To the Editor: Ironies of ironies, "Saturday Night Live" is swiftly losing its bite.
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Such a carnal approach to Catholicism also comes at the cost of critical engagement with the ironies of fashion — above all, with ironies of gender.
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The sorting of the ironies has been left to us.
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Kipling's Kim in spite of the many ironies about him?
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The contradictions and ironies in her life make her fascinating.
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The pace of change in Vietnam presents a few historical ironies.
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There are some sad ironies behind California's wrongheaded rent control push.
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There are no glib asides, no social ironies, no otherworldly respites.
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As far as the House seats are concerned, there are more ironies.
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Solstad's ironies throw the reader off balance, adding and subtracting in turn.
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Perhaps only Thomas Mann could have mastered the ironies of Bernstein's story.
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IN PRAISE OF FORGETTING: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, by David Rieff.
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The grim, all-implicating ironies feel easier and less personal to us.
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These ironies were not lost on De Quincey: they fed his imagination.
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In tackling the Middle East, she observes a number of devastating ironies.
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And not surprisingly in Trumpland, ironies, challenges and maybe some new opportunities abound.
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And that's one of the great ironies of the restaurant real estate game.
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Sadness in the face of one of life's most predictable and crushing ironies.
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Mistress Quickly, who has the dirt On everybody—the ironies of the hereafter!
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The Democratic race is a tangle of contradiction, paradox and pungent little ironies.
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Such leaps bridge the poem's ironies and tragedies, its sliding humor and gravity.
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This exposes one of the greatest ironies of the campaign against natural gas fracking.
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Little League game — I'll reflect on the joys of parenthood, but also, the ironies.
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This is one of the ironies of the U.S. trying to use trade taxes.
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In the irony of ironies, some Buddhists came from Bangladesh to accept Myanmar's offer.
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More ugly historical ironies may yet waylay Britain on its treacherous road to Brexit.
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Toni Erdmann is loaded with ironies and disjunctions, with worlds colliding to darkly humorous effect.
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He illustrates the madness well, often doing so with an understated sense of fate's ironies.
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In one of life's little ironies, the NRA did not reward her for this loyalty.
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There are some ironies here: One is that the most successful clubs don't seem desperate.
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In its parody of political speech, the script can be clever, with multi-sided ironies.
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One of the great ironies in this painting is the word "important," which appears twice.
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Huang is attuned to the ironies of their story in his incisive and riveting account.
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The senators wrote this letter seemingly without a sense of the tremendous ironies laced throughout.
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There are a couple of ironies in the fact that Singin' turned Reynolds into a star.
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A declining asset that's worth more to Fox than anyone else There are several ironies here.
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But still - I couldn't wrap my head around the ironies facing me every day this week.
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What are some of the ironies in anti-abortion talking points Reductress tries to get at?
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" One of the deep, deep ironies of this story is Strider's job, which was "faith adviser.
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Few chapters offer startling new arguments, though Mr. Wu is well attuned to paradoxes and ironies.
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However, one of history's great ironies is the manifestation of courage despite the most terrifying circumstances.
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And irony of ironies: A bumbling Fed made the right decision to back off interest-rate hikes.
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In contemporary art, with its ironies and its multiple readings, Chinese artists test the patience of officialdom.
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Price's book about books reads like an anthology of ironies, including several that pertain directly to it.
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But misogyny probably played a part as well, which is one of the ironies of this controversy.
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The story was the first of many to illuminate one of the central ironies of Facebook's struggles.
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It is one of the great ironies of life that each generation believes its experiences are unique.
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Ms Khan picks out ironies, such as the discomfort caused to the Raj by Britain's chief ally.
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Ironies and contradictions abound, even as some of the basic facts assert themselves with blunt, oppressive force.
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Highest of ironies: cast of Titanic has 20yr reunion to discuss how they can save melting ice caps.
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It's one of the great ironies of the connected home – it's not really all that, you know, connected.
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I think it's one of the great ironies that the Jurassic Park films now are out of date.
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The Milnes' lives are punctuated by such devastating ironies, but they are not quite devastating in the film.
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This is how, in the great irony of ironies, Nancy Pelosi could become president of the United States.
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Humanity's indifference toward the fatal threat of climate change is one of the great ironies of our time.
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One of the greatest ironies in the history of contemporary art is minimalism's appetite for maximally-sized objects.
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Something about this whole human jumble drawer of cheap ironies and offhand beauty feels oddly touching these days.
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But Carsen's production is set in 1910, the year of the opera's composition, and Musilian ironies will abound.
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In life, some of us are forced to endure poetic ironies: A tone-deaf child born to accomplished musicians.
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One of the ironies that experts pointed out was that in failure, Trump may actually have had a success.
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One of the ironies of "read another book" is that Harry Potter was supposed to make us read more.
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Yet the film is thoroughly stripped of the sniggering ironies that beset, and often wreck, the modern fright fest.
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But Ms. Faludi mines her material less for easy ironies than for insights into the very meaning of identity.
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I think one of the ironies today is that people are saying that it's President Trump that's shredding our institutions.
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It is one of the tragic ironies of human history: We don't usually oppress those we see as fully human.
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Merwin's prose is lush, companionable, and funny, alert to the ironies of everyday life and utterly unlike his flinty poems.
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The politics of Trump, Russia, natural gas exports and climate change continue to breed ironies faster than a presidential Tweetstorm.
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One of the ironies of opioid pills is that they don't really help with pain like people think they do.
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For a student of Shakespeare, which Mr. Johnson is (he is writing a biography) the situation was replete with ironies.
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These connections between maple sugar and abolition also manifest themselves in some ironies about the relation of maple and color.
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It is one of the supreme ironies of the case that Chambliss, Cherry and Blanton all talked themselves into prison.
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One of the stark ironies of American campaigns is that they don't matter as much as we think they do.
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Instead, the show has a grinding Brechtian self-consciousness throughout, which calls harsh attention to its less than subtle ironies.
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With the new film screening on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, the former vice-president's presence was layered with ironies.
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Since then he has continued to explore some of the darker ironies, absurdities and tragedies of life in the American century.
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Ironies abound in Eric Trump's declaration that "these are horrible people," referring to the white supremacists behind the Ku Klux Klan.
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The history of the exit clause that became Article 50 of the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon is full of such ironies.
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But the approach of that deadline prompted some summiteers into wistful musings on what they saw as the ironies of Brexit.
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The location of Boudicca's statue, in the heart of London, right by the seat of government, is not without its ironies.
