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  • "I wasn't given military orders," Watanabe said, contradicting the assertion he'd made in the 1995 interview.   (source)
    contradicting = denying
  • A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.   (source)
    contradiction = something that seems inconsistent with something else
  • "Maybe Miss Violence has too," I said, just to be contradictory.   (source)
    contradictory = in disagreement
  • She thought that night she'd made a pact with death
    itself: she could stay if she allowed death to stay as well. In choosing life, she embraced contradiction.   (source)
    contradiction = something that seems inconsistent with something else
  • Now she was waiting to be contradicted.   (source)
    contradicted = disagreed with
  • Phineas had soaked and brushed his hair for the occasion. This gave his head a sleek look, which was contradicted by the surprised, honest expression which he wore on his face.   (source)
    contradicted = in conflict with
  • The man who had contradicted him had no titles.   (source)
    contradicted = disagreed
  • You people seem not to comprehend that a minister is the Lord's man in the parish; a minister is not to be so lightly crossed and contradicted—   (source)
    contradicted = disagreed with
  • The YOUNGER living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contradictions to this state of being. ... the furnishings of this room were actually selected with care and love and even hope—and brought to this apartment and arranged with taste and pride. That was a long time ago. ... Weariness has, in fact, won in this room.   (source)
    contradictions = things that disagree with themselves
  • Tim didn't bother to contradict him.†   (source)
    contradict = disagree
  • He wondered if everyone at this program would be so full of contradictions.†   (source)
    contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
  • Joe eyed me warily, but didn't contradict me.†   (source)
    contradict = disagree
  • "It isn't any use to the Kaiser either. He has everything he can want already."
    "I'm not so sure about that," contradicts Kat, "he has not had a war up till now. And every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous."   (source)
    contradicts = disagrees
  • You mustn't contradict her.   (source)
    contradict = disagree with
  • Wait, doesn't this contradict your speech about needing to make the internet more secure?†   (source)
  • Without exaggeration or fear of contradiction, the Count could answer his own question in the negative.†   (source)
  • It meant trying to understand how Mom could be such a contradiction—a woman who sat patiently with me at the hospital for days and an addict who would lie to her family to extract money from them a month later.†   (source)
  • Enough facts had emerged for us to know the seriousness of the situation, but the details were disjointed, contradictory, and confusing.†   (source)
  • I had forgotten how to act naturally, thinking way too much in each situation and getting tangled in the contradictions between my two worlds.†   (source)
  • Four doesn't contradict me.†   (source)
  • Words that do not contradict reality?†   (source)
  • the prosecutor brought Myers back up to repeat his accusations as if the logic and contradictions in the testimony were completely irrelevant, as if repeating his lies enough times in this quiet room would make them true.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it even seemed like a relief to him that there was someone prepared to be rude to him, to contradict him or tell him he was being horrible.†   (source)
  • Yes, the clergy in Rome are blessed with potent faith, and because of this, their beliefs can weather any storm, including documents that contradict everything they hold dear.†   (source)
  • A combination of contradictory words The outcome of a sequence of events An implied reference to a literary or historical event A symbolic story or narrative.†   (source)
  • Volkheimer, like Hauptmann, seems full of contradictions.†   (source)
  • The adults would do their best to answer his questions, but their answers were often vague, or confusing, or contradictory, and then Bod would walk down to the old chapel and talk to Silas.†   (source)
  • They couldn't believe that I was contradicting a teacher.†   (source)
  • It had been nearly four years since he had last testified, and Seiler worried that he might become confused about minor details and contradict what he had said before.†   (source)
  • They can leave the house if they really want to,' Harry contradicted him.†   (source)
  • Dell Duke didn't contradict her because Mai was so convincing that he now half believed her story.†   (source)
  • It was full of contradictory little rituals.†   (source)
  • What did Marx consider to be the contradiction in capitalism?†   (source)
