This seeming contradiction — falling sales and rising profits — is one reason the mood on Wall Street is so much more buoyant than in households, where pessimism runs deep and joblessness shows few signs of easing.
The job of finessing this contradiction falls mainly to Mr. Carell, who rises to the task by finding a new, or at least newish, way to be at once creepy, endearing, obnoxious and forgiving.
They also find that the kind of contradiction could fall again on an operating contradiction to be solved.
"In a recent essay about moral relativism in The Times's philosophy series The Stone, Paul Boghossian cites a 2001 op-ed of mine as an example of the contradictions relativists fall into.
Never mind that this claim to real estate sometimes refers to a building actually owned by somebody else entirely - a bothersome contradiction that falls to the wayside when street rules are in effect.
The evidence of the main witnesses was "riddled with contradictions" and fell "far below the threshold" of what a reasonable court could convict on.
Being reasonable in CAD-CAE project design, such restrictions fall into contradiction with the concept of a research code that is often aimed at studying new models and algorithms.
There are, according to the rationalists, certain rational principles especially in logic and mathematics, and even in ethics and metaphysics that are so fundamental that to deny them is to fall into contradiction.
Is it possible to reconcile private property and intellectual commons without falling into contradiction, or is the commons-based paradigm of production destined to antagonize the logic of markets?
When young people first hear philosophical questions about the traditional moral standards they have learned from their parents and their community, and when they see that it is difficult to defend these orthodoxies without falling into contradiction, they are prone to reject all traditional morality and to become essentially lawless.