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And yet, irony of ironies, what awaited me on that island was not my destruction but nearly the opposite: my salvation.
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One of the sweetest ironies is that HR and recruitment—those most meta of jobs—are among those becoming automated fastest.
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The novel brilliantly dramatizes the tragic ironies of life in a country where keeping yourself afloat may mean swallowing your pride.
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And one of the ultimate ironies is if you do a traditional IPO, you do a direct listing the next morning.
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So you might expect me to point to some ironies I heard running as caustic undercurrents, tugging the whole thing down.
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Kuma, a constant source of paradoxes and ironies, often makes demagogic statements on behalf of his own brand of architectural modesty.
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"There are a lot of ironies in this election," Franken said, folding himself into a crooked angle on his office couch.
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AND YET AIDS, with its gaudy ironies, would create the conditions that turned a "respectability movement" into a civil rights revolution.
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One of the ironies about Bannon, for me — and I've thought about this a lot in the last couple of days.
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One of the ironies here is that the audience tends to adapt pretty quickly and would just get on with our lives.
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One of Brexit's many ironies is that it has raised the reputation of the Brussels bureaucracy to heights not seen for decades.
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Perhaps one of the biggest historical ironies is that the organ—an instrument commonly found in churches—was once considered Satan's instrument.
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More equivocal, Jan's ancestry story signals the difficulties of knowing your background and the resulting ironies any revelation about lineage can generate.
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He also seems to look towards modernity in his attitudes: his ambiguities, his ironies, his dancing humor, his profound spirit of irreverence.
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His very English ironies do not scour or scathe, like Evelyn Waugh's; instead, by a charitable sleight of hand, they offer consolation.
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She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance.
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So, irony of ironies, we had to go across the street to the Air and Space Museum, where there's an Imax theater.
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One of the ironies your film picks up on is that former generations did not value wealth the way we do now.
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Yes, and that's one of the most poignant and painful ironies: that Madison, a wonderful founder, was a really terrible war president.
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One of the great ironies of Hellblade is that it's an experience that tries very hard to hide its inherent video game-ness.
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By the time you have finished outlining the narrative and its ironies, you are told the idea is preposterous and simply not believable.
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In other ways, of course, in its metaphors and ironies Kafka's story is much richer and more provocative than an installation could match.
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Before handicapping the chances of Simpson's release, take a moment to reflect on how Simpson ended up here—a journey wreathed in ironies.
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Stacking up puns and situational ironies, Schiff finds it almost too easy to digress, fret and speculate, too hard to come to conclusions.
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Amid that, I wondered whether she'd had a chance to savor the fall of the Clintons' nemesis, Ken Starr, and appreciate its ironies.
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In a story rife with ironies, where "the bizarre shakes hands with the inexplicable," the mourning of a mass murderer is the capper.
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The device was planted by a group with links to the Klan, and Lee wastes no time in laying forth the acrid ironies.
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"The New Negro" thrust forth all the ironies of Locke's ethos: his emphatic propriety and angular vision, his bourgeois composure and libertine tastes.
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In this observation, Sotomayor captured one of the ironies in America's continuing use of capital punishment, but her critique did not go far enough.
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The dramatic ironies and injustices compound throughout the film, until it's clear that Arthur isn't paranoid, the world really is out to get him.
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And this makes for one of the great ironies of President Trump's leadership style: It intimidates not so much by fear as simple fatigue.
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For all of the anti-press rhetoric, one of the great ironies of the Trump era has been the resurgence of old-school media.
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And one of the ironies of this is that these are the people who generally would be more likely to support Trump and Republicans.
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One of the many political ironies of our time is that feminism's most powerful cultural moment has coincided with the rise of extreme misogyny.
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But by now we are well aware that the current president of the United States is incapable — oh, irony of ironies — of firing anybody.
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But only her most elementary ironies ("I use my white woman's voice to tell stories of travels with African men", etc) carry political resonance.
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"One of the ironies of segregation is that it created freedom for African-Americans to create magic in their own spaces," Ms. Winkler said.
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Yet one of the biggest ironies of Trump's presidency is that he has become a more effective catalyst for progressive social change than Obama.
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It is one of countless postelection ironies that, were Mr. Cunningham still with us, he would not be welcome on Bill Cunningham Corner anymore.
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Robert Spalding, then with the National Security Council, created two of the year's greatest ironies not involving a tweet or the Dow Jones Index.
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Any given episode of the show can disappoint with its bulkiness and its inability to zero in on the ironies inherent in its storytelling.
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"Akane no Mai" is one of the first times I've felt like the show had both its ironies and its parallelism well in hand.
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In December, negotiators will meet in a coal-mining town in Poland, one of the many ironies that will proliferate in the years to come.
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Michael Stone (David Thewlis) is a middle-aged motivational speaker who specializes in customer service, but — irony of ironies — he can't actually connect to people.
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Krasner's victory is now one of the great ironies of Meek's life — a sea change happened at almost the exact moment he went down again.
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One of the many ironies here is that on the eve of the election the two sides were moving, not unhappily, toward an optimistic détente.
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One of the great ironies of Trump's attacks on immigrants and people of color is that the public increasingly sees immigration as a good thing.
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One of the ironies of the last week has been the way Trump's behavior managed to almost completely obliterate attention on the big tax bill.
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But one of the ironies of Ellison's public display of support for Trump is that he is not a dyed-in-the-wool Trump backer.
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I believe there are some ironies about this particular film being a target, but I'm frankly much more interested in listening than saying anything much.
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This would validate the Sanders vision of single-payer health care, and in the irony of ironies, give new meaning to the phrase "corporate socialism"!
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One of the ironies of womanhood is that some aspects of the body are intently monitored (pregnancy) while others are suppressed or simply ignored (menopause).
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There were also a lot of tragic ironies that happened with the subjects of the film—some of them too unbelievable to even fully contemplate.
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Despite Starr's losing the presidency of the school, the political ironies of his public behavior make it seem that hypocrisy is booming on the Waco campus.
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SR: So, what's strong about Vo's work is that he doesn't just skim on the surface; he plunges into those ironies, and he actually lives there.
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One of the ironies of Deep Springs is that, although each class gets to make the school anew, they tend to keep it much the same.
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One of the central ironies of "Listening to Prozac's" reception is that it generated two opposed responses, both of which got deeply imprinted on the culture.
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Of the greatest ironies noted by the companions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), was the birth and death of Abdullah Ibn Az Zubayr.
