Sentence examples for slightly paradoxical from inspiring English sources

It is in itself a slightly paradoxical idea.

The slightly paradoxical thing is that a portrait is supposed to combat mortality, but as I was just reaching 40, it made me feel more mortal than ever.

Maybe this is Jewel's way of doing something that's both enormously difficult and slightly paradoxical: she's saying that people needn't listen to what she's saying.

Perhaps the divergence of views about our coverage reflects the slightly paradoxical view we have in this country – and in the media – of celebrity.

Well, I think that the construction of liberal society rests on several ideas, and one of the key, slightly paradoxical ones is that its politics really do rise from the ground up.

Meanwhile, they lived a slightly paradoxical existence: they went to church, he started coaching baseball again.

These results are somewhat paradoxical.

"Tokyo Godfathers" is only slightly less paradoxical.

This paradoxical and slightly hallucinatory format is both the literal result of the chine collé print studio process that produced them, and the conceptual consequence of the political circumstances that inspired them -- plus a healthy dose of serendipity and resourcefulness in creative problem-solving.

Paradoxical sleep was slightly decreased in the exposed animal but was not statistically significant (U=24.5, p=0.18).

For all its wild transgressiveness, it feels cold, and even – paradoxical though this may sound – slightly formulaic.