Sentence examples for paradoxical work from inspiring English sources

This jaunty but thoughtful production uses paradox to capture a paradoxical work.

For those engaged in the seemingly paradoxical work of East Coast seismology, Tuesday's episode was more than a passing oddity.

However, Polke's paradoxical work, with its shoddy representation of desirable foods and other commodities, was above all a parody of western commercialism.

Some modern scholars have suggested that it ought to be understood primarily as a satire or consciously paradoxical work that deliberately makes incompatible and paradoxical statements to amuse the reader (Bowen 1972: 249 56; Korkowski 1976: 594 607).

Mahler's Tenth Symphony is one of the most troubling, paradoxical works in musical history.

Mr. Barry's visually minimal, verbally paradoxical works operate like Zen koans to heighten awareness of the mystery of consciousness.

Collishaw's Last Meal On Death Row series is one of the eerily paradoxical works in which this powerful artist confronts beauty with horror.

One could argue that many artists in the "post-internet" (gross, I know) genre of visual art produce equally paradoxical works, but the majority of that work is glossed over with a clinical and predictable sheen of aesthetic cool.

These rather paradoxical practices work on several different principles.

The reason that the two campaigns are sticking with a strategy that so many voters profess to detest is somewhat paradoxical: it works.

By John Cassidy November 5, 2016 The reason that the Clinton and the Trump campaigns are embracing negativity, a strategy that so many voters profess to detest, is somewhat paradoxical: it works.