Sentences with phrase «with irony»

Events play out with no real repercussions, maybe crime doesn't pay, combined with the irony of corrupt cops trusting each other with their lives.

Equal weight should be given to his other actions in a narrative loaded with irony.

It doesn't have to do with irony, it has to do with each person living with their own world view.

You deal with irony and humour a lot in your paintings, or do you?

«The internet is beautiful,» he says with no irony.

Not exactly the point of the question, unless you were going with irony.

How ironic, but then what is history if not viewed with irony?

The terms are employed in this context with some irony.

I think that one has to be careful with irony, since it doesn't always work.

Sad to say, with the irony detector already blown, it's hard to tell the difference between genuine and fake stupid.

But no, and the biggest challenges were loaded with irony.

Always erudite and witty, and often dripping with irony, the Georgia State University assistant professor schooled us...

Typically for Gainsbourg, there's a real mix of things going on here, from relaxed fun laced with irony through to quirky takes on love songs full of the louche suggestiveness befitting of the most ardent romantic.

It is often pointed out that of all of Austen's heroines, Fanny is one of only two (Anne Elliot is the other) who is not treated with irony, who does not make any serious misjudgment, whose behavior is always supported by the narrator.

The industry is so rife with irony, the whole situation.»

The cases become more subtle and more heavily laden with irony as Gregory reveals the inner stresses of specific situations of counsel.

It was a statement rich with irony given Cuomo's own suspected role in creating the IDC - GOP alliance to further his interests, including a possible run for president.

They are mock - heroic exercises as loaded with irony as any painting of the current moment, even as they seduce formally (though their lusciousness of color and detail) and narratively (with references to landscape and the forces of nature).

It omits abstraction by David Novros, but «The Pictures Generation» reinterprets the late 1970s and early 1980s as about painting along with irony.

«Doomsday predictions,» we are warned, «can no longer be met with irony or disdain» (161).

This forum is so fraught with irony.

Park officials note with irony that in our health - conscious nation, in which studies show that swimming rates as a favorite pastime, municipal pools are struggling to survive.

That Enlightened's propagandist and activist message is tinged with irony only makes it more perfectly tooled to our times.

Something as seemingly pedestrian as a cheeseburger or French fries or an old - school jar of Vaseline are imbued with irony and whimsy and are, as Walter Robinson, the creator of these colorful images, observes, a kind of «visual hymn to the hydrogenated consumer utopia of 21st - century America.»

It is however, perhaps with some irony for a movie featuring an actual Time Lord that its two giant, beating hearts should be those of Tom Hardy and Tom Hardy.

I think we're so saturated with irony and cynicism.

Cheaper by the Dozen is heavy with irony, from a title that describes the rationale for the appearance of this and Daddy Day Care in the same calendar year to a resolution that finds all the big talk about chasing dreams and living to potential compacted into a patently dishonest resolution high on schmaltz and low on explanation.

Evacuating women and children, it is also in keeping with the irony of the genre that a Red Cross ship full of innocents is strafed and sunk by the evil Japanese.

Another key phrase in Aiken's list is «fact - based» — because governments and power - wielding politicians denouncing «fake news» is a situation replete with irony and littered with pitfalls.

Roberta Smith writing in The New York Times Friday about Sherrie Levine: «Mayhem», at New York's Whitney Museum through January 29, inquired whether the show, like an «art boutique full of fastidious, expensive - looking objects lightly dusted with irony» meant that a mistake had been made: «I'd like to think that Ms. Levine is a better artist than this, but I'm not sure.»

The good news about Short Cuts is that it's Altman soup — with a few characters and situations from Carver stories tossed in for flavor — and for all its flaws it's real art, packed with irony.

I am very liberal about religion, and understand and agree with the point you are trying to make with irony here, but the statement above is also, I think, sadly, a legitimate way to interpret the gospels.

Concentrating on highly tended spaces, New York — based Daniel Heidkamp infuses landscape painting with irony and formal stylization.

If that irony was too painful, the case for art was represented in an equally packed session with irony - free Pharrell Williams.

Religions were created by man, and therfore fallible and frought with ironies and just plain lies.

And don't give me that «The Problem with Irony» thing on this.

Like many books in this genre, Moore's thrillers are almost devoid of humor, but in compensation they are richly supplied with irony.

The belief in the survival of the soul did not give rise to difficulties, but the impious objected with irony to the doctrine of the resurrection of the body: «Give us back our fathers if you speak the truth!»

Only he can be afflicted with irony.

Oh, and for anyone who's wondering what the handle means, this guy (I'm assuming after he finally looked up with irony meant) realized his handle @irony made 0 sense and decided to try and spell Chuckles, sadly this special guy here confuses K's and H's.

Such theatrical thuggishness may have been effective in the era of backroom shakedowns and party bosses, but today's politics is suffused with irony and live - cast on Twitter — and tough - guy threats are more likely to get mocked than they are to make delegates and congressmen cower in fear.

Without being explicit, without being overtly angry, Kabakov's installations are a critique of the entire system, a critique leavened with irony, wit, and fantasy.

The fact is, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show uncovers this same hypocrisy every night, and does it in two minutes with irony and humor, while Why We Fight attempts it with outrage and scolding.

It's amazing how Lily can take care of various themes with irony and catchy melodies.

«The Theory of Everything» runs with that irony: this is a Hawking profile in which you'll see the wheelchair - using, speech - impaired scientist happily rolling around his living room dressed up like a Dalek.

Backed with an irony - free soundtrack that spans the 2002 - 2003 school year, this was the first film of the year that really won me over and had me running back to see it for the second time.