Sentence examples for persistent paradox from inspiring English sources
The persistent paradox of Walsh is that his plays are haunted by death and solitude yet his characters are filled with a phenomenal verbal and physical energy.
Despite its pile of data and array of provocative theories, "Watching What We Eat" stops short of resolving the "persistent paradox" it raises: Why are we transfixed by the sight of someone cooking on television when we might not love to do it ourselves — or might not do it at all? Collins's failure to synthesize the information she has collected makes her book ultimately unsatisfying.
However, Grace Davie, professor emeritus in sociology at the University of Exeter and author of the new book Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox, has a slightly different take.
This highlights a persistent brand management paradox: otherwise successful national brands that are well regarded but struggle to develop lasting brand loyalty.
The Latina Paradox, or persistent, unexplained variation in low birth weight rates in recently immigrated Mexican women and the trend toward higher rates in subsequent generations of Mexican American women, is most often attributed to unidentified sociocultural causes.
In that legendary address Kennedy was, of course, referring to the communist threat, but in the cold war battle for African and Asian hearts and minds, this American paradox was a persistent disaster.
Paradox is a persistent contradiction between interdependent elements (Schad et al. 2016).
At each duration she finds distortions and paradoxes, revealing the persistent "capriciousness, strangeness and mutability" of time as we sense it.
Further, in what has been referred to as the "disability paradox", people with serious and persistent disabilities often report experiencing a good or excellent quality of life when to others it would appear that their health is poor [ 7].
The conceptualization of competing demands as paradoxes envisages the simultaneous and persistent coexistence of competing demands that are contradictory, yet interrelated (Schad et al. 2016; Smith and Lewis 2011).
