Sentence examples for contradictory thinking from inspiring English sources

The uncoordinated and sometimes contradictory thinking at the top was soon reflected at the community level leading to haphazard, half-baked projects filled not with a united purpose but with jealousy, unhealthy competition and suspicions.

/ I want to take a stance, 'cause we are not free / And then I thought about it, we are not we"), the tangled, contradictory thinking of mainstream America and the acceptance that Haggerty is operating in a world set up in his favour ("Fake and so plastic, you've heisted the magic / You've taken the drums and the accent you rapped in").

Another talked about his contradictory thinking as something he could not control: "I amend my thinking to some extent, but my basic image I grew up with is cancer: dead!

If Dennett seeks to reconcile the existence of the soul with the physical world — to connect bacteria to Bach — Kronman sets out to do something similar in the humanist tradition: he tries to integrate the many contradictory ways of thinking about life that, as modern people, we want to credit simultaneously.

And finally, it was about two contradictory ways of thinking about the environment: one deriving from the past and viewing natural resources from a purely utilitarian perspective, and one that arose only recently in American history, regarding ecosystems and their living components as having rights and value beyond their economic utility to human beings.

In light of those trends, life scientists seeking jobs must perform the seemingly self-contradictory tasks of thinking in interdisciplinary ways while gaining narrowly specialized competences.

Damrosch displays the contradictory evidence but, beyond thinking Swift in love with her, cannot reach a decision.

These areas encapsulate two contradictory ways of living and thinking that often clash at City Hall.

Rational thinking rules out what is self-contradictory.

But it is nonetheless a movie that fastens onto some of the contradictory ways Americans — and American filmmakers — are used to thinking about that knotty matter.

I have been thinking about this for a few, somewhat contradictory reasons.