Sentence examples for being paradoxical from inspiring English sources

But I love Virgil for his doubleness, for being paradoxical.

It occurs to us that besides being paradoxical, blood is also a private kind of article.

But then again, nearly any character, viewed from the inside, and given the chance to complicate your question, might define themselves as being paradoxical or ambivalent — don't we tend to compensate for the impression we make on others?

It is lost out of time, but not magical like Brigadoon; it is contradictory without being paradoxical; it is posited as existing in the way that Scotland or Cambridge do, but it can't, and we can't forget it can't.

"I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive, but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world," she writes.

The principle of logical charity is no help in this case assume that the author(s) do not contradict themselves because the Daodejing is notorious for being paradoxical: Chapter 56 begins: "Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know", which is clearly intentional, and rhetorically efficacious despite its logical invitation to a charge of tu quoque.

Life is paradoxical, and Chekhov felt this paradox very acutely.

This sentence is paradoxical, and is one of the forms the Liar paradox.

It was paradoxical.

Predator inspection is paradoxical.

"It's paradoxical".