The timing of this letter could not be more ironic.
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The title, taken from an E.E. Cummings poem, couldn't be more ironic.
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Ingo came with something more similar to our temperament — more ironic, more joyful.
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More ironic: He was just HOURS away from leaving for a trip to MOSCOW.
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You couldn't have a more ironic response to a hearing on climate denialism - but that's not stopping us.
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Such shows became less antic, more pop, more ironic—with, say, people in Superman outfits making little speeches.
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That it turns the Americans's othering of the locals against them weighs it with even more ironic weight.
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This is all the more ironic because the media also accuses Biosphere 22 of being a stunt, not science.
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The reverence in which they held Washington makes it all the more ironic that they endowed the office so weakly.
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And it is all the more ironic since one of the plethora of issues on the G-20 agenda is corruption.
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It's all the more ironic that, decades later, the (Americanized) French mani is taking over the streets of Paris Fashion Week.
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This whole story would have been much more ironic if Marenghi had been riding one of Los Angeles's much-maligned Bird scooters.
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He's at least seven years older than those bands and he's also more ironic in the lyrics than any of those bands.
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Even more ironic, the Parliament provides them with a platform to coordinate their anti-Europe efforts — and to get paid for it.
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It's about breaking all the rules (which makes that "no one is civil anymore" complaint even more ironic) and becoming an iconoclastic hero.
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So was anything more sour, more inappropriate, or more ironic than Cristiano Ronaldo's petulant remarks after his team's goalless group game against Iceland?
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It's hard to think of a more ironic outcome of the Brexit than the French benefiting most of all, but here we are.
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One possibility may be phones illegally smuggled from China — which would make the mirror droid's placement in a government facility that much more ironic.
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"I appreciate the opportunity to learn from a mistake," Meyer said at a press conference Wednesday, in a statement that couldn't be more ironic.
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Researchers found that the jokes were not considered more ironic or more humorous when presented in or out of the context of a magazine.
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I think he's slightly more the raised eyebrow, more ironic, more just having a lot of fun in the world in which he's found himself.
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Even more ironic, the Parliament provides a platform for these lawmakers to network and coordinate their anti-Europe efforts — and to get paid for it.
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All the more ironic, then, that Silicon Valley is such a deft skewering of startup culture, technological obsession, and the clash of digital versus "real" life.
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Even more ironic is that, outside of the tax cuts and deregulatory efforts, it's Trump's own policies that are contributing to slower global and domestic growth.
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The hope and change Barack Obama's supporters felt in 2008 was much diminished by 2012, and had curdled into something grimmer and more ironic by 2016.
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To matters more ironic, when Cruz was solicitor general of Texas, his office filed a 76-page defense of the state's ban on sex toys in 2007.
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In one of the more ironic moments of the race, the two appeared on stage together at a rally opposing the Iran deal in September on Capitol Hill.
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It's easy enough to guess the outline of what comes next, and Life renders it as visceral horror, the title seeming more and more ironic as the film progresses.
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It is even more ironic that these increased expenditures will leave both countries, and the rest of the world, with a significantly increased risk of an accidental nuclear war.
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A more ironic depiction of daily customs is seen in the famous trepanation scene of "Extracting the Stone of Madness" (1501–05), on display near the end of the show.
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Married for four years, the pair announced their big news (times two!) in February, telling PEOPLE the pregnancy came as a surprise — and the timing couldn't have been more ironic.
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It means you're probably a well-adjusted person with an equally well-adjusted life, and that you don't spend your time trawling some of the more ironic portions of the internet.
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In the penultimate fight, the challenger, Miesha Tate, whose nickname, Cupcake, seemed more ironic as the match wore on, squeezed the throat of the champion, Holly Holm, until she lost consciousness.
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That airline luxury is really about saving time makes it even more ironic I spent so much time hustling my way into it, but this is what happens when you aren't rich.
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"More ironic is that this is through the National Council (for Human Rights), the role of which is to always polish the government's image and complicity in the human rights situation," he said.
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And it's all the more ironic at a time when the Left and the media keep harping on cautionary tales like "1984" and "The Handmaids Tale" as parables in the Age of Trump.
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But even if the National Review was right to read this comment narrowly, that it "only" dehumanized gang members, that makes the administration's policies towards those fleeing gang-related violence even more ironic and cruel.
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The same could be said for Troll 2: If it were to suddenly re-materialize today, it would just be One More Ironic Old Thing We Found on the Internet This Morning, and then quickly forgotten.
