Living in modern Asia is about embracing contradiction and change.
As the alternately officious and submissive Inez, she conveys her character's contradictions and changes with an unlikely combination of understatement and clarity.
Also a columnist, al-Mabkhout says that he shifted genres because the novel was better able to "grasp the contradictions, conflicts, changes and hesitations" of contemporary Tunisia.
He could have addressed his feelings in a newspaper column, he said, but instead it was the novel form, "with its ability to grasp the contradictions, conflicts, changes, and hesitations," that drew him in.
After abstraction and transformation, the contradiction is changed to an operating contradiction.
Some of his rivals were preparing to focus on these points both in the NBC debate and on the campaign trail, and his ability to explain the contradictions and changes will go a long way toward deciding whether he is a viable contender -- let alone a winning candidate.
This was the most à la mode creation of Architecture of Dance, with elements of body-popping; anti-conventional theatricality (ballerinas without makeup, usually a contradiction in terms); changes of lighting and décor; and a challenging Thomas Adès score.
They thought they could trip him up, even trap him, Tim Russert-style, in his contradictions and political changes.
The majority of Egyptians want democracy and see no contradiction between the change they seek and the timeless values to which they surrender.
This perceived contradiction in the change of direction of health policy generated a lot of frustration among the health workers, who had been convinced of the rightness of the earlier measures.
