Sentence examples for various contradictions from inspiring English sources

A leading student of the welfare state, he shrewdly observed its various contradictions.

Girard writes thoughtfully about the various contradictions of Louverture's life, which ended in a prison cell in France.

The evening was peppered with allusions to his various contradictions and so-called magic tricks—little hypocrisies that surely felt cathartic to voice.

Acknowledging various contradictions ("I'm not a media critic, but... .), he's also uneasy about the slickness of the entertainment industry's products aimed at children.

The first reaction – I've tried this out on a few people who have somehow managed not to see the image yet – is laughter: a short, shocked laugh that suddenly evaporates, like a drop of water on a hot shovel, as the work's various contradictions and ambiguities align and realign themselves within your consciousness.

The selective institutionalizations of these key boundary objects helped the participants overcome various contradictions existed in the systems development.

How he negotiates these various taxing contradictions -- which, as he acknowledges, are ultimately without resolution -- is vividly sketched.

Moreover, as the neoconservative sociologist Daniel Bell argued, capitalism harbours various "cultural contradictions" that undermine its own social and ethical foundations.

Various dualities and contradictions play out: between wood and paint; abstraction and representation; geometry and biology; the phallic and the vaginal; body and mind; nature and culture.

The question that Toronto faces, the question that its various crises and contradictions pose, is whether the city will rise into a glorious future of a mingled and complicated humanity, an avatar of a singular cosmopolitanism, or whether it will shrink back and be swallowed by the provincial miasma that inveigles it.

Jónsdóttir is recalling the various habits and contradictions of her grandfather: how he smoked Cuban cigars and drank beer, although beer was not allowed in Iceland then, how he wrote standing up and kept his 1955 Nobel prize stuffed away in a cupboard, and how "he played Bach to escape everything.