Sentence examples for Quite paradoxical from inspiring English sources
"I found the backlash quite paradoxical," said Alessandro Acquisti, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who studies attitudes towards privacy and security.
She said at the time: "It is quite paradoxical, because in America there is so much violence, both on the streets and on the screen.
From our anthropological fieldwork among biomedical research communities, their networks appear to be quite paradoxical: while they seem very hierarchical and only few researchers get the most of the profit of collective work, a great deal of collaboration is maintained.
It is quite paradoxical that the KDP's anticommunist stance engendered South Korea's basic state policy thereafter, which was founded to defend the country against the 'political enemy' over the issue of trusteeship without other core principles and platforms.
It is quite paradoxical, but if on the one hand technology in communications, social networks, co-working and transportation brings us ever closer, it is also one of the indirect causes of nationalistic industrial policies and protectionist trade measures.
This is a rather paradoxical formulation.
"Close Doesn't Always Count in Winning Games" (March 7), by Benedict Carey, offers quite a paradoxical view: that selfishly decentralized groups are more resilient than a cohesive bunch because they are "better able to weather outside criticism and internal quarrels".
Quite a paradoxical system of employee selection has been applied in Russian military and judicial authorities since the 2000s, i.e. since Vladimir Putin became the president.
It's quite a paradoxical conundrum, isn't it?
Such antics suggested that he never quite got over the paradoxical nature of his own slow-chosen profession, the dynamism that must flow from nearly complete inaction, the rigorously repeated mechanics performed within an atmosphere of smoky lassitude.
This reaction has been modeled as a preference for fair outcomes, as in Levine (1998) and Rotemberg (2008), who show how the introduction of a reciprocal altruism term in the utility function can explain quite well the seemingly paradoxical evidence from ultimatum games (see also Fehr and Schmidt 1999 inter alia).