  • She did not realize that her fierce grip on Josie contradicted her words.†   (source)
  • But if he'd cut off my finger to save my life, it was a contradiction that he'd invited me to Arizona.†   (source)
  • Oh, he couldn't stand her contradictions!†   (source)
  • It's just ...very contradictory.†   (source)
  • The maester was a hundred years old, and a high officer of the Night's Watch; it was not his place to contradict him.†   (source)
  • He was complicated,almost contradictory in so many ways, yet simple, a strangely erotic combination.†   (source)
  • Her insolent behavior contradicts her quiz scores.†   (source)
  • She looked at me defiantly, challenging me to contradict her.†   (source)
  • He had become a contradiction—a mixture as dangerous as anything Medea could cook up.†   (source)
  • Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.†   (source)
  • If they think you swallied your First Communion who am I to contradict them and disappoint them?†   (source)
  • Still, it seemed rude to contradict Aunt Josephine.†   (source)
  • What a contradictory person he was, she thought, hurrying along South Road.†   (source)
  • Full of contradictions and stingy with words.†   (source)
  • If my father said something that contradicted the police theories—or, as he saw them, the lack of them—my mother would immediately rush to fill the hole left open by my father's idea.†   (source)
  • The prince listed his head, as if challenging her to contradict him.†   (source)
  • Neither Mammachi nor Baby Kochamma saw any contradiction between Chacko's Marxist mind and feudal libido.†   (source)
  • "You're not done, America," he contradicted me quickly, his stance saying as much as his words.†   (source)
  • "I didn't say that," he contradicted me.†   (source)
  • It made no sense to me, and I even wondered how Nazis could believe such contradictions themselves.†   (source)
  • Your actions contradict your thoughts—you're dragging us through this maze because you believe this prophecy needs to be enabled—and by that logic prophecies can also be broken—prevented.†   (source)
  • " 'Russian Jew' contradiction in terms," he explained, in a lavish plume of menthol smoke†   (source)
  • They had no trouble with the philosophical contradiction of cherishing the children they had with a slave and simultaneously thinking of slaves as property.†   (source)
  • Neither of you likes to be contradicted or told he is wrong.†   (source)
  • She laughs, a short barking sound with no humor in it, but at least she doesn't contradict me directly.†   (source)
  • I can tell he's trying to get me to contradict myself, that he's skeptical of my story.†   (source)
  • She laughed with me and made me laugh, she didn't immediately contradict me or second-guess me.†   (source)
  • The truths are contradictory.†   (source)
  • Meggie thought she saw contradictory feelings on the faces of Capricorn's men: fear of what Mo might bring to life and, at the same time, a wish, a yearning almost, to once more be carried away by his voice, transported far away to a place where they could forget everything, even themselves.†   (source)
  • I glanced at Kevin, not wanting to contradict anything he had said.†   (source)
  • Shrike-worship contradicts everything the Church defends.†   (source)
  • Though that directly contradicts the blue flame.†   (source)
  • Does that mean you're contradicting yourself?†   (source)
  • He is not: Minerva contradicted.†   (source)
  • "Aren't you?" he contradicted in a voice so low I wasn't sure if he meant for me to hear.†   (source)
  • Mommy's contradictions crashed and slammed against one another like bumper cars at Coney Island.†   (source)
  • There's high drama and contradiction, a collision of opposing forces, lyrical respites.†   (source)
  • The sentence was nearly impossible in Radchaai, a self-contradiction.†   (source)
  • She was not used to being contradicted.†   (source)
  • That he fully intended to murder Mrs. Pitezel and Dessie and the baby, Wharton, is too evident for contradiction.†   (source)
  • After the briefest possible discussion of business, Father would draw a small Bible from his traveling case; the wholesaler, whose beard would be even longer and fuller than Father's, would snatch a book or a scroll out of a drawer, clap a prayer cap onto his head; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other's company.†   (source)
  • I haven't contradicted my father on any subject, ever.†   (source)
  • A living contradiction, the wasps buzzed furiously under the bowl.†   (source)
  • I can't explain the contradictions.†   (source)
  • This may sound like a contradiction.†   (source)
  • I felt her faith in me was unwarranted, but I was so relieved to see her again that I didn't contradict her.†   (source)
  • Those reasons are contradictory.†   (source)
