The phrase "underlying paradox" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a contradictory or seemingly impossible situation or idea that is hidden within a statement or situation. You can use this phrase to add depth and complexity to your writing. Example: The protagonist's actions were driven by an underlying paradox - she was determined to achieve success and happiness, yet her pursuit of these goals only led to her downfall and misery.
The difference is that the Parisienne follows a fashion cycle that turns with the season; the clubman's cycle turns with the decade and woe betide the fellow who tries to speed it up with a vermilion jacket lining.The underlying paradox is that fashion, by definition ephemeral, is always with us.
This simple division between the social and biological aspects of kinship masked an underlying paradox in the way the subject had been defined.
However, Stephen Levy, a local economist, points to the underlying paradox: "Those people who are participating in the cluster are doing so more broadly.
The underlying paradox, as the Yale art historian Tim Barringer notes, was that painters from Thomas Cole to Frederick Church "celebrated the beauty of the wilderness at the moment of its historical transformation" by settlement and industry.
The underlying paradox here is that while Uber's success relies on its ability to recruit armies of drivers, the company has no interest in being a car service.
That's the underlying paradox of this film, which depicts a warm and nurturing setting with one of the world's most tumultuous regions looming in the corners.
Berlin's culture of reluctance exposes the underlying paradoxes of German foreign and security policy.
It is very difficult to choose which assumptions to weaken, since each of the explicitly stated assumptions underlying a paradox appears to be "obviously true" — otherwise it would not qualify as a paradox.
In this paper we investigated the immanent mechanism underlying this paradox.
We will return to a discussion of this in Section 3. The proof above is simpler than the original proof of Montague (1963) and directly mimicks the reasoning underlying the paradox of the knower.
The mechanism underlying this paradox is complex and remains unclear.
