Sentence examples for paradoxical joy from inspiring English sources

I worked on an excerpt from "Angela's Ashes," taking the passages I'd loved the most as I was reading and cutting in between to come up with a piece that would give a New Yorker reader some sense of the deprivation of McCourt's childhood, but also its fleeting, paradoxical joy.

Thence he sailed to the West Indies, where he observed firsthand the barbaric treatment of West Indian slaves, and marveled at the paradoxical joy and spontaneity of their music and dance an early calypso that would eventually morph into blues and jazz.

A simple joy: the basic paradoxical delight in two distant worlds crashing head on into each-other.

Joy, joy, joy!

Alternatively, we could explore, with trepidation and with melancholy joy, this ultra-paradoxical and zombie-like condition, this non-life-restoring resurrection that, if De Certeau is correct, is writing's true and only lot, its afterlife.

It's a puzzle this book, and it would be a shame to attempt to unpick it for anyone who's not yet had the joy of swimming in its paradoxical, philosophical, intoxicating waters.

How the Intrepid Hostess Played Julia Child In a Space the Size of a Teacup It's paradoxical that many of my recipes come from "The Joy of Cooking".

Predator inspection is paradoxical.

It was paradoxical.

"It's paradoxical".

This seems paradoxical.