Sentence examples for telling contradiction from inspiring English sources

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In a telling contradiction, Madrid has proposed that the country's banks lend the government the money to keep the fund going.

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There were telling contradictions in the details too.

Flipping through the photos gathered in "We've Come So Far: The Last Days of Death by Audio," a book by the Turkish-born music photographer Ebru Yildiz, can drag up knotty yet telling contradictions.

The view of a multistory apartment complex is instantly legible as a whole but abounds in slow-release peculiarities, revelatory details and telling contradictions.

Having internalised these double bind-mechanisms perfectly after a while under the double bind-regime, the employees become so intimidated that they will do whatever they are told without contradiction or question regardless of any hint of the real dangers for the organisation.

The conjunction of (e1) and (f1) is a near contradiction, telling Smith that he both has an obligation to warn Jones, and also that he has an obligation not to warn Jones.

Some students asked whether there was a fundamental contradiction between telling students to use online resources, but not to discuss the test with each other.

Is there a contradiction in telling schools they will have more freedom, but also asserting that they will be "properly accountable"?

In his best songs, Jay-Z exploits this contradiction by telling stories that balance a C.E.O.'s suave self-confidence with a memoirist's introspection, using unpredictable rhyme schemes to keep the listener off balance.

In an article for the Guardian, she says: "There is a contradiction in telling Ukip voters in Thurrock that you share their pain about west Africans and expecting those same west Africans to vote for the Labour party elsewhere in the country".

Cognitive dissonance is the reality of the robots in Westworld, and this episode opens with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) telling Bernard Jeffrey Wrightt) how the contradictions are starting to tear her apart: "I think there may be something wrong with this world, something hiding underneath".

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