Sentence examples for paradoxical quality from inspiring English sources

His success has a paradoxical quality to it.

She has the paradoxical quality of having a conscience but hardly any capacity for self-examination.

This dense biographical collage of images and memories of the Soviet dictator's second wife, Nadezhda, has a paradoxical quality.

He also lacked the paradoxical quality that often makes a star: the muscular brute with a tender smile, the all-American hero with a vicious streak.

In the end, the first appearance as a lecturer by Mr. Gore, the former vice president (and former newspaper reporter), had a wonderfully paradoxical quality.

The images are intimate, generally small, often surprisingly personal – Dürer's dog, Holbein's younger brother – and share the paradoxical quality of metalpoint, which is to appear extremely precise and yet shimmeringly soft.

Traditional mobile-making gains a psychological edge by the inclusion of prickly, paradoxical qualities.

But the scene is striking for other reasons: one of them a sense of how differently Monroe would have played it, the other a realisation of the paradoxical qualities that made Hepburn a major star, but only briefly.

Consider, for a moment, these seemingly paradoxical qualities: ■Results-focused/Reflectiveness ■Honesty/Compassion ■Tough-mindedness/Gentleness ■Confidence/Humility ■Rationality/Intuition ■Intelligence/Curiosity ■Passion/Composure ■Practicality/Vision Is there any doubt that for each set of pairs above, most of us tend to favor one more than the other?

The three films that Dean left as his epitaph provide evidence of why he became such an icon: his lupine good looks as well as his most defining and paradoxical quality-vulnerability.

He told the BBC, "He had so many paradoxical qualities: he was courageous, weak, vain and yet incredibly romantic".