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This is one of the central ironies, not just of a delegated investment system, but of the economy itself: patience pays but is not usually rewarded.
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Caroline's photographs often deal with the beautiful ironies of daily life, and her knack for framing the eccentric really shows through in these epic pooch snapshots.
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It relies on the audience to tease out most of these ideas, focusing on the strange ironies and odd moments at the heart of the story.
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The novel is as bitter as gall and has Nathanael West's dark ironies, yet it's overdetermined and musty, a wizened pelt stretched over a taxidermist's mannequin.
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Maher has an often thrillingly slant gaze, an eye alert to the absurdities, ironies and small tragedies at play in the manufacture of images and personas.
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It's a colossal understatement to say there's little organic curiosity—and even less donor money—on the American right to lay bare these sorts of ironies.
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It is one of fate's grand ironies that those who literally feed off the weak and dying should stand together against those oppressing society's most vulnerable.
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This book is a personal view of tropicalismo, the extraordinary musical movement of which Veloso was one of the central figures, and the ironies involved are enormous.
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TO THE many ironies of Donald Trump's presidency can be added the fact that a man who does not read books has helped cause a publishing sensation.
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This is one of the many ironies in the film – Thackeray declares his disdain for democracy and proclaims that India "needs a Hitler" but still fights elections.
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If he were, he would reflect on the many ironies that attend his recapture on January 8th, after two escapes in 15 years from high-security prisons.
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Tapper: One of the cruel ironies your book captures is how unfair it is for people to refer to the 1918-1919 influenza as the Spanish Flu.
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One of the profound ironies of American constitutional history is that Madison served as the great theorist of both the separation of powers and the party system.
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To the Editor: There was no one better than Tom Wolfe at exploding pretension and hypocrisy and showing the bitter and often funny ironies in American society.
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Mr. Varadkar, a prime minister who embodies the very different sense of identity that has evolved in Ireland, might like to savor the ironies, but he can't.
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It welds the world into shape, a morass of 1980s references in lockstep with each other, with all of the ironies or inconsistencies between genres ironed out.
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This is, of course, because "Succession" is a drama, and the job of the dramatist is to surface ironies that characters — and, often, the audience — can't see themselves.
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I think one of the great ironies is that the American public is so afraid of the government having personal information about us, or spy services, or whatever.
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In one of the great ironies of the political season, these kinds of questions are thrown into sharp relief by the strangest nationalist movement now underway — in California.
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The ironies of that film were easy to read in its costumes and obvious cultural references, with parodies of Oliver Sacks, Cormac McCarthy, and characters from J.D. Salinger.
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This is just one of many ironies dripping from the escalating paint skirmish, which has devolved into an international, and increasingly nasty, war of words and investor presentations.
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" The contradictions and ironies of Vietnam became more obvious when an officer declared that henceforth "search and destroy" missions would be described more palatably as "sweep and clear.
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All these paradoxes reside at the margins of Bohemian Rhapsody, because Freddie Mercury was a real person who lived with and was shaped by these ironies every day.
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Ms. Sturgeon is essentially using the same "take back control" argument that leave supporters used in the European Union referendum, only one of the ironies involved, as Mrs.
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The ironies have not been lost of the game's creators: The two groups behind the game, the TESA Collective and Jobs With Justice, have expressed solidarity with Kickstarter's union.
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Given its sudden popularity, one of the ironies about "Break My Stride" is that it was something of a last-ditch attempt to break through in the record industry.
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" Inside it, Neruda captures perhaps the truest and cruelest ironies of love, the secret of what makes heartbreak so damn heartbreaking: "Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
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Mr Amrith notes the "most bitter of ironies" in this agricultural miracle: intensified production means that more land is planted with crops, which reflect more solar radiation than forests.
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Pianist survived Holocaust by playing for Nazis Destiny Teege's life story is punctuated with ironies and coincidences so great that they prompted her to rethink the concept of fate.
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It would be the cruelest of ironies if the magnetometers, designed to identify weapons and deter violence, were not removed and their retention triggered more violent confrontations this weekend.
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By abandoning Paris, Trump would risk ceding international leadership to China, which appears ready to become (irony of ironies) the leading voice for climate action and clean energy policy.
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Of all the great ironies of the Obama years, the conferring of the Nobel Peace Prize before the Oval Office drapes were hung, is one of the most puzzling.
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This isn't anybody's fault, exactly — no one should feel blamed for being heartbroken over Carrie Fisher's fatal heart attack, which overshadowed Michael's death on Christmas Day (irony of ironies).
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The band became a staple of FM radio in the late 1970s and of MTV in the '20113s, toying with textures and ironies but sticking to neat pop structures.
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In his new book In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, David Rieff doesn't explain why this happened, but he doubts that it is entirely a good thing.
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One of the ironies of this moment is that Trump's election played a crucial role in instigating the flood of sexual misconduct allegations that have rocked workplaces across the country.
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The reader pioneers a rough way through multiple texts, fragments, scraps of narrative, bits of oral history; we are supposed to feel the sheer density, and savage ironies, of diversity.
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There are so many ironies about the shooting in Annapolis and the lives of five talented, dedicated people — people who loved their jobs and the community they served — cut short.
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And, irony of ironies, as Chace points out, the man who detests drugs more than anything ends up funding the largest influx of cocaine into Europe with Primo's new port.
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She is a biographer with a De Quinceyan eye for pattern, and a sharp sense of the ironies that made her subject's life at once so rich and so depleted.
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His image, taken this week during a demonstration in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, is wet with poetry and the ironies of cancel culture, a twisted fable of our modern times.
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The ironies of this cosplay are particularly rich given that Creighton and Norvell, who both make about $500,000 per year, ply their trade on the backs of unpaid student laborers.
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And he believed that his children could understand adult books and adult plays, if some pedagogically minded person walked them through all the references, the complex ironies, the double entendres.
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Likewise, positing as the principal organ through which cultural Marxism propagates itself in pop culture, that the Frankfurt School so explicitly denounced, would strike them as the saltiest of ironies.
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It's one of those ironies, I suppose, that we sometimes start feeling comfortable in our own skin only late in our lives, but hopefully with enough time to benefit from it.
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One of the ironies of our current moment is that we think with the advance of science and technology that we have so much more certainty, but that's not the case.
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His thriving career One of the ironies of Ostadhassan's saga is that, even as his battle with USCIS has intensified, his career has thrived -- with some help from the US government.
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One of the ironies of the Trump team's agenda is that, although they want to get out of businesses' hair at home, when it comes to trade they want to regulate.
