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In an ironic reversal of fortune, their tour to support that recording was as Sarah McLachlan's opening act on her breakthrough Fumbling Towards Ecstasy tour ; McLachlan had been an opening act for the Grapes just a few years earlier.
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Her belief that nothing can wash away the blood on her hands is an ironic reversal of her earlier claim to Macbeth that “ little water clears us of this deed ” ( 2. 2. 66 ).
However, his cousins caught up with him soon afterwards, following him across the Bridge over the Uji, New Year's Day, 1184, which Yoshinaka had torn up to impair their crossing, in an ironic reversal of the first Battle of the Uji, only four years earlier. Much as the Taira did in that first battle, Minamoto no Yoshitsune led his horsemen across the river, and defeated Yoshinaka, and pursued him away from the capital.
In an ironic reversal, Aldridge had earlier had his photo on an album on which he played nothing, namely Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman.
Despite this, professional and skilled labour is fast disappearing from the country in a similar manner to East Germany before the Berlin Wall in an ironic reversal of the immigration controversies of the mid-to late 1970s in the UK.
ironic and fortune
It was ironic that only months after Ivy's death, Edgar finally achieved tremendous fame and fortune.
Kresge was originally endowed by the Kresge family trust, whose fortune was derived from K-Mart ; one of the early ( and very ironic ) nicknames of Kresge was ' K-Mart ' college ; considering its traditionally counter-cultural orientation, it was about as far from the middle American K-Mart image as could be imagined.
" This is ironic, as he immediately finds out that his fortune is actually almost nothing.
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Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.
Through such details Dickens indicates at the outset that guilt is a part of the ironic bond between Pip and Magwitch which is so unpredictably to alter both their lives.
These adopt a style of storytelling rather than specific characters from their sources, usually with a knowing or ironic twist.
His theoretical and critical writings are remarkable for their often witty and ironic style and their unerring polemics.
The failure of pneumatic tubes to live up to their potential as envisaged in previous centuries has placed them in the company of flying cars and dirigibles as ripe for ironic retro-futurism.
Moreover, he created ' keywords ' which shed their symbolic light on the sense covered under the ironic form ( e. g. " gęba ", " pupa " in Ferdydurke.
The merge with T ' zanhanim company was actually ironic since their officers were originally the biggest opposition against the creation of Unit 101.
This is somewhat ironic, since during their heyday, Nixies were generally considered too expensive for use in mass-market consumer goods such as clocks.
Themes of sex, drugs, and rock ' n ' roll appear, but never in a straightforward manner, neither encouraging nor discouraging, and many ( if not all ) of their songs are tinged with an ironic edge.
Many of their songs concern love, but none can be classed as straightforward love songs, since there is inevitably an ironic or disturbing twist in the lyrics.
Given the subsequent emergence of organized fandom for comic books among adults who grew up reading them during Comics ' Golden Age, it is ironic Wertham at one point in Seduction ( pp. 89 – 90 ) asserts " I have known many adults who have treasured throughout their lives some of the books they read as children.
There are parallels between what he writes, and documents produced by Inquisitors, that present conversos as ambivalent to Christianity and sometimes even ironic in their expressions regarding their new religion-crypto-jews.
The most sung themes include: student love, love for the city and bohemian life, and the ironic and critical reference to the discipline and conservative nature of the professors and their courses.
The Ruth sale cemented the Red Sox-Yankees alliance, which was ironic given their historically bitter rivalry.
In an ironic postscript, Sunderland eventually appointed Roy Keane as their next permanent manager.
In an ironic twist, the elite of the East Roman army by the 6th century had become the cataphract, modelled after the very force that had famously defeated and slaughtered their forebears numerous times more than 500 years earlier.
) This character is deeply ironic, a Christian who comes to be known as " The Dark Lord ", leader of an army of " Soulless Ones " who have no will of their own but kneel to accompany him in his prayers when so ordered.
Retro-futurism of the first type is inevitably influenced by the scientific, technological, and social awareness of the present, and modern retro-futuristic creations are never simply copies of their pre-1960 inspirations ; rather, they are given a new ( often wry or ironic ) twist by being seen from a modern perspective.
The term " Gilded Age " was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, employing the ironic difference between a " gilded " and a Golden Age.
They released a statement on 31 January 2007, in which they joked their reasons for splitting were " musical similarities "-an ironic reference to " musical differences " which are often cited as the reason for a band's split.
Leone's intent was to take the stock conventions of the American Westerns of John Ford, Howard Hawks and others, and rework them in an ironic fashion, essentially reversing their intended meaning in their original sources to create a darker connotation.
