Sentence examples for a contradiction in a from inspiring English sources

The second movement, tightly scored and with an almost folkish melody at its core, was more traditionally unified: a contradiction, in a way, of the changeable first movement.

Lynch law, which owes its name to Charles Lynch, a Virginia farmer who administered a rough justice to outlaws and Tories during the Revolution, is a contradiction in a country grounded in laws and rights.

She said that pursuing renewable energy or setting domestic targets to cut CO2 without addressing oil, gas and coal production was "part of the problem and it's a contradiction in a lot of countries".

Although visitors of all races and ethnicities attended the exhibit together upon its launch, the Chicago Defender, a prominent African-American newspaper, was the first to note that none of the train's personnel were black, adding that the Freedom Train was "somewhat of a contradiction" in a nation that segregated many of its transportation corridors.

Among destructive thought experiments, the following subtypes can be identified: the simplest of these is to draw out a contradiction in a theory, thereby refuting it.

In the following, we can get a contradiction in a similar way with the proof of the last part of Theorem 1.2.

As Daniel Defoe wrote in 1700: A true-born Englishman's a Contradiction In speech an Irony, in Fact a Fiction.

In sum, because a mathematical extension is necessarily a finite sequence of symbols, an infinite mathematical extension is a contradiction-in-terms.

Is a "black evangelical" a contradiction in terms?

A humble imperialism is a contradiction in terms.

A Muslim vegetarian, a warrior who wanted only peace, a philosopher-king: a contradiction in terms.