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Fergus becomes trapped by his own defiance — he may put a brave face on it, but for a pickpocket to lose a hand is the cruelest and most poetic of ironies.
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After a pair of disappointingly perfunctory early episodes, "Narcos" has found the sense of purpose that will hopefully carry it through the moral torpor and savage ironies of Escobar's last days.
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Competition is good for the market and one of the ironies of Asia is that this is where the centre of aviation is heading and this is where the growth is.
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Other ironies, more present to us, abound: Remember the misguided rush eight years ago to declare the birth of a "post-racial" America in the aftermath of President Obama's first election?
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It is one of life's ironies, then, that it is perhaps those in Congress who claim to cherish private property rights the most whose actions are effectively doing these rights in.
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I do think the first half is a bit cool, and I'm not sure how to remedy that, except by possibly throwing in some coarse stuff and hitting up the ironies.
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By wearing a mask made of his own face, he inflected every interaction with multiple ironies, keeping his guests—including politicians and authors—off balance, and forcing them to be spontaneous.
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Instead, Mr. Greene's sympathetic method — you can feel him quietly listening and observing, leaving plenty of silence for his subjects to fill — allows the viewer to discover unstated ironies and resonances.
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Still, one of the many ironies here is that the Trump-hating media has handed him an incredibly powerful weapon for the 2020 campaign, one that may ensure his re-election.
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It's one of ballet's ironies — the outside world has long viewed the male dancer as the antithesis of conventional masculinity, yet the culture inside ballet can still be somewhat bro-y.
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It is one of the dark ironies of American history that the broadening of the franchise to virtually all white male citizens coincided with the disenfranchisement of African-Americans and women.
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Such are the ironies in which Mills, at his most winning, likes to deal; rather than take sarcastic shots at earnestness, he stays with it and waits for the comic overreach.
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Gun sales One of the great ironies of the Trump presidency has been that gun sales have slumped significantly since the President, a vocal supporter of the Second Amendment, took office.
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One of the great ironies about American politics is the indifference of voters toward national security issues when they select a president whose main concern will be to protect American interests abroad.
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It's rare that straight culture has to contend with the deep ironies of queer life and queer identity that have been forced onto queer people by the very society that ostracizes them.
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With its reversals and with its bitter ironies — not least that, minutes before he was shot, Rabin had congratulated the crowd, saying, "The people truly want peace" — it is a tragedy already.
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"One of the ironies of today is that those who oppose this president constantly accuse this administration of 'shredding' constitutional norms and waging a war on the rule of law," Barr mused.
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One of the great ironies of depression is that it's easier to joke with a room of strangers about my attempts at suicide than it is to earnestly confide in loved ones.
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One of the most wonderful ironies of Be the Cowboy is that Mitski has proven herself to be a better sad white boy than all the real sad white boys of her genre.
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They create intense local air and noise pollution, they need regular maintenance, and — irony of ironies — fuel stations run on electricity, so in a blackout, people have only what diesel fuel they've stored.
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Opinion Although this year's presidential race has not been a season of gentle ironies, there's one to be found in the revelation of what are alleged to be Hillary Clinton's closed-door speeches.
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Count it among the ironies of the Trump era: After years of being vilified as the embodiment of "San Francisco values," Ms. Pelosi has become the ambassador for political moderation and mainstream policy.
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Gerwig uses her two timelines in the way a TV show would — to underline ironies and to reveal other sides of characters that we might not understand so dramatically in a different story.
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One of the ironies of the Peak TV era is that, with so many quality shows available, those tuning in on Sunday night may not have heard of some shows in the running.
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But like that unorthodox foray into history, this one approaches political issues from an oblique angle, looking for the idiosyncrasies and ironies that humanize the pursuit of ideals and the exercise of power.
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Of course, throughout the campaign, Democrats and the left were, and still are, horrified at how conservative Donald Trump is — an interesting disconnect that was one of the many ironies of the 28503 campaign.
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One of the ironies of Obamacare is that it was ostensibly passed to help working-class families and middle-class families, and they were the ones who voted to put Trump in the presidency.
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In another of the show's defining ironies, partial credit for that motif goes to Mr. Schwartz, who directed more than 40 episodes despite a diagnosis of retinitis pigmentosa that means he is legally blind.
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Indeed, one of the ironies of Trump's presidency, which oozes a uniquely Trumpian brand of macho bravado, is that it unleashed a new generation of women who are running for office in record numbers.
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Thus we see how fascism cannily adapts to continue to hide its ugliness, and the inherent ironies in this, with the added detail of the historical and contemporary intersecting in a wildly random way.
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One of the great ironies of all of this is that writers know — probably better than anyone — what it feels like to have their life's creative work torn to shreds by strangers on the internet.
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It's an anomaly in their catalogue: their subsequent music rarely so resembled conventionally expressive songwriting, rarely required attention to lyrical ironies, and never did they play so strictly by the conventions of '70s rock again.
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"One of the ironies or lousy parts of getting older is that you do have less energy," Mr. Gollash said from a hotel suite in Madrid, where he was staying with his wife and daughter.
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But one of the great ironies of this election is that America's first female president may be viewed by many as the country's most invalid president, hanging under the specter of suspicion, mistrust and illegitimacy.
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Consider the ironies: A tribal party ended up nominating a man who has a very loose connection to the party and has had as many party affiliations in the past as he has had wives.
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Once I had worked out this double stance, moving back and forth between the interiority of psychedelic consciousness and the ironies of ordinary consciousness, scenes I had approached with dread became great fun to write.
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That Fliegelman offered "genuine intellectual help," that he had "professional skills," that he was "brilliant," as we heard from one former graduate student after another, reveals one of the tragic ironies of Fliegelman's predatory behavior.
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On the surface, Springsteen's songs can sound like uncomplicated rallying cries, but what elevates them is their veiled ironies — the way they often reflect a deep ambivalence about the American values they appear to celebrate.
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All of these ironies contrast — to Britain's credit — with the sorry state of the American Republicans faced by the threat of Trump, his abettors in the GOP, and the dangers he represents for American democracy.
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One of the ironies of dysfunctional politics is that the government actually seemed to be getting better at shutting itself down, said Tom Heutte, a program manager at the Tongass National Forest in Ketchikan, Alaska.
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Until then, the highly-publicized actions of Malaysia and the Philippines in naming and shaming waste exporters and sending rancid shipping containers back to their ports of origin is driving home the ironies of eco-imperialism.