  • Hiro owns a couple of nice Nipponese swords, but he always wears them, and the whole idea of stealing fantastically dangerous weapons presents the would-be perp with inherent dangers and contradictions: When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, when she was with the gentlemen who called on her, she assumed a contradictory attitude, encouraging them with a batting of her Arabian eyes, but keeping them at a prudent distance.†   (source)
  • Along the way, Luma started to pick up on a seeming contradiction.†   (source)
  • He spun toward me, beginning, as he often did with, "I'm a nice guy, but—" It hadn't taken me long to learn that those words contradicted his nice-guy image.†   (source)
  • In a contradictory way I'm afraid, but then again I'm not afraid.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza thought that terror alone could induce such indignities, but one of the three girls surprised him with the contradictory truth.†   (source)
  • No matter how much he brooded over the details in the files, he could find not a single piece of information that contradicted the investigative report.†   (source)
  • Madeline: "Good limerick" is a contradiction in terms.†   (source)
  • He never left his side, never contradicted him, and never believed that he could best Morzan in any venture.†   (source)
  • It had long seemed a curious contradiction to Palmer, that among the three kids rollicking on the field, Henry was the tallest yet also the meekest.†   (source)
  • I still wanted him to love me, something that never seemed strange or contradictory until years later, when he was out of our lives.†   (source)
  • She had tried to explain several times to them that they shouldn't contradict anything LuLing said: "Waipo sounds illogical because she is.†   (source)
  • A walking contradiction?†   (source)
  • This view was contradicted with such energy that Mr Charles, quite aside from worrying he would become the next focus of the gentlemen's attention, actually thought himself in danger of physical assault.†   (source)
  • No one dared contradict him.†   (source)
  • Doctors lose interest in people who contradict each other.†   (source)
  • The girlishness of this was contradicted by the manly way she walked.†   (source)
  • No contradictions, no irony.†   (source)
  • The political philosophy that now prevails in so much of the West — with its demand for lower taxes, smaller government, an unbridled free market stands in total contradiction to the region's true economic underpinnings.†   (source)
  • The Orders are directly in contradiction of the language and spirit of the United Nations Charter, subscribed to by Canada as well as the other nations of the world, and are an adoption of the methods of Naziism.†   (source)
  • The events that followed have a dreamlike quality in people's memories, and the memories are contradictory.†   (source)
  • Contradicting the notion that the girls get a decent income, Geeta was never paid a single rupee for her work.†   (source)
  • I try to ignore his gentle touch and the warmth of his hand, so contradictory to his personality, and attempt to focus on the task.†   (source)
  • "He's no serpent," Ghosh said sharply, contradicting Hema.†   (source)
  • Ellie never says anything to contradict Savanna.†   (source)
  • But murderers who seem rational, coherent, and controlled, and yet whose homicidal acts have a bizarre, apparently senseless quality, pose a difficult problem, if courtroom disagreements and contradictory reports about the same offender are an index.†   (source)
  • Jason, life is full of many contradictions.†   (source)
  • "That's true," said the Humbug, who didn't like to contradict anyone whose feet were that far off the ground.†   (source)
  • The prince contradicts a lady!†   (source)
  • God knows, he doesn't want to be learning something that directly contradicts what he's learned at church.†   (source)
  • She knew Jake hated to be contradicted, but she didn't much care.†   (source)
  • They had looked about themselves and saw nothing to contradict the statement; saw, in fact, support for it leaning at them from every billboard, every movie, every glance.†   (source)
  • Sunday all the mill operatives were free; and then groups of women and children added themselves to the men; dinners were taken along, lending a grotesque suggestion of picnicking to the work, a suggestion contradicted by the anxious faces, the strained timbre of the voices that called from group to group.†   (source)
  • What was screaming in fact was the naive idealism of her love trying to banish all contradictions, banish the duality of body and soul, banish perhaps even time.†   (source)
  • It was not unusual, of course, to hear them contradict themselves, but I would have liked it if he'd stuck to one single version, either that they would know and sing his tragedy or that they wouldn't.†   (source)