It is ironic that many " faulty " Audions, which had lost their ability to demodulate radio signals due to gas absorption, had actually turned into crude linear amplifiers ( which was why they lost their demodulating ability ), but nobody realized this at the time.
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In 1976 Norman acquiesced and recorded Something New under the Son, a blues-rock concept album that some regard as his tour de force, and as " one of the roughest, bluesiest, and best rock and roll albums of his career or the whole industry ", that took its title from " an ironic inversion of a phrase in Ecclesiastes ", namely: " there is nothing new under the sun " ( Ecclesiastes 1: 9b ).
Art critic Michael Duncan sees the painting as making fun of Troubridge's " dandified appearance ", while for Meryle Secrest it is " a tour de force of ironic commentary ".
She made a controversial remark in 2003 when she said " Asians are killing the ( LPGA ) Tour ", referring to the large number of Korean-born players who were winning on tour, and calling for quotas on international players, which is ironic because she was also an international player.
Much like the Zoo TV tour, the PopMart tour saw the band embrace an image and performances that were intentionally ironic and self-mocking, deviating from the band's previously earnest stage performances from the 1980s ; the band performed in costumes that, along with the PopMart stage design, poked fun at the themes of consumerism and pop culture.
The late artist, Joanne Johnson wrote, that the “ crumbling Bottle Village is an ironic paradox -- built from castoffs, now cast aside ," who was one of the tour guides.
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Rush Limbaugh picked up the usage soon after the SNL airing, using it in an ironic sense in support of President Bush.
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In another interview, Snyder explained that Crowe's recording is " too romantic " and " too sexy " for the scene which is meant to come across as ironic and " ridiculous ".
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We knew that it was, as reassurance, the ironic fruit of a deeply moral nature.
In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
The original title for these drawings was Mr Punch's face is the letter Q and the new title " cartoon " was intended to be ironic, a reference to the self-aggrandizing posturing of Westminster politicians.
As has happened with ironic writings before and since, this pamphlet was widely misunderstood but eventually its author was prosecuted for seditious libel and was sentenced to be pilloried, fined 200 marks and detained at the Queen's pleasure.
Tzara's last attempt at a Dadaist drama was his " ironic tragedy " Handkerchief of Clouds in 1924.
While the former means " handsome ", the latter gives an ironic sense of " clumsy ", akin to the English " That was clever!
The nature of this rivalry is ironic because while the Colts and Patriots were division rivals from 1970 to 2001, it did not become prominent in league circles until after Indianapolis was relocated to the AFC South.
Employees of Id Software are quoted in The Official DOOM Player Guide about the reaction to Wolfenstein, claiming it to be ironic that it was morally acceptable to shoot people and rats, but not dogs.
Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.
For example, in Spitting Image, Major's puppet was changed from a circus performer to that of a grey man who ate dinner with his wife in silence, occasionally saying " nice peas, dear ", whilst at the same time nursing an unrequited crush on his colleague Virginia Bottomley – an invention, but an ironic one in view of his affair with Edwina Currie, which was not then a matter of public knowledge.
Ginsburg recorded " Kathy Cryin ' Heart ", a catchy number laced with the ironic humour, that was backed with " Catching Spies ", a raw sounding garage number.
Although the OED2 notes Granholm was " jocular ", it accepts his ironic etymology from a fictional " Fink and Wiggles " for Funk & Wagnalls lexicographer.
There the MB6890 was dubbed the " Peach ", probably in ironic reference to the popularity of the Apple II.
This observation was ironic as after 1871 France would indeed become Germany's permanent enemy and would indeed eventually ally with Russia against Germany in the 1890s.
Renwick once pointed out in an interview that the name " Victor " was ironic, since he almost always ends up a loser.
The name, " Pretty Good Privacy ", is humorously ironic and was inspired by the name of a grocery store, " Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery ", featured in radio host Garrison Keillor's fictional town, Lake Wobegon.
She wrote and sang lead vocals on Surfer Rosas " Gigantic ", and the single " Bam Thwok ", credited as Mrs. John Murphy on the former composition — at the time she was married and she used this name as an ironic feminist joke.
In the UK, a major turnabout was achieved with the ironic " It is a Škoda, honest " campaign, which was started in the early 2000s.
" As an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco giving the fascist salute alongside Adolf Hitler.
Robinson's arrest was especially ironic because on the very morning of the day it happened, he had received the Bart Starr Award for his " high moral character.
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