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"And one of the ironies of the internet has been the degree to which it's bringing us unprecedented knowledge, but everything on the internet looks like it might be true," Obama said during a panel discussion.
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Dr. Horgan stressed that in addition to physical violence, "terrorism is fundamentally a form of psychological warfare, and it's one of the greatest ironies that we help give it its strength in our reactions to it."
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Sex robots and other virtual substitutes for intercourse are bad and deadly and dehumanizing, but in one of the ironies that our society's evolution regularly delivers, I suspect enlightened liberal opinion will end up welcoming them.
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His death in peacetime Sweden, not war-ravaged Uganda, amplifies the ironies that pulse through the novel: Where P is confronted by questions of ethnic loyalties, his sons must cope with questions of race and identity.
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One of the ironies of this acquisition (if it goes through) is that Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes spent most of the last eight years unwinding what was once the largest media company in the world.
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With the exception of the prologue, which depicts the British Cabinet deciding how to respond to Hitler's invasion of Poland while a cinematic storm rages outside, Bouverie emphasizes the surprising ironies rather than the obvious melodrama.
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I mean, you don't have to believe in "the body" in that art-historical-discourse sense that makes it (irony of ironies) a theoretical object that typifies the shift to a postmodern sensibility in art making.
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Popularly regarded as a saint, she is the perfect counterpoint to the ghastliness around her, and yet she is as dead as the rest of them, a paradox that pours head-spinning ironies into the mix.
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GS: One of the ironies of this lab is that we have all these smart people, and we're working our little rear ends off trying to perfect a product that none of us ever want to use.
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Here, a beautifully internalized performance from Ms. Thompson and the various efforts to highlight the cinematic potential in Fiona's anguish — the climax plays out during a piano recital — can't override the tidy ironies of Mr. McEwan's design.
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To deliver on the ironies of that "Good" in the title, there needs to be moral conflict — the possibility that these protagonists, however much we like them, might make a wrong choice that will get somebody hurt.
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By 1985, in one of the crueler ironies of the century, gay men had learned that the liberation of the libido, the casting-off of eons-old shame, had exposed them to an implacable, hitherto unknown virus.
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Instead of treating soccer like a blood sport, he assumed the attitude of an aesthete, savoring ironies, tracking subplots on and off the field and in general doing his best to show the viewer a good time.
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One of the great ironies of the Cold War is that the acceptance of mutual vulnerability backstopped three decades of nuclear arms control and, eventually, deep cuts in the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States.
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And it points to one of the central ironies of Trump's decision to fire Comey — the cover story that he was dismissed because of his handling of the email investigation actually makes a great deal of sense.
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One of the #NeverTrump crusade's great ironies is that in trying to stop a candidate they perceive as an imposter, conservatives have embraced liberal assumptions and lines of attack that they would normally decry as baseless or risible.
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As the Jenningses came under increasing pressure — from the threat of exposure as spies by Tim, and the threat of annihilation by stolen biological weapons — the show amped up the ironies and paradoxes around the notion of family.
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Nevertheless, one of the sick ironies of the 2016 campaign was that it was Hillary who had to pay the political price for Bill's misdeeds, as they were trotted out to deflect attention from Trump's well-documented transgressions.
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It's one of Canada's many curious ironies that a company headquartered in Toronto runs a successful affordable mobile phone service in the US—Ting by Tucows—but has thus far been unable to operate in its home country.
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It is one of the great ironies of consuming literature that as much as we read to expand our minds, we often take in only whatever it is that we are primed to absorb at a particular moment.
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It modeled a productive style of coed collegiality, with Ms. Moore teasing out the various ironies known to any smart woman trying to keep from cracking up in a world of scowling male bosses and preening male soloists.
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Lozada: It is one of the great ironies of this era that a President who proudly disdains books -- and instead endlessly watches cable news -- has propelled an explosion of books about the conduct and meaning of his presidency.
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And in one of the cruelest ironies of all, 2017 will also demonstrate the overturning of all the Obama administration's assumptions about Syria and perhaps open the door for the Trump administration to take advantage of the new realities.
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But Tsvangirai died at age 65 in February this year, having been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016 — one of the ultimate ironies of Mugabe's fall from power is that he still outlived one of his fiercest political opponents.
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In the most bitter of ironies, this spectacle of black athletic excellence, self-determination, and entrepreneurial-savvy was sponsored by one of the world's most murderous dictators at the behest of one of its most cunning and untrustworthy figures.
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There will be more than a few ironies when the United States formally opens its embassy in Jerusalem today, a day after Israel celebrated Jerusalem Day, which commemorates the conquest of East Jerusalem in the 6900 Six Day War.
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In More, the two ironies that govern nineteenth-century utopian thinking are already present: artisanal craft is rated over mental work by an intellectual author, and sexual egalitarianism is proposed by an imagination not entirely at ease with it.
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Since his first feature, "12:08 East of Bucharest" (133), he has made films that could be described as linear, minimalist and hyper-local, rooted in the petty ironies and indignities of life at the eastern fringe of Europe.
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In the cruelest of ironies, the candidate who lost by nearly three million popular votes has been elected president of the United States by that very process designed to prevent the election of an unqualified president by misinformed voters.
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But on his latest release, "BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow," credited to a trio called Babyfather, he nods more accessibly toward the ironies of black Britain, mining immigrant iconography and American rap tropes to toy with these diasporic symbols.
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In one of the sadder ironies in a field desperately in need of hope, with the clinical trials completed, and the value of prevention demonstrated, sources of funding for programs based on that model are few and far between.
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Hispanic Studies professor Trevor Boffone described the ironies inherent in Porchlight's whitewashing of the Usnavi role in a post about the casting on his website: This casting decision gentrifies a show that is about a community fighting against gentrification.
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One of the ironies of this most recent Facebook brouhaha is the differing reactions between the digital marketing professionals who've spent a career turning money into advertising pixels and a concerned public otherwise innocent to the realities of digital advertising.
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Still, one of the ironies of the uncertainty surrounding the NSC is that foreign policy -- at least as far as it relates to visits by key foreign leaders -- has been one of the smoothest areas of the administration so far.
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Which brings me to one of the greatest ironies about New Neo York: Though its appeal speaks to a shared despair over the loss of the spaces that make New York feel like New York, plenty of those places still exist.
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One of the great ironies of the cloud computing age is that the five to ten year old laptop gathering dust in your desk drawer probably has more horsepower than a top of the line Chromebook which just hit the market.
