But the language of paradox, oxymoron and subtle contradiction – the language of children – does better.
Ms. Uggams's subtle, contradiction-embracing portrayal provides a welcome ballast for a show that never fully weaves its disparate strands into whole cloth.
The paper pieces from the "Seed Calendar" series depend for their impact on inherent ambiguities, like the strict grid layout's subtle contradiction by the irregular puddling, bleeding and staining that surrounds individual seeds.
These sentences sounded like a subtle contradiction of Obama's own argument, way back in 2008, in favor of the power of rhetoric, responding to Hillary Clinton's charge that his campaign was built upon "just words".
This first entry in the Signature Theater Company's season devoted to the Negro Ensemble Company, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, features Leslie Uggams in a subtle, contradiction-embracing performance as a matriarch hostage to memory (2 30).
After all, I appreciated the subtle contradiction of that "like", poised on the edge of potential simile, and that bold, indicative "literally", ready-armoured for its grapple with hard fact.
And then cities enfold a subtler contradiction — they shine by bringing like-minded people in from the hinterland (gays, geeks, Jews, artists, bohemians), but they thrive by asking unlike-minded people to live together in the enveloping metropolis.
Beneath the sophistry of these contradictions lie subtle and elusive concepts of limits and infinity, only completely explained in the 19th century when the foundations of analysis became more rigorous and the theory of transfinite numbers had been formulated.
The panel contains subtle indications of the contradictions in the character of the Pope, and captures the complex psychological dynamic between the three men.
