Sentence examples for compelling contradiction from inspiring English sources

It was third time lucky, then, for the endlessly compelling contradiction that is Mark Cavendish.

As for Ms. Best, a great London stage star who has been seen on Broadway in revivals of "A Moon for the Misbegotten" and "The Homecoming," her Duchess is the most compelling contradiction of all.

It's a compelling contradiction.

It would seem to be a fact, even after 25 years of data collection and deliberation, that well-intentioned scientists can hold diverse views ranging from the lack of any meaningful potential for a fat reduction to reduce breast cancer risk, to major public health potential, without compelling contradiction from available data.

IP Chaucer, by Peter Ackroyd (Vintage, £7.99) The creator of the Canterbury Tales is a figure of compelling contradictions, as presented in the first of Ackroyd's planned series of brief lives.

Ms. Schygulla's Maria was cold to the touch and enigmatic to the core, but the actress emitted a soft, seductive glow that made her contradictions compelling and at least conceivably human.

It's that contradiction that is so compelling.

Jay is a compelling character who coheres despite his contradictions.

Klein's compelling book immerses readers into that apparent contradiction.

This contradiction is perhaps the most compelling element of BENEATH THE MASK OF HOLINESS.

The self-contradictions of which they consist might be compelling except that Ms. Armitage renders them all both knowing and inconsequential.