Sentence examples for paradoxical terms from inspiring English sources

Shostakovich spoke of the 15th Quartet in typically sardonic and paradoxical terms.

"All I know is that she called the police on him one time". Beverly Reid, who rented an apartment over her garage to the Fergusons, described him on "A Current Affair" on Thursday night in paradoxical terms: sensitive but argumentative, intelligent and courteous but with a tremendous chip on his shoulder.

To put it in sharper, if seemingly paradoxical terms, if America tries to go it alone in the world without China, it will not be able to assert itself.

Those readers who scan ads for video cameras may have been noticing a new and apparently paradoxical term of late: "fuzzy logic". Unlike fuzzy thinking, which is what my high-school math teacher used to accuse me of, fuzzy logic is supposed to be a positive attribute.

This paradoxical condition is termed 'malignant CTH' and is imminent if both CTH and TBF are high: in Fig.  2, this is observed at high TBF levels where oxygenation improves little with further TBF increases because physiological shunting is already high, even for negligible CTH.

However, 8%43%% of patients will experience paradoxical deterioration, termed tuberculosis-associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (TB-IRIS) [ 3, 4].

The exact mechanism by which corticosteroids benefit these patients is unknown and somewhat paradoxical; long term use causes muscle wasting in most clinical populations except DMD.

Costly religious rituals such as male circumcision, food and water deprivation, and snake handling look paradoxical in evolutionary terms.

Under this model, the seemingly paradoxical dual enriched terms of serine peptidase inhibitor and protease, can be explained by preferential exportation of peptidase inhibitors out of the cell.

To describe this kind of logic, the American military writer Edward Luttwak has used the term paradoxical.

Rapid eye movement (REM; also termed paradoxical or active) sleep in the rat is characterized by tonic phenomena including desynchronization of the cortical electroencephalogram (EEG), prominent hippocampal theta activity and postural muscle atonia [1], [2].