year's «Cougar Town» award, with the creators attempting to diffuse its sexist connotations by arguing that it is «ironic.»

From the washed - out greys and blues of its visual palette in the very opening moments, and with nary a colour traditionally linked to passion present during its entire runtime, United States of Love might seem like a deliberately ironic English title for Polish director Tomas Wasilewski's latest film.

This isn't to say that Haneke is a stranger to a smile — even Funny Games has some humour buried in the bleakness, its title not completely ironic — but with Happy End Haneke has come probably as close as he will to a screwball comedy.

Together, they paint a puckish portrait of the auteur, from Bale's discovery that Malick would often shoot him surreptitiously — at last justifying his Method posturing between takes — to Chief Stephen R. Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe revealing that «Terry» (always «Terry») told him to consider the title ironic after Adkins expressed his displeasure with a 5,000 - year - old civilization being Eurocentrically referred to as «new.»

The Aviator's Wife made sense as a title because it totally fit the book - Charles Lindbergh was much more famous than his wife, and I think the title is almost ironic, as the pages are so clearly filled with Anne's own story, very much setting her apart from her husband (and details what an unfaithful & difficult husband he was - yikes!).

Her latest novel, Second Honeymoon (an ironic title), opens with the somewhat histrionic Edie surveying the empty room of her son, the last of her children to leave home, taking his mother's identity with him.

As I think about potential headlines for this publisher's hypothetical press releases («Readers Are Insane for This Title» and «Publisher Goes Crazy Trying to Keep Up With the Demand»), it occurs to me that a place like Bellevue is an ironic venue for a new publishing company.

Even the title has been used in a previous game in the series, which is pretty ironic given that it's Resident Evil Outbreak's gameplay that Outbreak shares the most similarities with thanks to the extended focus on co-operative survival horror gameplay.

Exactly what is ironic about PC being considered the superior game playing platform to mobile is that it is not only packed with the same games that mobile is dismissed for, but Heavy steam is gaining an establishment as hosting low - quality game titles as well.

Not entirely ironic odes to African American culture, such as James Brown's Sacrifice to Apollo, co-exist with Dance the Orange — a quote from the Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, on the transformation of one art or sensation into another, that also supplies a title for the show.

The painting, with a title taken from an American popular song, acts as an ironic commentary on the racial violence of her time.

The title The Krautcho Club / In and out of Place combines an ironic reference to a well known London media / art world members club with the process of contextualisation launched in a «forgotten» German bar.

Fiesta (1985) is the only one with a title, but it is too ironic to be taken lightly; it saddens me.

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

The title The Krautcho Club / In and out of Place combines an ironic reference to a well known London media / art world members club with the process of contextualization launched in a «forgotten» German bar.

The title, «metamodernism,» is a term proposed by Dutch scholars Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker to describe how contemporary artists oscillate in attitude and approach between enthusiastic modernism and ironic postmodernism, while addressing contemporary concerns with financial instability, ecological destruction, and post-digital existence.

Or the title FOI was always ironic, in line with the sardonic humour revealed by Dominic of the introductory comment

The title of the piece is meant to be a little ironic, because not only were these four not «pirates» in any persuasive definition of the term (they're all now associated with legitimate enterprises), but they also failed to usher in an era of universal free content exchange — and they deny that that was ever their intent.