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One of the more ironic things about what's going on here is that because of the shutdown, a lot of the government data that would generally tell us how the US economy is doing won't come out.
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Adding one more ironic twist to this whole mess is the fact that Twitch is owned by Amazon, meaning Trump is now utilizing a platform owned by (and financially benefitting) Jeff Bezos, one of Trump's favorite targets.
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In what should rank as one of the more ironic facts of modern politics, prominent Christian leaders and a record number of self-proclaimed evangelical voters supported for president a man of undisguised cruelty and unmatched narcissism.
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"It couldn't be more ironic that the trade tariffs done to bring factories back from overseas, are actually shutting down production at existing plants here in the U.S." said Chris Rupkey, chief economist at MUFG in New York.
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Despite this, in my experience, the bench-clearing brawl is often the physical manifestation of a team rejecting the punishment sentence, or—even more ironic, a team interpreting an opposing pitcher inadvertently hitting a batsmen as intentional and malicious.
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And to make the fact that Trump—a tremendous loser with no friends—can't seem to get anyone to agree to play his inauguration even more ironic, Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam showed up to get the proceedings started.
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In a more ironic tone, he said those who did not want to do politics in parliament "should go dig trenches or go to the mountains" - a reference to the tactics and hideouts of the Kurdish militant group PKK.
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The Russian Internet company Yandex has been the most vocal in urging European action against Apple, which is even more ironic considering that Russia is not a member of the European Union and has been sanctioned over its annexation of Crimea.
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It's even more ironic that to beat this thing you had to take all these drugs and put all these chemicals in your body, when even way back when you were a wild and crazy twentysomething, you weren't really into drugs.
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If some of her peers — Josh Faught, for instance — are more ironic and winking in their approach to fiber art, distancing it from its earthy, hippie associations, Ms. Bland comes across like a sincere devotee of the fiber/weaving tradition.
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Now his fellow Republicans are making the promise of a more ethical Washington even more ironic by eviscerating the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), which was done in a closed-room vote without a roll call in the dead of a holiday Monday.
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Amazon is doing wonderfully well, which makes it even more ironic, and I think I'm going to use the term morally repugnant, for Amazon not to provide its workers with paid sick leave other than two weeks if you actually test positive.
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The Communists responded in kind: 1967 saw the war changing from Viet Cong "punji" stakes of sharpened bamboo and booby traps to North Vietnamese infantry battalions backed by heavy Russian artillery firing from across the Demilitarized Zone, one of the war's more ironic oxymorons.
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The tone became more and more ironic and self-deprecating—fans would comment on the squareness of his head, and Lenney would act offended to spur it on—yet he somehow retained a bit of that old school YouTuber hyper-sincerity when encouraging people to like and subscribe.
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There are 294 new dealers, including Tasveer Gallery from Bangalore, which is mixing hand-painted photographs from the first half of the 20th-century with more ironic, contemporary ripostes, and Ibasho from Antwerp, Belgium, which has a survey of images by Japanese photographers and by others working in Japan.
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Cozier than "Blood Simple," more perverse than "Murder She Wrote" — with a dash of "Lysistrata" thrown in for some sly sexual table-turning — "Blow the Man Down" isn't a whodunit as much as a will-they-get-away-with-it caper, given even more ironic humor by its quaintly innocent setting.
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I'm dreading the moments when they kill Brienne just to make her recent knighting feel more ironic and hollow, kill Tyrion because they don't seem to like him and they've never known what to do with a really smart character, or kill any number of other people solely to dominate next-day water cooler conversation.
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The title is more ironic than ambivalent, referring principally to hopes expressed by young Americans shortly after winning World War II.
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Glicksburg wrote on a variety of topics, but especially some of his later books like The Ironic Vision in Modern Literature focused on the progression from more heroic tales to more ironic tales as writing approaches the modern day.
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The grand claims of the Romantics began to give way in the twentieth century to a more ironic stanceS. Chatterji, Memories of a Lost War (2001) p. 70 – Yeats speaking for his calling in general when he wrote "We have no gift to set a statesman right".W. B. Yeats, The Poems (1984) p.
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Ironically he was personally signed to the Reprise label by his old friend and bandmate, Frank Sinatra. Even more ironic, Sinatra sold the label to Warner Bros., and Greeley was trimmed once more. Never on the street, Greeley had already begun working in television and more success were to come...in television and concerts across the country.
