Sentence examples for obvious oxymoron from inspiring English sources

One might even call him, if it were not such an obvious oxymoron, our contemporary Proust.

"That's an obvious oxymoron".

Right away "the two-wheeled unicycle" became a nickname for it and the obvious oxymoron created by that name is pretty entertaining to me.

Instead of approaching the problem with common sense, our leaders -- an obvious oxymoron -- have chosen a path that is taking us in a bad direction, slowing the economy and pushing us back into recession.

Is a dyslexic secretary an oxymoron, an obvious contradiction in terms?

MORALITY in big business -- that enduring oxymoron -- is a hot cinematic topic again (for reasons too obvious and painful to mention), with movies like last year's "Margin Call" and the forthcoming "Cosmopolis" brooding over Faustian deals made by white-collar heels.

It is an oxymoron.

(Yes, that's an oxymoron. Yes, I am an oxymoron).

"It's an oxymoron".

That's an oxymoron".

(The oxymoron is deliberate).