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  • Perhaps the greatest paradox concerned his feelings about money.†   (source)
  • A paradox, the doughnut hole.†   (source)
  • And yet, paradoxically, if being a step behind was more relaxing than being a step ahead, it was also more exciting.†   (source)
  • A bitter paradox, I thought: to keep his son he had to lose him.†   (source)
  • The New York Times recently reported that the most expensive schools are paradoxically cheaper for low-income students.†   (source)
  • The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace, was intense and blissful.†   (source)
  • As plausible an interpretation as this seemed, Langdon felt haunted now by a troubling paradox.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, the following day Will was in good form—unusually talkative, opinionated, belligerent.†   (source)
  • I suppose it is a bit of a paradox.†   (source)
  • "It's the grandfather paradox."†   (source)
  • He demonstrated the exercises of the great acting teacher Stanislavsky, he imitated Charlie Chaplin's funny walk, and when he was reading about calculus, he explained Zeno's paradox and the infinite series.†   (source)
  • He knew how it looked: it was the great paradox of Chris Langan's genius.†   (source)
  • I didn't dare test the paradox.†   (source)
  • This is the great paradox.†   (source)
  • The Salem tragedy, which is about to begin in these pages, developed from a paradox.†   (source)
  • Or—to quote another paradoxical gem of my dad's: sometimes you have to lose to win.†   (source)
  • A: Human beings are mysterious and paradoxical.†   (source)
  • And yet, paradoxically, it sounded weaker, slurred, petulant … as if he were drunk.†   (source)
  • His befuddled brain grappled with the paradox unsuccessfully.†   (source)
  • There is a paradox here, Brawne.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the greatest paradox about understanding "the woods" is that so many who enjoy it, or seem to enjoy it, spend most of their time trying to kill parts of it.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, heat was required to produce cold.†   (source)
  • One of the paradoxes of rain is how clean it is coming down and how much mud it can make when it lands.†   (source)
  • That the cruel paradox of her parents' lives—that their constant battles with insurance companies actually diminished her father's health and prevented her mother from working, eliminating her ability to earn money to pay for his care—would end?†   (source)
  • This was another of the paradoxes of Vught.†   (source)
  • Guns take a long time to work (you have to wait for the victim to bleed to death), but paradoxically they end up kffling people pretty often.†   (source)
  • Pity draws from all these opposing elements and courses through me like an uncooked stew, mixing and confusing the paradoxes, because now this man I once admired, if not revered, I once feared, if not hated, stands here, a fragment of the race, drunk, agonized, crushed, and I can't hate him any more; I can't see him as the manifestation of craziness and power he once possessed; he's a caricature, an apparition, but also more like me, capable of so much ache beneath the exterior of so…†   (source)
  • It has the paradoxical and I know calculated—effect of both shrinking and augmenting the misfortune.†   (source)
  • Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal.†   (source)
  • These difficult days saw another paradox of the occupation period: the armband with the Star of David, once the most threatening of symbols, became protection overnight, a form of insurance, since Jews were no longer the quarry.†   (source)
  • But part of the paradox of my relationship with Nathaniel is that I'm always trying, often in vain, to outsmart him.†   (source)
  • She thought of calling for coffee and with the thought came that ever-present awareness of paradox in the Fremen way of life: how well they lived in these sietch caverns compared to the graben pyons; yet, how much more they endured in the open hajr of the desert than anything the Harkonnen bondsmen endured.†   (source)
  • It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest.†   (source)
  • This was what his father had taught him: the greater the composure, the more revealed one was, the truth of one's inner life was manifest—a pleasing paradox.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically enough, few have spoken out more powerfully in the cause of free speech and religious tolerance than Spinoza.†   (source)
  • A society highly paradoxical, with alarming inequities, but with the private honor of thousands of persons winking like lightning bugs through the night?†   (source)
  • Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites.†   (source)
  • The arguments were convincing on a rational level, but no one knew Moody's paradoxical personality as well as I. Moody was a loving husband and father, yet given to callous disregard for the needs and desires of his own family.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be shrinking away from any contact with their flamboyantly and paradoxically outlined private parts.†   (source)
  • "It's a paradox, Magnus.†   (source)
  • For Liberian parents in America, the prevalence of gangs in Clarkston—and their potential allure to young Liberian men—created a bitter paradox.†   (source)
  • But together with this—and paradoxically—there had come to him from his mother a certain resentment against Efrafa and a feeling that they should have no more of him than he cared to give them.†   (source)
  • It's the insidious, cruel paradox of lengthy sentences: for women doing seven, twelve, twenty years, the only way to survive was to accept prison as their universe.†   (source)
