Sentence examples for paradoxical language from inspiring English sources
He would advocate "sticking to the image", whose often indistinct or paradoxical language spoke, he argued, with more authenticity than verbal discourse.
With the autobiographical knots and parables of Reasons for Moving (1968) and Darker (1970), Mark Strand's paradoxical language achieved a resonant simplicity.
in paradoxical language, in bold words, and with subtle profundity, gave free play to his imagination and thought….Although his writings are inimitable and unique, they seem circuitous and innocuous.
The same characteristic may be noticed in the authentic chapters of the Zhuangzi, attributed to the Daoist sage Zhuangzi, who (as stated in the epilogue of the Zhuangzi) in paradoxical language, in bold words, and with subtle profundity, gave free play to his imagination and thought….Although his writings are inimitable and unique, they seem circuitous and innocuous.
Patwa, a beautifully paradoxical language in its simple reductiveness and complex construction, is as much a part of Jamaican identity as our culture, dance, music, food, nicknames and all the other aspects that make us what we are.
In a different direction, Frits Staal has argued that paradoxical mystical language has been used systematically to make logically respectable claims (Staal, 1975).
Metastability, for example, allows to unfold the seemingly paradoxical nature of language change, according to which languages evolve because they are spoken by a large number of speakers but the evolution is frustrated since the speakers are indeed many.
Similarly, negations and other nuances of language cause paradoxical results.
He called Samson's language a "paradoxical assertion," where a person asserts a point in one part of a statement and then negates it in another.
Nowhere in Green's pages will you be shown a word only to be told it "doesn't exist", which paradoxical judgment is the domain of language police rather than language herders.
