How To Use Contradict In A Sentence

It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
All this seems to contradict the expectation of the manipulation theorists.
There are two slightly contradictory factors in play. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps this contradictory nature is the key to its undeniable appeal. Times, Sunday Times
Does anybody see the contradiction is the Lefts attack on seniors who use Medicare? Sebelius: There will be competition with private insurers

At a time of so much contradictory evidence and inconsistency, he is not the only one. Times, Sunday Times
We do need to show that we can talk without contradiction of God's universal salvific will and the scandalous particularity of the incarnate and risen Lord.
This focus seems to contradict the book's goal of including Madagascar's diverse peoples without privileging any single group.
Men have been unwearied in their efforts to obscure the plain, simple meaning of the Scriptures, and to make them contradict their own testimony; but like the ark upon the billowy deep, the word of God outrides the storms that threaten it with destruction. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
Intendants and servitors were giving orders on all sides, frequently contradictory, and gardeners were furbishing up the alleyed walks and flower beds in readiness for _Sa Majesté Louis Royal Palaces and Parks of France
The contradictory demands of justifying and criticizing national prejudice can be seen in the everyday discourse of racism.
One can conclude that the linkage is a rational interpretation, not contradicted by empirical evidence. Beckwith on ID
Nkrumah saw this as a contradiction, and was critical, thus annoying Nyerere who should have been a natural ally.
I am labouring here to contradict an old proverb, and make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, namely, to convert a bare 'haugh' and 'brae', of about The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2
The reality is that most people have a complex, sometimes contradictory attitude to government. Times, Sunday Times
But as Leider's impressive research and masterful writing shows, off-screen he was full of contradictions.
His system admits no contradiction between free will and determinism, the God of philosophy and that of the Quran.
The uncontradicted evidence of Mr. Hopkins was that they refused due to the termination policy set out in the contract proposed by Lithonia.
Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
There is a contradiction here, both within his statements and with the biblical text.
But there is another element involved that is less visible and far more contradictory.
The problem is that some of these shared assumptions are loaded with inconsistencies and contradictions.
Despite this, the Committee reached conclusions that are contradictory and that were not based on a comprehensive review of the available literature.
No one will dare contradict you or insinuate that you've taken your ideas from others!
Wisdom appears in contradiction to itself, which is a trick life plays on philosophy of life.
I'm left dumbfounded when a Protestant asks me how I can pretend infallibility is not contradicted in light of this.
The true augmented sixth and the true cadence gain in significance as a contradiction to the false cadencing around the mediant.
This seeming contradiction within the document may perhaps be explained in the following manner. Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In a fundamental conflict between constative force and performative possibility, the assuring parataxis itself begins to serve as a resistant marker of performatives that potentially contradict its simple narrative.
That the two imperatives may be contradictory seems not to occur. Times, Sunday Times
How the members of any pleasant evening-company might astonish or amuse each other by narrating together the contradictory views the same voluble discourser has unfolded to them successively during the passage of one hour! so easily we bend and conform, and deny God and ourselves, to gratify the guest we converse with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863
That much we can take away from this latest close encounter with planet Nirvana without fear of contradiction.
It showed that she was finding it very hard to be assertive, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.
Reflect upon him, too, in your moments of dissipation, and let his idea controul your indiscretions -- not merely in an hour of contradiction call peevishly upon his name, only to wound the dearest friend you have. A Simple Story
Now you say you both left at ten-that's a contradiction of your last statement.
We're living through a deeply contradictory time when black folks (and what's left of the unions) are the Dems only truly reliable voting block, and yet every other manifesto for Democratic revitalization is some kind of attenuated, okie-doke Souljah-moment retread. Gary Dauphin: ATT(5)-1=CBC(3)+CHC(1)
The contradictory messages and parallel lobbying efforts have angered administration officials. Times, Sunday Times
Like the rest of the People's Republic of China, Shanghai is a study in contradictions.
I think “it is not an abstraction that animates them” could actually be a pretty revealing sentence, and not merely a bizarre self-contradiction. Matthew Yglesias » Peretz: Obama Needs “Harsh View of Islam Today”
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
The party won the support of the right-wing opposition and more than 100 000 people, but failed in getting the support of its two coalition partners, who claimed that the idea contradicted the constitution and would have resulted in having two National Assemblies overlapping each other - the old one with a few weeks left of its term and the new one. SofiaEcho RSS feed
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
Keane's mastery of the holding role in midfield gave the Reds the chance to go out and attack Olympiakos, contradicting the notion that they will have to bore in order to succeed.
