The day I understood this, I knew that the subject of my film would be death itself, death and not survival, a radical contradiction because it attested, in a way, to the impossibility of the enterprise I was throwing myself into, since the dead couldn't speak for the dead.
The "radical contradiction" of making death or absence the soul of a monumental film gives Shoah its emotional and intellectual intensity.
But Romney is Romney, and Gingrich has skills, so between Romney's radical capitalist contradictions coming to the fore -- complete with his bizarre attacks on any criticism of Wall Street ways -- and Gingrich's ability to get back in debates, the undead has risen.
The persona she presents is radical in its contradictions – her voice is both punk and disinterested, both promiscuous and not particularly sexual.
Obama was simultaneously accused of being a Muslim and a radical Christian, with the contradiction never explored or explained.
That may sound like a contradiction, since "radical" is usually shorthand for the far left, but the seeming contradiction demonstrates how restrictive our notion of the right-left political spectrum really is, and that's perhaps the most important thing we can learn from looking to our European roots.
Presumably free of male anxieties, fiction by women — Deborah Eisenberg, Jennifer Egan, Susan Choi, Barbara Kingsolver, Ann Patchett, Dana Spiotta — has seemed much more sensitive to the variety, ambiguities and contradictions of radical thought and action.
On the other hand, he used Hegelian categories of thought himself, especially in his idea of the aesthetic life, the ethical life and the religious life as stages through which human beings develop by means of first internal contradiction and then radical transition.
This duality reveals the role of these immigrant camps, which were created both in Israel and abroad, as spatial 'black holes' which swallowed the contradiction between the radical geopolitical transformation and the rational self-image of the Israeli state-building project.
That's the fundamental reason why the radical opposition is promoting a "contradiction" between Hong Kong and China by trying to shift the blame of Hong Kong's internal conflicts onto the central government and the mainlanders.
Ms. Dohrn said she was aware of the contradictions between her radical past and the comforts of her present existence.
