Sentence examples for square circles from inspiring English sources

Isn't that why there is such a thing as amnesty — to square circles like these?

In an article this year titled "Multiverses and Blackberries" in The Skeptical Inquirer, Martin Gardner wrote, "Lewis seriously maintains that every logically possible universe -- that is, one with no logical contradictions such as square circles -- is somewhere out there".

To prove that the administration is trying to square circles, he points out that current planning calls for a $10 billion rise in total defence spending between 2002 and 2003 which looks unrealistic in political terms.He holds that instead of preparing to fight two full-blown wars at once, the Pentagon should revert to something like the "win-hold-win" scenario mooted five years ago.

That God cannot know future free action is no more of a mark against God's being omniscient than God's inability to make square circles is a mark against God's being omnipotent.

As far as Cantor was concerned, the infinitesimal was beyond the realm of the possible; infiinitesimals were no more than "castles in the air, or rather just nonsense", to be classed "with circular squares and square circles".

The first works consist of single shapes — square, circle, cross, rectangle — in black and white.

Whatever way you look at it, Spain is a serious underachiever in the square circle.

He will be influenced by the two men sharing the square circle with him.

He cannot make a square circle.

Inset: the magnification of the square circle.

In the first case, his making a square circle is impossible because the idea of a square circle is contradictory.