  • This made his information extraordinarily valuable—and, paradoxically, highly suspect.†   (source)
  • He lost the paradoxical gift for being separate and alone and yet intimately connected, mind-wired to distant things.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, it is the countries with the most straitlaced and sexually conservative societies, such as India, Pakistan, and Iran, that have disproportionately large numbers of forced prostitutes.†   (source)
  • The brotherhood of DEVGRU SEALS is built upon a foundation of mutual respect, and just as Adam aspired to what he considered John's "genius"—academically and as a warrior—John aspired to Adam's ability to juggle and, in his opinion, master the apparently paradoxical roles of fierce warrior and loving husband and father.†   (source)
  • He had just opened with one of his most trusted paradoxes, and he was positively alarmed that not the slightest flicker of acknowledgment had moved across that impervious face, which began to remind him suddenly, in hue and texture, of an unused soap eraser.†   (source)
  • Sure, a few visit—Jesse Jackson and a handful of well-known ministers and black politicians-but they're like him, people whose success is, paradoxically, owed to the needy and the threadbare.†   (source)
  • But because normals do not have a second soul, they cannot handle a time loop's inherent paradoxes, and their brains turn to mush.†   (source)
  • But because no demon can get through the wards—well, it's a perfect paradox, or should be.†   (source)
  • Although this was arguably the most important case I would ever bring to court, and although—as my father pointed out—I hadn't been this motivated in my career in ages, there was an inherent paradox.†   (source)
  • I finally discovered the beautiful, paradoxical truth that genuine concern for the welfare of others is the gateway to the only real satisfaction for myself.†   (source)
  • It's the Socialists' paradox: Give its laboring forces responsibility but no individual authority.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, it was at this same moment that he felt as though he had begun to function again, and he discovered in himself a surprising emotional balance.†   (source)
  • It was the paradox of their lives that, as much as his public role kept them apart, he always needed to be with Abigail and she with him.†   (source)
  • That'd be a paradox," said the latter.†   (source)
  • It was a paradox nothing could resolve but a murderous snicker.†   (source)
  • If everyone was really having sex, then why was it paradoxically a hush-hush-whisper thing and a scream-it-online-and-in-the-cafeteria thing?†   (source)
  • Dagny, learn to understand the nature of your own power and you'll understand the paradox you now see around you.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, the truth seems to be that, where change occurs, it is often creating more diversity, not less.†   (source)
  • Wait, is that paradoxical?†   (source)
  • Time paradoxes are …. paradoxical.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, countries with open and vulnerable borders— France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Hungary-and those with populations divided by language, race, and religion, found the strength and means to unify themselves and act as nations far earlier than did we.†   (source)
  • Many Americans in Thomas Jefferson's time felt acutely the paradox of fighting for liberty while holding other people in slavery.†   (source)
  • They even accept the paradoxes.†   (source)
  • He was a paradox, a walking contradiction.†   (source)
  • Economic slowdowns are, perhaps paradoxically, a good time for the aftermarket auto-parts business.†   (source)
  • Finally, a scholar of Islam from Cambridge explained the seeming paradox.†   (source)
  • As much as anything else, it was the stare, not so paradoxically, of a privacy-lover who, once his privacy has been invaded, doesn't quite approve when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that.†   (source)
  • I was sorely puzzled by the paradox that many of my contemporaries tended to shy as far away from living things as they could get, and chose to restrict themselves instead to the aseptic atmosphere of laboratories where they used dead — often very dead — animal material as their subject matter.†   (source)
  • He would, although, paradoxically, it inflamed more than abated his homesickness to try a mouthful of a dish and pronounce, after some prodding, that it was too salty, too sweet, too spicy-hot.†   (source)
  • I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.†   (source)
  • It was paradoxical that they lived in the same house, ate almost every meal elbow to elbow or across the bar in his apartment, slept within twenty feet of each other, and yet they could be alone hardly at all.†   (source)
  • I know this seems a paradox, and if it's any consolation it's puzzled the world's best brains ever since Einstein announced it.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, the location was admirable, almost chic.†   (source)
  • It was one of nature's paradoxes: a plant growing upside-down: a leaf and flower-bearing liana whose foliage grew entirely under the ground.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, his silence brings silence.†   (source)
  • This is a schoolboy problem in metaphysical geometry and the eldest proto-paradox, the one about the irresistible force and the immovable body.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, it was her husband, Pavel Pavlovich, the son of a Moscow railway worker, who turned out to be an incorrigible urbanite.†   (source)
  • You're just being a bore with …. with your stupid paradoxes.†   (source)
  • "Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?" I asked.
