Sentence examples for point of paradox from inspiring English sources

He was pragmatic and versatile almost to the point of paradox – characteristics that could also collectively describe his successors, who include thinkers as diverse as the gradualist Hassan al-Hodeibi and the fundamentalist Sayyid Qutb.

The problem reaches the point of total paradox when the gap in votes is as tiny as it is in this case.

Koolhaas, and OMA, are happiest when poised between different points of a paradox or an opposition.

If Abraham's life is meaningful, it represents, from a philosophical point of view, the "paradox" that through faith the "single individual is higher than the universal".

Wittgenstein's formulation of the problem, now at the point of being a "paradox", has given rise to a wealth of interpretation and debate since it is clear to all that this is the crux of the general issue of meaning, and of understanding and using a language.

Mr. Nye just published a book whose title suggests its main point: "The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Superpower Can't Go It Alone".

From the author's point of view, the EPR paradox is only a new form of Zeno's ancient paradox of Achilles and the tortoise.

But from a mathematical point of view, there is a paradox here.

However, there are several controversies in transition research, including, the role of agency in transitions; the relationships between levels (niche, regime and landscapes); the origin of transitions; the identification of a transition, including starting and ending point of transition processes; and the paradox of replicability and scaling up of independent experiments.

So there was no point in starting a discussion on the joys of paradox.

It would seem unnecessary to point out the paradox of five justices of the supreme court, average age 69 and each able to retire at 75, telling the rest of us we shouldn't necessarily expect to keep our jobs beyond our 65th birthday.