This has the effect of making the figurative drawing more abstract, paradoxically, neutralising the shock effect of the splayed limbs, the proffered genitalia, the immediate sexual context of artist and model.
Initial performances – even Stravinsky's own – of this immensely complex score were often on the edge of collapse, but the piece is now part of the international orchestral repertoire and the greatest risk it faces today, paradoxically, is routine renditions which make a work which should shock seem safe and easy.
Paradoxically, improvements to the safety of abortion in Chile is good news for women's immediate health concerns but does nothing to help highlight the severity and unpopularity of the law in the long run.
Both are drawn from reviews in the Sunday Times by Waldemar Januszczak: "Rothko's problem… is the dark myth that he allowed to emerge around him while he was alive… This tremulous Rothko story line presents him as the Melancholy Martyr of Modernism, a deeply pessimistic presence whose painted fogs sag, paradoxically, with tons of heavyweight spirituality… His suicide topped it all off splendidly.
Paradoxically, the threat of involving the police is used to stop people trying to escape.
The occasion for our lunch is the re-release of his 1971 Kinks album Muswell Hillbillies, a period piece which paradoxically, like all of his music, stands up well to time.
But, paradoxically, as Scotland's voting behaviour continued to diverge from the rest of the UK, it increasingly resembled the rest of the country.
He goes completely stripped-back, using a loop pedal and acoustic guitar, and it's his bread and butter – for all the Pharrell productions, it's this immediacy that has paradoxically won him three sold out nights at Wembley Stadium.
Boehner will nonetheless hang on, and seemingly paradoxically become stronger; movement conservatives will get to feel like they have a voice; movement conservatism's activist money farms will garner another fundraising outrage; Louie and Charles and David (either one) will get to count bills.
In the longer term, Cowen and his party are clinging to the hope that the very thing that has landed them in trouble, the economy, will paradoxically turn around their fortunes.
Paradoxically, the failure of the American government to offer military assistance to Africans when assistance is needed is not something many of us have been quick to forgive or forget.
