“What is the single most important thing you should do in order to take advantage of this longevity revolution? The answer is: ‘Don't die.’” In this insight, Dr. Vora explains why that irony is so vitally important. Play Video This is a modal window. The Playback API request ...
The irony is that it had been the company of the dogs which helped, alongside Shackleton’s firm leadership, to prevent mutiny and madness in that dark cold Antarctic winter. But to McNish, a hard man with a soft heart, it seems now to be only part of Shackleton’s arrogance. And the...
▪ And not only should you settle; ideally, you should settle in a way that makes it harder to back out, such as moving in together, or getting married, or having a child. The great irony of all our efforts to avoid facing finitude – to carry on believing that it might be possibl...
Here’s the irony….in many ways wearedoing it all over again. I feel as though I’m repeating the experience of bed rest followed by premature infants with the current state of our nation. At this time, most of our state is closed from schools to gyms and restaurants due to the rapi...
there are things to buy. Buying things also bought by others is the surest way to achieve individuality. The irony, according to Bauman, is that individuality – the mandate of the society of individuals – is thus impossible to achieve. The quotations below are from Chapter 1 of Bauman, Z...
The irony is that companies often wind up unhappy with their own customer experience as purchasers. In our work, we find more and more companies feeling unsatisfied with existing measurement systems and looking to design a measurement strategy that aligns all of their customer-exper...
Carson went on to point out the irony that “in view of Marx and socialist doctrine generally, capitalism is most rampant in Communist countries. It is there that the most extreme measures are taken to accumulate capital.” Finally, at the rhetorical level, we should appreciate how powerful th...
“I have very good taste,” he says without the slightest touch of irony. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we won every landmark preservation prize in the country, because we deserve it. We got such painful treatment in the beginning.” Advertisement - Continue Reading Below The...
s way too important to allow that to happen. Peter’s confession directly hinges on it as does the irony of the Pharisees demanding a sign from heaven. And the two-stage healing of the blind man is virtually robbed of all its meaning, as we will see. Nope, this is a second ...
Hegel’s talk of “humor” (especially in its Romantic, “subjective” form) includes irony and wit (Vorschule der Ästhetik, especially §§ 31–35).26 For example, this is how Camille Mélinand uses the word “baroque”: “ce qui fait rire,” in/as a transgression of the customs ...