God can make either of them true, but he can't make both of them true, since they are contradictories.
There is a painful contradiction between what is in my head and the facade I adopt for the public, my friends and family.
It is logically consistent: one part of the theory does not contradict another part. Sociology
The inherent contradiction can lead to a rupture given changing external circumstances. Critical Social Research
The team will ransack every word of testimony, memo and report for any inaccuracy, inconsistency or contradiction.
You totally just contradicted yourself.
But the author often lets his protagonists come back to their homeland in a moral level, which shows narrowness and contradictoriness of Lu Yao's homeland consciousness.
The report contradicts what we heard yesterday.
As a skilled political counsellor More had to display his rhetorical skills in justifying often mutually incompatible or contradictory statements and beliefs in the service of the state.
The real problem with assessing popular sentiment over the 1790s is the interplay of contradictory forces shifting it between radicalism and loyalism.
Old Labour leader George, torn apart by the contradictions that have led to this riot, suddenly thinks he sees who is to blame, and drops his trimming and concession-making approach.
Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature.
There's a similar contradiction about in the bullish view on prices and monetary policy. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, Brown has treated us to a tortuous, Jesuitical argument so self-contradictory it merits its own reprimand.
She viewed herself as she was sure Jake would: a twenty-five-year-old woman, grossly tall, apparently too clumsy to hold a book, and with a demimondaine petticoat contradicting a dress sewn for a much younger woman. Hearts
Yet later he admitted quantum mechanics doesn't contain any logical contradictions and is logically unexceptionable. Robert Lanza, M.D.: Could This Theory Provide A Glimpse Of Our Ultimate Destiny?
I can neither contradict," quoth I, "thy former propositions, and I see this illation followeth from them. The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
The infinite regulation of cosmos has the characteristics of source, ego restriction, criticized inherit and infinite equilibrium of objective self-contradiction.
Expectations that contradict actual experience cause stress for survivors and potential conflicts with family, work, and the medical team.
But so far has he been from stirring and taking away that which is, or contradicting that which evidently appears, that he casts not so much as one single word out of the accustomed use; but taking away all figurative fraud that might hurt or endamage things, he again restored the ordinary and useful signification to words in these verses: - Essays and Miscellanies
Kitcher deals with the motivation of creationists: evolution contradicts the early chapters of Genesis.
There's a similar contradiction about in the bullish view on prices and monetary policy. Times, Sunday Times
The ability of radioactive substances such as radium to radiate energy, apparently spontaneously and continuously, appeared to contradict the law of the conservation of energy.
Such a thing can cause huge mischief, when these contradictory streams collide.
The trick is to establish just enough consistency an immediate analysis task – attempts to build a consistent map of human knowledge are doomed because human knowledge itself is messy, contingent, and often self-contradictory. Crowd-Sourced Carbon Calculators (inspired by David Mackay) | Serendipity
And then he likes to be contradictory, and his muse is the freeway and the subdevelopment, so it’s almost mandatory that he not drive. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
You keep telling parents that they lack confidence and bombard them with often contradictory advice. Times, Sunday Times
There are no watertight theories of political praxis that are without contradictions and limitations.
That is, for him, a propositum is "sequentially relevant" if and only if it logically follows from the positum alone; it is "incompatibly relevant" if and only if its contradictory opposite follows from the positum alone; it is "irrelevant" if and only if it is neither sequentially nor incompatibly relevant. Medieval Theories of Obligationes
The future is already potentially present in the shape of the blind spots and contradictions of the present - in its silences and exclusions, its conflicts and fragmentations.
Often the information is contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
The university has falsely combined these patently contradictory goals, making opaque the real differences between them.
Perhaps womanist is a word that does not obscure or contradict feminism, but that represents a new kind of feminism that is fresh, informed and accessible.
The current language of the Bill is ambiguous and unclear in the attempt to reconcile different and sometimes contradictory objectives. Times, Sunday Times
Foreign research on the effects of pre-trial publicity is contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
30 This case contradicts a received principle in catoptrics A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
It's all a bundle of contradictions: The shows are showier, but we're more distracted, yet also encouraged to engage more. Eats and Tweets in the Seats
That is why people are sometimes inconsistent - and even contradictory - in their actions.
