Sentence examples for paradoxical feel from inspiring English sources

The meticulous creations manage to be visually alluring while also possessing a degree of uncanny valley eeriness, a paradoxical feel reminiscent of the collaged figures in the music video for Franz Ferdinand's 2004 single "Take Me Out".

Along with the usual complex and paradoxical emotions felt by those desperately trying for a baby, the swings from optimism ("Yes – this could be the month it happens!") to panic ("I'll never have a child. Why me? Why me?"), there was also for many of them the feeling that Zhai was another guilty secret, in addition to their infertility.

Power-relating, both constraining and enabling at the same time, was evident in the paradoxical tensions felt within the practice by the employment and expanding role of the practice nurse.

If you think about it for too long, the question itself begins to feel paradoxical.

Those notions feel paradoxical, and yet they both feed into a critique of Clinton as someone who does not always embrace responsibility.

Life is paradoxical, and Chekhov felt this paradox very acutely.

Hovering between kitschy art and soft porn, the pictures exude a paradoxical eroticism that feels at once wholesome and creepily voyeuristic (Johnson).

Smith, who in 2008 was selected by the Obamas to redecorate their private White House quarters and later was appointed to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, was inspired to turn a seaside property — which had what Smith called a dated, 1980s vibe that felt paradoxical to the laid-back, Malibu landscape — into his own version of a Palladian villa.

It was also a time of excitement at the American imports coming in - there was a sense of abundance in the 1970s that feels paradoxical today".

This leads to my next point which feels paradoxical.

That's always felt paradoxical to me, which is part of why I made TSP such a paradoxical game it doesn't make sense, you can't resolve it.