Sentence examples for contradictory ideals from inspiring English sources

"The United States," the text states, "has struggled with contradictory ideals concerning immigrants: the wish to promote cultural diversity and the desire to Americanize each new wave".

An acidic satire on the madness of 1950s America and the impossibility of living up to its contradictory ideals of womanhood, The Bell Jar is a much funnier book than its reputation as the favourite novel of morbidly self-obsessed adolescent girls suggests.

Rand's tub-thumping anticollectivism is nuanced in (rather long) cattle-auctioneer duelling speeches by Roark and the cartoon-baddy socialist Ellsworth Toohey.Van Hove succeeds in levitating all these contradictory ideals and themes, throwing moral responsibility back where it belongs: with the audience.

The stunning events of our age of anger, and our perplexity before them, make it imperative that we anchor thought in the sphere of emotions; these upheavals demand nothing less than a radically enlarged understanding of what it means for human beings to pursue the contradictory ideals of freedom, equality and prosperity.

Secor believes this pressure is part of the contradictory ideals women are expected to embody.

These strands of Taylor's modern self are sometimes complementary and sometimes contradictory: the ideal of freedom, for example, has historically been associated with technological control over the natural world, which puts it at odds with the more Romantic view of nature as a source of goodness and renewal.

The first argument responds to the argument that special responsibilities to those "near and dear", such as fellow citizens, are not contradictory to the cosmopolitan ideal, but rather a tension housed within the ideal itself [ 34].

All of us have knowledge that tends to lead to tolerance; at the same time we have selfish interests that are contradictory to this tolerant ideal.

Macmillan shows how the facts of the case have been repeatedly refashioned and reinterpreted, sometimes in contradictory ways, to fit different scientific ideals.

Despite limitations and contradictory results, blood stands as an ideal source of biomarkers.

Women's mags – late as usual to jump on the bandwagon – support mental health issues while continuing to project unrealistic ideals with thin models, providing contradictory messages of "Be healthy and well" alongside "Lose weight", "Look younger" and "Buy more".