Sentence examples for contradictory qualities from inspiring English sources

And, atop it, in the Kremlin, is Boris Yeltsin, who personifies all those contradictory qualities and impulses.

Unfortunately, the notion that contradictory qualities can coexist in the same man seems beyond the authors' grasp.

Often, her fiction drew its energy from contradictory qualities: her stories were minutely observed but also suspenseful, matter-of-fact but also fanciful, reportorial but also imaginative.

He was a great draftsman and designer and could harmonize in his prints the two seemingly contradictory qualities of elegance and power.

These seemingly contradictory qualities stem partly from Mr. Peña's uneven script, but primarily from a towering performance by Ching Valdes-Aran, the actress at its center.

He loved our part of the south and his work reflected southerners' innately contradictory qualities of ambiguity and plain-spokenness, cruelty and kindness, illumination and obscurity.

The movie reminds us of the contradictory quality of modern telecommunications, which provide the illusion of being there even though the people we are watching on television and talking with on the phone are physically inaccessible.

It is not only poor and sexy but engaged and vital, a reminder of the more messy, contradictory and organic qualities that all cities should have but are elsewhere being replaced by homogeneous commercialism and a more extreme segregation of rich and poor.

In approaching relationships, we use the word "but" to connect contradictory feelings and qualities.

Though it is true that some dictionaries include a secondary definition of schizophrenic as "having contradictory or antagonistic qualities and attitudes," this usage perpetuates a flawed and stigmatizing perception of the illness.

The contradictory meanings of quality education have led to the adoption of different methods for measuring quality in higher education [ 2].