Sentence examples for contradictory truth from inspiring English sources

The beach was empty, and, with the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy looming, the quiet sea seemed to embody the contradictory truth of nature.

For Albertus these two ways are not opposed; there is no "double truth"—one truth for faith and a contradictory truth for reason.

Keep in mind that much of the contradictory truth comes from Yubaba (Suzanne Pleshette), the witchy bathhouse owner whose greed is surpassed in size only by her head.

Mr. Olsson's film reaches beyond received wisdom into the difficult and contradictory truth of the time, and in a similar vein — though in a completely different style — Natalia Almada's "Velador" pushes beyond media clichés about Mexico's drug war.

But even as legions here and abroad pin their hopes on becoming American, and the country wrestles with emotionally fraught questions over who should have that right, there is a seemingly contradictory truth: that millions of people who are in the country legally, and stand on the threshold of citizenship, never take that next step.

Contradictory truths emerging from the nation's most comprehensive child-care study are partial snapshots, too.

"Redemption" is not interested in exploring uncomfortable, contradictory truths; it trafficks in simplistic myths and misplaced martyrdom.

Two objects from the British Museum's own collection - a lyre and a slit gong - tell contradictory truths.

The Latin Averroists were accused of holding a "double truth"—i.e., of maintaining the existence of two contradictory truths, one commanded by faith, the other taught by reason.

Since last autumn, when the Maidan protests broke out in Kiev, so many would-be masters whether Donbass politicians or industrial bosses have indoctrinated them with contradictory truths about their country's historical trajectory that the arguments were turning to mush.Sergei, an engineer, was sceptical of the aims of the separatists.

Like so much in life, the Pig proves contradictory truths: that New Yorkers are fools, willing to endure any manner of nonsense to run with the pack, and that New Yorkers are sages, able to divine and embrace genuine merit in the middle of bedlam.