Sentence examples for a paradoxical assertion from inspiring English sources

He called Samson's language a "paradoxical assertion," where a person asserts a point in one part of a statement and then negates it in another.

But my sense of endless American possibility never left me -- even working at a Jewish newspaper seemed a paradoxical assertion of American comfort.

In particular, Aristotle associates Leucippus as well as Democritus with the deliberately paradoxical assertion that 'being is no more than not-being,' i.e., that void exists as much as the full or solid (DK 67A6).

But when she thinks to herself, during one of the novel's many almost unrepeatably scatological episodes, "We're not human beings... we're Cuban beings," it seems less a complaint than an assertion of a paradoxical kind of imaginative freedom.

It is a paradoxical situation.

It was a paradoxical contention.

His legacy is a paradoxical one.

But style is a paradoxical word.

TAIWAN has a paradoxical claim to fame.

And, therein lays a paradoxical risk.

Mr. Goldsworthy's is a paradoxical enterprise.