Sentence examples for acute paradox from inspiring English sources

Beyond the sheer graphic impact of so much disease, distortion and disfigurement, what distinguishes them is an acute paradox: here the styles and modes of bygone eras are used not to prettify people or create a picturesque landscape, but to render the pathological as clearly as possible with a view to instructing physicians.

By the time of Mr. Bowden's 2003 visit to Iran, which he describes in acute, paradox-filled detail at the book's end, she and her husband had invested in a vacation development on the Caspian Sea.

A gifted if sometimes undisciplined writer, with an acute eye for paradox, he is as at home with the cultivation of ideas as the academics who have paved the way for him, but he is not bridled by their conventions.

As Mr. Guest noted, "his first steps as an artist were as a writer of science fiction, which gives him a certain visionary quality and an acute understanding of paradox".

Nowhere is this paradox more acute than in South Africa, a country with the biggest HIV caseload in the world and an economy founded on mining.

Still he did say some acute things.' The great paradox about Auden is this: how can the writer of the sanest, most liberal and chaste poetry in English of the 20th century also be the crotchety opinionated old fossicker of The Table Talk?

That paradox is most acute when we look not at words about people but at photographs of people, since they have a presence that words cannot quite capture.

In war, this paradox, already groaning, becomes acute.

He's an extremely acute observer and a master of paradox, which is very French.

But he was a fine writer with an acute sense of the nuances and paradoxes of German society.

We and others have revealed a treatment-risk paradox in the management of acute coronary disease.