Sentence examples for paradoxical ideas from inspiring English sources
Perhaps because there wasn't much to draw me in, I found myself idly pondering the bits of gnomic Buddhist thought that occasional flashed onto the supertitles, only to disappear before their paradoxical ideas could be properly digested.
The consistency of ancient Greek and later Western thinkers, from Aristotle through Descartes, was of scant concern to them, but in the vitality of their style, some of these Russian theorists were masters, whose turbulent, paradoxical ideas were taken to heart by novelists, poets, and statesmen.
Businesses that can adopt paradoxical ideas, can be that much more agile and responsive to change.
She manages to pull from both of these paradoxical ideas to tell her story as a woman in a man's world".
It is in itself a slightly paradoxical idea.
Set aside for a moment the paradoxical idea that free societies must be less free to protect their freedoms.
And as bohemianism itself became institutionalized, Mr. Wyeth encapsulated the artistic conservatives' paradoxical idea of disobedience through traditional behavior.
The paradoxical idea of infinitesimal quantities preoccupied ancient Greek mathematicians, especially Archimedes, who used the concept to calculate volumes of circles, cylinders, and spheres.
On the channel you can find videos of performances and interviews: a paradoxical idea, perhaps, for a radio station, but a recognition of the visual, video-rich world that teenagers inhabit.
Some explanations have attributed it to the paradoxical idea that the Moon at the horizon seems larger because the brain perceives it as being farther away than the Moon at the sky's zenith.
This paradoxical idea - that Felix's suffering is more real for being in his head than would be, say, a bit of flogging - is central to this novel of paradoxes.