  • He took extreme care to prove that statement true by taking the word of his family even in the face of contradictory evidence.†   (source)
  • And then of course it dawned on him that he knew plenty of Americans—he was one himself—who held apparently contradictory beliefs, such as faith in both medicine and prayer.†   (source)
  • Incredulous, Aunt J contradicted, Best let water passed under the bridge keep on trickling downstream.†   (source)
  • Because there is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.†   (source)
  • I'm not contradicting you, sir.†   (source)
  • At that moment, overcome with the tender brutality of physical existence—with "the insoluble contradiction of being animals cursed with self-reflection, and moral beings cursed with animal instincts"—Jacob launches into a lament, a single, ecstatic paragraph, unbroken over five pages, that Time magazine called one of the most "incandescent, haunting passages" in contemporary literature.†   (source)
  • I frowned, lost between contradictory impulses.†   (source)
  • He apologized for the intricacies, the contradictions, the mind-numbing banalities of "our dear tax code," and apologized for its complexities.†   (source)
  • But I don't contradict, I know better than to say a word.†   (source)
  • Yet there is an enormous contradiction in the Kennedys' otherwise charmed marriage.†   (source)
  • Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate: they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions.†   (source)
  • "Never contradict anybody," he was advised by Franklin, whom he admired above all men, though it was advice he hardly needed.†   (source)
  • No one contradicted this.†   (source)
  • This was yet another of the many fascinating contradictions about my mom.†   (source)
  • When they talk now it is to hurl accusation and contradiction at each other.†   (source)
  • He embraced life in the Raiders on two seemingly contradictory levels.†   (source)
  • Her face was such a study of contradictions, embarrassment, pleasure, and fear, he roared out a laugh.†   (source)
  • Her voice was firm, and there was a fire in her eyes that made him hesitate to contradict her.†   (source)
  • All this evidence contradicts the popular assumption that the mass media are homogenizing American English and causing its treasured local varieties to disappear.†   (source)
  • My writing teacher, Miss Tyler, uses it a lot, and it means when words seem to contradict one another—like an "honest politician" or a "tidy pig.†   (source)
  • "I forgot," Attolia said firmly, daring Eddis to contradict her.†   (source)
  • The human psyche was much more flexible than I'd imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.†   (source)
  • I knew she was expecting me to contradict Momma, but I wasn't going to.†   (source)
  • How you think it felt yesterd'y when I went to braggin' bout you Lakin' over the store some day and thet fool contradicted me?†   (source)
  • The problem, the contradiction the scientists are stuck with, is that of mind.†   (source)
  • I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.†   (source)
  • You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.†   (source)
  • I saw neither implausibility nor contradiction in this story.†   (source)
  • There was no need to contradict her; he knew they'd talk again.†   (source)
  • Never fear, son, this Ad-Hoc Congress will do nothing....or if they pass something through sheer fatigue, it will be so loaded with contradictions that it will have to be thrown out.†   (source)
  • Several witnesses give their statements, but their information is so contradictory that it proves almost useless.†   (source)
  • Although 'flying slither' kind of sounds like a contradiction to me.†   (source)
  • Alessandro screamed, contradicting everything he had just said.†   (source)
  • Contradictions do not exist.†   (source)
  • I love to do that; nobody dares contradict me.†   (source)
  • There were a number of inconsistencies and contradictions in the remainder of the message; now and again Tamar would mutter to himself and utter small sounds of frustration.†   (source)
  • Christina didn't contradict him or any of the other girls.†   (source)
  • PILKINGS I wish to ask you to search the quiet of your heart and tell me—do you not find great contradictions in the wisdom of your own race?†   (source)
  • You find that the Bible doesn't say anything to contradict the people of that time being like us, but on the other hand it doesn't give any definition of Man, either.†   (source)
  • "Innocent savagery," he mumbled, listening to the contradiction of the words as he recalled his ignorance in those days so long ago.†   (source)
  • It's a complete contradiction.†   (source)
  • Instead, I heard him sigh a little, then offer a passage from the Baba Bathra that contradicted Danny's explanation.†   (source)
