All 3 Uses of
contradict
in
The Color of Water
- Yet conflict was a part of our lives, written into our very faces, hands, and arms, and to see how contradiction lived and survived in its essence, we had to look no farther than our own mother.†
Chpt 4contradiction = something (typically a statement) that disagrees with itself; or (more rarely) the act of disagreeing
- Mommy's contradictions crashed and slammed against one another like bumper cars at Coney Island.†
Chpt 4 *contradictions = things that disagree with themselves; or (more rarely) acts of disagreeing
- Mommy was for anything involving the improvement of our education and condition, and while she would be quick to point out that "some Jews can't stand you," she also, in her crazy contradictory way, communicated the sense to us that if we were lucky enough to come across the right Jew in our travels-a teacher, a cop, a merchant-he would be kinder than other white folks.†
Chpt 10contradictory = in disagreement
Definition:
disagree
in various senses, including:
- to say something is not true -- as in "She contradicted his testimony."
- to say something else is true when both can't be true -- as in "I don't believe her. She contradicted herself as she told us what happened."
- to be in conflict with -- as in "Her assertions contradict accepted scientific principles."