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In the most tragic of ironies, the poorest, who have been least responsible for elevating CO220006 levels, will be most vulnerable to these nutrient losses because their diets are less diverse and generally contain lower levels of iron, zinc, and protein.
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That's one of the ironies of the age: the New York Times and the Washington Post , which Trump often attacks by name, have gained subscribers and public standing, while a small institution like the Sentinel has been damaged within its community.
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Together, Richard Linklater's trilogy adds up "to the great romantic epic of a generation defined, in the popular mind and our therapists' offices, by hedged bets, easy ironies and perpetual confusion," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
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Indeed, one of the richest ironies that could emerge from Tuesday's election would be if strong Arab turnout raised the minimum vote threshold for political parties to gain entry into Parliament so high that Mr. Lieberman failed to clear it.
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Her novel bears rereading, to reveal pleasing ironies (the boy loses the "little red book about lost children" on a train) and stylistic sleights of hand (that little red book begins in much the same way as "Lost Children" itself).
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One of the tragic ironies of the digital age is this: Despite the fact that low-income Americans have experienced a long history of disproportionate surveillance, their unique privacy and security concerns are rarely visible in Washington and Silicon Valley.
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One of the bleak ironies of what happened in Dallas is that, while the city's police department has a dismal reputation among much of the population, Dallas's police chief, David Brown, is one of the most reform-minded in the country.
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It covers the history of political thought, the fabric of American social life over the centuries, classic "great man" accounts of contingencies, surprises, decisions, ironies and character, and the vivid experiences of those previously marginalized: women, African-Americans, Native Americans, homosexuals.
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"One of the great ironies of this midterm cycle is that Republican candidates who were actively supporting efforts to undermine the Affordable Care act are doing ads touting their support for a critical component of it," Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur said.
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Among the novel's bittersweet ironies is that, for all Frances's suspicion of cliché, she can't shake her sense that Nick, as a handsome, older man, will behave according to type, discarding her as soon as he is bored or sated.
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Irony of ironies though: Will found my original themer to be the weakest of the bunch, so he suggested that I spit out this seed entry, so to speak, and leave the hapless general lying on the cutting room floor.
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Since I'm probably the person who does the most political satire, I'm going to talk about the ironies of Trump's ideas, and each performer will either do standup or tell a personal story about how counterintuitive and fucking crazy they are.
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This positioning, right in the middle of the millennial generation, is part of what makes her one of the most persuasive commentators on the seductions and ironies of cultural and other forms of capital, and the ways they move through the digital sphere.
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In the cruelest of ironies, he had recently lost his own mother to stage 4 lung cancer, and he regarded me and my mother with that special kind of empathy reserved for those who are equally embattled cancer soldiers and their caregivers.
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It's one of the bitterest ironies in television that it was at Fox News, network of blond bombshells and chronic sexual harassment, that Ms. Kelly was given the breathing room to become that most unusual of unicorns: an unlikable woman on television.
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One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what we do to ourselves in times of peace and what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
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Shakespeare is a dramatic poet rather than a psychological novelist or a self-conscious critic of texts, and his imagination runs in broader, potent strokes that are not so much illuminated as belied by the inward-turning ironies of the modern psychological novel.
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One of the great ironies of the NAFTA renegotiation is that if it fails — which is to say, if the United States withdraws from the trade agreement — the people who will hurt the most are among some of the president's biggest supporters.
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One of the ironies of trade protectionism is that tariffs and import quotas are what we do to ourselves in times of peace what foreign nations do to us with blockades to keep imports from entering our country in times of war.
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One of the biggest ironies of this tax cut versus tax reform debate is how none of the supposed small-government proponents are suggesting spending cuts to pair with the tax cut as offsets, which from their perspective, should be a two-fer.
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Unsurprisingly, the story of that progress is too grand a saga even for Herzog, and he prefers, in the remaining nine parts of the film, to launch a series of whimsical raids on the ironies, or the vertiginous pitfalls, of life online.
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A couple of Republicans have pointed out to me that this is one of the ironies of the election: If Democrats take the House, they'll do it by beating many Republicans who have been willing, from time to time, to break with Trump.
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One of the ironies of the new defense of the candidate as a mere vessel for policy preferences is that it attaches to strong personalities who seem to attract support precisely for their charisma — Mr. Trump and Mr. Moore prominent among them.
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Sen. Jon TesterJonathan (Jon) TesterDemocratic senator: 'The ultimate of ironies' for Trump to hit Romney for invoking his faith Committee on Veterans Affairs sends important message during tense Senate time Democrats cry foul over Schiff backlash MORE (D-Mont.) spoke out in defense of Sen.
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In the wake of the March on Washington in 1963, the segregationist Strom Thurmond (who in the irony of all ironies fathered a secret child with a black woman) used the same you-should-be-happy-and-grateful line of attack on black protesters.
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One of the great ironies of narcissistic personality disorder is that the planet's most self-regarding humans live in a world that is functionally without mirrors—their need to remain the center of attention renders them incapable of seeing how their behaviors affect others.
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"It is one of the great ironies of consuming literature that as much as we read to expand our minds, we often take in only whatever it is that we are primed to absorb at a particular moment," Chloë Schama writes in her review.
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It is Sauer who probably sums up the film's handful of still-unsolved mysteries and many delicious ironies, all of which seem to be visually epitomized by the wry, Cheshire cat smile — suggesting both resignation and fierce resolve — that Khodorkovsky wears throughout the film.
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But by the movie's second half, particularly with regard to the famous love triangle among Jo, Amy, and the neighbor boy Laurie, Gerwig begins piling on the ironies of life and the ways these characters find themselves struggling to reconcile their past and present selves.
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One of the many ironies of the European election is that the supposedly backward-looking Brexit Party has exploited social media much more astutely than the self-consciously with-it Change UK. Mr Farage's public events have been perfectly choreographed and his online campaign first-rate.
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And I think one of the ironies here is that the line is very thin between the -- the ambitions of the prosecutors, the shortcuts to success that they experience, and not unlike the very same things they are trying to prosecute out and rid the markets of.
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But, DJ Twitter can also be a safe haven for those of our favorite jocks looking to wax heavy on life's many mysteries, the ironies of the contemporary music industry, and a whole lot of random shit that's mostly pointless, but still entertaining at the same time.
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New York's outer borough poetry One of the core ironies of the 2016 election is that the professional political observers who were an Uber ride away from JFK Airport were precisely the ones to miss the appeal of this type of New Yorker to middle America.
