Sentence examples for paradoxical things from inspiring English sources

Messed up, but not terminally, they do paradoxical things, trying to understand what is expected of them and how to be true to themselves at the same time.

"The city is full of these contrasts, these paradoxical things," said Ernesto Brito, 36, an ecologist camped among the protesters, some of whom were bathing less regularly than their new neighbors in Leblon.

As we mark the 50th anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., let's recall two paradoxical things about MLK.

These are seemingly paradoxical things, and yet, they worked in a sort of perverse harmony when it came to parenting me.

The Civil War is that paradoxical thing in history, a kind of memory screen.

He was to a large degree that paradoxical thing, an oral prose writer.

The slightly paradoxical thing is that a portrait is supposed to combat mortality, but as I was just reaching 40, it made me feel more mortal than ever.

But consider one paradoxical thing about Clark: "I know how it feels to be stuck in the hospital, away from your team, away from your family," he said.

Over the next few years, it became a paradoxical thing, a totem of cool whose central argument poked holes in the idea of coolness.

At the end of his second day of interviews, on 19 November, Litvinenko describes getting a lift home with a Chechen friend named Akhmed Zakayev: "Now the paradoxical thing is that I was still feeling very well but then somehow I had some kind of feeling that something might happen to me in the nearest future.

Of course, the strange, and also paradoxical, thing is that it would be precisely the architecture Brandi challenged that would close it.