    "You have used the wrong initial consonant," he smiled in answer.
    "Might?" I queried; and he nodded his head. "And yet we are supposed to get justice by means of the law?"
    "That is the paradox of it," he countered.   (source)
  • And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.   (source)
  • While to Helen the paradox became clearer and clearer. "Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him."   (source)
  • Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.   (source)
  • The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.   (source)
  • Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.   (source)
  • the 'ingenious paradox and trick' we had witnessed that day week   (source)
    paradox = a situation that is surprising or seems impossible because parts of it seem to contradict each other
  • Her freedom, like her "imprisonment," is paradoxical.†   (source)
  • The statement is so paradoxical that we can certainly emphasize it with a new section.†   (source)
  • "Leigh," Langdon said, "the argument is paradoxical.†   (source)
  • This is typically paradoxical behavior for Juanita-getting touchy-feely at a time like this.†   (source)
  • And, paradoxically, Hammond found it all much worse because he disliked the mathematician so much.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I were alone, paradoxically isolated amid a crowd of Iranian pedestrians.†   (source)
  • This comment may seem both new and paradoxical.†   (source)
  • An old dwarf once told me that the most powerful crafting materials are paradoxes.†   (source)
  • He remained as he had been, clear-eyed about the paradoxes of life and in his own nature.†   (source)
  • This is another one of those paradoxical principles like we talked about several months ago.†   (source)
  • " Lee asked, "How does Mrs. Hamilton feel about the paradoxes of the Bible?"†   (source)
  • When Sofia completed her survey of the Piazza's paradoxes, she seemed to understand instinctively that such a setting deserved an elevated standard of behavior.†   (source)
  • But Parmenides' disciple, Zeno, proved through a series of paradoxes that any perception of motion and change is illusory.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, then, some of the worst abuses inflicted on captives and POWs may have arisen from the guards' discomfort with being abusive.†   (source)
  • Such willful ignorance …. amounts to disrespect for the land, and paradoxically demonstrates the same sort of arrogance that resulted in the Exxon Valdez spill, just another case of underprepared, overconfident men bumbling around out there and screwing up because they lacked the requisite humility.†   (source)
  • That if the girl failed with her ranches and her bungee jumping and hot tubs and what have you, she would paradoxically be setting me free.†   (source)
  • Such messengers are said to deliver their messages in obscure forms, and so he tries to remember all of the riddles and paradoxes and conundrums he has ever known: The way down is the way up.†   (source)
  • Zeno was a pre-Socratic philosopher who is said to have discovered forty paradoxes within the worldview put forth by Parmenidessurely you know Parmenides," he said, and I nodded that I knew Parmenides, although I did not.†   (source)
  • The fact that evil could spring from an innocent child in a loving family remained one of the paradoxes of the human soul.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Collet realized, if Langdon were innocent, it explained one of this case's strangest paradoxes: Why had Sophie Neveu, the granddaughter of the victim, helped the alleged killer escape?†   (source)
  • Jim is using the river to escape to freedom, but his "escape" is paradoxical since it carries him deeper and deeper into slave territory.†   (source)
  • The notorious breakability of this centuries-old encryption scheme now presented a couple of paradoxes.†   (source)
  • Most Creation myths begin with a 'paradoxical unity of everything, evaluated either as chaos or as Paradise,' and the world as we know it does not really come into being until this is changed.†   (source)
  • Carter's heroine, Fevvers (whose name paradoxically suggests both "feathers" and "tethers"), is a woman whose flying act has made her the toast of circuses and music halls across Europe.†   (source)
  • Langdon's years in the classroom had not imbued him with any skills relevant to handling confrontations at gunpoint, but the classroom had taught him something about answering paradoxical questions.†   (source)
  • Snow is clean, stark, severe, warm (as an insulating blanket, paradoxically), inhospitable, inviting, playful, suffocating, filthy (after enough time has elapsed).†   (source)
  • Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all.†   (source)
  • In time, she grew bored with the lines and with her fantasies of revenge, and she closed her eyes and slipped into an uneasy half sleep, where the hours seemed, with the paradoxical logic of nightmares, to pass both faster and slower than normal.†   (source)
  • That seems paradoxical, I admit, given the strenuous efforts they expend to keep people from leaving their country, but it's true.†   (source)
  • Their "r"-less speech is dying, with one paradoxical exception: it lives on the tongues of African Americans, whose speech was shaped in that coastal slave culture.†   (source)
