Sentence examples for paradoxical to from inspiring English sources

The phrase 'paradoxical to' is correct and usable in written English
It is used when something runs counter to the accepted or obvious notion. For example: It is paradoxical to think that success could come from failure.

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Valentine's aim was paradoxical: to publish books that would be bought by people who "aren't book-buyers".

It may seem paradoxical to describe the driving hard-rock sound of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals as comfort music.

It may be paradoxical to note that "The Toe Tactic" and "Jellyfish" share a commitment to idiosyncrasy.

It sounds paradoxical to link the desire for unlimited medical treatment to the desire for physician-assisted suicide.

The notion that more firearms reduces the risks posed by more firearms is paradoxical to some and reassuring to others.

In a manner that might seem paradoxical to more-modern minds, humanists associated Classicism with the future.

But if Bush's body language was weird, than his answers at times were paradoxical to a point they could have been crafted by Lewis Carroll.

It may sound paradoxical to say so, but if I had not been so obsessed with music, I might not have become a novelist.

The line, as usual, was out the door, the baristas -- those charged with making the hot drinks -- moved in a sluggish manner paradoxical to their product.

The kind of active forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape.

"It would be paradoxical to go to a vote with an election system that all political forces regard as inadequate to guarantee government stability," he said.

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