Sentence examples for violent contradictions from inspiring English sources
But I gave it up when I saw that all it proved was what I already knew — that I had violent contradictions.
This modern murder ballad captured the violent contradictions of 1960's-style romanticism, and on Monday Mr. Young emphasized those incongruities.
That Rimbaud's repudiation of poetry was as furious as the outpouring of his talent had once been was typical of a man whose life and work were characterized by violent contradictions.
But Hamilton understands the border mentality, and his tensile prose -- with its shifting images of heat and cold, light and dark -- reflects the dramatic, often violent contradictions of people who live on the edge of the world.
The violent contradictions of our post-democratic elitist epoch might have been displaced to an overseas "theatre of war", but by resolutely associating them with Wall Street privilege and power, Easton Ellis's novel makes a comment on the ugliness of modern capitalism and its relentless consuming-towards-extinction programme.
The work of Dr. Omalu, and the effect that Concussion has had in catapulting it to a more immediate presence on the national agenda, is just the first salvo in what will be a difficult and protracted culture war trying to make peace with just another violent contradiction in a country composed of almost nothing but.
"Having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation," Sinatra once observed.
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as "an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness".
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love.
In the letters that follow, he takes stock of the Italian literary scene and gathers impressions of America: "A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love," he writes.
But the show's ambitions to provide a counter to the image of black men as irrationally violent — to show instead their contradictions and fluctuating intentions; to give us sex, quietude, and surprise — paradoxically yoke the script to the myth from which it is trying to escape.