His testimony contradicted that of the preceding witness.
… But the more this happens, the more will men not only feel, but also know, their unity with nature, and thus the more impossible will become the senseless and antinatural idea of a contradiction between mind and matter, man and nature, soul and body. Kasama
You're feelin 'mean as pussley and you're coaxin' me to contradict you. Dorothy on a Ranch
People are still worshipping cute fluffy kittens in direct contradiction to the UN Resolution 1441.
If I took any of this particularly seriously I would risk suffering from nutritional whiplash, pursuing health in precisely contradictory binges.
The reductio ad absurdum is related to a familiar form of proof in logic: You make an assumption and then derive from it a contradiction or a known falsehood by a series of valid inferences. Fun with Hair Splitting
This is hardly the first time that a major media network used its power to marginalize political beliefs that contradict those of its owners.
At the time, I did not question him on his contradiction of his earlier pronouncement.
* This is the name theologians conventionally give to the contradiction between an all-powerful and beneficent God who nevertheless creates or allows evil to exist in the world. In the Valley of the Shadow
Once more, though, the poem reveals a play of language which render meaning unstable and even self-contradictory.
The second aspect of contradiction within Bukharin's equations is that between accumulation and unproductive consumption.
The book contains a blizzard of statistics that often contradict each other, leading first one way, then the other. Times, Sunday Times
This is, of course, a ridiculous contradiction and probably would qualify as a first-class oxymoron.
This seems to contradict your rational explanation of magic from your previous posts.
On one eventful night we saw some refuse fish being wheeled off in a barrow, and we begged leave to abstract a fish, which was -- I say it without fear of contradiction -- the knobbiest and scaliest member of the finny tribe. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary
The contradictory nature of the process allows for no ultimate resolution.
They do not necessarily contradict the view that for more serious crimes women are less severely treated then men.
Once they got a closer look at how scientists work, we thought, they might form more realistic impressions that would contradict traditional images of science as isolated and antisocial.
If you can reason from self-evident propositions and not contradict the laws of logic as you reason, anything you deduce can only be true.
The idea is almost a contradiction in terms.
Contradiction frequently breeds creativity, and the Deng model has launched a massive program to erase the bipolarity between city and countryside.
Improvised circus sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms, since circus by its very nature requires precision, planning and exactness.
At the heart of the present political conflict is an intractable contradiction.
Recently, I have begun to notice another phenomenon: contradictory placenames.
Newt Gingrich, whose candidacy has floundered, argued repeatedly with the debate panel over what he described as "gotcha" questions when his internal campaign problems and contradictory statements came up. News - latimes.com
These various cries of the assailants, contradicting each other, showed their irresolution; while Richard, his foot still on the archducal banner, glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled, as from the threatened grasp of a lion. The Talisman
Such cruelties though I abhorred very much in my heart, yet here was I forced to hold my tongue and contradict them not, as having not authority to oversway them. Bucaniers of America:
The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.
The performance seemed to me unpardonable, a contradiction of all that the Olympics is supposed to be.
On the surface, the term stood for two contradictory allegations: referees were afraid to call fouls when they should, and referees were calling fouls too quickly and intimidating teams from playing aggressive defense. Getting Open
Several facts contradict your assumption, and one, I fear, is insuperable. LION IN THE VALLEY
Because the idea of convening a crisis summit contradicts the reassuring messages offered by the federal government, our proposal was immediately rejected by the Department of Health and Human Services. MAIL CALL
The current language of the Bill is ambiguous and unclear in the attempt to reconcile different and sometimes contradictory objectives. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Dixit is also concerned about the slowing down of economic reforms in the country, owing to inner contradictions within the ruling coalition.
They do not adopt an overtly political stance or contradict the precept that physical attractiveness equals romantic appeal.
I accept this Lucullan offering as a true compliment, and am not repelled by my host's proud description, but these reactions are contradictory. Cardiac
The story explores the contradictions of teenage masculinity and femininity and contrasts Japan past and present. Times, Sunday Times
The detainee handlers and the lawyers for detainees often flatly contradict each other. Times, Sunday Times
Miss Patty Lockit were both what may be called handsomer girls (and if you asked any persons in company their opinion, they would tell you so) yet their eyes were a direct contradiction to their tongues, by being continually fixed on Miss Jenny; for, while she was in the room, it was impossible to fix them anywhere else. The Governess; or, Little Female Academy
Marketers need to understand how to navigate the maze of contradictory consumer attitudes and behavior.
