Sentence examples for paradoxical view from inspiring English sources

No one holds this paradoxical view more stubbornly than Miuccia Prada.

Perhaps the divergence of views about our coverage reflects the slightly paradoxical view we have in this country – and in the media – of celebrity.

"Close Doesn't Always Count in Winning Games" (March 7), by Benedict Carey, offers quite a paradoxical view: that selfishly decentralized groups are more resilient than a cohesive bunch because they are "better able to weather outside criticism and internal quarrels".

Whatever the reasons that led Saussure to take this rather paradoxical view, his teaching on this point was not generally accepted, and scholars soon began to apply structural concepts to the diachronic study of languages.

In "America Divided," Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin trace this paradoxical view of liberalism to 1972, when Richard Nixon crushed George McGovern by portraying the Democrats as a band of longhairs and welfare cheats whose leaders wished to "throw money" at social problems instead of taking a hard-nosed approach to solving them.

"The public takes a paradoxical view of America's place in the world," the poll reports, with 45percentt of Americans saying the U.S. plays a more important and powerful role as world leader than it did 10 years ago, and 67percentt saying the U.S. is less respected.

Cheever, who died in 1982 at the age of 70, had paradoxical views on many subjects, Mr. Bailey said, so he saw the suburbs in all their protean intricacy, which is why his stories live on.

That disagreement in many ways mirrors the paradoxical views of America held by many of the region's people and policy makers, who see Washington as all-powerful but also doomed to self-sabotage whenever it intervenes there.

Mr. Mashon said that he was intrigued by Americans' paradoxical views of the French: "On the one hand they think of them as folks who surrender in any given war at the drop of a hat.

This conviction is central to sfl, a linguistic theory that in my view has followed (most probably not intentionally) in the steps of Ferdinand de Saussure, without accepting his paradoxical views on langue and parole.

23 year old smoker, mother of 2 Women expressed paradoxical views regarding parental ability to influence their children's smoking behaviour.