Sentence examples for contradictory toward from inspiring English sources

When Prince Hal takes on his kingship and rejects the self-indulgent character Falstaff, convention of the day called for Prince Hal to change from a jovial drinking partner to an arrogant snob, but Shaw saw the view as simple-minded and contradictory toward Shakespeare's script.

His artistic reputation has hardly been helped by his own contradictory attitudes toward his work.

Mr. de Hoop Scheffer put in the nicest terms NATO's contradictory positions toward Russia.

Two recent issues have highlighted the territory's contradictory attitudes toward the mainland.

It feeds our achingly contradictory tendency toward prudery and our overwhelming thirst for punishment.

He has displayed a contradictory attitude toward honor killings, condemning the practice while placing it within Chechen tradition.

George W. Bush, he writes, had a contradictory attitude toward his father: a "drive to correct Poppy's mistakes" and a "demand for his admiration".

In President Trump's first hundred days in office, Ivanka has assiduously done her part to soften her father's bristly and contradictory stance toward China.

But some interesting reporting enters on the edges of the familiar story line, as Karim uncovers the complicated and often contradictory attitudes toward homosexuality in Islam.

He complains a lot about America's puritanical, contradictory attitudes toward sex and likes to say that he is a "one-eyed man in a blind world".

This creates an oddly contradictory stance toward candidates like Mr. Bloomberg: We don't hold the office in great esteem, but hold on a second, Mr. Moneybags, what makes you think you're qualified?