Sentence examples for a contradictory one from inspiring English sources

It was a pop fad, yes, and a contradictory one, uncommonly serious and comical, mannered and fixated on authenticity.

The ranking of tennis on the fashion-sport matrix has long been a contradictory one.

"It's impossible for one country to have two foreign policies -- one run by the government, and a contradictory one followed by Parliament," said Michael Eitan, a lawmaker from Mr. Sharon's Likud Party.

But this effort to go against the grain of architectural history is a contradictory one, in certain ways divided against itself — in part thanks to how much material it puts on view.

During the same interview, the interviewee might make one statement at one point, and a completely contradictory one later on [ 38- 40].

The author of "God: A Biography" (1995) continues his examination of God strictly as a literary character -- a complex, contradictory one who learns about himself from his interactions with humans; in becoming one himself, God accepts and expiates his guilt for his errors since the Creation.

Red Toryism is an intriguing hybrid, but a sprawling, contradictory one.

Alert and impeccable, Deitch is a low-key presence but a presence nonetheless, and also, in the sheer range of his undertakings, a somewhat contradictory one.

"When I witness intense suffering, my first impulse, a completely contradictory one, is to be angry with God for allowing it," he said.

Although understanding this object as a very contradictory one, the artist also argues that by doing this experiment, for the first time one will be detaching the history of the satellite from a military one, therefore he names this as an "impossible object".

The problem is that substantiating Zilsel's thesis with focused situations or personal events is a somewhat self-defeating move, if not an altogether contradictory one.