Pompeo has thus far succeeded in glossing over such contradictions, and the whole administration, a knotted bundle of contradictions itself, has barreled on regardless.
How this contradiction resolves itself will be seen after the United Nations certifies the Israeli withdrawal, which is expected to happen soon.
Her vision was an embrace of dualism and contained a contradiction within itself, a tension trying to be resolved between opposing philosophies.
And so, in the last years, it sometimes still came as a surprise to pass through the door of his apartment and find the man who took as an epigraph a line from Kierkegaard—"The whole content of my being shrieks in contradiction against itself"—sitting so peacefully in the late-afternoon sunlight.
In The Science of Logic he said that only insofar as something has contradiction in itself does it move, have impulse or activity.
It was to do so by paying attention to the theoretical "problematic," or background ideological framework in which the work was generated, by analyzing those passages where a philosophical concept had to have been in use but was not made explicit, and by noting and explaining where and why one theoretical pronouncement is in contradiction with itself or with another passage.
"It's a very revolutionary idea to have this permanent pop-up restaurant that's sort of a contradiction in itself," Pressman says of Test Kitchen.
A society in which every citizen walked around radiating wisdom couldn't exist; it would be a contradiction of itself, because wisdom entails challenging a society's conventions.
Since I am an atheist, my point is not that this particular spiritual dilemma matters to me, but rather that Christianity exhibits a deep contradiction within itself.
