'&apos The Handmaid's Tale,'' has among its virtues a clear and insidious visual scheme, an eerie score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, a screenplay by Harold Pinter that efficiently compresses the story and heightens its tensions by removing certain antecedents, and conceptual advice from the artist Jennifer Bartlett that helps underscore the material's basic ironies.
Voters may not always be the sharpest variety of cheddar, but basic reading skills and irony awareness should clue in anyone who takes two seconds to glance at the page.
Nobody was really hurt, and his basic point about the irony-laden spectacle was correct.
Irony at its basic level says one thing but means another, which is almost always the opposite of what is actually said.
Ironies aside, the basic insight of this book is an eloquently stated platitude, that love is "no finite commodity," that "to give to one did not necessarily mean to take from another; that the heart in its infinite capacity... could open itself to all who would enter, like a house with windows and doors thrown wide, like the heart of God itself".
But to raise enough for basic income, to borrow Bertolt Brecht's irony, you need to elect a new set of people as taxpayers first.
Logically, there is an irony in that without Free Basics or the Google initiative, the inequality is even greater with 80% of the population without any internet access.
Logically, there is an irony in that without Free Basics or the Google initiative, the inequality is even greater with 80percentt of the population without any internet access.
You missed it all: register, mood, irony, ambiguity, subtleties of characterization, narrative arc, even basic plot points.
The irony of this position is, perhaps, another very basic problem in art today.
