It did funny things to the national psyche, holding together the constant contradiction.
Jack Laskey, meanwhile, is the perfect everyman, attempting to reason using straightforward language and a placatory manner with a man who speaks in rhymes and constant contradiction.
In constant contradiction with himself, Diaghilev was, as his biographer says, "trans-national and trans-sexual", a lover of the past – of Russian realism, formalism, nationalism – but with a special dispensation towards making it new.
It's a constant contradiction.
This constant contradiction is prevalent in all areas of Panama, a country that boasts SO much more than just a canal, and to me is the very essence of what gives it its charm.
If he uses these well, and if Mr Gomes's constant self-contradictions and frequent bust-ups with reporters start to drag him down, then Mr Serra might just make it to take on Mr da Silva, who lost the last three elections, in a run-off.
But this requires that L should be constant, a contradiction.
But a periodic rational function must be constant, a contradiction.
Then from (29), it follows that h ≠ 1, h n ≠ 1, hn+1≠ 1 and g = 1 - h n 1 - h n + 1 = constant, a contradiction.
This together with the fact that the zeros of g have multiplicity at least k + 1 shows that g is a constant, a contradiction.
