Sentence examples for paradoxical love from inspiring English sources

Mikijirō Hira – the previous year's Macbeth – headed an all-male cast and persuaded one totally of Medea's paradoxical love for her slaughtered children.

Jesus' call to "love our enemies" is intentionally paradoxical: Love those you hate is about as counter-intuitive as you can get.

And with this in mind, Dylan and Mitch's relationship with their dad looks to me like a full throttle exploitation of paradoxical love.

While the tumor/host relationships were earlier thought to be antagonistic (perhaps by analogy with infections), today their synergy (paradoxical "love, not war") becomes apparent (Lichtenstein 2008).

Paradoxical, since Love Productions came up with the brilliant idea of the Bake Off in the first place.

It's paradoxical to love environments that would rather destroy human life, but "it puts us in our place," he admits.

But if there's one artist who best expresses the paradoxical power of love, its simultaneous nature as both unshakable bond and unstoppable rupture, it is Sharon Hayes.

The paradoxical call to "love our enemies" is thus intended to jar us out of a self-focused and reactionary mindset, and into a radical change in perspective -- recognizing the humanity in those we are inclined to dehumanize, and showing care for those we are inclined to seek to harm in the name of "justice".

Bullock finds in the mystics' love of paradox a validation for his own paradoxical vision of Hitler's thought world.

They love malvasia's paradoxical character.

In the photobook, Richard Ford's short meditation on the same caught its paradoxical sense of place perfectly – love amid the drab motels and soul-sapping pawn shops.