Sentence examples for use of paradox from inspiring English sources

The bold use of paradox startles readers into a reappraisal of fairy tale conventions, even if McKinley's resolution isn't as well fleshed out as her setting.

His best works achieve an unusual directness and simplicity, and his use of paradox and striking imagery is akin to that of the later Metaphysical poets.

While I don't want to retell the entire novel - especially since it interprets itself quite well - I do want to comment on Ford's style, which makes great use of paradox.

The story makes good use of paradox and the butterfly effect, but its greatest charms lie in Si's good-humoured observations of old New York and the love story that gradually develops between Si and the beautiful Julia, who doesn't believe Si when he tells her he's a time traveller.

His use of paradox is at least as prominent in our ancient sources about him as are those constructive contributions to logical theory.

Although the use of "paradox" is widespread within deontic logic and it does conform to a technical use in philosophical logic, namely the distinction between "paradox" and "antinomy" stemming from Quine's seminal "The Ways of Paradox" (Quine 1976 [1962]), I will also use "puzzle", "problem" and "dilemma" below.

The use of paradoxes in the Laozi especially heightens this point.

The accuracy of Peto's paradox assumptions are rarely valid and/or quantifiable, suggesting the need to reconsider the use of Peto's paradox as a null hypothesis in identifying the influence of natural selection on cancer resistance mechanisms.

According to the questionnaires we sent out, the use of the "French paradox" technique seemed to lose ground compared to a standard technique over a period of time in the late 1990s.

But the dual use added a frisson of paradox — and human nature — to all those empty mirrored halls and gold-encrusted ceilings.

Therefore, the continued use of DDT poses a paradox recognized by a centrist-DDT position.