Sentence examples for mocking paradox from inspiring English sources
The play's very title, with its mocking paradox (serious people are so because they do not see trivial comedies), introduces the theme, it continues in the drawing room discussion, "Yes, but you must be serious about it.
Arch pleasure in having thought up a mock paradox or irony is not the same thing as good sense.
The latest illustration of this paradox — definitively mocked in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" a few years back — is "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," a dutiful and admiring film about Ian Dury, one of the more eccentric stars of British punk rock.
Her voice mocking, disdainful.
Was he mocking Christianity?
One can mock up a complicated liar paradox that resembles the surprise test paradox.
Turabi then reinvented himself as a democrat: a paradox, some noted, given that he had earlier mocked elections as "mobocracy that [empowers] a small group".
Those involved in state ritual are brought onstage only to be mocked, and the propositions of contemporary logic-choppers are drawn into the unending whirl of paradox, spun out to their conclusions, and so abolished.
