Sentence examples for the paradoxical from inspiring English sources

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the paradoxical

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Having self-contradictory properties.

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But then you begin to appreciate the paradoxical relationship between the paintings and the designer ware.

That is the paradoxical tumour at the heart of 21st century capitalism.

"Just trying to live the paradoxical commandments".

Hence the paradoxical element in Debussy's stature.

He got the paradoxical result he had hoped for.

"They have the paradoxical effect of making people gain weight".

This is the paradoxical story of the war on terror in Somalia.

What it too often lacks is the paradoxical lightness, the buoyant variety of the others.

His anecdote is also a reminder of the paradoxical nature of the show.

Again, I'm drawn to the paradoxical conclusion that Blair's did a good job badly.

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This is the paradoxical pain of exercise: pain that becomes the emblem of the new virtue.

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