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Its differentiating point was to be a more ironic and funny atmosphere to contrast the deep and involved scenery of Nathan Never. Initially Antonio Serra took care of the comic. He introduced a number of storyline which could be read as a parody of chauvinism versus feminism. After an intermediate period during which Stefano Piani edited the stories, in 2004 a major rework of the series went through.
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The band were then rapidly snapped up the same year by management company Eerie Management and under the watchful eye of Tish Romanov they went on to record the videos to Take Me Away and Nothing Left for Me, Worked with American Producer Beau Hill on Save Me and secured a touring agreement with ACA Music. The band's latest album 9 Lies has an increased alternative rock influence, and embraced a more ironic and self- deprecating image.
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The dominant theme of his paintings became nudes, but even here the mark of disintegration and the passage of time is felt. These works have been painted in the form of frescoes destroyed by time and revealing completely different images under them. In the next phase of the work, Kukowski referred to his first works, but despite his lighter tones his paintings became more and more ironic and provocative. The artist also cooperates with musicians and avant-garde artists.
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Charles Thomson. Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Acquisitions Decision, 2000, Stuckism. Modern art foreshadowed several characteristics of what would later be defined as postmodern art; as a matter of fact, several modern art movements can often be classified as both modern and postmodern, such as pop art. Postmodern art, for instance, places a strong emphasis on irony, parody and humour in general; modern art started to develop a more ironic approach to art which would later advance in a postmodern context.
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Among these works were a history of the British state airline B.O.A.C. (The Seven Skies, 1959), and of Courage Brewery (A Draught of Contentment (1971).Text based on A Draught of Contentment at Courage & Co However, poetry remained the most important to him. His later work, from the collection Spill Out (1967) onward, took on a more ironic stance but was still vernacular, rather than academic, a period reflected in his second Selected Poems collection of 1973. One of his book blurbs describes him as "a poet who just missed being an intellectual".
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Leo Strauss wrote a political-philosophical commentary on the dialogue. He took the Oeconomicus as a more ironic examination of the nature of the gentleman, virtue, and domestic relationships. Michel Foucault devoted a chapter in his The History of Sexuality (1976–1984) to "Ischomachus' Household". He took Xenophon's depiction of the relationship between Ischomachus and his wife as a classical expression of the ancient Greek ideology of power, according to which a man's control of his emotions was externally reflected in his control of his wife, his slaves, and his political subordinates.
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Castle Waiting is a graphic novel series, created by Linda Medley, first published in 1996. It is set in a world of fairy tales and mythology featuring a mix of old-fashioned storytelling and more ironic, modern touches. The series brings together characters from several classic fairy tales, such as Simple Simon and Iron Henry, as well as referencing several others such as Jack and the Beanstalk and Sleeping Beauty. The story focuses on the daily lives of the characters, their interactions with one another, and their complicated pasts.
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John Kelly Puck magazine caricature of Kelly (on grill), 1881 This cartoon describes the aftermath of the fight for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1884. John Kelly (April 20, 1822 – June 1, 1886) of New York City, known as "Honest John", was a boss of Tammany Hall and a U.S. Representative from New York from 1855 to 1858. The title "Honest" was given to him during his years as New York City Sheriff and was more ironic than truthful. Kelly was able to amass a vast fortune estimated at $800,000 by 1867 by both ethical and questionable means.
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Among his influences as singer, Llach has recognized Mahalia Jackson and Jacques Brel. His lyrics can range from the most traditionally romantic songs, to more complex, philosophical song-cycles and also to some more ironic, politically based compositions, with a more upbeat tempo. Sea and vitalistic attitude in face of death are two of his cherished topics. When he doesn't write the lyrics of his songs he puts music to a variety of poets, including Constantine P. Cavafy, Màrius Torres, Josep Maria de Segarra, Pere Quart and, perhaps more often than with any of the others, Miquel Martí i Pol.
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Topping music charts around the world, it produced their only number-one singles in the US to date: "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For". Facing creative stagnation and a backlash following their documentary/double album, Rattle and Hum (1988), U2 reinvented themselves in the 1990s through a new musical direction and public image. Beginning with their acclaimed seventh album, Achtung Baby (1991), and the multimedia-intensive Zoo TV Tour, the band integrated influences from alternative rock, electronic dance music, and industrial music into their sound, and embraced a more ironic, flippant image.
