Sentence examples for inner contradictions from inspiring English sources

Painting these inner contradictions, not just a linear profile -- that's the hallmark of good intelligence.

It was here that the terms of his inner contradictions found their different and lasting shape.

But as much as she wants to understand the outer world, Alma also seeks clarity over her own inner contradictions.

He is an eloquent exponent of liberal Zionism, but he also exemplifies its ambiguities, inner contradictions and moral myopia.

He must be able to pause and consider his own character, his desires, his inhibitions and values, his inner contradictions.

But in the documentary itself, the team of historians, journalists and former aides who reflect on Mr. Carter's star-crossed presidency are more absorbed by his inner contradictions.

Many say they came for the good air and cheap housing, but they are also living an inner contradiction.

In closing, I note that I have made no reference to religion but only brought out the inner contradiction of Darwinism.

What we encounter in such plays, Hegel maintains, is "an infinite light-heartedness and confidence felt by someone raised altogether above his own inner contradiction and not bitter or miserable in it at all: this is the bliss and ease of a man who, being sure of himself, can bear the frustration of his aims and achievements" (Aesthetics, 2: 1200).

The "inevitable" tendency of liberalism to collapse into fascism "can be derived, apart from any economic causes, from the inner contradiction between the subjectivist principle of self-interest and the idea of reason that it is supposed to express" (Horkheimer 1987, 21).

Specifically, we consider the mass starvation that accompanied the genocide as a structure of violence; we forward the argument that the rationing of food constitutes a calculated yet contradictory policy, namely that food rations represent in material form an inner contradiction of fostering life and disallowing life.