Sentence examples for paradoxical image from inspiring English sources

Hogarth's art allowed him to be remembered as he lived, creating a tender, paradoxical image of vitality and mortality, transience and timelessness.

" 'No hawkers, no traders, and no one who doesn't know who Dvorák is.' " In this provocative and original play, Raine keeps the ideas and the ironies coming until the final thrilling, paradoxical image.

A bright orange Tesla Roadster parked near a sprawling park that houses Spain's National Art Museum of Catalonia is a striking, if somewhat paradoxical, image.

Each of Marclay's paradoxical images seems bound by withholding.

But the Surrealistic impulse is still very much alive in contemporary art, and there's a good reason: whether or not it reveals mystic truths, the free play with disjunctive, contradictory and paradoxical images, materials and forms has a way of relaxing conventional restrictions on creative imagination.

To evoke the "loveliness of body and spirit", a pair of complementary but paradoxical images are employed in the second stanza: the solitary, hidden violet juxtaposed to the publicly visible Venus, emblem of love and first star of evening.

James was a paradoxical figure.

In some ways the brothers were paradoxical mirror images: Sterling, the peacock, was a very private man, while Stephen, the brooder, led a more public life.

Woody has always traded on his paradoxical self-image: schlemiel and stud, the unprepossessing wimp who is none the less a magnet for bright and beautiful women.

Instead of keeping it surface and light with paradoxical Instagram images, we need to take down this shame curtain by being open, honest, and kind with each other.

We live at a paradoxical moment when an image is caught and then we look down at it, since that downward gaze has come to consume a monstrous part of daily routine.