And the connections between the unfiltered experience of nature and the artistic output that nature can inspire brings to mind the elder Duke's exultant, yet paradoxical, words upon fleeing into the woods in Shakespeare's "As You Like It": And this our life exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
But style is a paradoxical word.
An analysis of the literature and the results of our experiments suggest the existence of a new immunologic phenomenon, which could be referred to as inverted reprogramming or, in other words, paradoxical plasticity of macrophages.
in paradoxical language, in bold words, and with subtle profundity, gave free play to his imagination and thought….Although his writings are inimitable and unique, they seem circuitous and innocuous.
The same characteristic may be noticed in the authentic chapters of the Zhuangzi, attributed to the Daoist sage Zhuangzi, who (as stated in the epilogue of the Zhuangzi) in paradoxical language, in bold words, and with subtle profundity, gave free play to his imagination and thought….Although his writings are inimitable and unique, they seem circuitous and innocuous.
In the author's words, "the paradoxical positive relationship between state life‐satisfaction and state suicides that is seen in raw, unadjusted data appears to be genuine; it is not due to confounding caused by differences in population characteristics across states".
Thus giving expression, in these two words, to the paradoxical truth that the only constant in the universe is change.
The sentence 'This sentence has five words' is not paradoxical, after all, even though it is self-referential; in fact, it seems obviously true.
It may seem paradoxical to even put the words "trauma" and "growth" next to each other in one sentence.
Viewing "Alice," for instance, one can immediately see that the novel's second most significant word is "know," a paradoxical choice for a work in which neither the protagonist nor the reader ever fully understands what is happening.
Journalism, in other words, is a costly and paradoxical enterprise: it can flourish only when profitable, but it is most suspect when it seeks a profit at all costs.
