Sentence examples for is contradiction from inspiring English sources
noun
The act of contradicting.
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
This is contradiction, unrealistic.
The essence of the portrayal is contradiction and inconsistency.
Of course the intent is contradiction, but the outcome is affectation (obviousness of a different sort).
"Wherever there is life, there is contradiction," says Søren Kierkegaard, the 19th-century Danish existentialist, in the Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846), "and wherever there is contradiction, the comical is present".
You may go in expecting to be given a political message, but what you get is contradiction.
One is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania, a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream that is like a miniature tableau (lucky Andrew Lloyd Webber owns it).
Then there is Contradiction: Oberon and Titania (1854-58), depictheg the quarrel over the Indian Boy, which was painted for William Charles Hood at Bethlem; and The Fairy Feller, painted for George Henry Haydon, also at Bethlem.
But, even in death, there is contradiction as Jacobi emits blood-chilling cries on "Howl, howl, howl" before we see his flawed heart, not unlike that of the off-stage Gloucester, "burst smilingly".
Therefore,, which is contradiction.
Finally, there are contradictions.