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The Illinois State Fair played a key role in the popularization of the corn dog, starting in 1946. The fair has long been noted for its annual butter cow, a life-size animal formed of pure butter applied to an armature by a sculptor wielding an oversized palette knife. Among the butter cow's more ironic admirers was author David Foster Wallace, who covered the 1993 Illinois State Fair for Harper's; his report on the yellow bovine, and other Fair sights, is reprinted in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997). The Illinois State Fair was featured on the NBC-TV show The Great American Road Trip in July 2009.
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Feeling that the songs played on the radio at that time were "homogenized", Madonna pursued a new musical direction for MDNA. She felt the songs could be divided into two categories; "introspective" tracks created with Orbit, and "more ironic and funny and upbeat" tunes with Solveig. Christopher Rosa from Glamour noticed that although the album did not reference her ex-husband Guy Ritchie, he was a direct inspiration in the songwriting following their divorce in 2008. Thematically it explored the different facets of a post-divorce scenario, from somber mourning to releasing one's inhibitions after being suppressed in marriage, as well as anger and disdain.
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The characters' professional ambitions frequently result in them making decisions at the expense of their personal relationships. David Sims of The Atlantic said, "[The characters'] conflicts often hinge on their struggles to communicate—which is made all the more ironic by the fact that they're laying the groundwork for a world where everyone can speak to each other instantly, despite being more polarized than ever." Lisco said a "seminal theme" of the show was "the euphoria and the cost of going after your dreams in life". Chris Cabin of Collider called the series one in which "connections are often compromised in the name of ambition and vision".
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Via Paolo Fabbri 43 is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. It was released in 1976 by EMI Italiana, and was Guccini's most- selling title. The "via" of the title is the road in Bologna, giving the complete address where Guccini lived at the time. It contains one of Guccini's most famous works, "L'avvelenata" ("The poisonous"), a long ballad criticizing some of his critics (including Riccardo Bertoncelli, with whom Guccini later made friends), as well as several aspects of the Italian cultural world of the 1970s; some of these elements are also present in the title track, but with a more ironic tone.
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The Latin title Fidei defensor was first granted by the Pope to King Henry VIII, who subsequently split the English Church from Rome; hence the double irony of the song applying it to Protestant King George. The line is even more ironic, since George I did not take stands on religious matters, preferring to practice salutary neglect of church matters. In fact, George II (king at the time of this song's setting) reduced the involvement of the Crown with the Church in general and diminished the role of Lords in church affairs. Thus, he seemed to contemporaries to be a more secular king than they had had before, and certainly not a "defensor fidelis".
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This is a protest song, more ironic than > angry perhaps, but a protest nonetheless. In the singers' hands, the word > nigger has a sardonic tone... in the very opening, Hammerstein has > established the gulf between the races, the privilege accorded the white > folks and denied the black, and a flavor of the contempt built into the very > language that whites used about African Americans. This is a very effective > scene.... These are not caricature roles; they are wise, if uneducated, > people capable of seeing and feeling more than some of the white folk around > them. > The racial situations in the play provoke thoughts of how hard it must have > been to be black in the South.
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On her blog, Emily notes her name means "to rival" which she finds ironic, as she's a twin. What's even more ironic to her is that her sister's name means "pure and virginal," a nod to how many boyfriends Katie has had. During Naomi's episode in series 3, stylist Kirstie Stanway began to differentiate between Emily and her twin sister Katie's hair and makeup to show that the twins are starting to "move along their own paths". Originally, an entire scene was supposed to be filmed with Naomi and Emily in the lake, but the water was so cold that the actors were unable to stay in the water, and Kathryn Prescott was taken to a standby ambulance with suspected hypothermia.
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Manley's refusal to shake Taylor's hand after his 7-0 World Championship thrashing in 2002 led to darts fans booing him for many years. The boos became more ironic and good-natured when in 2005 Manley changed his entrance theme from Chumbawamba's Tubthumping to Tony Christie's Is This the Way to Amarillo. By the end of his career Manley was seen by darts crowds as being more of a 'pantomime villain' rather than subject to genuine animosity which had occurred previously. Manley has even gone on to say that whilst the booing and crowd reaction was hard for him and his family to take in the early days, it helped him as his career went on and ensured his popularity on the exhibition circuit.
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Nightcrawler is a mutant born with fine blue-black fur covering his body, two fingers with an opposable thumb on each hand and only two toes, each longer than a normal human being's, on each foot and a third toe-like projection on his heel, as well as pronounced, fang- like canine teeth, yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a prehensile pointed tail which can support his weight. Among his more ironic character traits, Wagner is an extremely religious man. A devout Catholic, his demonic appearance obviously makes it very difficult to attend Mass. Despite this, as mutants in the Marvel Universe become more accepted, he even managed to almost become a Catholic priest; unfortunately his studies were interrupted by a villainous group known as "The Neo".