Even where the facts are there to contradict him, his personal belief is privileged over external evidence.
I imagine many CoffeeHousers baulked at that last bit – but “good, honest spad” is not a contradiction in terms. Special advisers do good work too
Within five minutes he had contradicted himself twice.
Many people think that an honest politician is a contradiction in terms.
As the story goes, nationally televised images of well-dressed children marching into jail, and of protesters being blasted with hoses and attacked by German shepherds, at a time when the United States was engaged in a competition with Communism for the hearts and minds of dark-skinned people in the Third World, made segregation a contradiction that had to be eliminated. A Renegade History of the United States
The dilemmas arise in the gray area where the national consensus is itself vague or contradictory.
I am the first to admit that the science is confusing and can seem contradictory - but the root of it, to try and ensure that future generations aren't igniting their farts to keep warm isn't exactly a hangable offence, is it? Jo Rourke: "Sustainability"
From the cool modernity of the main space, the bedrooms and bathroom offer a contradictory riot of colour, walls varying from acid green to purple throughout the five bedrooms and bathrooms.
The simulation result shows that the method can reduce contradictions between control accuracy and scope, and between stability and fast-speed characteristic.
Rochester's writings embody many of the contradictions of this intermediary era.
The contradictory messages and parallel lobbying efforts have angered administration officials. Times, Sunday Times
The Court concluded that in most circumstances, including the case at issue, summary judgment is appropriate where there are uncontradicted statements from both the owner and the driver regarding the lack of permission granted to the driver. Insurance Defense
The opposition, however, has proposed amendments that contradict the parliamentary joint committees recommendations.
Then there are Rice's own inconsistencies in her public statements, the transcripts of which are a gold mine of contradiction and pettifoggery. April 2004
Again activism and commerce are neither contradictory nor mutually exclusive.
It is the irreconcilable contradiction inevitable in humanism because of its false assumptions in constructing a world-view.
The same lament about constant meddling from politicians could be applied to education where since the eighties there has been reform followed by contradictory reform.
We defer to those we respect and dominate those we do not, and we can do these acts simultaneously without contradiction.
The question was, what inferences were to be drawn from the collection of facts revealed by those documents and by other uncontradicted evidence, is it not?
In a turbulent environment, diversity, contradiction and disjunction are the norm.
Will you still contradict me if I maintain -- the Arno is a shallow, narrow stream, just fit to sail a boy's bark-boat. The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 03
That's a better way to keep the old cliche from turning into a phrase like ‘jumbo shrimp’ - a contradiction in terms.
Criticised by HRW and human rights organisations within Turkey as contradictory and unverifiable, official figures released last month put total returns at only 71,000.
Two stand out; in them, he developed “contradictoriness” into a highly unorthodox approach to leadership. The Velvet Reformation
Blessed is the voice that amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction proclaims to us, _Euge! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
Psalm 82: 8, the most 'polytheistic' of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the idea of a real kinship of nature between 'the Most High' and his 'sons', the gods, is already contradicted by the former's judgment that the latter 'will die like humans' (Ps. 82: 7). Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
But the economists have erred no less gravely in rejecting a priori, and just because of the contradictory, or rather antinomical, nature of value, every idea and hope of reform, never desiring to understand that, for the very reason that society has arrived at its highest point of antagonism, reconciliation and harmony are at hand. System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
The environmentalist movement itself has its own confusing and contradictory alliances with the Left. Christianity Today
Butler's futurism similarly intensifies the contradictions of modern society.
No one fell over themselves to contradict him either.
It is an uninterruptedly solving contradiction process to guide religion to cope with socialist society.
Retrocausality" contradicts the well-established principle of causality, which still applies in relativistic physics, quantum mechanics, and the product of their marriage, relativistic QFT. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
Suspicions were raised when a chamber maid saw documents in his jacket which contradicted his story.
This case supports the theory that TS is related to the left frontal lobe, limbic system, and basal ganglia, but contradicts the hypothesis that the tics are ictal events.
Coach's whole quality and professional skill is it raise to remain, the athlete learns and trains too contradictorily to solve better yet.
We see the dichotomies, the wealth of paradox and the inherent contradictions but fail to see what it is that unifies them all into a coherent whole in their minds.
His verbal miscues and malapropisms are the natural consequence of a man struggling with internal contradictions and a lack of self-knowledge.
