All 10 Uses
paradox
in
The Souls of Black Folk
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- The would-be black savant was confronted by the paradox that the knowledge his people needed was a twice-told tale to his white neighbors, while the knowledge which would teach the white world was Greek to his own flesh and blood.†
Chpt 1
- Perhaps some inkling of this paradox, even in the unquiet days of the Bureau, helped the bayonets allay an opposition to human training which still to-day lies smouldering in the South, but not flaming.†
Chpt 2
- If history and reason give any distinct answer to these questions, it is an emphatic NO. And Mr. Washington thus faces the triple paradox of his career: 1.†
Chpt 3 *
- This triple paradox in Mr. Washington's position is the object of criticism by two classes of colored Americans.†
Chpt 3
- Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado.†
Chpt 4
- But they faced, as all men since them have faced, that central paradox of the South,—the social separation of the races.†
Chpt 6
- Nor does the paradox and danger of this situation fail to interest and perplex the best conscience of the South.†
Chpt 9
- The second fact noted, namely, that the Negro church antedates the Negro home, leads to an explanation of much that is paradoxical in this communistic institution and in the morals of its members.†
Chpt 10paradoxical = seeming impossible (at least on first impression) because things that seem true contradict each other
- In some such doubtful words and phrases can one perhaps most clearly picture the peculiar ethical paradox that faces the Negro of to-day and is tingeing and changing his religious life.†
Chpt 10
- You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,—you who in the swift whirl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvellous vision, have fronted life and asked its riddle face to face.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(paradox) a situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but may still be true
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, paradox may refer to a statement that contradicts itself -- such as "I always lie."