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But in capturing the lively mood of liberation and self-fulfillment, Mr. Campbell shows us one of the great ironies of Prohibition: In seeking to restore order and convention, it inadvertently ushered in a more urbane and modern sensibility, one that appears utterly familiar to us today.
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The grace and precision of the performances — not only Mr. Karam's and Mr. El Basha's, but also those of the actors playing the colleagues, advocates, surprise witnesses and bureaucrats who populate an increasingly crowded story — push against the director's fondness for grand statements and obvious ironies.
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At this moment of frustration for May, one of the great ironies of the UK's vote to leave the EU last year is becoming clearer: the monumental effort and time her government now needs to devote to Brussels is more so than perhaps all previous post-war UK administrations.
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The hybrid structures recall one of the election's many ironies, that on the campaign trail Trump cited his Atlantic City casino ventures as examples of how he does business — essentially cluing us into his intentions to profit from a failing business and let the loss fall on others.
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Feiffer luxuriates in the ironies, as when an ostensibly banished female screenwriter goes undercover and looks for work: Behind facial hair and pseudonym, her bespectacled face like a Feiffer self-portrait, she bites back laughter when a producer unwittingly offers rewrite duties on a script that she originally wrote.
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V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who documented the migrations of peoples, the unraveling of the British Empire, the ironies of exile and the clash between belief and unbelief in more than a dozen unsparing novels and as many works of nonfiction, died on Saturday at his home in London.
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But while players adapted to the dress code quickly—it's one of the nice residual ironies of the Stern administration that he inadvertently did so much to push the league toward the hyperactive avant-gardism of Russell Westbrook's fashion revolution—messing with the basketball was over the line.
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One of the ironies in this is that I — along with most of my fellow teachers from the 20 countries (not counting Puerto Rico) where Spanish is an official language — long ago shed the specific regional, class-shaped intonations and vocabulary that are, or once were, our native accents.
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Small in size but jolting in impact, the portrait bears hints of ghastly blackface caricature, but turns them around into astute ironies of a self-aware, unconquerable character—not an "identity," a term that is as reductive in art as it is in politics, and which Marshall bursts beyond.
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The scene's physical comedy only heightens its subtler, sadder ironies, such as the exhaustion of having to perform under observation what you in fact are; the pained, fallen clown is so palpably the responsible and loving parent that the grimacing phony was straining to impersonate just moments before.
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I am grown by then, having passed through the appropriate stages of development, or so I hope, having grown more fixed in myself, set in my ways, and more open to inhabiting another's life, I think—an irony which, like all ironies, must resolve somewhere in a deeper truth.
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Tin Nyo describes the Jambon de Bayonne (named for the Basque port city on the Bay of Biscay) as the "emblematic ham of France," which, as historical ironies seem to go, is produced by a people who inhabited the region long before it was ever claimed by France.
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They are ironies that would have been appreciated by Comey's hero Niebuhr, who wrote as much about the limits, contingencies and unforeseen consequences of human decision-making as he did about the dangers of moral complacency and about the necessity of entering the political arena to try to make a difference.
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Still, there are certain ironies to Lee's forced retreat from the U.S. For one, he's from Taiwan and he immigrated to the U.S. at a young age, attending high school in Tennessee and college at Columbia University, before getting his doctorate in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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This self-reflexive turn is perhaps the only remaining option for an artist who's cultivated an image of self-awareness, which doubles as a defense against criticism: of course he knows what he's doing, all the ironies are intentional, he's deliberately trying to make himself look ridiculous, goes the argument.
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Whatever the ironies of his comments, considering this administration's position in the travel ban litigation on the wide sweep of the president's power to set immigration policy, the attorney general could not have stated more forcefully his belief that DACA is a legally indefensible violation of constitutional separation-of-powers doctrine.
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One of the Shakespearean ironies of the past decade of Republican politics is the fact that Reince Priebus, as the party's chairman, commissioned an "autopsy" after the 2012 election explicitly making the argument that Republicans could no longer rely on the overwhelming support of white voters to win presidential elections.
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Her reflections on traumatic inheritance, on the unreliability and loss of memory, on the paucity of language for the crimes of the 20th century are often overwrought; she needlessly strains to underscore the gravity of her subject when in fact the history, riddled with ambiguities and cruel ironies, speaks for itself.
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Witty punch lines bob along on deeper ironies, and in what feels like a slice of current pop culture, a star-struck press and the passengers of the S.S. American so hunger for celebrity guests to lend glamour that, denied true celebrities, they elevate real and presumed gangsters to hero status.
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But a crucial reason, and one whose ironies the leaders of the church should meditate upon, is that because of secularization and polarization and the bonfire they have made of their own moral authority, the Catholic bishops are now somewhat protected from media scrutiny by virtue of their increasing unimportance.
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Not for her the austerity and self-conscious ironies of so much American fiction; her books reach for the sweep, force and sense of inevitability of the Greek myths, but as translated to the small, mostly poor, mostly black town in Mississippi where she grew up and where she still lives.
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One of the biggest ironies in trade policy is that, despite Mr. Trump's opposition to the TPP, negotiators have drawn on its text to update Nafta, since it is a recent trade deal that covers issues like e-commerce, and one which negotiators from the three countries have already agreed to.
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More avant-garde art installation than film (in fact, before premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January, it was an art installation), Manifesto rewards the patient viewer with a mysterious, artful, often funny reflection on the swagger, idealism, and ironies that arise when artists talk about their own work.
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Critical appreciations of new wave tend to stress how strict aesthetic distance creates feeling through inversion — how emotions can be more affecting when presented with detachment — which is true of the Cars: the mock desperation of "Dangerous Type," or the amused infatuation of "You Wear Those Eyes," qualify as appropriately subverted pop ironies.
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Iowa demonstrates the utter lack of predictability this year — but a Bloomberg versus Trump contest would be full of mind boggling ironies: Two septuagenarian New York billionaires, running in an increasingly populist country; the Democratic candidate a former Republican mayor, while the incumbent Republican president was a Democrat for most of his life.
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Op-Ed Contributor Durham, N.H. — One of the most powerful ironies in a political season full of perversities is a paradox that now defines Hillary Clinton's campaign: The first female presidential candidate to overcome the obstacles that sank every single woman before her now confronts criticism for overcoming those very same difficulties.
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The irony of ironies is that McCrory would have almost assuredly won had conservative organizations and donors pitched in just another $85033 or $2 million — relative pocket change when compared to multi-million dollar projects being funded merely to study how conservatives might use different messaging on social issues in future elections.