  • Paradoxes don't scare me anymore.†   (source)
  • Time paradoxes are …. paradoxical.†   (source)
  • Whoever, in New York, attempted to cling to this right, lived in New York in exile—in exile from the life around him; and this, paradoxically, had the effect of placing him in perpetual danger of being forever banished from any real sense of himself.†   (source)
  • As any parent of a teenage child will tell you, the essential contrariness of adolescents suggests that the more adults inveigh against smoking and lecture teenagers about its dangers, the more teens, paradoxically, will want to try it.†   (source)
  • He turned to the north, and, with his arm still extended, turned three-quarters back-an attractive gesture that seemed to say he might understand paradoxes and contradictions.†   (source)
  • And yet so, paradoxically, did her left, her fiancé's gaze boring through her thin silk shade like a second solar power.†   (source)
  • It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds—Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician's sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture!"†   (source)
  • It is one of the paradoxes of American life that white America both is fascinated by black culture and disapproves of it, embracing it and bad-mouthing it simultaneously.†   (source)
  • Miracles and paradoxes could be explained by the marvelously independent courses of their elements, and perhaps real beauty could be partially understood in that it was not just a combination, but a dissolution; that after the threads were woven and tangled they then untangled and continued on their separate ways; that the trains that pulled into the station in a riveting spectacle as clouds of steam condensed in the midnight air, then left for different destinations and disappeared;…†   (source)
  • I think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses.†   (source)
  • She and her fellow Gentiles acquired a classification which paradoxically removed them from the immediately death-bound.†   (source)
  • "Oscar hight this noble warrior, "Wise and Strong and never daunted, "Trapped the Igli with a question, "Caught him out with paradoxes, "Shut the Igli's mouth with Igli.†   (source)
  • It is obvious that within a very short time a whole new method of taxation will have to be devised, else the burden on real estate will be so great that no one will be able to afford it; far from being a source of profit, ownership will be a penalty, and this will be the apex of a pyramid of paradoxes.†   (source)
  • Her father did indeed hate the Marshal, she was later to learn, hated him with a fury, but mainly because in the paradoxical way of dictators he had handed down edict after edict protective of the Jews.†   (source)
  • Although I did not deal with Bilbo at any great length, I learned from my ancillary research (and rather to my surprise, given the truly despicable public image he projected in the 1940s) that he, too, fitted into this classically paradoxical mold; Bilbo in much the same way as the others had commenced with enlightened principles, and indeed like the others, I discovered, had as a public servant produced reforms and contributions that had greatly advanced the common weal.†   (source)
  • The Ancient Mysteries had always been the greatest paradox of his academic career.†   (source)
  • In a paradox of self-awareness, Langdon sensed this was death.†   (source)
  • Ingsley's comment is perhaps the only one possible: "Those were times of deep paradox.†   (source)
  • Are you familiar with Zeno's tortoise paradox?" he asked me.†   (source)
  • The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp.†   (source)
  • To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties.†   (source)
  • His body is a paradox of mass and lightness, crafted to slip through air with the ease of an arrow.†   (source)
  • Classic returned to the paradox of the innings but Big Sims waved him off.†   (source)
  • There is a ready explanation for this evident paradox.†   (source)
  • There was no shortage of Yankees in 1861 to point out the same paradox in Confederate professions.†   (source)
  • But Confederate soldiers, unlike many of their forebears of 1776, seemed unconscious of the paradox.†   (source)
  • Paradox ingredients are very difficult to craft with, very dangerous.†   (source)
  • That is where we come back to the fascinating paradox.†   (source)
  • The interesting paradox remains for the nation.†   (source)
  • Gleipnir was just as thin and light, but its paradox ingredients gave it great strength.†   (source)
  • "Dunno if that last one is a paradox," I said.†   (source)
  • But there is the other side to the black-white language paradox.†   (source)
  • Politically Texas continues its paradox.†   (source)
  • The weird paradox is that you think you're at the center of things, and that makes your opinions more valuable, but you yourself are becoming less vibrant.†   (source)
  • It is a paradox in whose grip we still live, and there is no prospect yet that we will discover its resolution.†   (source)
  • It is an interesting paradox.†   (source)
  • Paradox.†   (source)
  • He said it like he assumed I knew what the grandfather paradox was, because, if I didn't know, then I was a moron.†   (source)