  • Do you want me to say it's funny so you can contradict me and say it's sad?†   (source)
  • She told me a few things that contradict what your father said when he enrolled you.†   (source)
  • If you don't agree to let me do it, Goode, I've got my own expert who will contradict everything Dr. Ross has said.†   (source)
  • And how could God keep it all sorted, all these direct lines, these prayers that were shot up to him like bullets, crisscrossing, ricocheting, contradicting, negating.†   (source)
  • Where I go, the English Department has about ten little section men running around ruining things for people, and they're all so brilliant they can hardly open their mouths—pardon the contradiction.†   (source)
  • Yet however chaotic and contradictory these forces can be at any moment, over the years and decades they point in one direction: toward fewer jobs for low-skilled American workers.†   (source)
  • If State or regional courts have the final opinions, a bias based on local views and local regulations would produce contradictions.†   (source)
  • The last of the plasma could he used for ... Tyler realized his basic science background was kicking out information that was contradictory to background and gave up.†   (source)
  • Amelia and Lyle had given up on taking me to see doctors and psychiatrists since they all contradicted one another.†   (source)
  • Alan raised an eyebrow to Yousef and Yousef shrugged, as if to say, What, you've just discovered the contradictions of the Kingdom?†   (source)
  • His father was not available to contradict the account, because he, like all the members of the extended Awad clan, was now in GID custody.†   (source)
  • It satisfies the contradictory needs which consciousness experiences at times of extreme crisis, the need on the one hand for a truth telling that will be hard and retributive, and on the other hand, the need not to harden the mind to a point where it denies its own yearnings for sweetness and trust.†   (source)
  • To be taken in hand and led, like being a child again, even without the innocence, a child-it's like being given a prize, an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it, as a prize for being good, or compensation for never having had one.... Do I contradict myself?†   (source)
  • It is a nation of contradictions, sir.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: That's the idea, let's contradict each another.†   (source)
  • The other person would not contradict her, because, after all, this was her story.†   (source)
  • Tried to cultivate a faith in the literal truth of everything he wrote, even the idiocies and contradictions.†   (source)
  • Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind.†   (source)
  • Another bill, to levy penalizing fines against any church holding nonsegregated services, was, he contended, in flagrant contradiction to the First Amendment of the Constitution.†   (source)
  • Try to imagine the conflicts, the contradictions involved in being four people at once ...†   (source)
  • She was aware that it was a contradiction that someone who had been through all that she had should be so fastidious, should shrink so from strange epidermises, from alien touch.†   (source)
  • I saw no contradiction; it seemed to me natural that someone like Zabeth, living such a hard life, should want something better for her son.†   (source)
  • This was such common knowledge that Jean could hardly contradict it, so she changed the subject.†   (source)
  • Oh, I must contradict you there, sir; that's your imagination.†   (source)
  • For I cannot deny, my words of love are in a contradiction, a seeming contradiction with Gotama's words.†   (source)
  • His heart was torn by contradictory feelings of a strength he had never experienced before.†   (source)
  • This account of it was false, Rufus was sure, but it seemed to him more exciting than his own, and more creditable to his father and to him, and nobody could question, scornfully, whether that could kill, as they could of just a blow on the chin; so he didn't try to contradict.†   (source)
  • Mr. Head had contradicted him.†   (source)
  • BERENGER: [aside, whilst the others continue to discuss the horns of the rhinoceros] Daisy was right, I should never have contradicted him.†   (source)
  • As she looked out from her hill in the creeping shade, Miss Katie Rainey might have liked to be argued with and prevailed upon to go back in the house; at the last she might have suffered contradiction, but from whom?†   (source)
  • But Sam Houston's contradictions actually confirm his one basic, consistent quality: indomitable individualism, sometimes spectacular, sometimes crude, sometimes mysterious, but always courageous.†   (source)
  • She was thinking uneasily of that note of contempt in the man's voice, which contradicted all her previous ideas of Dick.†   (source)
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