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Whatever the ironies, and even if Ms. Le Pen falls short, as the polls suggest, political analysts here say that her gender strategy is one of the reasons the National Front has gained ground — although she has long worked at repositioning the party, expelling her father and playing down its anti-Semitic past.
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In this respect we are entirely typical: students from 'predominantly Muslim countries' make invaluable contributions to research and teaching in every major university in the United States, and one of the many ironies here is that they are disproportionately represented in science, engineering and technology—the very fields in which American competitiveness is questioned.
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" Greenwald then directly confronted Nunes, saying, "I want to know if you still believe that a judge should investigate our family, with the possibility of taking our children away from home and returning with them to the shelter, without a mother, without a father, without a family..." Nunes responded, "He still can't identify ironies.
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Although the plot seems fairly innocent — woman goes to find her brother, begins to flirt with an old flame, takes care of her niece — it does take place in Las Vegas, and Pollack is good at describing the ironies of the city: the glitzy facade hiding a slew of sad, tired characters beaten down by life.
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Mitchell struck out only 117 times in a 1,127-game career, or about half the number of times Chris Davis did this year alone, but in one of those little ironies that makes life so damned painful, he comes down to us as the guy who whiffed to end Don Larsen's 1956 World Series perfect game.
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It's a familiar generational story of a mid-century consciousness raised, though one of the novel's nice comic ironies is that the roommate goes on to become a rabidly anti-choice senator from Indiana, made far more politically powerful by her own brand of political radicalization than Faith could ever hope to be made by hers.
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I suppose it has to be one among Western history's many ironies, from a hard-secular perspective, that a Christian view of personhood was originally responsible for the modern idea of the human being as an "individual," with all the interiority of heart and mind, and all the related significance of free choice, this idea of individuality entails.
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"'Before Sunrise,' 'Before Sunset' and 'Before Midnight' are modest, charming movies that together add up to the great romantic epic of a generation defined, in the popular mind and our therapists' offices, by hedged bets, easy ironies and perpetual confusion," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times of this trilogy from the director Richard Linklater.
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"One of the great ironies for me is that when a lot of us joined the very first version of the service in 2004, back when it was just a handful of college students, we were convinced that dating would be the next feature Facebook was going to add," Cox said onstage at Facebook's conference last week.
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"One of the great ironies of history is that so far up until now, in the history of our country right now, no one has done more or is currently working to do more to fix this broken and racist criminal justice system than President Trump and Jared Kushner," he said, bemoaning "oversentencing" and general incarceration rates in the United States.
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By this point the cruelties of the slave existence have been compounded with disgusting ironies: George's chief value to his owner, who is also his father, is his skill at training game cocks, and the old man (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) regards George with the satisfied air of a man pleased with his property – both George and the fowl – and a vague touch of paternal pride.
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Though his motives in writing the book are still puzzling to scholars (was More mocking Catholic rules or merely toying with them?), he created a template for later utopias, which were always marked by those two tenacious ironies: thinking people are told by a thinking person to stop thinking, and changing the world is imagined to depend on changing who we sleep with and how.
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One of my life's sickest, saddest ironies was sitting in couples' therapy toward the end of my marriage and realizing that the main thing my husband and I had in common (aside from our devotion to our kids) was that both of us seemed to feel unheard, unappreciated, taken for granted, and mischaracterized by the other — often, it seemed, with an outrageous level of willful ignorance.
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Even Facebook admits this: "One of the great ironies for me is that when a lot of us joined the very first version of the service in 2004, back when it was just a handful of college students, we were convinced that dating would be the next feature Facebook was going to add," said Facebook's Chief Product Officer Chris Cox at a conference in May 2018.
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This awareness and the singular instinct to work both with and against this process, despite being part of it, is a central theme of Erdemci's and Guler's exhibition — one that is mindful of its place, its time, and its ironies while being generous enough to make the viewer feel less like an intruder and more like an admiring passerby or, in some cases, even a participant.
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Honig, a former doctor, fills the novel with expert medical detail, but fortunately, this and the author's hailing from London (that beloved refuge of Russian oligarchs — one of the novel's ironies is that everyone is trying to skim enough to get out of Russia) are almost all we learn from his book bio; no acknowledgments tempt us to distract ourselves by drawing links between the man and the story.
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It has been a year of ironies: President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, once said he would take a bullet for Trump and now seeks to destroy him (and to do so pro bono). Sen.
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Many—too many—of the artists seize on easy ironies of mediated information (televised spectacle as somehow malignantly manipulative rather than banal), tendentious incongruities (the artist Martha Rosler's well-known montages of sinister soldiers in battle array and of upper-class women vamping in deluxe homes prove what, exactly?), and fixate on remotely deployed weaponry (as if this were any more reprehensible than dealing death with clubs and knives).
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Woodrow Wilson, among others, was not so successful in creating a postwar peace because he forced conditions to preconceived realities that bore little resemblance to emerging ironies at Versailles — and was without a sellable idea of an American role after World War I. Gaddis concludes with an invaluable warning that true morality embraces neither messianic interventionism nor the quest for utopianism — indeed that is how millions become deluded, endangered or doomed.
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More than three-quarters of a century after the delegates of the Second Continental Congress voted to quit the Kingdom of Great Britain and declared that "all men are created equal," Frederick Douglass stepped up to the lectern at Corinthian Hall, in Rochester, New York, and, in an Independence Day address to the Ladies of the Rochester Anti-Slavery Sewing Society, made manifest the darkest ironies embedded in American history and in the national self-regard.
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And, whether they know it or not, the decision is likely made at the level of their unconscious, fast-processing, associative, system — Kahnemann's System 1 — and later justified by their slower, apparently rational but often simply self-certifying System 2… which will throw up ironies like a "too good" pitch alienating the investor because the presenter has focused too much on honing their pitching skills to the point of precision, while forgetting that pitching is not really pitching — it is sales — and sales is subtle.
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With the "Odyssey"'s lotus flowers and nepenthe (possibly opium), and, perhaps, "Alice in Wonderland"'s cake and mushroom in the deep background, novelists in the 1960s and '70s gave us organic intoxicants like "melange," the utopian "spice" in Frank Herbert's "Dune"; "black meat," a cheeselike drug made from the flesh of giant centipedes in William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch"; and the nightmarishly addictive Substance D (for death) in Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly," an injectable derived from a blue flower grown, in one of Dick's fiercest ironies, on farms staffed by zombied-out recovering addicts.
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