Depending on who uses it, it will have contradictory meanings.
Yet Benghazi has entered the American political lexicon with contradictory meanings.
But irony is a useful thing, too, when considered as an ability to hold contradictory meanings in suspension.
But Richard Mabey's great book is positively fuelled by the curious green energy of its contradictory meanings.
But behind that notion, when applied specifically to manuscripts or books, two further, ostensibly contradictory meanings lurk.
She insists that the word "gene" has become so loaded with contradictory meanings that it is in danger of collapsing under the strain.
But neither of these strategies are used to unearth hidden or contradictory meanings in the text, nor the context in which it's being presented.
This huge, blaring painting, swingeing in its opulence, by the Leipzig artist Neo Rauch seems to hold worlds of contradictory meanings in balance.
The title, which at first seems straightforwardly to refer to the American government's abandonment of its Laotian proxies, takes on deeper, sometimes contradictory meanings as "The Betrayal" (in Lao, "Nerakhoom") unfolds.
As Tschumi has previously used the concept, it has carried unpleasant and contradictory meanings of social manipulation: like it or not, we must gather, pair off and disperse according to pseudospontaneous patterns regulated from above.
Indeed, his image has been appropriated in electoral bids, hip-hop songs, church sermons and fast-food ads -- of such diverse and contradictory meanings that he couldn't possibly have approved of all of them.
