Sentence examples for a paradoxical element from inspiring English sources

Such Emersonian confidence contains a paradoxical element of political conservatism, but this book, and the Rabbit cycle taken as a whole, transcends any obvious political label.

Even though we're inclined to think of leisure as our chance to separate from workplace stresses, there's a paradoxical element whereby workers like Hankey are actually improving their job skills in their downtime.

Iron is a paradoxical element, essential for living organsms but also potentially toxic.

Hence the paradoxical element in Debussy's stature.

These four principals in the story are all young, in their early 20s, but each has been supplied with some paradoxical element cutting across mere youth.

There are various paradoxical elements in Camus's approach to philosophy.

It is a paradoxical situation.

Nicotine is a paradoxical drug.

It was a paradoxical contention.

Her love for Philip, with its element of tragic impossibility, is both a redemption and a sacrifice, an exalted incarnation of a passionate dream and a paradoxical renunciation.

His legacy is a paradoxical one.