Sentence examples for contradictory judgment from inspiring English sources

But also in the opening and conclusion, Van Gennep made almost contradictory judgment, "I do not maintain that all rites of birth, initiation, etc., are rites of passage only" (Van Gennep 1960 192 193, the same meaning also in p.11).

What I have seen, specifically in New York and Los Angeles, is a group of outraged citizens, most of whom are young, enacting their right to voice their opinion, only to be met with contradictory judgment from those so blinded by their right wing rhetoric that they are oblivious to the irony.

He tried to reconcile these seemingly contradictory judgments by underscoring his view of American history as an upward progression.

The mean age in Israel is about thirty, and the younger generations are not moved by their parents' resentments but rather by vague and contradictory judgments: about the personalities of leaders, sensationalistic headlines, the racist impulses that can come from conflict, the cosmopolitan values derived from global media.

The literature reports contradictory judgments about the benefits of reducing the number of visits in antenatal care [ 3- 6].

The two independent reviews will be compared and contradictory judgments or 'pending' will be temporarily 'included', and moved to the next phase of review of full texts.

The differences in the often contradictory opinion surveys owe largely to varying judgments, or hunches, on just how many newly registered voters will actually go to the polling stations on Tuesday.

The striving for moral coherence explains many seemingly contradictory patterns of judgment found in the moral reasoning literature, such as the general tendency for people to reverse engineer descriptive beliefs to fit desired prescriptive conclusions.

Authors made reasoned judgment where contradictory views were expressed by panel members on an issue [ 25- 27].

Paul J. Browne, the department's chief spokesman, and others said that the two judgments were not contradictory, and that it was fair to judge whether an officer's use of force was justified, while also dissecting an array of other questions that might lead to disciplining the officer.

In short, moral and political judgments are complex and contradictory, shaped by a panoply of values, personalities — maybe even smells.