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Combustible Edison, founded in the early 1990s in Providence, Rhode Island, was one of several lounge music acts that led a brief resurgence of interest in the genre during the mid-1990s. Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works by Esquivel, Henry Mancini and Martin Denny. Said Trouser Press, "As the band that poured the first shot in the Cocktail Revolution, this Boston-area combo brought lounge music into the '90s—or, more accurately, transported tastemakers back to the suburbia of the '50s—with strikingly authentic interpretations of some of the most unauthentic sounds known to mankind." The band ended in 1999.
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For the Spurs, it was their third title (they also won in the lockout- shortened season of 1998–99). The Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards ended long playoff droughts in 2005, meeting each other in the first round. For Washington it was their first playoff appearance since 1997 (and even more ironic their opponents for that postseason appearance were the Bulls who swept them on their way to their fifth NBA title), and only their second since 1988. Their 4–2 series victory over the Bulls was their first since 1982. The Miami Heat became the first team to go 8–0 through the first two rounds after the first round was made into a best-of-7 in the 2003 playoffs.
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Originally, a censored version was published in England, but the full text was printed in a subsequent 1968 edition. Enid Stubin describes "The Time of Her Time" as a satire that depicts the realities of human relationships: "The sly and affectionate substance of this 'notorious' story places 'The Time of Her Time' well ahead of its time as a satirical meditation on the roles of men and women in and out of love". Andrew Gordon considers "Time" as a forerunner to An American Dream: the two works share subject matter and setting, so "'Time' can be considered a test run for Dream", though more ironic and self-mocking and, therefore, more "acceptable". Critics like Raines and Heyne see the relationship between Sergius and Denise as a battle, both suggesting that while Denise is empowered — now "a real killer" — and moves on at the end, Sergius is left defeated and emasculated.
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The bilingual characters are of the older generation, who were already adults during the Napoleonic Wars; in later parts of the book, with the focus shifting to the family's younger generation against the background of Germany moving towards unification and assertion of its new role as a major European power, the use of French by the characters visibly diminishes. All occurrences in the lives of the characters are seen by the narrator and the family members in relation to the family trade business: the sense of duty and destiny accompanying it as well as the economic consequences that events bring. Through births, marriages, and deaths, the business becomes almost a fetish or a religion, especially for some characters, notably Thomas and his sister Tony. The treatment of the female main character Tony Buddenbrook in the novel resembles the 19th-century Realists (Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina), but from a more ironic and less tragic point of view.
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These prints contain the only titles where the word "Corporation" in the U.M. & M. copyright is actually spelled out, and not abbreviated "Corp." NTA acquired the Republic Pictures name in 1984, and through several acquisitions was eventually merged into Paramount Pictures, which in turn was owned by Viacom (as it has been since 1994). In early 2006, Viacom split itself into two corporations, one called Viacom (still owning Paramount Pictures), and the other called CBS Corporation. As a result, what would become Melange Pictures, LLC, a division of Viacom, now owns the theatrical distribution on behalf of Paramount Animation — all the more ironic since Paramount Pictures originally released the classic shorts in the first place — while Trifecta Entertainment & Media (inherited from CBS Television Distribution) owns the television distribution on behalf of Paramount Television Studios to the U.M. & M./NTA/Republic/Melange library, and Olive Films (under license from Paramount Home Entertainment) owns the home video distribution.
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"But what was even more ironic was that Abelard had a reputation for being able to keep his head down during the worst of the regime's madness—for unseeing, as it were. In 1937, for example, while the Friends of the Dominican Republic were perejiling Haitians and Haitian- Dominicans and Haitian-looking Dominicans to death, while genocide was, in fact, in the making, Abelard kept his head, eyes, and nose safely tucked into his books (let his wife take care of hiding his servants, didn't ask her nothing about it) and when survivors staggered into his surgery with unspeakable machete wounds, he fixed them up as best he could without making any comments as to the ghastliness of their wounds." Yunior thus builds a context for the Dominican history, where the characters are used just as much in the footnotes as they are in the body of the novel. Many of the footnotes ultimately connect back to themes of coming to a new world (underscored through the novel's references to fantasy and sci-fi) or having one's own world completely changed.
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