  • They're fond of paradox in that region.†   (source)
  • And they can compare with the great paradox of eternity that Sophie once sat pondering in her garden: either the universe has always been there—or it suddenly came into existence out of nothing …†   (source)
  • The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer.†   (source)
  • Having expressed this paradox, the Count happened to look across the lobby, where Grisha was lugging the luggage of one guest toward the front desk as Genya lugged the luggage of another toward the door.†   (source)
  • Paradox ingredients?†   (source)
  • Yet, this is the paradox: Even though I miss you greatly, it's because of you that I don't dread the future.†   (source)
  • A complete paradox, a total contradiction of the civilized man… He'd laugh at the fact that his troops despised him and called him an animal, yet none ever dared to raise an official complaint.'†   (source)
  • A certifiable genius (who was definitely never a prodigy), Einstein had figured out that light can act, in a seeming paradox, both as a discrete particle and as a wave.†   (source)
  • But even to go back took an act of intelligence-she thought, feeling the paradox of her own position, as she looked at the lethargy of the faces around her.†   (source)
  • The paradox of all this attention was that many of the turf writers who covered Seabiscuit knew next to nothing about horses and racing.†   (source)
  • The paradox of honor killings is that societies with the most rigid moral codes end up sanctioning behavior that is supremely immoral: murder.†   (source)
  • He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox.†   (source)
  • It was another paradox that a man could engender trust within a society that scarcely recognized the concept.†   (source)
  • He sat watching her movements with an open grin, as if the sight of her laying out cutlery on a kitchen table were the spectacle of some special paradox.†   (source)
  • That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.†   (source)
  • But I've got one more—the final paradox that will bind you: the Sword of Summer, a weapon that wasn't designed to be a weapon, a blade that is best used by letting go of it."†   (source)
  • There you have the paradox.†   (source)
  • "We could speak, if we were seeking dramatic effect, of that paradox so frequently pointed out by psychologists and sociologists who have interested themselves in the policeman: 'The defender of peace is a trained killer.†   (source)
  • When he was excited he talked aloud to himself, imitating his mother's predilection for lofty subjects and paradox.†   (source)
  • It appeared to me increasingly paradoxical, and it has been my experience that when paradox crops up too often for comfort, it means that certain factors are missing in the equation.†   (source)
  • By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the "little ol' country boy" at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades.†   (source)
  • The two orders of simultaneous experience are so different, so irreconcilable to any common norm of human values, their coexistence is so hideous a paradox—Treblinka is both because some men have built it and almost all other men let it be—that I puzzle over time.†   (source)
  • And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery and paradox.†   (source)
  • Likewise, I could not be aware of the grotesque but now obvious paradox: that after Sunday School, as I stood blinking at the somber and ominous tabernacle across the street (my little brain groggy with a stupefyingly boring episode from the Book of Leviticus that had been force-fed me by a maidenly male bank teller named McGehee, whose own ancestors at the time of Moses were worhipping trees on the Isle of Skye and howling at the moon), I had just absorbed a chapter of the ancient,…†   (source)
  • We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.†   (source)
  • They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry.†   (source)
  • Paradoxically enough, it was when I was away from her, when I was withdrawn from her context, back in my room at night or in the hot early afternoon, after lunch, that I was savagely impatient of the delays and discriminations.†   (source)
  • They know, therefore, that one of the ten people on the island was not a murderer in any sense of the word, and it follows, paradoxically, that that person must logically be the murderer.†   (source)
  • The paradoxical thing is that moderate fatigue is a better soil for peevishness than absolute exhaustion.†   (source)
  • She grew an answering hardness against her mother and this hardness, paradoxically enough, brought them a little closer together because it made them more alike.†   (source)
  • The paradoxical part is that she was a very tender person, she was good to me, and not just because she needed me but somehow just the reverse, because I needed her.†   (source)
  • From the outset they reveal a paradoxical satisfaction at the discovery of a town so intrinsically ugly.†   (source)
  • And that particular money, which would have made the trip possible, was at the same time, paradoxically enough, a bond that held me here.†   (source)
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