paradoxical
IPA: pɛrʌdˈɑksɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Having self-contradictory properties.
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Examples of "paradoxical" in Sentences
- The meaning of the word paradoxical may indeed be made the subject of argument.
- I think the term paradoxical is more appropriate than impossible for obvious reasons, but intriguing stuff no less.
- Medicare reform is desperately needed - it incentivizes doctors in paradoxical ways that are deleterious to patient care.
- What’s truly paradoxical is that many commandments insist that you execute them in the most natural, authentic, and committed way possible.
- I now turn to Tibetan Buddhism's account of so-called "nothingness," a concept (or non-concept?) only visible to Hegel in paradoxical and oxymoronic terms.
- The violence and the absurdity are common to all, likewise the painful compassion and feeling that the author expresses in paradoxical contrast to the fascination that these phenomena obviously have for him.
- The parallels are the same the cruelty, the violence and the absurdity are common to all, likewise the painful compassion and feeling that the author expresses in paradoxical contrast to the fascination that these phenomena obviously have for him.
- The problematical nature of Israel's Jewish culture can be identified as the paradoxical attempt to restore Jews to the world of nations, but to do so by an occult process that remains alien to universal civilization and the standards of science and rationality.
- At the inception of a renaissance for the forests and oceans, the atmosphere and surviving species, we human beings need again to listen and to see relationally, to learn anew what some refer to as paradoxical thinking and study in the ways of what others call an emotional philosophy for dwelling poetically with the Earth.
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