Sentence examples for he was paradoxically from inspiring English sources

Making and training over the years a great army, he was paradoxically sparing and even cautious in using it.

For a time during the 1970s and '80s, he was, paradoxically, a defense lawyer in a number of murder trials.

He was paradoxically eloquent and effusive about wordlessness, making it a haunting symbol of any artist's isolation.

– anyway his missus didn't seem to know where he was". Paradoxically, their hounding of this poor man demonstrated that he was just what he seemed to be: an ordinary citizen, exercising his democratic right to ask a parliamentary candidate about his position on an important matter.

Large, raw-boned, relaxed and with an infectious grin and broad sense of humour, he was - paradoxically it sometimes seemed in retrospect - head of the Theoretical Physics Division at Los Alamos during the wartime Manhattan Project, developing the first atom bomb.

Although the captain does not seem to be modeled on any historical personage, he is, paradoxically, more alive than the several characters who are.

For him it was a natural decision: The radical innovation he advocated in the arts was paradoxically intended to inspire a reactionary social order, a militaristic dictatorship fortified by technology.

He said the cross-party support achieved by the commission was paradoxically one reason it needed a review.

The result was, paradoxically, more abortions.

It was, paradoxically, both trivial and destructive.

MAD's view of human nature was, paradoxically, surprisingly sunny.