It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

The private detective is militant against injustice, a humorous and ironic explorer of the underworld ; ;

It is ironic that Washington is having to struggle so for a concept that for six years it bypassed as unreasonable.

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.

W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.

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.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

As music critic Tim Riley notes, " singing Love and Theft shifts artfully between humble and ironic ...' I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ,' he sings in ' Floater ,' which is either hilarious or horrifying, and probably a little of both.

It is sometimes used humorously to dispel cabal-like organizational conspiracy theories, or as an ironic statement, indicating one who knows the existence of " the cabal " will invariably deny there is one.

She is a figure both of the epic tradition and of tragedy, where her combination of deep understanding and powerlessness exemplify the ironic condition of humankind.

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.

However, in two of his most remarkable pieces, this interest is not sympathetic, but ironic.

Doublespeak Award is an " ironic tribute to public speakers who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered.

Sometimes the word deprogramming is used in a wider ( and / or ironic or humorous sense ), to mean the freeing of someone ( often oneself ) from any previously uncritically assimilated idea.

There is thus an ironic contrast between Paul's own temporal imprisonment and Philemon's temporal freedom ( and mastery over Onesimus ), balanced by the inversion of that relationship in what Paul sees as his own spiritual authority over Philemon and Philemon's spiritual subservience to Paul, who is claiming that Onesimus – temporally, a slave – is, spiritually speaking, not simply equal to his master but a brother of his.

What makes this mystery somewhat ironic is that the name " Imhotep " in Ancient Egyptian language translates to “ He who came in peace ,” underlining the way he came into the world, made his impact, and left it in peace taking all his genius work with him.

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.

Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

George Hayward Joyce, SJ, explained that "... where the light of the candle is dependent on the candle's continued existence, not only does a candle produce light in a room in the first instance, but its continued presence is necessary if the illumination is to continue.

It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of James Joyce, including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail.

Dubliners is a collection of short stories by Joyce about incidents and typical characters of the city during the early 20th century.

* 1914 – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, is serialised in The Egoist.

* 1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.

Joyce Tyldesley states that the Great Pyramid itself " is known to have been opened and emptied by the Middle Kingdom ", before the Arab caliph Abdullah al-Mamun entered the pyramid around AD 820.

* In his novel Ulysses, James Joyce mentions the bird while the novel's main character is drifting into sleep.

This definition is explained in a book published in 1910 entitled " English as we Speak it in Ireland " by P. W. Joyce.

Joyce K. Reynolds is a computer scientist.

* 1945 – William Joyce ( Lord Haw-Haw ) is charged with treason for his pro-German propaganda broadcasting during World War II.

* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".

Upon learning of his death, Dahmer's mother, Joyce Flint, responded angrily to the media, " Now is everybody happy?

The name was coined by Gell-Mann and is a reference to the novel Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (" Three quarks for Muster Mark!

For one example, he expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme, a twist on Joyce Kilmer's verse: " I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree ", which drops " billboard " in place of poem and adds, " Indeed, unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all.

Great Aunt Joyce is mentioned as having a glass eye and has the habit of knitting bizarre items ( such as six-fingered gloves ) for Victor.

Puns and other forms of word play have been used by many famous writers, such as Alexander Pope, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Bloch, Lewis Carroll, John Donne, and William Shakespeare, who is estimated to have used over 3, 000 puns in his plays.

Craig Joyce and Lyman Ray Patterson, writing in the Emory Law Journal, call this a " too simple understanding ignores the statute's source ", arguing that it is at best a derivative of the Licensing Act.

* 1945 – Lord Haw Haw ( William Joyce ) is sentenced to death in London.

* May 28 – William Joyce (" Lord Haw-Haw ") is captured.

* February 2 – Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris on his 40th birthday by Sylvia Beach.

He readily accepted for himself the character of a " trimmer ," desiring, he said, to keep the boat steady, while others attempted to weigh it down perilously on one side or the other ; and he concluded his tract with these assertions: that our climate is a Trimmer between that part of the world where men are roasted and the other where they are frozen ; that our Church is a Trimmer between the frenzy of fanatic visions and the lethargic ignorance of Popish dreams ; that our laws are Trimmers between the excesses of unbounded power and the extravagance of liberty not enough restrained ; that true virtue hath ever been thought a Trimmer, and to have its dwelling in the middle between two extremes ; that even God Almighty Himself is divided between His two great attributes, His Mercy and His Justice.

In such company, our Trimmer is not ashamed of his name.

The Character of King Charles II, to be compared with his earlier sketch of the king in the Character of a Trimmer, is perhaps from the literary point of view the most admirable of his writings.

* Coal trimmer, or Trimmer: person responsible for ensuring that a coal-fired vessel remains in ' trim ' ( evenly balanced ) as coal is consumed on a voyage.

The Character of a Trimmer, often ascribed to him, is now known to have been written by Lord Halifax.

Tony Trimmer ( born 24 January 1943 in Maidenhead, Berkshire ) is a British former racing driver from England, who won the Shell British Formula Three Championship and E. R.

It is a resigned rather than an idealistic Guy who goes to Yugoslavia, and it is made clear that the future belongs not to idealism but to the cynical Trimmer or the empty American Padfield.