Indeed, the new contradictions not only affected the conception of set and logical concepts, they also came to include the notion of definability and its relation with a fundamental issue: the structure of the mathematical continuum and in particular whether the continuum can be well-ordered and whether Cantor's Continuum Hypothesis (CH) holds. Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic
How can we resolve this apparent contradiction?
To produce a new bonus tax or a complex new set of regulations would seem contradictory. Times, Sunday Times
The problem with endeavor is that it appears to be in contradiction with the statement of God.
The absence of resistance in a different country is thus not contradictory to our findings.
The power of the documentary lay in her contradictory thought and deed. Times, Sunday Times
When he condescended to speak, he contradicted himself three or four times in the space of half an hour.
Contradictions, or in acute Nonsense; Sometimes a scenical An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)
While the Oscar felt more like a lifetime achievement award, the role invested Hepburn with the kind of humanity and concern for family that helped contradict her late-career screen image.
Expertise is needed, yet there is, contradictorily, a straightforwardness to the task of travelling at speed.
But that preposterous assertion is contradicted by much evidence.
By no means is it an original movie, but it is a well constructed one that often rises above its stupendous flaws and contradictions.
With its canteen-like space of fewer than 10 tables, the restaurant is located in an alley in the second arrondissement, which is often contradictorily described by foodies either as "a no-man's land" or the "next Marais. Better, Cheaper French Cuisine
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
He attempted to explain apparent contradictions in testimony he gave under aggressive questioning by plaintiffs' lawyers several weeks ago.
A police spokesman contradicted the claim yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
There are many unbelievers who tried to point out several alleged contradictions in the Qur'an but all of their attempts were either out of context, mistranslations or misquotations.
He said on Thursday that he had been deluged with messages from his constituents contradicting him.
It begins with a statement that runs counter to the title followed by a second sentence that doesn't support the first one, and a third that appears to contradict the second while failing utterly at congruous analogies. Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
Some trends may be apparent but other changes may occur which may contradict the general direction of the trend.
Kant's categorical imperative test, for example, holds that universalizability is the distinguishing feature of correct moral judgments, and that a judgment is universalizable if and only if it can, without contradiction, be willed as a universal practical law Impartiality
Now, the announcement is nanarupam; it is also prithak; and lastly, it is viprasthitam or contradictory, for, as the commentator points out, that which a particular asrama announces to be righteous is according to another unrighteous. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
To the untutored layman's eye, it almost appears contradictory.
Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
Wolfe argues that this contradiction has three consequences for public administration.
The senility of the fellow's countenance, besides, was contradicted by the juvenescence of his eyes. The Beetle
He was the great appreciator of the country's breadth and energy, its strengths, ironies and contradictions.
Alongside the gaps stand glaring contradictions. The Times Literary Supplement
Contradicting itself, TechCrunch here gives kudos to what it refers to as CBS's superdistribution strategy. Jerry Weinstein: TV Upfronts, CNET, and the Facebook, MySpace and Google Data Wars
She does not like to contradict her husband in public.
Often the anxiety seems concealed under a discourse of futurity, in which attention is given to what life online might become - with contradictions deleted - rather than giving attention to what actually happens or has happened.
He pointed out, however, that the introduction of minimum buyout prices of grain, as the producers want, is not possible, because it contradicts the market logic.
Upon his favourite topic of discourse, it is said that he was quite unable to bear contradiction.
As idealizations, they appear to be predicated on normative but contradictory and ultimately irreconcilable understandings of excellence.
He did insist on remaining human and flawed and contradictory and in touch with other people. Times, Sunday Times
This contradicts most common criticisms of romanticised portrayals of smoking in contemporary films.
Hence exchange-value appears to be something accidental and purely relative, and consequently an intrisic value, ie, an exchange-value that is inseparably connected with, inherent in commodities, seems a contradiction in terms. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
In short, they were an inherently modern movement, even though their ideology and rhethorics were anti-modern (which is pretty much the self-contradiction at the heart of fascism). Save Kiana Firouz
Since the trauma of 1929, few people contest this need, although it flatly contradicts the tradition of economic liberalism.
Instead, when fully understood, the apparent contradiction may reveal a new causal factor that was not considered before.
Constitution makes clear that the court may only inspect such articles according to their form and not their content, while others say the court has the authority to intervene if an article contradicts the Constitution's first three "unalterable" articles. Hurriyet Dailynews

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